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Old 15-12-2005, 07:01 PM
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I loved Claude in My Learned Friend

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Robert Morley wasn't an upper-class twit IMO
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Does Hugh Grant figure into this?
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My favourite twit has to be David Hutcheson... Hoppy Hopwell in Blimp, but all over the place as officer types from the thirties to the seventies. Had a very good monocle technique.....
Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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Poor old Robert Coote always seemed to get the twit role, though perhaps more old buffer than twit?
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Poor old Robert Coote always seemed to get the twit role, though perhaps more old buffer than twit?
I appreciate the vote for Robert Coote - does anybody get to the end of THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN without wanting to give him a good slap ?

But I have to run with silly-ass Claude Hulbert as possibly the greatest upper class twit !

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I appreciate the vote for Robert Coote - does anybody get to the end of THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN without wanting to give him a good slap ?

But I have to run with silly-ass Claude Hulbert as possibly the greatest upper class twit !

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Agreed and he is quite wonderful in My Learned Friend
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Agreed and he is quite wonderful in My Learned Friend
Which is where we came in
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Does Hugh Grant figure into this?
Never heard of him
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Never heard of him
Or, as the saying goes....

Hugh-Who !!!

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This is another one of him when he'd got older and put a bit more weight on.
I still think Ray Allen is the finest ventroloquist we haveever produced!
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I still think Ray Allen is the finest ventroloquist we haveever produced!
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Who has said otherwise?
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Nah - I loved the concept of EDUCATING ARCHIE - a vent on the radio....?

Wonderful story of the late Irene Handl ; she 'stooged' Archie at some point. Apparently Peter Brough took it all very seriously and would talk off mike as Archie in any cast/crew discussions about the show.

Once, sitting over a cuppa with Irene, Brough was getting the jitters that people were seeing his lips move. He duly asked if she'd ever noticed anything,

"No dear - " she replied innocently, "Only when Archie's talking..."

This probably loses something in the translation, but apparently Irene's timing was quite withering.....

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I still think Ray Allen is the finest ventroloquist we haveever produced!
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Yup - the best in the business, and certainly better than Shari Lewis (c/w Lamb Chop) whose mouth was more animated than Brian Clough!
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