Terry Thomas tells a joke about a budgie.  

Proper shower...absolute shower!

@@stewartbristow846 I say!

I remember you in the army! You were an absolute stinker then, and you're an absolute stinker now!

And on set he was one of the Film Industry's true gentlemen

Steady on old chap

It sickens me that he died in abject poverty. He deserved so much more.

Dementia got him. Sad

Not quite - he was discovered living in a London flat dying from Parkinsons by Carry On actor Jack Douglas. Douglas organised an all-star benefit gig which raised enough money to put Thomas in a private nursing home for the last few years of his life.

@@mfrost71wThank you for much more positive reply.

He certainly hasn’t been forgotten! I understood that he had developed Alzheimer’s and I know from experience that in the earliest stages all money gets lost in different ways as it’s something that has to be managed, but can’t be by the sufferer. It’s wonderful that he was rescued.

School For Scoundrels 👍

Terry ended up totally broke living off charity at the end of his later life and died from Parkinson’s 😢

That and, "lost his wife ... rather careless of him ..."

I know. It's unexpected and very British. That's why it works so well.

I loved him in Too Many Crooks, diving through the window for his Bunny no Mummy?😂🤣

Wonderful story, I'd love to quote it, do you have a reference? Did some Googling around but couldn't find anything.

Makes me think better of Elton.

@@davidharrison8404 It was actually a benefit concert organised by Jack Douglas and others which raised £75000 for Terry Thomas to move into a care home. Not sure Elton John had anything other than may be being part of the line up but so was Phil Collins, Michael Caine and Richard Briers. He died about a year after moving into the nursing home.

That is a lot of crap! Elton John did nothing of the kind. Terry-Thomas and his wife were living in abject poverty when they moved back to London from Spain, having had to sell everything to cover his medical bills. Hearing about his plight, Jack Douglas organised a benefit concert for him and was able to raise enough for Terry to spend his remaining days in a nursing home in Godalming. Elton John had absolutely nothing to do with it whatsoever.

also 'I'm All Right Jack'. Great films...

Even as a kid the old movies were and are the best. Those geezers are immortals to me.

Hard cheese old boy. Lol

"Hard cheese!" Great film.

Leslie Phillips was a very distant second to Terry Thomas.

I say!!

@@gharqad That’s the line I remember!

Always will be!❤❤

Thanks for the shout out for the quip. Cheers Bob.

“Hush, hush... and whoosh, whoosh.” LOL... LOVE that film... Terry was fantastic.

Ahead of his time

You can’t take cream through customs,that’s why he was cancelled.

Sounds like something he'd say... 😂

That can’t be right - I’m constantly told about how in these days, people weren’t so easily offended and all jokes were taken in good humour and I can’t imagine why people would lie about that so I’m going to assume this is not true.

I user this phrase often when castigating some company or an individual in authority who fails. They haven't got the the vaguest clue what I'm on about, so I repeat it. It never works but I enjoy myself as I'm thinking of Terry.

@@Rutlandeyewhat does it mean? I watched his movies as a kid. Fantastic

I was just thinking the other day that I haven’t heard the expression “Hells Bells” for decades. Takes me back to my youth and gentler times.

Rubbish he could adapt to any character. What your ignorently referring to is his highly distictive voice.

@@lordeden2732 Can't see him as Othello or Captain Kirk.

@@Leslie_Horwinkle "The Klingons? Oh I say"!

@@ploppysonofploppy6066 Romulans … ? Shower, absolute shower.

​@@lordeden2732free tip: if you're going to talk down to someone, learn to spell the words you're going to use 🤦‍♂️

Agreed. I heard quite a strong North London accent just beneath the surface.

I thought the same

Never realised about the accent thing old chap

Yes exactly 😂

I don't think that was his own accent. He was just doing a 'Sarf Lundun' accent for the purposes of the joke. He was an actor, you know. I mean, he was born in Finchley, which was always a quite well- to-do upper class Jewish area. With a double-barrelled name, 'Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens'.

Didn’t he get Parkinson’s disease?

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Yes, we will. (What a stupid comment.)

'Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies'.

Deep joy, deep joy!

Ah, I concurlymost, but unfortunale must correctlode the wordage deployed in your comment. Stanley Unwin was, although undoubt and certain of this, greatly of the worthage to be a Sir, he was in actile factly referreded as Professor therethroughout. Oh yes.

@@Benjiesbeenbetter.🤣🤣🤣👍

​@Benjiesbeenbetter. Brilliant! Your remarkable command of Unwinese brings back great memories.

@bahoonies I once wrote an instruction sheet at work in that style. I wish I'd kept a copy.

Yes you are quite right, well noted

Wtf?

You mean "an ebsolute shah".

@@Otacatapetl 🤣Spot on. Actually spoke to him once. I was on a telephone help line in the late 80's and he called in. Either that or it was a very good impersonator.

He’s not forgotten by me, absolute genius of comedy and style.

He was NEVER a character actor as he only played one character....Terry Thomas.....not that I had a problem with that.

Private's Progress and I'm All Right, Jack with Ian Carmichael starring. Carmichael had a couple of long roles as Bertie Wooster (with Dennis Price as Jeeves - so few episodes survive) and Lord Peter Wimsey (at least they're on DVD)