Heh @ the only three rofers getting the Grayson ref being Pinko, with whom I was having a convo about self-dating references earlier, and a bloke with “old git” in his name.
Intrigued to read on wiki that (as pinko points out) his “shut that door!”, while apparently borrowed from his manager, camped up for comic effect and a core part of his act, was originally also a genuine admonition to the stewards at the Redcar Regent to, literally, shit the side doors and stop the wind blowing in straight off the north sea (the theatre looks to be on a kind of pier).
As a kid when LG took over from Brucie on the Generation Game I remember being quite perplexed at his humour. Only more recently have I clocked what a hilarious and professional performer he was. Really brilliant and must have been incredibly resilient doing the northern comedy circuit. Half the audience in stitches with him, half openly revolted in those times.
The glasses on a chain, shut that door (Redcar IIRC), ooh Apricot Lil shtick is magnificent in retrospect. Made me cringe then.
I’m too young to really remember him being on TV but arched a couple of clips apropos this thread, and it’s obvious what an absolute natural he was on TV. Such intimacy with the audience. And so composed even when pretending to be befuddled.
The thing with all those performers is, cliche, they came from a trad variety background, where the blue book got slipped inside the white book. Knowing looks etc. Hinting at the unsayable. And what role models I imagine if you were in the closet, where else was there to go? Today’s trans ‘warriors’ would literally have been stoned in the streets.
That line about visiting a Canadian reserve and having to share a teepee with two Indians (his terminology then) and a Mountie. ‘The less said about him the better. But those headdresses. Feathers everywhere. Looked like there’d been a cockfight. (Long pause, stare, no smile). No such luck.’
Saw a documentary about him over lockdown, purely because there was nothing else on. Previously had the same bemused recollection of him. I laughed throughout (rare in itself) and couldn’t understand why I’d never “got” him before. Brilliant.
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Phrase invented in Redcar Bowl cinema
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More Chubby territory than Larry?
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Shut the fridge. What, another one?
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No it was Grayson, in response to the wind from the sea blowing the doors open during his performance
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Heh @ the only three rofers getting the Grayson ref being Pinko, with whom I was having a convo about self-dating references earlier, and a bloke with “old git” in his name.
Intrigued to read on wiki that (as pinko points out) his “shut that door!”, while apparently borrowed from his manager, camped up for comic effect and a core part of his act, was originally also a genuine admonition to the stewards at the Redcar Regent to, literally, shit the side doors and stop the wind blowing in straight off the north sea (the theatre looks to be on a kind of pier).
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Well, not literally that.
I’ve been in a chambers in Nuneaton County Court with pics of the two most famous Nuneaton people on the wall. George Eliot and Larry Grayson.
Wish it had been DJ Farquwuharson.
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legend
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I won’t take me coat off - I’m not stopping.
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Heh@this
As a kid when LG took over from Brucie on the Generation Game I remember being quite perplexed at his humour. Only more recently have I clocked what a hilarious and professional performer he was. Really brilliant and must have been incredibly resilient doing the northern comedy circuit. Half the audience in stitches with him, half openly revolted in those times.
The glasses on a chain, shut that door (Redcar IIRC), ooh Apricot Lil shtick is magnificent in retrospect. Made me cringe then.
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I’m too young to really remember him being on TV but arched a couple of clips apropos this thread, and it’s obvious what an absolute natural he was on TV. Such intimacy with the audience. And so composed even when pretending to be befuddled.
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The thing with all those performers is, cliche, they came from a trad variety background, where the blue book got slipped inside the white book. Knowing looks etc. Hinting at the unsayable. And what role models I imagine if you were in the closet, where else was there to go? Today’s trans ‘warriors’ would literally have been stoned in the streets.
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The disparaging, morally condemnatory, frown that signals approval
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That line about visiting a Canadian reserve and having to share a teepee with two Indians (his terminology then) and a Mountie. ‘The less said about him the better. But those headdresses. Feathers everywhere. Looked like there’d been a cockfight. (Long pause, stare, no smile). No such luck.’
prime time bbc in the 1970s.
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I didn't understand Larry Grayson as a kid but I did understand Isla St Clair...
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Titter ye not.
Frankie was the master, but Larry came a close second.
Ooooooooh
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Exactly what Muttley said @ 08:00
Saw a documentary about him over lockdown, purely because there was nothing else on. Previously had the same bemused recollection of him. I laughed throughout (rare in itself) and couldn’t understand why I’d never “got” him before. Brilliant.
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