More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wyj62.
It's a comedy congregation in this sketch from The One Ronnie Show. Harry Enfield, Rob Brydon, David Walliams and Matt Lucas all have something to say in this Songs of Praise sketch.
Thanks to Bruce (aka Canon Itchy) for the link.
Funny!!! I remember "The Two Ronnies" from years ago. I wonder if the other one died? RIP the Other Ronnie. . .
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favorites from the other Ronnie, who is, alas, as of 2005,no longer on this mortal coil.
ReplyDeleteI loved the Two Ronnies when I was a kid :-)
ReplyDeleteSusan, that was fun, especially the sing-along.
ReplyDeleteCathy, when I was a child, there was no TV! Imagine that!
Isn't it funny the English fascination with drag. From Shakespear on...
ReplyDeleteIt's what comes from attending all boy schools, Goran, where all parts in plays were played by boys.
ReplyDeleteAnd it started before Shakespeare because women being in the theater meant that they were also mistresses and whores. Upper classes frowned upon it, you know. And actually there were female actresses in Shakespeare's time. He actually used them.
Cathy, when I was a child, there was no TV! Imagine that!
ReplyDeleteMimi, my thought is, never ever ever, ever, ever, mention that to Mad Priest. What he would make of that I shudder to think.
Susan, I went to an all-girls school and at my school girls had to play the bloke parts. I played Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls in the school production. Marlon Brando move over!! I've still got the hat and braces. And Romeo to Debra Baumgartner's Juliet (in the class reading of it, anyway). She was famous for being big and tough enough to grab boys her age by the wrist and swing them around in a circle in the air. She later joined the police. She was never a very convincing Juliet, to be honest. Then again I'm not sure I really cut it as Romeo either :-)
Susan, thanks for responding to Göran. :-)
ReplyDeleteMimi, my thought is, never ever ever, ever, ever, mention that to Mad Priest. What he would make of that I shudder to think.
Cathy, what more MadPriest could make of my TV deprivation as a child than he's already made of so many other aspects of my life, I can't imagine. In truth, I won't even try to imagine, though I expect he'd think of something.
I only ever played Old Mother Hubbard and the Fairy of Kindness. "I am the Fairy of Kindness," was my opening line, which is all I remember of my part.
Oh yes! And I was in a minstrel show! My Roman Catholic school was doing minstrel shows back in the day.
"I am the Fairy of Kindness," was my opening line, which is all I remember of my part.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant!!
(PS You're still the Fairy of Kindness, Grandmère Mimi.)
ReplyDeleteAwww... Thanks, Cathy. I wore a long blue silkish dress, trimmed in silver, and I had wings like an angel.
ReplyDeleteWhat a leap from The One Ronnie to the Fairy of Kindness. Can't you people ever stay on thread?!!
Srsly, I love the threads which go every which way.
Ah, you see, Mimi, I'm not sure it's such a leap - it's all about dressing up and having fun prancing about in one's finery, isn't it? :-)
ReplyDeleteWell, it is that, Cathy. I had terrible stage fright. I still do.
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