Titter Ye Not!

Last night saw two features on the great Frankie Howerd.

David Walliams in the drama "Rather You Than Me" then a one hour profile on the great man's career (obviously I mean Howerd there, not Walliams).

I guess you are either a Frankie Howerd fan or you are not - I always was. If not - please yourselves! Many, many years ago I can recall being stuck on an extremely tedious Employment Training course at the Chamber of Commerce in Manchester. The trainers genuinely hated you, and the only thing that enlivened the day was talking to your fellow inmates.

One day our conversation moved on from United and City's comic performances, to those of truly great British comedians. I can remember the horror of the moment clearly. A fat lad from Bury piped up "Frankie Howerd isn't funny, because all he does is so 'ooh no missus'".

I can't think of anything funny than Frankie Howerd saying 'ooh no missus' and would pay good money, if the great man was still alive, to see it.

Would'nt everyone?