Anyone else think they are as creepy as f*ck? More so the old style wooden smiley dolls I'd say and not the muppet looking ones used a lot these days. Anyone else think that a man with his hand up a puppet's arse putting on voices is about as funny as finding your prolapsed lower colon poking out of your rectum? Think more Lord Charles rather than Achmed the Terrorist ("I KILL YOU!" [ok I do think he is funny but you get the point]) There have been some awful Vent acts over the years and the worst had to be Roger De Courcey with Nookie Bear. How on earth did that ever pass for entertainment?
I know we knock the entertainment industry today but pity the poor sods who had to listen to that nonsense! I'm not digging out radio shows in general, I'm all for Round the Horne, The Goons, Hancock etc, but a ventriloquist on the radio is about as low as it gets. Maybe you had to be there to get the joke.
The notion of fisting a wee guy/girl/green bird will get clamped down on now that half the world are *****'s.
When I was a little nipper, there used to be this pukka housewife type with a Mrs Chumley-Warner BBC voice, who had her hand in a sock. Even at 5 years old I could tell it was a sock, ffs, though it did have a couple of buttons sewn on for eyes. Meant to be a lamb, apparently. God, we were easy to please back then.
Are you sure you aren't confusing this with Shari Lewis & Lambchop? She was a yank, not a poshie though.
I think that was her. Don't recall her being a Sherman though, in my memory she was a bit like the bird in the Crabbies Alchoholic Ginger Beer add. Mind you, I was probably pissed on gripe water.
Very creepy indeed I agree. Look at the state of that Stephen Hawkings ffs. I wouldn't even let Tina near him.
