I suggested that line as the greatest film comedy line ever at work. People disagreed with me, but couldn't suggest a better one. Fitted well in the scene, extremely clever use of language, timing and a brilliant pun, and nothing else needed to explain it, brilliant.
I find the early Carry On films the funniest. Kenneth Williams was one of a great cast. These wonderful people gave everyone a great laugh. Miss them all!
To Kenneth from me to you and everyone who loved you a round of 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏,thank you for making us laugh,rest in peace,you may be gone but your not forgotten amen,🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Part of British culture is enjoying people like him and carry on films ,and being thankful for livng in a country which gave us them , Alot of british culture has been taken away from us , and we are made to accept cultures that are on a different wave lenth to us , We have always been able to laugh at our selves ,while many cultures dont know how to laugh , We are only allowed to laugh at things which certain cultures allow us to laugh at,
It's not just you Brits. Theyre doing it to America, Australia and Canada as well. It's globalism. They are tearing down western civilization to replace it with a giant hodge podge of generic savagery.
Very few comedians, good comedians, are "normal"...many are self concious, or insecure, yet get on a stage and make the word laugh. Williams was one of those gems you want to enjoy over and over.
It’s obviously that his death was an accident. He was intending to take his mother to the chiropodist the next morning. RIP Mr Williams. Unprecedented, unique, unequalled, unsurpassed.
But his last diary entry lists his suffering and his final words are ‘what’s the bloody point’? I’m imagining that when someone is lost in despair any plans for the next day are forgotten… but, of course, no one will ever know…
@@uszatku9417 what’s the bloody point is no indication of suicide. The fact that that was the last entry also indicates that it was an unexpected accident. 1. he was going to take his mother to the chiropodist. 2. he wouldn’t have wanted her to find him dead. 3. he would have signed off in his diary.
@@nathelondon3719Previous entries in his diaries reveal that he was obsessed with the wish to commit suicide, particularly those entries close to his death. Why take a lethal dose of barbiturates if that was not the intention? Do you think that a person in so much despair and pain would be in a state rational enough to consider a chiropodist appointment a reason not to end it all?
@@uszatku9417It seems ludicrous to refer to his death as an accident. He told Barbara Windsor that he didn't want to live past 65. He told Michael Parkinson shortly before he died that he looked forward to death and the relief it would bring to him. He knew full well the potential risk of swallowing those pills and what his desired outcome was.
Great comic actor/comedian. A complicated man behind the scenes, like most actors/comics are, but his filmography will live on forever and make many more generations laugh!
Not sure about that. You'd be hard pressed to find any young folk who have even heard of the Carry on films, and if they have then it's unlikely they've watched them. Most of the films are over 50 years old now, and from a completely different era, so there's little appeal for people under 25. I mean, the films were already almost 20 years old when I first started watching them in the 80s.
@@nebularain3338 That's the weird thing. That style of lavatorial humour has gone completely out of fashion, and actors can't do it now. But watch the Carry Ons and they're still side splittingy funny
He was a total one off we shall not see his like again . It's such a shame that a person who give us so much pleasure and joy with his performances on tv radio and film Couldn't find happiness he so richly deserved in his private life
So many Comedy Geniuses had a sad end.Kenneth Williams was a pure entertainer who never failed to please his Audiences.You cant help smiling as soon as you hear his voice,a sad loss to the World.
I feel like Kenneth was always “on”. Like he couldn’t quite be who “he was”. He’s a plethora of different voices and facial tics. There’s no real sense “of who he was or is”. Bless him, he was so funny, erudite and a great storyteller. How sad that in the final analysis he thought “what was the point of it all”? Well any fan could have answered that for him. Thank you Mr Williams and I pray you now rest in peace.❤️🙏.x
So ironical that he was so insecure in many ways when he was so loved by so many. You couldn't help liking him whether gay, straight or not sure. He was such a wordsmith, such a good comedian and had such a watcheable face. He would have been a brilliant straight actor too and was but this side of him was never developed as it should have been. Love you Ken. Rest in Peace.
@@steviealessi5412 not really. irony is an expression of meaning through the use of language of a different or opposing tendency. or, it is an ill-timed event that is nevertheless fortuitously desired. you're probably thinking of dramatic irony, which is a literary technique, that is used to reveal something to the audience, which is otherwise unknown to the characters.
English people don’t use such colourful language anymore… they just use American gibberish to be cool.. but I could listen to Kenneth for ever… I always thought he a but crude and smutty when I was a kid, but I now realise he was a genius and a true Englishman 🙂
Brilliant, no one like him these days. Such a talent. His voices and facial expressions just so funny. Matron!! Thanks for posting. Thank goodness for the availability to revisit here as well.😂
Brilliant! This man has become one of my all-time favourite comedians. If only there had been someone there to reassure him that he was "fantabulosa" just the way he was, any time day or night. Just to add I never realised how great Hugh P. was too until I discovered Round the Horn . Equally wonderful as Jules in this duo act. God bless them both ! 🙏 Love 'em! ❤️❤️
Brilliant man may he rest in peace such a iconic racentour wit very witty and sharp a absolutely brilliant wordsmith in a word absolutely brilliant very much missed as a comic actor 😁❤
I finally admit to myself I understand Kenneth and understand who and why he was exactly what he was, I only wish I could have been with him at the end to tell him it's ok it really is ok !
A wonderful time for British humor. The barriers were so different and simpler. Wish they would return. Sadly to to be. Thank you Kenneth for the years of unbridled fun.😢😂
I think it was Ken who once said years & years ago but i never forgot it & often quote it in letters to my pals And its this; Oh i get a longing, penchant for some Jolly Banter, a twodge of Gay Repartee & a pint of Best Wallop! How superbly delicious! Regards 🇬🇧👧
After all the unpleasant hatchet jobs on this steward of British comedy I was so glad to watch this. Thank you Kenneth, your talent is certainly missed.
What hatchet jobs? He was beloved right up until he died. Peter Rogers was the crook who left most of the cast in poverty while he kept all the profits from the films.
They might mean other documentaries which focused heavily on what he did or didn't do sexually and all his frustrations rather than the substance of his character, achievements and art. This was an uplifting presentation overall I think. @@nebularain3338
I never knew of that letter at the end which has changed my impression of his death which I had always taken to be suicide. The diaries hint at that as well, especially his last entry ... 'oh, what's the point?', but if he was talking about the mundanity of chiropodists' appointments, it suggests someone who wasn't in a state of despair. I know his ulcers had him in a terrible way so I can see he how he would have made the mistake of of overdosing. A very sad conclusion to a career which still goes on making us laugh,
One of my favorite Carry On characters Kenneth Williams is just so funny 😂 and I can’t help but laugh when I see some of his most iconic moments one of my favorites is his performance in Carry on Cleo as Roman Leader Julius Cesar 👍❤️
God rest your soul Kenny a truly unique and iconic comic who gave so much of himself to the British Public in terms of laughter, outrageous camp, storytelling and raconteur. All this while he himself lived a most wretched life at times, full of self loathing, loneliness and inner doubt as anyone who has read his diaries will know. But Kenneth know that you will always be Loved and never Forgotten. R.I.P Kenny. ❤
Just watched this on my tv and was literally laughing out loud . I know the word genius gets thrown around a lot but let’s be honest there’s no other word to describe him . He was brilliant . A remarkable man and it’s so wonderful that we are so lucky to have all these wonderful moments to relive over and over again and make us laugh . Even to this day as you can see by all the comments left he was so loved by so many . RIP Mr Williams and thank you 🙏🏻 ❤
Nice to hear impressionist Jon Culshaw flexing his Kenneth impressions here, also didn't know Darth Vader took the tube, must have got tired learning the Green Cross Code! (David Prowse @ 57:18)
The scene in the tube train & in the court, the tall man sat to Kenny's left & the guy right at the very right of the jury box is the late David Prowse, Green Cross Man & the original Darth Vader
Look what we have lost and what have we replaced it with?? Reality fame hungry boring non entity's with no talent and even less humour, oh please bring back the 70's/80's tv era.
I love the British teeth! Real people, real comedy. The land of my personality possessing teeth of my ancestors. I can't relate to Kim K., etc.., plastic fantastic scenery. I'm home.
He was unique, highly intelligent and witty beyond belief. I had an op once and took recordings of Jules & Sandy to pass the time. After 10 minutes I had to stop play for fear of literally busting my gut. His humour doesn’t age.
A great documentary, just one misleading piece. At 6.40 it states that he was "born in 1926 into a working class family who lived above and ran a barbers shop in Kings Cross, London". He was actually born and lived as a child in Bingfield St, off of Caledonian Road, in a street of terraced houses (I remember the houses as a kid later on in the late 60's as I grew up close by). There's a green plaque there now at the site of where the houses were. The family later moved to the flats in Judd St, Kings Cross (seen here) and later to living above his dad's barbers shop in Marchmont St, close to Euston Square. It's still a barbers to this day. There's a blue plaque above it.
An ex- boyfriend took me to visit Kenneth's flat in London, in the 90's. Sadly, this pilgrimage was to the last place Mr Williams shared this world. It was awful, just standing there, looking up at the apartment window, realising this is where a National Treasure and Genius would spend his last hours and minutes. Awful. 😔😔😔
I so enjoyed watching this. I find at the end, much gratitude to Kenneth and then sadness to the loss of the like. In fact to British comedy, it’s wit, observation, language and emotive skill. All replaced with low grade waste, in a glitter package.
Kenneth was the heart and soul of Hancock's half hour. Tony, was jealous of anyone who was funnier than him. Got rid of everyone: started with Ken, then Hattie, Bill, and eventually Sid and the writers themselves. All that was left was a shadow of a man and the most depressing last series of a sitcom I've ever watched.
They must have spent all the money on getting Gyles to do the narration for this documentary and presumably found the Kenneth Williams impersonator and the cartoonist in an Argos fire salvage.
As a kid I saw KW at a recording of _Just A Minute._ As Nicholas Parsons was doing the intro KW and the others sidled onto the stage. Although he had a certain stage presence, it was no more so than anyone else. At one point he cracked a lavatorial joke, and I heard an old lady behind us say I heard that one at school. After the show, alot of people queued up to get his autograph. He was seated signing away, and singing some ribald song at the top of his voice. But while doing so he never made eye contact with anyone. It’s like he wanted everyone's attention, but was scared by it at the same time.
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To quote the late Michael Parkinson "You meet a better class of person down Memory Lane.".
An interviewers dream; light blue touch paper and stand back! Brilliant
infamy infamy there all got it in for me one of thee greatest comedy lines ever ..delivered beautifully by kenneth
I suggested that line as the greatest film comedy line ever at work. People disagreed with me, but couldn't suggest a better one.
Fitted well in the scene, extremely clever use of language, timing and a brilliant pun, and nothing else needed to explain it, brilliant.
"Frying tonight!".
You beautiful scintillating man. How lucky we were to have had the pleasure of your company and your colossal talent.
I find the early Carry On films the funniest. Kenneth Williams was one of a great cast. These wonderful people gave everyone a great laugh. Miss them all!
To Kenneth from me to you and everyone who loved you a round of 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏,thank you for making us laugh,rest in peace,you may be gone but your not forgotten amen,🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Part of British culture is enjoying people like him and carry on films ,and being thankful for livng in a country which gave us them ,
Alot of british culture has been taken away from us , and we are made to accept cultures that are on a different wave lenth to us ,
We have always been able to laugh at our selves ,while many cultures dont know how to laugh ,
We are only allowed to laugh at things which certain cultures allow us to laugh at,
It's not just you Brits. Theyre doing it to America, Australia and Canada as well. It's globalism. They are tearing down western civilization to replace it with a giant hodge podge of generic savagery.
I love Kenneth Williams.
Who doesn't, an icon ❤
Very few comedians, good comedians, are "normal"...many are self concious, or insecure, yet get on a stage and make the word laugh. Williams was one of those gems you want to enjoy over and over.
R,I,p,Kenneth,thanks for your entertainment ,God bless you amen,😘😘😘😘💖💖💖💖✌✌✌😂😂😂😂😘💏
I remember ‘Around the Horne’ on the wireless. Sat eating Sunday dinner with the family. I was a child but loved the innuendos etc. Brilliant.
It’s obviously that his death was an accident. He was intending to take his mother to the chiropodist the next morning. RIP Mr Williams. Unprecedented, unique, unequalled, unsurpassed.
But his last diary entry lists his suffering and his final words are ‘what’s the bloody point’? I’m imagining that when someone is lost in despair any plans for the next day are forgotten… but, of course, no one will ever know…
@@uszatku9417 what’s the bloody point is no indication of suicide. The fact that that was the last entry also indicates that it was an unexpected accident. 1. he was going to take his mother to the chiropodist. 2. he wouldn’t have wanted her to find him dead. 3. he would have signed off in his diary.
Any one know why The Kenneth Williams Show has never been available online or dvd etc ? Obviously the tapes weren’t wiped as I’ve been told
@@nathelondon3719Previous entries in his diaries reveal that he was obsessed with the wish to commit suicide, particularly those entries close to his death. Why take a lethal dose of barbiturates if that was not the intention? Do you think that a person in so much despair and pain would be in a state rational enough to consider a chiropodist appointment a reason not to end it all?
@@uszatku9417It seems ludicrous to refer to his death as an accident. He told Barbara Windsor that he didn't want to live past 65. He told Michael Parkinson shortly before he died that he looked forward to death and the relief it would bring to him. He knew full well the potential risk of swallowing those pills and what his desired outcome was.
It was amazing that Round The Horn was so well received in the 1950’s
1965
And also.....we can never forget..... Willow the wisp xx
A genuine genius sadly missed 😔
Great comic actor/comedian.
A complicated man behind the scenes, like most actors/comics are, but his filmography will live on forever and make many more generations laugh!
Not sure about that. You'd be hard pressed to find any young folk who have even heard of the Carry on films, and if they have then it's unlikely they've watched them. Most of the films are over 50 years old now, and from a completely different era, so there's little appeal for people under 25.
I mean, the films were already almost 20 years old when I first started watching them in the 80s.
@@nebularain3338 That's the weird thing. That style of lavatorial humour has gone completely out of fashion, and actors can't do it now.
But watch the Carry Ons and they're still side splittingy funny
Genius and he didn't know it
Insecure,confident, unhappy all in one
Brilliant funny man and he never used bad language to get a laugh.
No bad language but plenty of innuendo
@@diplomamilldoc8562 ... I love inuendo, a lot of people sadly don't get it nowadays though.
@@Tidybitz that's because they can't leave other wogglers moulies alone!
He was blessed with a prodigious memory. Bless his heart.
And also his spastic colon.
He was a total one off we shall not see his like again .
It's such a shame that a person who give us so much pleasure and joy with his performances on tv radio and film
Couldn't find happiness he so richly deserved in his private life
Kenneth Williams was Excellent and brilliant 👏
Much sadly missed
So many Comedy Geniuses had a sad end.Kenneth Williams was a pure entertainer who never failed to please his Audiences.You cant help smiling as soon as you hear his voice,a sad loss to the World.
You will never find brilliant people like this LEGEND ❤❤❤
An ABSOLUTE master of his craft and sadly missed.
A wonderful performer, he seemed to have a troubled life, but he made so many people laugh.
Grew up listening to him on the radio. Always hilarious!
kenneth williams was a legend of the carry on films, the carry ons were my favourite.
Kenneth was quite simply one of a kind. Truly talented in so many ways. A remarkable performer and a remarkable personality.
I feel like Kenneth was always “on”. Like he couldn’t quite be who “he was”. He’s a plethora of different voices and facial tics. There’s no real sense “of who he was or is”. Bless him, he was so funny, erudite and a great storyteller. How sad that in the final analysis he thought “what was the point of it all”? Well any fan could have answered that for him. Thank you Mr Williams and I pray you now rest in peace.❤️🙏.x
What a wonderful, unique documentary! Thank you very much!
So ironical that he was so insecure in many ways when he was so loved by so many. You couldn't help liking him whether gay, straight or not sure. He was such a wordsmith, such a good comedian and had such a watcheable face. He would have been a brilliant straight actor too and was but this side of him was never developed as it should have been. Love you Ken. Rest in Peace.
Ironical?
@@SuomiScot Yes 'ironical' in the context that it means something happens contrary to what is expected!
@@steviealessi5412 not really. irony is an expression of meaning through the use of language of a different or opposing tendency. or, it is an ill-timed event that is nevertheless fortuitously desired. you're probably thinking of dramatic irony, which is a literary technique, that is used to reveal something to the audience, which is otherwise unknown to the characters.
The word is ironic. 🌟
He was amazing.
What a talent, I'm sorry he couldn't find happiness in life, I hope he would have loved how much laughter and happiness he brought to all of us💖
LEGEND!!!
He was a comic genius,so many voices ,true gentleman
Absolutely brilliant star ,people like this guy should of been a worldwide star
I thought he was.
He was.
The carry on films and the actors and actresses are pure gold comedic geniuses, absolutely brilliant ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Loved him as a kid and as an adult--I listened to Round the Horne, Stop Messing About and Just a Minute religiously.
English people don’t use such colourful language anymore… they just use American gibberish to be cool.. but I could listen to Kenneth for ever… I always thought he a but crude and smutty when I was a kid, but I now realise he was a genius and a true Englishman 🙂
The best ever, sadly missed.
Brilliant.
Comic genius...an extremely funny man. Sadly missed.
Brilliant, no one like him these days. Such a talent. His voices and facial expressions just so funny. Matron!! Thanks for posting. Thank goodness for the availability to revisit here as well.😂
Brilliant!
This man has become one of my all-time favourite comedians.
If only there had been someone there to reassure him that he was "fantabulosa" just the way he was, any time day or night.
Just to add I never realised how great Hugh P. was too until I discovered Round the Horn . Equally wonderful as Jules in this duo act.
God bless them both ! 🙏
Love 'em! ❤️❤️
British comedy genius.
He was always laugh out loud funny 😂
Ohh what a quip!
Comedy is just a rendition of private misery...
Priceless!
Regards
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Mr Williams was is and will always be a genius of comedy, And a national treasure a British film icon a true legend #willow the wisp
Brilliant man may he rest in peace such a iconic racentour wit very witty and sharp a absolutely brilliant wordsmith in a word absolutely brilliant very much missed as a comic actor 😁❤
Thank you for uploading this.. Joy to watch.
I finally admit to myself I understand Kenneth and understand who and why he was exactly what he was, I only wish I could have been with him at the end to tell him it's ok it really is ok !
According to RUclipsr Adrain Allen, Kenneth Williams wasn’t a very man.
@@Tad1945 what?
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Glad he's remembered, his performance will encourage others, and thrill many.
Wonderful actor, can never be replaced...simply the best.
A wonderful time for British humor. The barriers were so different and simpler. Wish they would return. Sadly to to be. Thank you Kenneth for the years of unbridled fun.😢😂
I think it was Ken who once said years & years ago but i never forgot it & often quote it in letters to my pals
And its this;
Oh i get a longing, penchant for some Jolly Banter, a twodge of
Gay Repartee & a pint of Best Wallop!
How superbly delicious!
Regards
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His expression at 53:54 when he has to explain what the OED means to the interviewer is priceless!
The interviewer couldn't understand addenda either. Not a very educated reporter, apparently.
Thank you so very much for uploading this - Its so wonderful to watch.
Julian and Sandy bonna to varda their jolly old eeks again XX
Wow wow wow, what a positive treat to spend an hour with the one and only Kenneth Williams. Thank you so much.
At about 1hr and 8 minutes. What a line-up. Parkie, Kenny, Billy and Tarbie. Legend.
After all the unpleasant hatchet jobs on this steward of British comedy I was so glad to watch this. Thank you Kenneth, your talent is certainly missed.
What hatchet jobs? He was beloved right up until he died. Peter Rogers was the crook who left most of the cast in poverty while he kept all the profits from the films.
They might mean other documentaries which focused heavily on what he did or didn't do sexually and all his frustrations rather than the substance of his character, achievements and art. This was an uplifting presentation overall I think. @@nebularain3338
I never knew of that letter at the end which has changed my impression of his death which I had always taken to be suicide. The diaries hint at that as well, especially his last entry ... 'oh, what's the point?', but if he was talking about the mundanity of chiropodists' appointments, it suggests someone who wasn't in a state of despair. I know his ulcers had him in a terrible way so I can see he how he would have made the mistake of of overdosing. A very sad conclusion to a career which still goes on making us laugh,
A truly fascinating individual.
Although best known for his comic roles, Kenneth Williams was never a comedian, he was an actor.
One of my favorite Carry On characters Kenneth Williams is just so funny 😂 and I can’t help but laugh when I see some of his most iconic moments one of my favorites is his performance in Carry on Cleo as Roman Leader Julius Cesar 👍❤️
❤ Kenneth Williams RIP 🪦💐😢
Dear Kenneth such a wonderful and very witty entertainer I miss him a lot always just imagine Kenneth in heaven god bless Jeremy Allfrey.
He was absolutely amazing!
What a talent..here from Hattie. ❤
God rest your soul Kenny a truly unique and iconic comic who gave so much of himself to the British Public in terms of laughter, outrageous camp, storytelling and raconteur.
All this while he himself lived a most wretched life at times, full of self loathing, loneliness and inner doubt as anyone who has read his diaries will know.
But Kenneth know that you will always be Loved and never Forgotten.
R.I.P Kenny.
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Just watched this on my tv and was literally laughing out loud . I know the word genius gets thrown around a lot but let’s be honest there’s no other word to describe him . He was brilliant . A remarkable man and it’s so wonderful that we are so lucky to have all these wonderful moments to relive over and over again and make us laugh . Even to this day as you can see by all the comments left he was so loved by so many . RIP Mr Williams and thank you 🙏🏻 ❤
Nice to hear impressionist Jon Culshaw flexing his Kenneth impressions here, also didn't know Darth Vader took the tube, must have got tired learning the Green Cross Code! (David Prowse @ 57:18)
Excellent documenntary. Thanks!
Thank you for this amazing upload. You made my day
Real British comedy
The scene in the tube train & in the court, the tall man sat to Kenny's left & the guy right at the very right of the jury box is the late David Prowse, Green Cross Man & the original Darth Vader
stop messing about
PURE GENIUS 🤣😂👍❤🕊
Look what we have lost and what have we replaced it with?? Reality fame hungry boring non entity's with no talent and even less humour, oh please bring back the 70's/80's tv era.
Hated the way Tony Hancock got rid of Kenneth !. Ego v superego. Marvelous man. Thanks all. Dave
I was Absolutely enchanted by KW🔥
Awesome video thanks 😊
Brilliant brilliant man
What a legend
I saw him once walking near Great Portland Street.
I love the British teeth!
Real people, real comedy.
The land of my personality possessing teeth of my ancestors.
I can't relate to Kim K., etc.., plastic fantastic scenery.
I'm home.
legend this guy
He was unique, highly intelligent and witty beyond belief. I had an op once and took recordings of Jules & Sandy to pass the time. After 10 minutes I had to stop play for fear of literally busting my gut. His humour doesn’t age.
A great documentary, just one misleading piece. At 6.40 it states that he was "born in 1926 into a working class family who lived above and ran a barbers shop in Kings Cross, London". He was actually born and lived as a child in Bingfield St, off of Caledonian Road, in a street of terraced houses (I remember the houses as a kid later on in the late 60's as I grew up close by). There's a green plaque there now at the site of where the houses were. The family later moved to the flats in Judd St, Kings Cross (seen here) and later to living above his dad's barbers shop in Marchmont St, close to Euston Square. It's still a barbers to this day. There's a blue plaque above it.
An ex- boyfriend took me to visit Kenneth's flat in London, in the 90's. Sadly, this pilgrimage was to the last place Mr Williams shared this world. It was awful, just standing there, looking up at the apartment window, realising this is where a National Treasure and Genius would spend his last hours and minutes. Awful. 😔😔😔
Shame Camden Council knocked the mansion block down for a huge back hander from the developers.
@@Useaname Awfully sad. 😔
Adored him
"50 million" radio audience would be nearly everyone in the UK. I wonder if he was adding overseas broadcasts :)
I so enjoyed watching this. I find at the end, much gratitude to Kenneth and then sadness to the loss of the like. In fact to British comedy, it’s wit, observation, language and emotive skill. All replaced with low grade waste, in a glitter package.
Wonderful...just Wonderful
First class.
What a Man!!
Years ago a friend of mine played the Round The Horn radio broadcasts, they were hilarious
Fantastic entertainer. Loved him
Kenneth was the heart and soul of Hancock's half hour. Tony, was jealous of anyone who was funnier than him. Got rid of everyone: started with Ken, then Hattie, Bill, and eventually Sid and the writers themselves. All that was left was a shadow of a man and the most depressing last series of a sitcom I've ever watched.
They must have spent all the money on getting Gyles to do the narration for this documentary and presumably found the Kenneth Williams impersonator and the cartoonist in an Argos fire salvage.
As a kid I saw KW at a recording of _Just A Minute._
As Nicholas Parsons was doing the intro KW and the others sidled onto the stage. Although he had a certain stage presence, it was no more so than anyone else.
At one point he cracked a lavatorial joke, and I heard an old lady behind us say I heard that one at school.
After the show, alot of people queued up to get his autograph. He was seated signing away, and singing some ribald song at the top of his voice. But while doing so he never made eye contact with anyone.
It’s like he wanted everyone's attention, but was scared by it at the same time.
Not bad, nice to see a few new things.