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Bob Monkhouse back from the dead...

(June 2007)

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JO
Jon
Larry the Loafer posted:
nok32uk posted:
Fantastic advert. Originally I thought he'd recorded it before he died and planned for it to be aired in 2007.


Then how would the gravestone know he died on December 29th? Wink

Well they could of added that.
PT
Put The Telly On
wells posted:
Larry the Loafer posted:
nok32uk posted:
Fantastic advert. Originally I thought he'd recorded it before he died and planned for it to be aired in 2007.


Then how would the gravestone know he died on December 29th? Wink

Well they could of added that.


Indeed. Wink
LL
Larry the Loafer
nok32uk posted:
wells posted:
Larry the Loafer posted:
nok32uk posted:
Fantastic advert. Originally I thought he'd recorded it before he died and planned for it to be aired in 2007.


Then how would the gravestone know he died on December 29th? Wink

Well they could of added that.


Indeed. Wink


Good point Rolling Eyes
JO
Johnny83
Barney Boo posted:
Johnny83 posted:
Agreed, the word legend is greatly over used <snip>

Agreed.


I hope you don't mean in Bob Monkhouse's case Mr Boo
RO
roo
Johnny83 posted:
Barney Boo posted:
Johnny83 posted:
Agreed, the word legend is greatly over used <snip>

Agreed.


I hope you don't mean in Bob Monkhouse's case Mr Boo

I do. I don't tend to apply words like 'legend' to someone who only told painfully tired jokes. But of course, the minute he died, he couldn't be anything else.
RS
Roy Slaven
Oh I don't know....Bob was a scriptwriter and gag writer for many comedy greats inc Bob Hope, then hosted several quiz shows in the 60s/70s/80s and appeared in many comedy movies ..he had a career that lasted right up til he died ...so I figure he is more entitiled to the status of legend than most of the talentless 5 minute wonders that parade across our screens these days ...usually emerging from some half baked talent show or the BB house........
but then I guess it's how you define legend?
CY
cymru148
I've watched this advert for days now (not non stop, but near enough) it's just brilliant. Does anyone know what the music used in the ad is called?
LL
Lottie Long-Legs
Bob was supremely talented - television quiz shows and the like only managed to showcase a small segment of his talent; it was in concerts and on stage where the man truly excelled, with his quick-fire joke telling on pretty much any subject.
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Skytower posted:
Bob was supremely talented - television quiz shows and the like only managed to showcase a small segment of his talent; it was in concerts and on stage where the man truly excelled, with his quick-fire joke telling on pretty much any subject.


Agreed. He was a giant talent and is much missed (by me at any rate).
:-(
A former member
wipe out,
cheap and nasty but he made the show great!
ST
stevek
Roy Slaven posted:
Oh I don't know....Bob was a scriptwriter and gag writer for many comedy greats inc Bob Hope, then hosted several quiz shoes in the 60s/70s/80s and appeared in many comedy movies ...


quiz shoes?

did somebody put their foot in it?
RS
Roy Slaven
looks like I did !

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