Freddie Parrotface Davies is 80 today.

Garage_Doors · Jul 21, 2017

He is a name from a long and distance past,
And slightly embarrassed to say someone who was on my list who i thought had gone a long time ago.
Though the would have been at least 100 ! but only 80 today
Happy birthday Freddie

matey · Jul 21, 2017

A blast from the past ..
Happy birthday Freddie.

dazzer6666 · Jul 21, 2017

Blimey. I thought he was an old man when I was a kid. Now I'm an old man. Happy Birthday.

thedonkeycentrehalf · Jul 21, 2017

dazzer6666 said:
Blimey. I thought he was an old man when I was a kid. Now I'm an old man. Happy Birthday.

Same here - assumed he had died some time in the last century.

vegster · Jul 21, 2017

Surely he must be Sick, sick,sick up to here ?

Harry Wilson's tackle · Jul 21, 2017

thedonkeycentrehalf said:
Same here - assumed he had died some time in the last century.

No, that was his act.....

Glad he's alive but a deeply unfunny comedian, up there with Bernie Winters and Harry Worth.

(reaches for tin hat....)

Jack Straw · Jul 21, 2017

vegster said:
Surely he must be Sick, sick,sick up to here ?

Do you not mean "Thurely he muthft be thick, thick up to here!" Screen covered in spit as I did a quick impersonation!!
Happy Birthday Freddie "Parrot-faithed" Davith.

Raleigh Chopper · Jul 21, 2017

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
No, that was his act.....

Glad he's alive but a deeply unfunny comedian, up there with Bernie Winters and Harry Worth.

(reaches for tin hat....)

No need, I agree.
There were some funny acts around in those days but many totally unfunny ones too of which Davies and the others you mention are included.
I remember hiding behind the cushion in embarrassment every time Marti Caine appeared.
Tom O Connor was probably the least funny man ever to appear on TV.

Norman Potting · Jul 22, 2017

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
No, that was his act.....

Glad he's alive but a deeply unfunny comedian, up there with Bernie Winters and Harry Worth.

(reaches for tin hat....)

I used to find Harry Worth annoyingly unfunny and i was probably around 8 at the time!

Harry Wilson's tackle · Jul 22, 2017

Norman Potting said:
I used to find Harry Worth annoyingly unfunny and i was probably around 8 at the time!

My old man loathed him. Normally that would have sent me the other way, but on this occasion I was a co-member of Team 'No to Worthless' :lolol:

dazzer6666 · Jul 22, 2017

Raleigh Chopper said:
No need, I agree.
There were some funny acts around in those days but many totally unfunny ones too of which Davies and the others you mention are included.
I remember hiding behind the cushion in embarrassment every time Marti Caine appeared.
Tom O Connor was probably the least funny man ever to appear on TV.

Agreed......Marti Caine and Tom O'Connor were just awful. Would add Bernie Winters to the list too, plus the bloke (name escapes me) that used to pull his jacket down his back and make a noise like a chicken after doing his 'broken mike' joke (again). How we laughed through the 70s.

brakespear · Jul 22, 2017

dazzer6666 said:
Agreed......Marti Caine and Tom O'Connor were just awful. Would add Bernie Winters to the list too, plus the bloke (name escapes me) that used to pull his jacket down his back and make a noise like a chicken after doing his 'broken mike' joke (again). How we laughed through the 70s.

Norman Collier?

dazzer6666 · Jul 22, 2017

brakespear said:
Norman Collier?

That's him.

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BrianWade4 · Jul 22, 2017

Nope, me neither.

marlowe · Jul 22, 2017

Norman Potting said:
I used to find Harry Worth annoyingly unfunny and i was probably around 8 at the time!

I used to quite like that thing he did with his arms and legs in the reflection of the shop window in the opening credits, but then I was very young at the time and easily impressed. Can't remember anything about him other than that.

marlowe · Jul 22, 2017

marlowe said:
I used to quite like that thing he did with his arms and legs in the reflection of the shop window in the opening credits, but then I was very young at the time and easily impressed. Can't remember anything about him other than that.

Just asked my wife if she remembered Harry Worth. Her response was "yes he used to do that thing" while flapping her arm up and down. Seems he left quite a lasting impression. I asked her if she remembered anything else about him apart from that, she said "no". Seems like his whole career has been defined by that one act in our household.
https://youtu.be/nIPihrhzr-U

Raleigh Chopper · Jul 23, 2017

marlowe said:
I used to quite like that thing he did with his arms and legs in the reflection of the shop window in the opening credits, but then I was very young at the time and easily impressed. Can't remember anything about him other than that.

And i bet you did it at least once in a shop window, I did.
And do you remember his catchphrase line?
" My names Harry Worth, I don't know why, but there it is"
Not funny.

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