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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Probably The Now Show! and I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue.
Also Mark Steele's In Town: Franklin Engelmann's gentle interview programme Down Your Way, in the 1960s, was never like that!
I don't have the title and presenter's name immediately to hand but have been listening to a new series that is all facts but presented very amusingly, based on a pub quiz.
I used to like The News Quiz, in parts, but abandoned it after Andy Zaltzmann (sp?) became its irritatingly self-congratulatory, self-absorbed chairman.
I still fondly recall the 1960s show that brought the likes of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and John Cleese to fame well before The Goodies and Monty Python's Flying Circus. It also starred Jo Kendall, and I think another male but I forget whom.
It was called I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again - not satirising the News as you might think from that - and its theme was the daft Angus Prune Song.
ISIRTA continued somewhat The Goons tradition of surreal comedy, in a sea of rather formulaic situation comedies like The Clitheroe Kid and The Navy Lark.
Gentler and perhaps a bit wittier than those was The Men From The Ministry, about two hapless senior members of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs, a sort of precursor to the TV show The Men From The Ministry.
Also Mark Steele's In Town: Franklin Engelmann's gentle interview programme Down Your Way, in the 1960s, was never like that!
I don't have the title and presenter's name immediately to hand but have been listening to a new series that is all facts but presented very amusingly, based on a pub quiz.
I used to like The News Quiz, in parts, but abandoned it after Andy Zaltzmann (sp?) became its irritatingly self-congratulatory, self-absorbed chairman.
I still fondly recall the 1960s show that brought the likes of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and John Cleese to fame well before The Goodies and Monty Python's Flying Circus. It also starred Jo Kendall, and I think another male but I forget whom.
It was called I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again - not satirising the News as you might think from that - and its theme was the daft Angus Prune Song.
ISIRTA continued somewhat The Goons tradition of surreal comedy, in a sea of rather formulaic situation comedies like The Clitheroe Kid and The Navy Lark.
Gentler and perhaps a bit wittier than those was The Men From The Ministry, about two hapless senior members of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs, a sort of precursor to the TV show The Men From The Ministry.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@ArishMell Some good radio shows there.
I'm sorry I haven't a clue with Humphrey Littleton was beautifully written. Especially the Chairman's monologue.
Poor Colin Sell at the piano often took a verbal beating and of course the legendary 'Samantha'.
Such creativity.
I'm sorry I haven't a clue with Humphrey Littleton was beautifully written. Especially the Chairman's monologue.
Poor Colin Sell at the piano often took a verbal beating and of course the legendary 'Samantha'.
Such creativity.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Picklebobble2 Thankyou!
I forget which regular player took on the Chair after Humphrey Littleton's death, but although it would be invidious to expect him to ape Littleton he does maintain the general style of the show, complete with what Humph once called its "blue-chip filth".
I forget which regular player took on the Chair after Humphrey Littleton's death, but although it would be invidious to expect him to ape Littleton he does maintain the general style of the show, complete with what Humph once called its "blue-chip filth".
