A £15m, four-storey space in Liverpool is to be dedicated to the man once known as Professor Yaffle Chuckabutty. Let's hope it will delve as deeply as he did into comedy's infinite variations What is the legacy of a great comedian? In the past it lay principally in private memories. My own aged brain is filled with recollections of laugh-inducing eccentrics such as Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd, Max Wall, and Jewel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PM on August 26, 2024