Bob Monkhouse

[carlton23]

Did you see yesterdays tribute to him? What a great stand-up comedian he was, and what a collector of past shows he recorded. Everything he could record he would do so, a marvellous asset to the BBC and us for the future. Very sadly missed.

[sg]

Yes I watched it Carlton, I found it fascinating as with my age, I was very young when he was on tv on a regular basis, and then when old enough to have more of an opinion on what I watched, Alternative Comedy had begun and the so called old guard, traditional type comedians and entertainers had become reviled (basically, Monkhouse was by that time seen as a cheesy quiz show host).
Later on, in the kind of student arena of the early nineties, Monkhouse and others gained a kind of ironic status, and late became actually admired without any sense of irony, when it was realised how talented they were, and how hard they had worked in their trade to hone their skills.
I think a lot of it had to do with the 80's comedic fashion of left-wing against the establishment, and what the establishment stood for.
Looking into Bob Monkhouse's life and having that kind of detail to analyse, we see that his professional life was far from a conventional one, and ever less so his personal life.
I think anyone from my generation who used to laugh when Bob Monkhouse said he was a comedian - well, they're not laughing now.

[donslot]

Totally agree carlton23. USB'd it for the keep.
Big fan!
http://sites.google.c...nsaround/tv-and-films

[Everhelpful]

Remember him from a Night Club I went to in the 60's,all clean cut and proper on telly,but absolutely hilarious on stage,real adult humour, Same goes for Roger De Courcy and Nookie Bear,I kid you not.