Ronn Lucas meets Bob Monkhouse 

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Look for Ray Allen. Best venture list Britain ever produced.

That's the first thing I thought - this must be a couple of decades before Rob Brydon did it on TV.

It's a standard for throwing your voice, I don't think either copied from the other.

I've only got very vague memories of Ronn's Thames show, so finding this (even older) VHS recording was quite an eye-opener in terms of how good it was. I suppose having a highly-refined 15-minute stage act doesn't necessarily translate to being able to carry a full-blown television series, but I'm still surprised he didn't become much better known here in the UK. Hopefully full recordings of the series will show up somewhere sooner or later. Ronn's website seems to still be taking bookings, and he also has a fan site: www.ronnlucas.com www.ronnlucas.net

@@VideotapeFTW That's good to hear. He's a marvellous act, no question. Makes me think of Kelly Monteith a bit; goes down a storm on Des O'Connor's show, gets asked by the BBC (in the person of Jim Moir, I'm guessing?) to do his own sitcom (with the help of Neil Shand), does very well on BBC2 (with repeats on 1, as was then usual), but never *quite* breaks through to the front rank here, so ends up going back to the States, and Vegas, etc. Until his recent (sadly early) death, he'd been revisiting some of his old shows here on RU-vid ('reacting' to them, as it were), so it was lovely to see him again, still at it. This is why it's always important - not to say fun! - to dig through old VHSes, as you do here, to find stuff that's either been completely consigned to the dustbin of history, or else stuff that touches a vague nerve, and that sends us all off down little rabbit-holes, looking for further signs of something we might've seen years ago, but completely forgotten about. That, and celebrating the talents involved, both in front of and behind the cameras!

@@Maundervision Oh, you're _so_ right, and that's exactly why I do what I do. There's a wealth of material that will simply never be released or repeated, so I always encourage anyone who has a stack of VHS tapes to digitise them before it's too late. You just never know what long-forgotten gems you might stumble across!

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Is there any way that would actually make sense in context?

He's saying hog

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During the auctioneer song? How in the world would that make sense?

@@VideotapeFTW 3:01 IDK, maybe he's racist