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Whispering Giant

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Two-man comic act - who were they?
« on: May 05, 2021, 08:11:04 PM »
Does anybody remember these two pub entertainers? We're talking late 50s early 60s and time has obliterated their names and the name of the pub where they performed.  One was an old white-haired man and his stooge was a youngish dark haired chap.  The old old man played the piano and the younger man was a bit retarded, or pretended to be.  The act consisted of them bantering back and forth using question and answer and occasionally breaking into song.   I remember a tongue-twister...


'Mrs Hunt went up the cut in a rough-cut punt' saying it faster and faster till one them made a slip of the tongue






and a story about a tribe called the Ellawi who lived in long grass they couldn't see over the top of.  They spent their lives jumping up and down shouting, 'We're the Ellawi !   We're the Ellawi !
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Ian Dalziel

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Re: Two-man comic act - who were they?
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2021, 03:20:34 PM »
The pianist sounds like Len Newbury who used to play in the Duke of York, Duke Street, Gosta Green in the 1960s. He used to finish his act with limericks, the last one being, "There was a young man called Len, who liked it now and again, and again and again, and again and again and again and again and again".  Very difficult to remember the words.    ;D
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