Ste Vita
Mornington Crescent!
I win.
Humphrey Lyttelton died yesterday. Sad news.
We once went to see a recording of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue at Wimbledon Theatre. I have only laughed so much that it hurt on one other occasion and that was equally surprising to me. It was at a Ken Dodd evening in Dorking Halls. My father was sitting next to me and I honestly thought he would fall of his chair!
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (ISIHAC) is a very British phenomenon. I can't see that this sort of humour would have ever travelled across the pond, or even just under the channel tunnel, but we have always enjoyed it's stupid party games and a level of innuendo I never thought I would hear on the BBC before the watershed. How Humph got away with it I will never know, but his suggestions of what 'Samantha' the scorer might get up to were very near the knuckle.
How we will miss such lines as 'Samantha's going out now for an ice cream with her new Italian gentleman friend. She says she's looking forward to licking the nuts off a large Neapolitan'. Will we tell you the truth about Samantha and how she took these comments about her personal life? No.
From Mornington Crescent to 'One Song to the Tune of Another', to letters from Mrs Trellis of North Wales; Monday evenings will never be the same again.
Rest in Peace, Humph.
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That's cheating! You are NOT allowed to go directly to Mornington Crescent - not unless you have invoked the Capital Rules beforehand. And you DID NOT!
So there! I am now going to get all my old tapes so I can listen again and have a quiet giggle. The one I rmember was about the packet of sausages with the picture of A W T on the front and written underneath was 'prick with a fork' which Humph said he 'thought was a trifle harsh'!!
An educated, erudite gentleman going to be sadly missed. And I LOVED his Bad Penny Blues!!
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