Frankie Howerd at the Oxford Union (pt.1 of FIVE) - '90 HQ

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• PA

  @paulgriffiths3082 · 4 years ago

  Nobody could ever replace the great frankie howerd, totally unique

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• JE

  @jeanettesteed3326 · 5 years ago

  Never knighted.  In England, if you have true talent, you have to wait until your nearly dead before you’re recognised.  Anyway, to those of us who loved him, he was a SIR

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• CH

  @cheshirecat1595 · 12 years ago

  one of the classic comedians of british comedy,sadly missed.

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• BE

  @Bernard-j6g · 4 days ago

  He suffered with anxiety and stage fright for all of his career but he brilliantly and conspicuously incorporated those two handicaps into his live performances instead of being destroyed by them. I don't know of any other comedian who coped with stage fright in this manner. He was an extremely smart man. Thank you Sir for giving so many of us the gift of laughter for several decades. RIP.

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• BE

  @bentattersfield7987 · 2 years ago

  An absolute master of his craft

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• JO

  @johnrider5701 · 3 years ago

  After fifty years frankie still had it and he still  did it better than anyone ..

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• ST

  @stormhawk3319 · 3 years ago

  Incredible how Frankie Howerd became Britain’s first great radio comedian in the immediate post-war years before anyone had a TV and here he is over 40 years later playing live stand up to students. <br>He never went out of fashion.

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  @12dougreed · 3 years ago

  Great respect for Frankie, He was not only a very funny guy but great to talk to.<br>He took the trouble and travelled all the way to <br>Sarawak ( Borneo) to entertain us 1965 .<br>This we have never forgotten

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• KE

  @kevinjackson6387 · 5 years ago

  Frankie was a class act ,look at the age of the audience, and they loved him ,

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• IT

  @itgetseasierlessitry · 12 years ago

  Sad when he passed but what a great exit, selling out shows to a new and young! generation of fans.

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• JE

  @jeffreyweitzman6463 · 4 years ago

  Of all Frankie&apos;s in front of audience appearances, this that he did towards last years of his life in front of Oxford Union for me is most cherished and just pulls at the heartstrings so much. Cause he is the epitome of a professional comedian class act but in front of a young audience who are interacting with him literally loving the whole routine but beyond that, him as a person. To see the happy faces and smiles in that young crowd that this event was back then adoring him is such a wonderful thing and the volume of cheers when he throws in his famed catchphrases. There is nothing forced from that crowd it is sheer appreciation for a comedian by then been in showbusiness for many decades and he so deserved that love from the Oxford Union. I wish they would repeat this on TV, l literally don&apos;t think it has been since.

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• DJ

  @DJBainesDJ · 3 years ago (edited)

  This man is what everything means.. The time, the place, the mindset, the humour, everything... The late 20th century will be looked upon as the pinnacle of human existence, and Frankie Howard IS the Pinnacle of that. The innocence caught up in knowing.. Just fabulous and will NEVER be repeated. 09/2023

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