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Re: Repeated material

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Dean BedfordSep 10, 2008
 

 
On Thursday, September 11, 2008, at 03:19 PM, Clitheroe Kid wrote:

> The song which includes the lyric "I was strapped to the tiller with a
> sex-starved gorilla, and China's a bloody long way!" was a traditional
> favourite among British comedians of a certain vintage.
>
> It possibly originated with Les Dawson. I certainly heard him use it in
> this
> form on his radio show, 'Listen to Les', in the Seventies. In which
> case it
> may have been written by either Les himself or his long-time
> scriptwriter
> and producer, James Casey.
>
> Some repeats of Les's radio show were aired on BBC 7 last year, and I
> think
> that sketch was one of those included. But I've also heard it
> attributed to
> 'The Goon Show' in the Fifties.
>
> I certainly remember someone using it on 'Just A Minute' and getting a
> big
> laugh with it - I think it was either Peter Jones or Derek Nimmo. It
> was a
> well-known joke, always good for a laugh, and by the Eighties had become
> just part of the common currency of comedians.

It was Peter and he recited it as a limerick... (may well have been a
song too) And Paul used it earlier this series.

There was a young man from Torbay
Who was sailing to China one day
He was tied to the tiller
By a sex-crazed gorilla
And China's a bloody long way

 
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