Quote: chipolata @ January 7 2011, 9:25 AM GMTHe was a massive film buff, too. I have a soft spot for film buffs.
Hug it out, bitch.
The Secret Life Of Bob Monkhouse Page 3
Incoming! Spanner: the '...not laughing now' gag was published in a US magazine called 'Comedy' that came out of Santa Barbra and was credited to a US comic whose name I'd have to dig out the mag for. This would be around 1988. Bob bought material and paid generously for it - I once said something to a TV exec in the canteen queue which got a big laugh. Monkhouse said 'sell me that gag - I could use it every night of the week.' I let him pay for my soup.
Thing is he could've bought the gag off the American comic; it might have been in something Ian Pattison wrote for him; or he could've come up with it himself. It's not a big stretch.
Just watched this.
Exceptionally good programme if you're interested in the man.
Just as good if you're just interested in some quality archive comedy.
And also good if you want to know just how saucy some TV comedy was fifty years ago.
I've genuinely not been as enthralled by any comedy related show on the telly in some time.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ January 8 2011, 2:37 AM GMTJust watched this.
Exceptionally good programme if you're interested in the man.
Just as good if you're just interested in some quality archive comedy.
And also good if you want to know just how saucy some TV comedy was fifty years ago.
I've genuinely not been as enthralled by any comedy related show on the telly in some time.
I watched this on iPlayer last night and agree wholeheartedly with Kevin. A very well made documentary that informed without an agenda (hidden or otherwise). I read his biography when it came out and I would thoroughly recommend it. Well done BBC!
I was about to go bed when an old colleague on Facebook mentioned he'd watched it. I checked it out on iPlayer. 90 minutes? I was sure my eyelids wouldn't make the distance but I was enthralled thoughout. Whatever anyone thinks of him as a performer - and I personally liked him - thank the Lord he recorded it. Did I hear it right when they said there were 15 new Hancock recordings? Blimey O'Reilly!
Just watched this on iPlayer. Excellent stuff. There's something naturally captivating about obsessive collectors, let alone ones with careers and private lives as fascinating as Monkhouse's. Also, I'd forgotten all about that mental Golden Shot game.
That gag about how long he had left to live was both brilliant and touching.
"So I said to the doctor, 'how long have I got?' and he said '10'. 'What you mean - months, weeks?"
"9, 8, 7..."
Quote: Tuumble @ January 9 2011, 6:18 PM GMTThat gag about how long he had left to live was both brilliant and touching.
"So I said to the doctor, 'how long have I got?' and he said '10'. 'What you mean - months, weeks?"
"9, 8, 7..."
Yeah, that was a cracker.
It was a wonderful documentary but very sad also.
I think Bob was let down by the establishment a few times and made him quite insecure about himself and a man of such great talent like Bob should not be insecure.
The greatest comedian this country ever produced imo.
Great Monkhouse line on his wiki profile-'Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional 
Didn't see this, so can anyone enlighten me as to what Bob's "secret life" was? Did it involve fighting crime in an animal-themed disguise in order to avenge the murder of his parents?
Quote: Tim Walker @ January 25 2011, 1:23 PM GMTDidn't see this, so can anyone enlighten me as to what Bob's "secret life" was? Did it involve fighting crime in an animal-themed disguise in order to avenge the murder of his parents?
Just saw this, another obsessed workaholic in the Peter Sellers mould. I found his final episode of The Golden Shot hilarious, it went live apparently so he had free reign to say what he liked! Superb it was, you couldn't write fiction better than that, he was so openly vengeful and bitter. 
And what a collector! Glad his collection's being looked after by a proper company.
Quite looking forward to this:
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ February 5 2011, 10:04 PM GMTI found his final episode of The Golden Shot hilarious, it went live apparently so he had free reign to say what he liked! Superb it was, you couldn't write fiction better than that, he was so openly vengeful and bitter.
Appropriately it did have a touch of "The Bowmans" about it.