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Re: Two Kenneth Williams questions - for Dean

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Robert TorresDec 2, 2007

1969? that early? that was I assume the same year that Kenneth made his debut, and it wasn't even round this time that he even regularly berated women for even being on the show, in fact Kenneth seemed a lot more chivalrous to women, it wouldn't be until 1971, when Peter Jones joined the panel that he would even start berating women for being on the show.

i find this very surprising that it happened so early in Kenneth's involvement with Just a Minute.

Dean Bedford <dbedford@...> wrote:

On Monday, December 3, 2007, at 11:46 AM, lapsedcat wrote:

> Dean,
>
> You've said elsewhere that Kenneth Williams sent at least one female
> guest home in tears following a recording and that on another occasion
> he tried to get a bit of a recording edited out when he made what he
> saw as a serious factual faux pas on a subject he was supposed to know
> a lot about.
>
> Details?

We've already discussed the woman in tears incident in this group, the
woman involved was Nyree Dawn Porter. The show was recorded in 1969, it
was never broadcast.

The other one is revealed in the Kenneth Williams Letters Book. in 1969
he wrote after a recording to producer Simon Brett asking him to take
out Kenny attributing the theory of gravity to Darwin (rather than
Newton). He says in the letter that if it had been funny or produced
comedy he wouldn't have minded - but as it didn't, it just made him look
stupid. He also says in the letter that he was terrible as chairman....
I think he's being a bit hard on himself there.

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