Ooooohh! No missues, wait… what do you think you’re doing!
Control yourself!
Yes it’s the Frankie Howerd version of the sensual French hit Je T’aime, with feminine groans courtesy of June Whitfield.
This was a hit in 1971, and doesn’t get old - in fact it’s much better than the original!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzOsUAPZGn8
Je T’aime
Just Carry On…
[singlepic=68,320,240,,right]The Carry On series ran from 1958 till 1978 and other than a brief stop off in the New World in 1992’s Carry On Columbus has never managed to get back on its feet. Personally I would fund a new movie like a shot if I had the money… perhaps producers should consider a public [...]
Possibly the strangest, yet…
OK take a deep breath and be prepared for the bizarre introduction - and then witness the bizarre pleasure that is Frankie Howerd singing the Beatles’ When I’m Sixty-Four from the odd odd odd Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band “movie”…
[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=7goOVlj-LRA]
One of only two highlights from a seriously utter load of tripe; the other is [...]
Howerd’s Home
[singlepic=24,320,240,,right]Frankie Howerd’s last resting place is up for sale, with the property expected to raise £800,000 and a further £600,000 on Howerd memorabilia.
Chris Byrne is the manager of Howerd’s estate and currently lives at the property with Dennis Heymer, Frankie’s partner.
He said more than 20,000 people had visited the house over the years, but it [...]
Rather You Than Me
[singlepic=25,320,240,,right] The Curse of Comedy series on BBC Four ended last week with David Walliams as Frankie Howerd in Rather You Than Me, and it was a bleak portrait of a very funny man, plagued by self doubt, self loathing and nerves, stemming it seemed from a period of abuse from his father during childhood.
The [...]
Curse of Comedy
[singlepic=25,320,240,,right]By far and away the most interesting instalment of BBC Four’s Curse of Comedy season is tonight’s final instalment, “Rather You Than Me” which as you may now stars David Walliams as Frankie Howerd.
That isn’t to denigrate the other films – in particular the Tony Hancock and Joan le Mesurier tale was something I had [...]
Frankie Howerd – Up Pompeii!
[singlepic=24,320,240,,right]I absolutely loved Up Pompeii with its wonderful double entendres and busty girls draped in Roman togas and the like when it was repeated in the early 1990s on BBC Two. It was written by Talbot Rothwell who brought us he Carry On! Films, and the similarities are obvious.
Howerd was of course Lurcio, the lowly [...]
Ooh Titter Ye Not!
[singlepic=23,240,320,,right]Let’s call it “Frankie Howerd Week” on Quintessential Comedy, as we look forward to the upcoming Howerd mini biopic to close the Curse of Comedy series this Wednesday.
As a stand up comic, Howerd’s routine was apparently a ramshackle display of stories that are interrupted by Frankie’s customary asides, mini stories and direct addressing of various [...]
Curse? What Curse?
[singlepic=16,240,320,,right]They say there’s no curse, but Galton and Simpson are apparently fans of the current BBC Four series The Curse of Comedy.
Writing in The Times, they describe how Hancock wasn’t always on the bottle, how Frankie Howerd was always happy (as long as he was centre of attention) and how Steptoe and Son’s Harry H [...]
The Curse of Comedy
For serious fans of British Comedy, there cannot be anything more looked forward to this year than BBC Four’s Curse of Comedy series.
It kicks off this evening with The Curse of Steptoe and Son, in which Phil Davis and Jeremy Isaacs portray the stars Wilfred Bramble and Harry H Corbett, and the stresses and strains [...]
