Yes Know the Muffin Man

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 447, 16 January 1948, Page 8

Yes Know the Muffin Man

WAS surprised to read in a recent Listener correspondent’s letter ‘that we are ill-supplied with humour on thg air; but as, Joad would say, "It all dev pends what you mean by humour." Cer« tainly it’s difficult to tune into a Welld ington station at random’ without hear ing that roar of tame-audience which indicates that someone has been fed a chestnut by somebody, but if we exclude the variety shows the earnest seeker after humour has at the presen time much tobe thankful for. ITM is back at 2YA, Cheerful Charlie Chester (guillotined in mid-career from 2YA-+some months ago) has been dusted off and given a new lease of life from 2ZB on Sunday nights, Tusitala is’ not above telling an occasional Anthony Armstrong story, 2YD’s. Friday night Comedyland continues to bring us the great and the goods. But if I were asked to name the most consistently reward. ing session of this kind on the Wellington air I should without . hesitation plump for Will Hay’s Tuesday night half-hour from 2YC. The Will Hay Programme has few extraneous aids ta (continued on next page)

(continued from previous page) audience approval; it does not depend, as Tommy Handley has been depending lately, on flights of verbal virtuosity in which the quickness of the tongue deceives the ear; it does not demand from its audience, as the Bing Crosby show demands, a specialised knowledge of the past achievements and present entanglements of the performers. And though perhaps to savour your Muffin to the full you should either ‘have been financially embarrassed or have attended school, even these almost inevitable qualifications are by no means pre-re-quisites to enjoyment of the Will math Programme.