She may not have been politically correct at times, but my god she was funny. How me and dear old mum and dad used to roll up with laughter at her antics. You can't have a good old laugh these days, the snowflakes don't allow it.
She was a brilliant comedienne. A pity so little of her act was filmed. Jean Ferguson's recreation of it in her biographical play about Hylda was superbly done. I have just read Jean's biography (the book on which she based the play) of Hylda. I am left with an overriding admiration for Hylda who battled to the top in a very chauvinistic, male-dominated show- business world.
@@jean4578 Hello, it's me (Karen), just getting back to this clip, and thus, you. He actually was an incredibly handsome man, which this hardly shows! Which town? Idle curiosity, as I'm in the USA for now, barring a sudden rush of money showing up. LOL!
this is Not Funny , people must have been so depressed back then . this is untalented badly written if it even had a script which i doubt.. what we have here is a short person talking at a tall person who doesn't talk , so that must be funny .
Wonderful Hylda - this country's funniest-ever comedienne - went round the theatre circuits for years with her act singing, playing the piano, clog dancing and cracking jokes. Then she saw Arthur Worsley, the absolute best ventriloquist in history, who famously never spoke, his dummy Charlie Brown doing all the talking and uproariously funny, and life changed for diminutive Hylda: she got herself an enormously tall male stooge, called him Cynthia, who also never said a word, while Hylda cracked joke after joke. She did this new act on The Good Old Days tv variety show in 1952, and was, after all those years touring round, an overnight star, which she remained for the rest of her life.
