Mike should take over from Judy on You Say We Pay. He couldn't do any worse.
[Pic of a blowtorch.]
CALLER: Oh, er, blowtorch! BALDWIN: Is that you Alma? MADELEY: Um, um, ooh: firefighter! CALLER: No. BALDWIN: Where 'ave my trousers gone? MADELEY: OOh, oooh: a candle!!! Clever! Well done! Very clever! Move on! CALLER: No. BALDWIN: Yer wot?
Originally posted by diggettydawg: I chatted to Galton and Simpson (ooh, look at me! ) about him a while ago, and they said he was a 'nice bloke overall'. . .
My question was - Have you ever been/Are you a comedy writer, diggy?
(I edited myself off the page earlier after spilling the beans about Mike's demise and then thinking better of it. . .)
Originally posted by coolana: [Wow SP - have you still got the letters? Just think - they could have changed the course of the whole drama/doc!
What a nice man
Got them somewhere, Cooly, but wouldn't have changed the documentary from the sound of it (didn't see it). Would they have wanted to show that he was kind and sympathetic to a miserable, mixed-up teenager? With nothing in it for him? And when I met him he wasn't all flaring nostrils either, of course he wasn't, he was sweet and charming. Of course, he might have recorded it differently in his diary!
Originally posted by diggettydawg: I chatted to Galton and Simpson (ooh, look at me! ) about him a while ago, and they said he was a 'nice bloke overall'. . .
My question was - Have you ever been/Are you a comedy writer, diggy?
(I edited myself off the page earlier after spilling the beans about Mike's demise and then thinking better of it. . .)
Ah, right. Well, no, but I do write about it, every now and again.
Originally posted by theadora: Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Sorry, girl. It's just that it's been all over the papers as well.
Look into my eyes, my eyes. Relax. Now erase all knowledge of Corrie plots from thy brain cells. (snap of fingers) Meanwhile I'll see if I can expunge it from the records.
Beware the eyes of March!!!
Go on then, Thea lass, I'll forgive thee - as long as you promise to hypnotise me for nowt whenever the fancy takes you. That was..unreal!!!
Oh - what were we talking about now ...was it... Eastenders?
Hey Thea - witchy woman
How the heck do you 'edit (yourself) off the page after spilling the beans about Mike Balwin earlier' - as you told Diggy. Are you into black magic???
And I wouldn't worry about bean spillage - rothgar mopped all that up with the 'Sun Says' link - there's no-one left standing on our favourite national treasure!
Hi C, you go to the bottom right triangle where it says 'report this post' and you report yourself, giving your reasons! The mods wave their wands, and hey presto, it vanishes.
I knew it could be done because the lovely rothgar has mentioned doing it when he's had second thoughts about a posting. (He used to think he was indecisive but now he's not so sure.)
Fancy diggy being one of them there critics. Bet his reviews were/are fun to read - and probably gave some performers a rocket up the proverbial. That's why I trust his opinions of R & J.
Thank you for those few kind words, Thea, Yes, I'm sometimes racked with guilt over posting something unkind about the Madeleys and, as you explain , the Mods delete it at my request. They normally respond very quickly.
Hi I am from Germany and I love Kenneth Williams and I read his diaries (very difficult to order it here)too.
That you met him makes me a bit jelousy because he was dead before I was born and so I haven`t the chance to write him....but can you remember what he told you and your friend ?? I want to know pleasssseeeee....
Wir haben alle den gleichen Himmel, aber nicht den gleichen Horizont.
Originally posted by 12trees: Infamy, infamy - they've all got it infamy!
A phrase actually written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden for the radio show Take It From Here - the Carry On movie merely nicked it and now gets all the credit!
) about him a while ago, and they said he was a 'nice bloke overall'. . . 
