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Just watching a Stephen Fry programme. He was talking about his enjoyment of nonsense words, and up popped a clip of Stanley Unwin.

For those who remember him, you might like these clips. For those unacquainted, you might also like his utterly unique, and in my opinion, brilliant skill.

Here he avertisles wordyprocessy.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=duOhkSwMjKg

and here's the tale of Goldyloppers and the Three Bearloaders.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M2iD-oNqD ... re=related

I'm sad to say that few people on here with the exception of you, me and Uncle Nick are going to remember Stanley Unwin.

It was Nana Mouskouri night on BBC Four one evening last week. Peters and Lee soon I hope.

He's brilliant, isn't he?

You might also like Stanley Holloway, who is also very famous; and also Bernard Miles.

Gavin Scott wrote:Just watching a Stephen Fry programme. He was talking about his enjoyment of nonsense words, and up popped a clip of Stanley Unwin.

For those who remember him, you might like these clips. For those unacquainted, you might also like his utterly unique, and in my opinion, brilliant skill.

Here he avertisles wordyprocessy.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=duOhkSwMjKg

and here's the tale of Goldyloppers and the Three Bearloaders.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M2iD-oNqD ... re=related

Just been watching the very same programme. The man is just a living legend isn't he? I'd forgotten about the brilliant skill Stanley Unwin could just so effortlessly employ.

I liked Stephen's explanation that it just feels like you've missed a couple of words in the story and it was your fault and he wasn't doing it deliberately. Brilliant.

I was also overjoyed that they featured the superb Countdown parody from A Bit of Fry and Laurie. Sadly they didn't complete it to the "Sloblock" conclusion which is just hilarious. And Stephen is far too good at doing Richard Whiteley as well!

Isonstine wrote:I was also overjoyed that they featured the superb Countdown parody from A Bit of Fry and Laurie. Sadly they didn't complete it to the "Sloblock" conclusion which is just hilarious. And Stephen is far too good at doing Richard Whiteley as well!

Don't forget "Don't be Durty"

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0LnZOf_O0

Oh Stanley Unwin was wonderful, although I'm too young to have seen him in anything other than Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But from what I have seen, he had a quality which hasn't really been seen since, and A Bit of Fry and Laurie perhaps comes closest. And that, too, is a fantastic series which I have seen all the episodes of. Here are a selection of weird and wonderful quotes from the show:

"I was standing here and this guy came haring round the corner..."

"I wouldn't suck it!"

"Well the thing that...oh Christ, I've left the iron on!"

"Yes, it is nice isn't it? There's a little man in the village who runs up my skirts."

"Darling, could you pass the marmalade?
What?
Could you pass the marmalade?
You want me to arse the parlour-maid?
No, there's a pot of marmalade at your elbow, could you pass it?
A potty marinade in my dildo? Have you gone mad, woman?"

"Did you have a daughter?
Yes, Henrietta.
Did he, did he? I'm sorry to hear that."

"His children call him Daddy, his wife calls him regularly..."

"You know how Marjorie loved to ride, Thomas?
Marjorie was riding Thomas?"

"Four felching pens and a bevelled spill-trunnion."

"I stooped to pick a buttercup. Why people leave buttocks lying around I've no idea..."

"Mr. Bermie's got cancy-wancy?"

"Call yourself a school?!?
Well I don't actually call myself a school..."

"Hello, I'm Tony Inchpractise. Welcome to photocopying my genitals with..."

"Come round to ours - we're having a barbie!
You leave Barbie out of this!"

"Damn, double damn, and an extra pint of damn for the weekend!"

"92 years old, and I've never had oral sex. Never ridden a camel. Never watched a woman urinate. Never killed a man. I don't want any stupid cocoa. I want to drink milk from the breasts of a Burmese maiden."

"Listen to me, listen to me, there's chess and there's a game of chess. Mark the difference for me, mark it please."

"She divorced you! Why?
I snapped and tipped the contents of a bowl of trifle in her lap...
And she got custardy."

"They'll be saying Hitler was a racist next..."

"I hate you, hate you and yet... I hate you."

"I shall write a very stiff letter. On cardboard."

It's such a shame that shows like Little Britain get so over publicized. ABOFL rules.

Dig out a copy of BBCTV's 'Sounds Of The 60's' from the early 90's.

There is a performance of the Small Faces & 'Happydays ToyTown' on one of the later episodes, which features Unwin in part.

Think TOTP 2 have shown the same clip too.

Clip is originally from a surviving Colour Me Pop.

westy 2 wrote:Dig out a copy of BBCTV's 'Sounds Of The 60's' from the early 90's.

There is a performance of the Small Faces & 'Happydays ToyTown' on one of the later episodes, which features Unwin in part.

Think TOTP 2 have shown the same clip too.

Clip is originally from a surviving Colour Me Pop.

Funny you should mention that, I'm was listening to Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake just before I opened this thread. A superb album.