A Friend in Need
‘THE great test of a friendship is that it can be picked up after long absence exactly where it left off, and on this basis the friendship between myself and Will Hay must be the real McCoy. It must be a good six months since I heard my last Will Hay programme, but when I tuned in to 2ZB I found the worthy doctor almost exactly where I left him, in arrears with his landlady and in extremis with his pupils, And yet strangely enough the pattern never palls. There is wisdom in giving us the whole man, the Muffin at home and abroad, so that_we can compare the autocrat of the breakfast-table with the mock-martinet of the class-room. — In both spheres he manages to maintain his ascendancy, but only just, and every week there is the delicious possibility that Alfie or Smart may get the last word. . . . Meanwhile Doctor Muffin carries on. His jokes are old ones, they do not flick past like shots in the nickelodeon, but are slowly and lovingly Produced. The audience, streets ahead, is ‘in a good position to admire them from all angles. That they are funny is due
to the superb showmanship of Will Hay and the boys, and also to the fact that homespun puns are good-wearing. Last week we spent minutes exploring the possibilities of rods, poles and perches, chains and furlongs-minutes calculated to convert any advocate of the metric system to the philosophy of Modghns | Through with Muffin.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 11
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252A Friend in Need New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 11
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