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(CONSTANT listener that I am to Rebecca I am sitting bitd when 2YD’s Here’s a Laugh comes along. The session is sub-titled "A Quarter-Hour with World-Famous Comédians," °thu: providing an example of that rare figute of speech, prolepsis, for the comedians, though deserving, are usually obscure But the other Monday I fenewed
acquaintance with three comedians who may claim to be the Grand Old Men of Comedy, in selections as traditional and be-whiskered as Father Christmas — Harry Tate om Motoring, and Clapham ‘and Dwyer giving their "A for ’Orses" alphabet. And I have come to the conclusion that one cannot be dogmatic on the subject of whiskers. For whereas hirsute adornment sits ill upon the smooth surface of Clapham and Dwyer’s wit it seems completely in keeping with the homely humour of Harry Tate, and when the joys of Motoring are in question I am not one to shout with Leslie Henson "Something new, something new!"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 10
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157Classics New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 10
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