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As young lads we used to play Sabrina pontoon. Instead of 21 bust we had 42 bust.

What about the original well endowed lady – Jane Russell? We played Jane Russell pontoon too. 38 bust.

Tommy Handley from I.T.M.A.
Norman Evans from Over The Garden Wall. Les Dawson ‘borrowed’ some of his routine but he was also hilarious in his own right.
Tommy Trinder with his very risqué jokes.
Max Wall with even more risqué jokes.
Jimmy Edwards from Take It From Here with Bill Kerr and June Whitfield.
Tony Hancock from Hancock’s Half Hour with Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Sid James.
Educating Archie with Peter Brough a ventriloquist on the radio? I ask you. But it worked. I never saw his lips move.
Round The Horn.
The Goon Show or as the BBC big wigs first called it the Go On Show.
What about Max Boyce? The mad, Welsh, leek waving, rugby fan.
And don’t forget Dick Barton Special Agent.
For the more gentile audience Mrs Dale’s Diary, probably the very first soap on the wireless. She was always so worried about Jim.

Variety programmes where you got a mixture of entertainers from singers to jugglers to trapeze acts to stand up comics to prestidigitators (conjurers) and the best of which were the ventriloquists. They were funnier than a comic.

Ray Alan and Lord Charles were a scream.

Dennis Spicer appeared to speak with two voices at the same time and he was the only guy that I ever saw who could drink a glass of water and speak at the same time.

I can’t remember the guy’s name but he would get two people from the audience up on stage, usually one large chap and either a small woman or a small guy. Then he would hold a conversation between them using a tiny effeminate voice for the big guy and a deep gruff voice for the other person.

Sadly you don’t get that sort of entertainment these days were good solid belly laughs came free and easy.

Bring back “The Palace Of Varieties” and “The Good Old Days” from Leeds. That was entertainment.