It’s the last journey for
#EddieLarge
today.
From 1:30pm, Eddie’s family would love anyone on the route from his home on High Street, Portishead, to the South Bristol Crematorium, to wave him off.
For the rest of us
#comedy
faithful, can I suggest a large glass & a rousing cheer.
7th March: is
#RikMayall
Day!
The utterly, utterly brilliant Dr. The Rik Mayall was born Richard Michael Mayall, in Harlow, on this day in 1958.
The fact he isn't around being 63 and absolutely bloody fantastic is, frankly, not on.
#DailyComedy
#ComedyHistorian
#RikMayall
#Comedy
I think
#StanLaurel
, delightedly clutching his honorary Oscar in 1961, is a photograph I’ve tweeted more than any other.
The gentle man was born 130 years ago today, and this picture has the power of giving you instant happiness.
You are more than welcome. 🤡🎬
#ComedyHistorian
So very proud of my dear chum and regular colleague, Tony Slattery.
It’s been a long and winding road, and for me just two years of shows and laughter and friendship.
Please spread the word about this important
@sundog_pictures
@ItsTonySlattery
@BBCTwo
Horizon documentary.
Devastated to hear that the peerless Roy Hudd has gone.
A gentle man of unfailing warmth, kindness, and enthusiasm.
His passion for music hall and variety turns was only matched by his exhaustive knowledge.
The world of comedy will forever salute him as a beloved titan.
The final series of
#BlessThisHouse
earned this gorgeous TV Times cover. The very last episode, Some Enchanted Evening, transmitted Thursday, 22nd April, 1976.
#SidJames
was touring in The Mating Season. On Monday, 26th April he opened at the Sunderland Empire…
#ComedyHistorian
11th January: Michael Bates died, at the age of 57, on this day in 1978: just five weeks after his last appearance as Rangi Ram in It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. You can read all about this most punctilious of actors in
#ForgottenHeroesOfComedy
#DailyComedy
#ComedyHistorian
#Comedy
5th January: It’s sixty years ago today since the first broadcast of Alan Simpson & Ray Galton’s
#Comedy
Playhouse: ‘The Offer’. Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell starred as son and father rag ‘n’ bone men Harold & Albert Steptoe.
#DailyComedy
#ComedyHistorian
#SteptoeAndSon
I'm still in a bit of a whirl following Liz's death on Thursday, but I was honoured to be asked to write her obituary for
@guardian
@guardianfilm
Here's the on-line version. It should be in tomorrow's paper.
OKay, Lizzle? x 😘 x
#LizFraser
Denis Norden CBE
6 Feb. 1922 - 19 Sept. 2018
One of the key architects of comedy.
It's no underestimation that great swathes of what has made us laugh over the last 70 years would have been vastly different without him.
A long, kind, lifetime of laughter.
That's quite the legacy.
Well that was quite the emotional Oh, What a Carry On!
@Lhdtheatre
this evening. Thanks for all your lovely messages.
We had our moments over 30 years of friendship, of course, but I'll miss her with all my heart. Love you, Lizzle. x
#LizFraser
It’s international
#TimBrookeTaylor
day - well, it should be!
In honour of what would have been the great man’s 80th. birthday.
Remembered with huge affection and a tsunami of joy.
Always.
#TBT
#NewProfilePic
🤡💚
In a career that ranged from Carry On & Ray Cooney to Edward Albee & EastEnders,
#IanLavender
was philosophical about the eternal appeal of
#DadsArmy
: “I am glad to be remembered for it. I have never understood why actors say, 'It's not the only thing I've done.'"
Bless him. 💕
Proud to present the
#SidJames
Comedy Icon Tease Trailer, which premieres on
@channel5_tv
from 8pm tomorrow.
Lots of lovely commentators including Robert & some *very* rare clips, notably the "lost" film Tokoloshe.
Enjoy & do spread the word!
@sidjamesplace
@BritishComedy
We’ve had a wonderful afternoon playing this random but fantastic board game. Is it a safe bet to assume no one else has passed the time playing this, this afternoon? Have you got it? Let us know & we’ll get a tournament going 🤪
#CarryOn
#ComedyHistorian
#boardgames
#ionlyasked
Although as Graeme once told me: “we never consciously made a last episode, we never consciously broke up...”, I have a bulging file of Goodies ‘reunion’ photographs.
This joyously raucous one is perfect for Talented Timbo’s birthday.
Raise the roof! 🤡🤡🤡
#TimBrookeTaylor
80
First out of the box of my
@unbounders
author’s copies of Forgotten Heroes of Comedy now in the hands of Barry Cryer. Without whom…
I’m signing loads this weekend, so for you lovelies who have pre-ordered, do warn your postman that something very heavy is on its way, and enjoy!
Love and admiration to
@JamesAHogg2
and everybody involved in putting together this simply perfect tribute to a much missed gentleman and gentle man.
It was a truly joyous celebration.
Salute
#BernardCribbins
1/3 Earlier today we paid tribute to our dear friend, Bernard Cribbins, at St. Paul's, Covent Garden. And what a joyous affair it was! Jenny Agguter delivered a beautiful tribute, reading from an introductory letter that Bernard wrote to the BBC in 1955,
24th February:
Peerless Betty Marsden was born, in West Derby, Liverpool, on this day in 1919.
Here, with Terry Scott, during the freezing cold Autumn 1968 shot for Carry On Camping. Rehearsal: coats on. Take One: coats off!
#DailyComedy
#ComedyHistorian
#BettyMarsden
#CarryOn
A very happy 6th birthday to
@TalkingPicsTV
- the nation’s favourite channel. And mine! 😘📺
Typical of its thoughtful care as a broadcaster of kindness and erudition, from 5.30pm. they screen
#PeterCushing
’s The Human Factor interview: ‘For the Love of Helen’. Sheer beauty.
Brand new documentary - The Amazing
#HattieJacques
: Larger Than Life, premieres on
#C5
from 8pm.
Lots of lovely, rare material, and insightful comments from some dear chums Anita Harris, Jacki Piper, Paul Cole, Andy Merriman… and me!
#CarryOnFilms
#BritishFilm
#ComedyHistorian
A Public Service Announcement
The Land That Time Forgot is being screened
@TalkingPicsTV
from 11.25am. A gem from my youth that still thrills every fibre of my being. Glorious.
@ERBurroughsFan
What the world needs now is Doug McClure and
@susanpenhaligon
🎬
My dear chum Sally Geeson has just texted me to share the joyous news that Bless This House is on ITV3 right now.
There’s another double bill from 9am tomorrow, starting with a series one favourite of mine: If the Dog Collar Fits... Wear It.
Peerless domestic
#SitCom
Watch it. 🤡
Finally getting round to reading my signed copy of
@EricIdle
's Sortabiography. As joyful as expected.
Love this on Graham Chapman: "He had studied medicine at Cambridge and was now at St. Barts Hospital, where he was learning to become a fully qualified alcoholic." 🐍🐍
30th November:
The new series of
@ISIHAClue
starts this evening, from 6.30pm.
@BBCRadio4
Recorded at Huddersfield Town Hall in March, it’s the first of two editions capturing the last time the much-missed Tim Brooke-Taylor played the game.
#DailyComedy
#ComedyHistorian
#Clue
This was snapped at the National Film Theatre, at The Complete Goodies book launch the day before my 30th. birthday.
I think my grin could power a small country. The afterglow still could.
How I love those Super Chaps Three. 💚
Gloriously it’s
#RichardOSullivanDay
‘round these parts - an actor of gusto and integrity who always brings with him such a warm glow of fun - so here’s a reunion of the Carry On Teacher saboteurs (with Paul Cole and Larry Dann) for the commentary recording. A very happy day!
Remembering Peter Butterworth on his birthday.
One of my top comedy heroes. An actor of nuance, charm, & knowing business, who can instantly lift any production blessed with his very presence.
@CarryOnJoan
@DrWhoOnline
#ComicGenius
🎂🎭🍾
#Pound
Stopped in the Post Office by a bloke who asked: "Aren't you on
@TalkingPicsTV
?" Full of grateful thanks to everyone involved with his favourite channel.
Spent a pleasant ten minutes chatting about Jimmy Hanley, Sid James, Jack Warner...
All queues should be like this!
Celebrating
#HiDeHi
legends
#birthdays
Simon Cadell and David Griffin. Superbly different performances that perfectly fitted the same space in that extraordinary team.
We’ll be saluting both men in
@JeffHolland07
#Comedy
Friends & Heroes
@pizzajazzclub
this coming weekend.
Farewell to Terry O’Neill.
What a gent.
What a photographer.
Here’s one of my favourite works of his art: Dudley Moore & Peter Cook, born this day in 1937, relaxing in Beverly Hill in 1975.
#Stunning
@Terry_ONeill
7th January: Arnold Ridley - Playwright, Actor, Teacher, Lance Corporal in the Great War, Captain in the 2nd, Member of the Home Guard: both fact and fiction - born on this day, in 1896.
#DailyComedy
#ComedyHistorian
#Comedy
#ArnoldRidley
Here on location for the
#DadsArmy
film.
The very first copy of
#ForgottenHeroesOfComedy
is in the hands of the Godfather of
#Comedy
Barry Cryer. Be more Baz. Get one.
Published
@unbounders
, and available from all good purveyors of books.
A hefty tome of 600+ pages. Buy for friends & family too.
64 years ago this evening, Alan Simpson, Tony Hancock and Ray Galton launched 'Hancock's Half Hour'. It's still the high-water mark of comedy.
It always will be.
#StoneMe
#HhhancocksHalfHour
#ClassicComedy
6th December: I've been delighted to spend a lot of time with my dear friend Angela Douglas this year, celebrating
#CarryOn60
in North Wales & the Med!
Here she is promoting her favourite, Carry On Cowboy, in December 1965.
#ComedyAdvent
@ImAngelaDouglas
@angeladouglashq
4th December: Comedy hero Ronnie Corbett was born on this day in 1930. Here topping the bill at the London Palladium in 'Cinderella' for the 1971/72 season.
Terry Scott & Julian Orchard were his Uglies. Clodagh Rodgers was Cinders. Bliss.
#ComedyAdvent
Tony. Tony. Tony!
You are still one of the most gorgeous, fiercely intelligent, perceptively hilarious people I know. So there! 😏
I urge you all to watch this important
#Horizon
documentary, Thursday, 9pm.
#BBC2
And do follow
@ItsTonySlattery
The best is yet to come... 💚
Humbled to see the
@sundog_pictures
#Horizon
film, What’s the Matter with Tony Slattery?,
@BBCTwo
9pm., is this Thursday’s Pick of the Day
@RadioTimes
Alison Graham calls me: “handsome, clever, funny.”
Ah! Those were the days! 😘
Please share this post, and do watch.
Love
Tony x
I have terrific books about such supporting stars as Peggy Mount, James Robertson Justice and Charles Hawtrey. Yet I await the Richard Wattis biography more than anything.
@RobertWRossEsq
My favourite Kind Hearts & Coronets poster - for the Danish release.
A perfect way to salute Alec Guinness, born this day in 1914.
Oh, and a career best performance from Dennis Price. An actor with a special place in my affections.
@EalingStudios
@TalkingPicsTV
Not so long ago, Saturday morning telly regularly screened Charlie, Stan & Ollie, Bud & Lou, the Marx Bros...
It was a crucial education, and fuelled my lifelong passion for comedy.
Just having this great stuff sitting there in the wild is essential.
Hats off
@TalkingPicsTV
One of my very favourite things is reunion photographs of
#TheGoodies
- its a bittersweet pleasure now, of course, but that archive of pictures still makes my
#ComedyHistorian
heart sing.
As it's G.G. Day, here's a favourite from
@SlapstickFest
January 2020. What a time that was!