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I imagine Eric Morecombe would be good but Tommy Cooper?

Another hero of mine but I don't think he would be any good to be honest as he was a man of one-liners.

Plus, despite the apparent catalogue of random disaster TC used to rehearse and rehearse his whole act and it never strayed from the script by all accounts.

FM and DN - now that would have been an episode! Good choice.

Women?

Shappi Khorsandi

How about thinking outside the UK box for a bit...

Roseanne?

Elaine Strict? She was often chat shows and was never short of something to say.

Joan Rivers - she can talk for England, well the US anyway :o)

Rita Rudner - I love her act

As an aside, Have you noticed how many US comediennes (& comedians) are Jewish? Wonder why?

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On 18 Nov 2012, at 08:45, "Dean" <dbedford@...> wrote:

 

there are so many people aren’t there.

 

I used to love Morecambe and Wise, and would love to have heard Eric Morecambe on with Kenneth. Yes I know, the M&W shows were scripted, but by all accounts Eric was a great ad libber too.

 

What about Tommy Cooper...

 

Larry Grayson or Danny LaRue would have been interesting competition for Kenneth...

 

Spike Milligan would have been very funny – but would he have adapted to the structured environment?

 

Bruce Forsyth also comes to mind.

 

I know this will appeal to some of you too – wouldn’t it have been interesting if Frank Muir and Dennis Nordern had appeared on a show with say Kenneth and Clement. We can dream, can’t we...

 

struggling to think of women candidates!

 

Of those named so far, John Junkin, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton did do the show with varying degrees of success... I thought Tim in particular was very good on it. Graeme and Barry were also pretty good.

 

 

 

 

From: Don Judge

Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 9:21 PM

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Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] Who would be a good player?

 

 

Do you mean Roy Hudd?
I do indeed remember John Junkin.

Some more to consider:
The cast of ISIHAC - they have to be quick-thinking to do that.
Tony Hancock would have been useless, he needed a script and even had to read them on TV at the end!
Eric Sykes, a script writer so may have been good at it.
My all-time hero - Spike Milligan, again a script writer and used to a lot of ad-libbing on The Goons. Maybe that would have been a good skill to have for this.

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On 18 Nov 2012, at 01:48, "Wayne" <mailto:wayne.styles%40yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all
> Listening to the old shows as I do everyday and how impressive at times Clement and Kenneth were, I wondered who past or present in history would I consider a good player.
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> Terry Thomas (would have been funny)
> Harry Worth (worth a punt)
> Roy Hood (Dont think he has been on)
> John Junkin (Some may remember him)
> David Frost (dont think he would do it) Slow talker like Clement
> Frank Carson (He would have been unable to do it, but funny)
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> Anyway just a few if anyone wants to add please do and lets see how it goes.
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