Frank Carson

Michael, you're going to laugh so hard.

Frank Carson, even.

Sorry.

It's Frank Carson.

Oh, no! I fucked it.

It's not Willie Carson at all.

So Willie Garson is the gay guy in Sex and the City who died.

Willie Carson is a Scottish jockey.

Oh.

And I looked across the bar and there was a comedian, a very loud Northern Irish comedian in those days called Frank Carson, who I knew.

What about the fella who had the

plastic hip put in and asked

It would cut into them standing at a microphone with a live audience.

It was the old school lot, Jim Bowen, Frank Carson, these kind of characters.

Telling jokes, I'm sure some of them would have been quite inappropriate today.

All I remember as a kid is sort of playing on a Friday night, end of the week, no school tomorrow, and I could just hear my dad laughing

But the comedians, they were nearly all northern working men's clubs comedians.

Frank,

the northern Irish fellow was in that as

well.

Frank Carson.

He was the least offensive of all of them.

That's relatively speaking.

So I talked to everybody.

Bob Monkhouse, you know, Chris Tarrant, Frank Carson.

I talked to all the comedians that were in... famous at, in my time.

Sounds like, you know, the ancient Greeks now, but these were the people that I were, was doing gigs with in the clubs.

Um, and so I was...

From school over till about 1984, I was doing all the jokes that people did.

Tommy Cooper jokes, Frank Carson jokes.

"My wife has a redhead.

I once met the producers of Strictly Come Dancing, and I obviously failed.

They weren't that impressed with me because Frank Carson got the gig, but then he bowed out before it started for some reason.

He was unable to do it.

It would have been that 10 years ago, but it wouldn't be that anymore.

I've worked with Bernard Manning.

I'd worked with Frank Carson later in life, you know, not on the clubs.

And they're gag tellers.

I mean, one of the things with people, I had lunch with Bernard Manning and lunch with Frank Carson.

They don't talk to you.

They tell you gags.

And they do.

They're honing it down.