Entertainment For Lively Minds
Well its about f**king time!
Posted by DogFacedBoy on 4 November 2011 - 9:12am.
Bernard Cribbins, Cribbo, the Cribbster, Lord Bernie of Cribbs, Count Cribbski etc gets his OBE. It should have been Sir Bernard years ago
Congrats to one of the nicest blokes in showbusiness
*hats in the air*
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He doesn't look very happy
about it!
One of the all time great voices
in popular culture.
Probably shouldn't mention it
But he shagged Tracy Barlow.
Probably...
...he's still got the Winkle Picker Blues.
I like him, but
I just don't understand the obsession with giving people awards. Who cares?
Maybe...
...he does.
I hereby award
the CBA to Mr Fade
Today I have instigated the OMG! Awards
The Order of the Miserable Git. So step right up.
I think I may be here a while
Probably wanted a knighthood
and knows it's never going to happen.
Oh well, an OBE is not to be sniffed at just for being the voice of The Wombles.
He was fantastic on
He was fantastic on NMTB;
Bernard on Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Can only place him
in Fawlty Towers. He's mostly passed me by for some reason.
So
Railway Children
Dr Who Dalek Invasion Of Earth movie
Right Said Fred \ Hole In the Ground
Buzzby the BT mascot
The Wombles
Carry On Jack
Jackanory
Two Way Stretch
Nu Dr Who
Tufty the Squirrel road safety ads
mean nothing to you? For shame!
Arabel & Mortimer
I loved the Arabel & Mortimer's read by Cribbins so much that there was a brief period in which I insisted I be called Arabel.
It didn't work. Everyone just carried on calling me Jo.
.
"NEVERMORE!!!!"
Spooky
I was talking about those books with an old friend just the other day. He reckons there is a reference to Edgar Alan Poe in there which went over my head as a child.
The Raven
I assume it's the above poem by Poe, where the end line of each verse is: "Quoth the Raven: "NeverMore!"".
If I'm wrong, well, it won't be the first or even the most embarrassing time.
Nope
Looking through that list, while I recognise most of it, I have seen none of it.
What was I watching as a kid? I can only remember Swap Shop and Pigeon Street.
Not just Jackanory
but the voice of Jackanory - unless I'm completely wrong he had the most appearances on Jackanory.
And when they did the special reading of the Hobbit (for the 100th book or 10 yers of Jackanory or something) he played Bilbo Baggins, didn't he ?
Super Star.
Ivor Notion
you've forgotten 'Star Turn' . It was the Never Mind The Buzzcocks of it's day.
Not forgetting
She! With the 'slightly' lovely Ursula Andress!
He was The Wombles
The craven Orinoco
The dense Tomsk
The clever Wellington
The cockney Tobermory
The, frankly, sensuous Madame Cholét
The pompous Great Uncle Bulgaria.
All quite unique voices to me, sat on my fat arse on the rug in front of the telly waiting for my tea.
There was no doubt editing and dubbing involed but I loved the interplay of them all. The inflections they had and the background business he was able to play and make it genuinely slapstick funny.
God, he was good.
A Passion for Angling
it was a beautiful programme anyway and his understated tones matched.
On screen he allas seemed to play a Git, to me, apart from TRC of course.
Found this
on Fred Deakin's Triptych CD a few years ago - it's just wonderful:
My Resistance Is Low
Right Said Fred & Hole In The Ground
were produced for the Parlophone label by George Martin.
Of course they were.
And... Hole In The Ground was Sir Noel Coward's choice as the one record he would keep on Desert Island Discs
And... Right Said Fred inspired the name of the band Right Said Fred. But let's not hold that against Bernard.
And... Gossip Calypso was written by Trevor Peacock who plays Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley. Peacock also penned Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter for Herman's Hermits as well as several other 60s pop hits.
Hole In The Ground
was my favourite record in the days of Uncle Mac and still gives me a Proustian rush today. The style of this video seems to suit the song so well
ex-para too
- the wife recognised the tie.
He still reads books for kids
My 6 year old adores his readings of the 'Sophie' books by Dick King-Smith. The way a man in his eighties manages to convincingly portray the characters is just stunning.
Oh, and my ten year old thinks he's the best thing in 'The Railway Children' (her favourite film)
Sheer bloody god of children's entertainment - deserves to be Children's Minister not just an OBE