Norman Collier's Microphone Is Now Working

[PC Savage]

I was a floor manager on the 1972 series of Jokers Wild. Things could get very nasty on that show, I can tell you. Lots of whisky fumes, bile, and unbroadcastable jokes (even then) about black people and uncooperative women.

Anyway, I'm writing a book on the degenerate nature of British comedians, directly juxtaposing old school (Ted Ray, Norman Collier etc) with the new brooms of today (Gervaise, Mrs Tate etc). The conclusion I'm coming to, apart fromt the usual comedians-as-miserable-drunken-ratbags schtick, is that comedy isn't funny at all, after all. None of it is actually funny. None except for Norman Collier's faulty microphone bit.

This is a shocking conclusion, but all will be explained in the book.

Evenin' all

[Bert Thung]

I love that episode of Jokers Wild where John Cleese read a book till he's asked a question. Someone bung that up on youtube.

[The Cloud of Unknowing]

[quote="PC Savage" The conclusion I'm coming to, apart fromt the usual comedians-as-miserable-drunken-ratbags schtick, is that comedy isn't funny at all, after all. None of it is actually funny. None except for Norman Collier's faulty microphone bit.
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What about the winding-the-car-window-up-and-down routine, or does that fall into the same category?

[Pinball]

Isn't Monty Python a little bit funny?

[zozman]

Apparently not, no.  I'd agree though that Catherine Tate isn't funny.

[Pinball]

True.

[Bert Thung]

Jokers Wild - hiring Michael Aspel to do stand up comedy
http://home.btconnect.com/howejam/dadsarmy/gallery/gal_cdcareer_05.htm

And this is what happened to Ray Martine
http://theavengers.tv/forever/pnote-martine.htm

[Squidy]

http://home.btconnect.com/howejam/dadsarmy/gallery/gal_cdcareer_05.htm

That photo appeared as a puzzle in the Look-In TV Comedy Annual 1974, challenging the reader to "Name the Jokers!".

[Glebe]

There was a  thing in Viz ages ago about a guy who did laundry to the stars, and It mentioned Norman Collier doing the microphone thing.