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Frankie Howerd Quotes

1917–1992 England

Francis Alick Howerd, known as Frankie Howerd OBE (6 March 1917 – 19 April 1992) was an English comedian and comic actor whose career spanned six decades. His routine included double entendres, with Howerd berating his audience for taking the bawdier interpretation.

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Oooh noo, please, it's wicked to mock the afflicted! Well it might be one of your own! Don't laugh at her, she might want paying - I told her this was an audition! She's known to me as Madam Vera Roper, but she's known to everyone else as The English Open!

Very clever, all those boys are, very clever boys. I think they should turn professional. They tell me now they've learned to put on make-up. Soon they're going to use it on the stage!

The Prologue!
(passim through the BBC programme Up Pompeii).

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frankie Howerd (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.