An added bonus in my house was that my Dad looked a bit like Eric Morecambe. But then, if you are in workplaces which hang up old pictures of senior management people from days gone by, a lot of men in the 1950s and 1960s looked like Eric Morecambe. No one does now.
Ha! He also always put me in mind of my grandfather: balding, dun suit, horn-rims, but as you say, there was a great swathe of middle-aged, middle-class men who looked like that. Indeed, I suspect his everyman quality was part of his charm
I’ve never watched one of these specials at Christmas but I know a lot of the sketches you reference here and your analogy of the theatre kid and his older brother is spot on. Thanks for the link. I’ll be taking some time out to watch this.
An added bonus in my house was that my Dad looked a bit like Eric Morecambe. But then, if you are in workplaces which hang up old pictures of senior management people from days gone by, a lot of men in the 1950s and 1960s looked like Eric Morecambe. No one does now.
Ha! He also always put me in mind of my grandfather: balding, dun suit, horn-rims, but as you say, there was a great swathe of middle-aged, middle-class men who looked like that. Indeed, I suspect his everyman quality was part of his charm
I’ve never watched one of these specials at Christmas but I know a lot of the sketches you reference here and your analogy of the theatre kid and his older brother is spot on. Thanks for the link. I’ll be taking some time out to watch this.