Willie Rushton 10 years on

Subject: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: cptsnapper
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 03:02 PM

This week BBC 7 are running repeats of " I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue " at 7.30 pm to commemorate the 10th. anniversary of Willy's passing.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: fat B****rd
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 03:03 PM

Damn right. I'll be listening to 'em all.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 12 Dec 06 - 04:24 AM

Willie performed on Vic Gammons brilliant album about the Englishman and hid drink ' The Tale Of Ale ' he's a delight to listen to.

eric

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 12 Dec 06 - 04:32 AM

He made a lovely video reading the Winnie the Pooh stories. Some of them delivered from the Pooh sticks bridge.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 12 Dec 06 - 11:19 AM

"Hello we've gone all crunchy again" Anyone know what that is from?

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 12 Dec 06 - 01:12 PM

The thing I remember most about Willie was his quick witted repartie on 'Celebrity Squares'....Bob Monkhouse once asked him for his question..."Willie, what does Kami-Kaze mean"? and Willie without much actual time for thought replied "It means there is a nasty nip in the air"......fond memories.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: The Vulgar Boatman
Date: 12 Dec 06 - 04:19 PM

Another classic, when asked for advice to travellers, Willie replied, "Never go on holiday to a country where they still point at aeroplanes." Greatly missed.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 12 Dec 06 - 10:50 PM

Next stop, Mornington Crescent?

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: Mark Dowding
Date: 13 Dec 06 - 02:32 AM

"Hello we've gone all crunchy again"
It was from an advert for Cadbury's Double Decker chocolate bar. One layer was chewy toffee and the other was crunchy biscuit with raisins in it.

With the re-emergence of Jackanory on BBC TV, it reminds me that Willie Rushton made a lasting impression on me with his Winnie the Pooh readings on the original run of the programme in the 60's. Sadly missed.

Cheers
Mark

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: GUEST,Dáithí
Date: 13 Dec 06 - 05:03 AM

Willie was once asked to appear as a character witness for an unnamed friend who was in court on a charge of being drunk and disorderly.

"Now then, Mr Rushton, would you say that the defendant appeared calm and relaxed on the night in question?" asked the judge.
"Yes, m'lud" replied Willie "relaxed as a newt"
Sorely missed indeed!
D

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: Scrump
Date: 13 Dec 06 - 05:18 AM

I assume the friend in question's friendship was tried, as well as the friend :-)

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 13 Dec 06 - 01:31 PM

Ting "Well done Mark, you win a double decker." If I ever see you about.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Dec 06 - 03:28 PM

Here's a page with lots of Willie's cartoons and biographical notes, and links.

Wish he was still around. He helped keep us all sane by helping us see hiow made the world was getting.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Dec 06 - 03:35 PM

Very posh Mcgrath, "hiow made the world was getting"

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: jonm
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 03:07 AM

The only man who could get an entire concert audience in stitches just from one word - "elbow", or "trousers", for example.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: Micca
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 04:05 AM

For my Willie Rushton story, Try Here

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 10:47 PM

Micca - you are sounding so much better....that is great. When I lived in England back in 1990 - 95, 'Im sorry I haven't a clue' was required listening in my house on Saturdays ....; but then I am so old that I remember 'I'm sorry I'll read that again' on Sunday early afternoons (precursor to Monty Python - and better in my opinion)

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: Scrump
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 06:47 AM

Ah, the Angus Prune show. Happy memories...

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: GUEST,Rusty Dobro
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 12:13 PM

ISIRTA was also repeated one evening. I can remember a popular pub emptying as everyone went to listen to their car radios.

Not fair to compare it with 'Python', but it was definitely more consistent - we tend to forget that between the classic 'Python' sketches, there was an awful lot that hasn't stood the test of time.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 09:39 PM

I remember being in London with a boyfriend for the day, and stopping, parking the car, turning on the radio and on came.......

My name is Angus Prune, and this is my tune
I'm sorry, I'll read that again.....

Remember 'The Black Knight descended.......?

I do think it was better than Python -- lends for comparison because of the same group of players.......

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: oggie
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 02:23 PM

Willie Rushton helped me give up smoking! Honest!

Piece of advice in his book 'Superpig' was always carry a packet of fags and matches around with you, that way you could smoke but choose not to. If you have no fags you haven't given up, you're just out of fags and first time you're offered one odds are you'll smoke. Tried it, carried the same packet round with me for 2 years and haven't smoked in over 25 years!

All the best

Oggie

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 05:20 AM

I still have the Robin Hood "play" and The Blimpht song on tape. ISIRTA was great.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: GUEST,Terry K
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 06:22 AM

I once shared a dinner table with Willie Rushton and he hardly spoke a word all evening. I expect we were all waiting for him to be as entertaining as he was at work and it simply didn't happen.

cheers, Terry

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: Scrump
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 07:19 AM

Was Rushton being paid to entertain on that occasion, Terry? ;-)

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: Little Musgrave
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 07:25 AM

I took part in the 2nd lot of demos against pit closures in '92/'93, and joined in the big demo in London. on the demo we spotted Willie Rushton waving & supporting the demo. Needless to say he was well cheered by those walking past. Jonathon King drove past in his roller and was roundly barracked by all on the march. King is still with us and Willie is long gone. Still a long way to go before we achieve any sort of justice, divine or otherwise.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: GUEST,Terry K
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 01:44 AM

To Scrump, yes he was being paid, as an after dinner speaker. His speech was very lacklustre too. And I was always a big fan - at the time I reckoned he was just having an off night.

Subject: RE: Willie Rushton 10 years on
From: Scrump
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:16 AM

OK Terry - in that case I can understand people being disappointed at WR not being very entertaining on that occasion. It's just that your original posting didn't mention that fact, as you just said you "shared a dinner table" with him.

A lot of professional entertainers are not as entertaining in real life (some ar, but by no means all), and people are sometimes disappointed to find that underneath they are just 'ordinary' people. I can understand entertainers getting p***ed off with people expecting them to be 'funny' or 'entertaining' when they are 'off duty' - after all, would these people expect a surgeon to start operating on one of the other guests during dinner? ;-)