Frank Muir interview | comedy writer | Good Afternoon | Part 2 |1975

[@t.p.mckenna]

Of course, he went on to write a beautiful memoir of his life, 'A Kentish Lad'. An excellent read. Thank you so much for posting this which revealed Muir in a whole new light. Mainly due to MN's tremendous talent for probing, softened and made not at all threatening by her gentle and kindly personality.

[@lesliestevenson5261]

To me, Mavis is the epitome of great interviewers. Love KZbin for this type of thing.

[@IbnBahtuta]

One word, quintessential.

[@user-ci8ds1hg8q]

how charming, how open for 1975, I remember watching when I was sick off school

[@MrWindermere123]

I remember Frank Muir as a TV performer on Call My Bluff and on My Music. He also used his distinctive voice (he had a slight lisp) on the TV advert for Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Chocolate. I've never heard him put aside the puns and quips to speak reflectively about himself. Mavis Nicholson did a beautifully gentle but persistent job of drawing out the thoughts of a man who described himself as shy.

[@georgiana6598]

If and when I pass over to another form of life and there is a heaven, Frank Muir WOULD need to be with us all. I love him. He is like a cutesome soothing, funny beautifully eloquent calming big cuddle Uncle we all may have had, if you didn't have an Uncle like Frank, life would be so much less happy and calm.❤ Thank you for this video. It's calmed me down after a bit of an upset. X I am also a fruit and nutcase! And a happier one. Some people really do seem to bring the best out of others. Aww xx

[@geoffjoffy]

Thanks for uploading.

[@janeporter818]

Awesome ❤

[@davidevans3227]

corny i know but they don't make them like this any more thankyou for sharing this.. 🙂 x

[@algiles881]

He was unique

[@jonharrison9222]

Bad defence of racist jokes there.

[@omblackwell1183]

No. As John Cleese pointed out “every joke is a poke in the eye.” Frank Muir’s point is that the release provided by the joke is better than the alternative, namely, the actual poke in the eye. Unless you happen to enjoy, as perhaps you might, racist violence.

[@danmcdaid]

Agreed, very poor, facile stuff. A little disappointed.

[@danmcdaid]

​@@omblackwell1183he misses out that demeaning and abusive language is the vector through which violence is ultimately delivered. Much easier to hurt someone - or a group of people - if you've already reduced them to jokes, caricatures, abstractions.

[@omblackwell1183]

@@danmcdaid Fine. So no jokes against the English. No PG Wodehouse (obviously a racist following your rationale). No fun at the expense of the Belgians (by your view Agatha Christie might as well have been wearing jackboots), and, as for the French, Peter Sellers might as well have invaded Poland. Your world sounds like a truly joyless place.

[@geronimus-prime]

In the Britain of 1970s, prejudice was overt, mainstream, and undeniable. To resist it, you had to choose your words cunningly to avoid being perceived as a snob and lose any audience you might hope to influence. Today, when we condemn people of that era, we seem to do so with a smug superiority. As if we now belonged to a perfectly benign society that had the whole question of prejudice sorted.

[@Warpedsmac]

A comedian like Mr Muir or indeed himself , would struggle to find an audience today...humor and comedians today are often focused on foul language and sexual entendre....subtlety and culture as comedic fodder is now distasteful as it requires an intellectualism lacking in today's audiences.

[@jonharrison9222]

Chilly up there on that pedestal?

[@Warpedsmac]

Certainly, which current "comedians" should I invite to the pedestal to warm it a little?@@jonharrison9222

[@omblackwell1183]

@@jonharrison9222The good thing about being on a pedestal is that it enables one to look down on pillocks like you.

[@omblackwell1183]

@@jonharrison9222 Better to be right than to be warm and comfortable.