Bob Monkhouse
- English
- Actor, writer, comedian and presenter
Press clippings Page 5
Radio review: All Round Bob Monkhouse
A fascinating insight into the 'slightly too slick' game-show host.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 28th July 2010The title alludes to the many talents of Bob Monkhouse, cartoonist, comedian, film fanatic, game show host, actor, writer. He was also, as he once revealed on In the Psychiatrist's Chair, heir to a custard manufacturing fortune who gave up the family firm for the footlights, a struggle with himself that made him more complicated and vulnerable than his public persona projected. Barry Cryer narrates this careful and well-judged documentary in which an unusually wide range of interviewees testify to his wit, slickness, versatility - and kindness.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 27th July 2010Barry Cryer remembers his friend Bob Monkhouse
Bob was one of a kind and he was very much aware of this.
Barry Cryer, BBC Comedy, 26th July 2010A worthwhile repeat of this episode from Channel 4's 1998 series Heroes of Comedy about Benny Hill, a comic who managed the trick of being popular on both sides of the Atlantic. And he didn't stop there: Hill had fans from China and Russia too. As he once observed of his visual humour: "I can get my face slapped in six languages." This tribute captures the man behind the bawdy "seaside postcard" humour: the shy, humble loner. With clips from his shows and contributions from Bob Monkhouse and Barry Took.
Simon Horsford, The Telegraph, 25th June 2010