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Originally Posted by jambutty
Stuart Hall’s laughter is so infectious I defy anyone not to join in.
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We once went to see "It's a Knockout" at Charnock Richard, it must be about 25 years ago. It was a miserably wet day, drizzled all afternoon, and the show that used to be on TV for an hour took over 4 hours to record. Despite the weather there was a huge crowd of spectators and a lot of them had brought whistles and kept blowing them. The contestants kept getting false starts and finishes because of it.
Stuart Hall was on the field, dressed as a ring-master, the whole afternoon, trying to get the games done properly. He went right up in my estimation because he had the patience of a saint. He kept asking people not to blow the whistles, and being ignored, and remained good humoured and laughing to the end, wet through as he was. I would have had several tantrums and gone round belting half the audience if I'd had to put up with it.
I liked that show but it was "of its time" and I'm not sure it would work now.