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Recommended viewing...seen it many times. Great TV. Monkhouse: 'I was born in Kent...and it's funny...I always get reminded about it. I'm with someone and move away and then I hear it..."Kent" '
Thanks for this, he was a highly intelligent, very funny man. And a lot edgier in his stage shows than on TV. I suppose Jimmy Carr is the one who most resembles him nowadays.
Comedy genius, absolutely brilliant. Jimmy carr doesn't even come close to Bob monkhouse as a comedy genius and neither do most of todays so called sub standard comedians.
Most of the current crop revere Monkhouse and rightly so.
The performance is a stand-up masterclass. Great material and his timing was second to none. It’s one of the best things I’ve seen for years - heroic, heartbreaking and fûcking hilarious.
He did a show on ITV about 25/30 years ago that aired about 11pm. One of the funniest things I'd seen. I'd only known him as a game show host until then.
There was a cgi advert that they made after his death with him standing at his own grave talking about prostate cancer that was funny, morbid and thought provoking at the same time. I think he would have approved but it caused a bit of a scandal at the time.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
All the comedians back then had to grind for years honing their craft in crappy little pubs, clubs and dancehalls sometimes in front of incredibly hostile audiences. Whereas nowadays the career path seems to be university –-> panel shows ––> Live at the Apollo ––> arenas.
A lot of the modern comedians are incredibly polished and can reel off their routines and be very funny but very very few can hold an audience and connect to them in the same way the likes of Bob Monkhouse or Billy Connolly used to.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
He wasn't everyone's cuppa tea, but Bernard Manning was the greatest teller of a gag. Saw him live a few times, best one being at the Starlight in Port Talbot.
I remember he came across a bit smarmy on TV shows like the Golden Shot, but I had the pleasure of chatting to him for 10 minutes or so in 1982, and you couldn't meet a nicer guy. He did a show in the Grand Theatre and arranged an after show party in a pub on the corner of Oxford St, it may have been called Murphy's. He spent time with everyone at the party, and the most memorable thing of meeting him, was that he hardly spoke about himself, he just kept prompting and was very skilled in stimulating conversation from others. a very intelligent man. VHS movie shops had just started at that time, and he'd spent his daytime in Swansea looking round the few Video rental shops, to look for any old movies for his collection. I've met a number a few TV celebs over the years, Bob M is the only one I fondly remember.
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