Famous catchphrases


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This is for RADIO only, TV had a lot too, so a thread can be started for that, seperately.

WAKEY, WAKEY

Billy Cotton Band Show

OPEN THE DOOR RICHARD

Life with the Lyons

WHAT'S ON THE TABLE, MABLE

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'As the art mistress said to the gardener.' Marlene - or was it Monica? It was prolly Monica. Both the wonderful Beryl Reid. (I often use this myself.)

I'm playing all the right notes......but not necessarily in the right order. Eric Morcambe

My favourite at the moment is FFS !

I don't know why I know this one because it was much before my time

Mrs Mopp:- "Shall I do you now sir?" from ITMA

and from round the horn (Kenneth Williams in a very camp voice) :- "I'me Julian and this is my friend Sandy"

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You might be right about Ken's missing shirt?

But I can remember one of 'The Comedians'

using similar on TV

"Where's me shirt? I can't find me shirt anywhere!"

I can see his face but can't remember the name?

WHERE'S ME SHIRT ?

Ken Dodd - 1965

Well it all began in the year of one

When Adam was the first man

And a girl called Eve, so we believe

Was made to be his woman

She led him up the Garden of Eden, by a tree

Then she offered him her apple

And he cried out suddenly (eee-eeee-eeeee)

SPOKEN (Liverpool Accent):

Where's me shirt?

Where's me shirt?

I feel a proper twazzer without me shirt

I've got me tickling-tackle and me nicky-nocky-noo

But I must confess I feel undressed

Like this, in front of you

& etc.

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Found Him, I thought it was another Ken?

Ken Goodwin (born 7 April 1933 in Manchester) is an English comedian best known for his performances on the ITV Television show The Comedians. His performance style is nervous and stuttering. He laughs at his own jokes and reacts to laughter from the audience with the catchphrase " Settle down now, settle down".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Goodwin_(comedian)

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http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/comedy/comedians.htm

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“Don’t some mothers ’ave ’em” (refuring to alfie it was "twits" )

"I`m all there with me cough drops"

"Ooh,flippin``eck"

He was the eternal schoolboy...Jimmy Clithero

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[ignore this, can't get rid of it!]

Are you sitting comfortably, then I'll begin

[Listen with mother]

Hello, Playmates

[Arthur Askey]

Don't some mother's 'ave 'em

[Jimmy Clitheroe]

Eee, It were agony, Ivy

[Mrs Hoskins, recounting her latest ailment, to her friend Ivy]

You dirty rotten swine, you have deaded me.

[bluebottle, from the Goon Show]

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"Don't some mothers 'ave 'em" (refuring to alfie it was "twits" )

"I`m all there with me cough drops"

"Ooh,flippin``eck"

He was the eternal schoolboy...Jimmy Clithero

Wasn't he a member of the "Black hand gang"? (Still long before my time)

I remember "Castles on the air" with Roy Castle and the bloke who was 'Our Eli' (Mentioned elsewhere)

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'Open the cage! Let me out'! - Jimmy Wheeler --- 'I've had a letter from me mother' - Ken Platt --- 'Hello playmates' - Arthur Askey

'Black mark Bentley' - Jimmy Edwards - 'Take It From Here'

I don't hold much stock for many of the new wave of comedians and I don't know if any of them have catch phrases, but there are some in situation comedies but that's T.V.

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'I've had a letter from me mother' - Ken Platt ---

Surely Ken Platt was known for 'I won't take me coat off, I'm not stopping'.

Don't know about the one you quote above, but it reminds me of Ted Lune (best known as Private Bone in 'The Army Game') who I remember from Workers Playtime had an act where he would read out a letter from his mother: 'Dear Son...'

Here's one: 'Can you hear me, mother?' - Sandy Powell.

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Every time I heard "hello playmates" from Arthur Askey, I wanted to smash the telly in. As a kid, I thought he was an arrogant, pompous, talentless little pipsqueak . I now have a phobia about overbearing little men in glasses. Lol no offence meant to present company.

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Tight git.

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Surely Ken Platt was known for 'I won't take me coat off, I'm not stopping'.

Don't know about the one you quote above, but it reminds me of Ted Lune (best known as Private Bone in 'The Army Game') who I remember from Workers Playtime had an act where he would read out a letter from his mother: 'Dear Son...'

Here's one: 'Can you hear me, mother?' - Sandy Powell.

Ken Platt came out with this phrase before reading the letter. It contained things like, 'I've had all me teeth out and a new gas stove put in'.

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