Bob Monkhouse

There's so many different shows for that.

I think he did something with Bob Monkhouse as well.

I'm trying to remember what that was, but I think he did Bob's Full House, I think, or something like that.

As I say, my memory's not very good, but I've got everything in my diaries.

Thank you.

Well, this week we are stepping into the dressing room of three comedy heroes, Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse, as they discuss the secret of life, death, comedy and what it means to be funny in The Last Laugh at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre.

So, Vida, did you have a blissful blast of nostalgia and Benny laughs with The Last Laugh at the Grand Theatre?

There were a lot of laughs, a lot of comic moments.

Of that generation.

Bob Monkhouse, who I later worked with and got to know a little bit.

And Bruce Forsythe.

So I tried to see as many...

And therefore, prosecutions were successfully undertaken in the past.

Even Bob Monkhouse was raided one morning for his films, and they were then lost forever.

Wow.

But over the years, over the many decades, it started to soften up that perhaps these people weren't thieves, they were the saviors of our social history.

Like, even if I'm not working.

You couldn't be Bob Monkhouse going to the Caribbean.

No, I could, but I'd be playing golf all day at the Caribbean.

Oh, so but golf is your way to do nothing.

And that might sound silly, but I think that's really important, um, because it makes everything more tangible, and it communicates a kind of leap in the imagination in terms of rethinking breakfast TV.

And this is in the dying days of TV-am, which would be replaced in the new year by GMTV, which Bob Monkhouse said stood for Give Me the Valium.

Um, and-

[laughs]

What...

Well, what I do, would love to see Bob Monkhouse.

[laughs]

I want a deep he's been in Barbados six months tan.

I love Bob Mon- You know, when I look at Bob Monkhouse, and I don't know if I'm right or wrong, I felt like he'd go to Barbados for six months, come back, bang out a load of quiz shows, and do a load of gigs in the evening where he did loads of naughty, blue, rude stuff-

Yeah

... and then just pissed off to Barbados again.