Kerril sighting and the Two Ronnies

[vilakins]

I saw Carol Hawkins (Kerril) on The Two Ronnies last night (recorded from the UKTV channel earlier). This is the second sighting on that program, pre-dating her appearance on Blake's 7 by a few years; think this series of T2R was made in 1975. The first time she was a jilted waitress in a black wig at a wedding, and this time she had a curly ash-blonde wig and was a Northern girl with encyclopaedic knowledge and extremely long legs; no wonder Vila was entranced.

I used to love watching The Two Ronnies with my parents when it was first shown here. I still find the plays on language very clever and love their musical numbers in drag (Ronnie Barker makes a wonderful woman) but their obsession with mammary glands and Ronnie Corbett's assumption in his monologue that the audience is completely male are very annoying. I never noticed those things as a kid.

Oh, yes. Next week's instalment of the regular Piggy Malone and Charley Farley serial 'Death can be Fatal' is 'Villa of Villainy'.

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I think Corbett's assumption about his audience could have been right, given that when it came on I always used to go and make tea - still do. I like them together very much, though it was odd last night that Barker played Queen Victoria, because Corbett does it brilliantly (hang on, we probably were't watching the same ep, were we! They have it on GPlus over here). What dates it a bit for me is the cheerfully homophobic references.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's very old-fashioned but I do enjoy Ronnie Barker's occasional deliberate mangling of language. I can only take so much of them at once though.

I think I did see a Queen Victoria sketch a while back; Barker does do large and stately women well.