What flaming grundle gave this treasure thumbs down.. Kenneth Williams I love him forever so sad his depression wasn't helped his pain to.. god rest such a gifted man.. he will carry on in my heart always 🧚♀️💝💝💝💝💯🎼🌈
Kenneth was one of that unique breed that Britain does better than anywhere else- “The Eccentric.” His wit was unparalleled in his era. I grew up laughing along with him and will never forget his genius.
"Jeux sans frontieres.... that's It's a Knockout innit!" Absolute classic! I know it's a comic song, but you see something of the sadness of Kenneth Williams in this song too.
Gone but not forgotten. He first made me laugh when I was about 11 and 50 years later he still is. His legacy is one of the great eccentric true English comedic geniuses the like of which we will never see again
The look he gives when he says 'bidet' is hilarious! (remember this was made during the days when most English people thought a bidet was a toilet for French children!).
Wonderful! Now living in France for twenty years and becoming a French citizen, I appreciate it more than ever and I should share it with my French friends more often!😄
*SPOKEN: My Next song, is un chant d'amour, a song of lurve, He loves her, and she loves him, but they cannot be marriéd. Because they are how you say, they are, husband and wife. It's called, it's called, "Crepe Suzette" which is in English "A Flaming Hot Dish", and so is Suzette... SUNG (to the tune of Auld Lang Syne): Honi soit Qui Mal y Pense, Faites vos jeux, Reconnaissance Hamersmith Palais de Dance, Badinage, My Crepe Suzette. Double Entendre, Restaurante, Jacques Cousteau, Yves Saint Laurente Ou est la plume de ma tante?, Cest la vie, ma Crepe Suzette Corsage, Massage, Freres Jacques? Salon, Par Avion, Petula Clarke. Fiancee, Ensemble, Lorgnette, Lingerie, Eau de Toilette Mmmm Gauloise Cigarette, Entourage, ma Crepe Suzette Citron, Mirage, Carvela, Hors d’oeuvre, BRUT and Chanel-e, Chaise longue, Sasha Distel-e Fuselage, ma Crepe Suzette Pince nez, Bidet, Commissionaire, Mon repos, Brigitte Bardot, Jeux Sans Frontieres. SPOKEN "It's a Knock out innit? Yeah, the French, not the song!" SUNG: Faux Pas, Grand Prix, Espionage, Brie, Camembert, Fromages Mayonnaise, All Night Garage R.S.V.P. My Crepe Suzette*
He can obviously speak very good French. I am an English Francophone and he is parodying the English more than the French for their incompetence at mastering a French accent. Check out 1:19 la plume de ma tante for a truly atrocious English accent!
Kenneth Williams, he should of been kmighted along with Sellers, Hancock, Toole, Cooke, Moore, Milligan and so many more from the era they came from. Theres plenty of women that im ashamed to say without googling so as to remember and thats not because they were less important. The kings and queens of the essence of British humour and combined with growing up as children through WW1 and WW2 and keeping a stiff upper lip whilst having the ability to always look on the bright side of life. Everyone in the business that came after were inspired by these outliers of the craft to make people forget the troubles the country was going through. Diamonds that will always sparkle even in the darkness that unfolds.
I enjoyed it and your comment has given me that much more insight. I love the silliness, methinks me comment was misinterpreted or maybe I didn't put that very well. Carry On Spying is a favorite, esp. the call signal bit, Brussels call sign a pound of sprouts, Paris call sign la plume de ma tante, Berlin call sign up your..."By Jove she's got it" :P.....methinks that :P...je m'excuse...I'll stop messin' about!
If only Kenny loved himself as much as everyone else did. I think as Russell Davies said he died of frustration. So many different types of frustration. Did he kill himself? Impossible to prove but personally I believe he did.
His friends said not, and I believe them; we now know that he had changed his medication and that the mixture was potentially lethal so his death was probably an accident.
Gordon Cameron Jackson (Glasgow) and Kenneth Williams co-wrote "Ma Crepe Suzette", a comedy song in which Williams sings random unrelated French words and phrases, in a suggestive fake French accent, to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne". Williams performed it live on TV the night after he and Jackson had written it.
There is a much better version of this song. It is sung to the tune of "Come back to Sorrento", which fits the words much better than "Laud Lang Syne" It was performed at the Edinburgh Festival, I think in the 1970's or early eighties. It was recorded by the BBC in a radio program called "Aspects of the Fringe". Stephen Fry was part of the company then. Does anyone remember it or know it?
Ha ha, way to denigrate your fellow countrymen with some sweeping generalisations! Have you heard a Frenchman trying to do an English accent? Mind bending.
Sadly that seems to be true, Feldman and Took must have known as the lines they wrote for him in Round the Horne called him out on his ego issues. I'm not being serviced!
