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 (fictional?) audience members.

“Ooh NO Missus!”

“Titter ye Not!”

“No, don’t it’s wicked to mock the afflicted.”

They’re all quintessential Frankie Howerd, and all dispatched over a long career with wonderful timing to a long series of willing and loving audiences. 

Howerd is of course famous for these catchphrases, as well as his very distinctive voice which has been mimicked by impressionists and students for years.  This Wednesday David Walliams portrays Howerd in final Curse of Comedy, “Rather You Than Me”, and commented after the series was announced that “Matt Lucas and I first bonded as struggling comedians over a shared love of Frankie Howerd impressions.”

Oh behave!

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