Scottish Humour
LISTENING on November 13 to George Campbell’s studio broadcast
over 3YA of numbers from Scottish comedy provided an interesting comparison between Will Fyffe and Sir Harry Lauder. After hearing items composed by both, rendered by a single competent local artist, one
feels that Lauder more nearly approaches the minstrel tradition of glens, bagpipes, and ballads, while Fyffe, deliberately less musical and more dependent on speech, presents in comic form something more like the actualities of Scottish village and town life. Thus Fyffe’s items are more realistic and human, Lauder’s more romantic and sentimental; but, oddly, funnier. °
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 9
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98Scottish Humour New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 9
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