Hancocks half hour..

Labradora,

Thank you, didn't realise I could find them on there. Just listening to one now.

When I was a child we had an LP of the Blood Donor and the Radio Ham - I know the scripts by heart!
I agree that most contemporary comedians are just not funny - they rely on swearing and sex for laughs. That’s not talent. The only one I would forgive is Billy Connolly - he was brilliant. 🤣 Bill Bailey is multi-talented and doesn’t need to swear to get laughs.
Peter Kay stands head and shoulders above the rest - his facial expressions make me laugh even before he speaks!
Does anyone remember Mike Harding? He had an incredible talent for story-telling and song-writing. 😎

My late father’s favourite comedian alongside the guy who used to wear a fez?

TiggyW There’s quite a few Mike Harding clips on YouTube, including the 14 and a Half Pound Budgie 😂

My favourite is "Sunday Afternoon at Home" - just comic genuis!

I can remember The Navy Lark, Clitheroe Kid and Round the Horn on the radio from Sundays waiting for Sunday dinner to be served up. Happy memories...

I live near the house Tony Hancock was born in, in Hall Green in Birmingham, it’s in a sorry state now. And used to live near Jimmy Clitheroe’s when growing up.

We always listened to the Blood Donor & Radio Ham when visiting one of our Aunts & Uncles as they had them on records.
As a child I also loved The Clitheroe Kid which I listened to with my Dad (who was very naughty as a child). We didn’t have a TV until I was 11 so radio (a big old Grundig) was really important. The other one I liked was Fire 999, if I remember it right. I couldn’t stand Sing Something Simple though.

I loved Radio Ham

For Visgirl, and that "everything he did was written by Galton and Simpson. Don't think he was particularly funny without a script." -- well, I'll take a wild guess, having watched sitcoms dating right back to Steptoe, Alf Garnett, and Hancock (etc), that IF you really study the titles, they'll mention who the WRITERS are. Have you actually been thinking that the actors made it up as they went along?!

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