Educated by Archie
AM convinced that good radio comedians insinuate’ themselves, rather than explode, into listeners’ affections. My family, who listened to Educating Archie last year, praised it highly, but just as I, remembering ITMA, was slow to surrender to TIFH, so I was Archieresistant for weeks, thinking it poorish
stuff, and contrasting Archie unfavourably with Charlie McCarthy. It was Max Bygraves who finally won me over. His cheeky self-assurance and happy vulgarity remind me a little of both Frankie Howerd and Sam Costa, but he has his own individuality. I have come to look forward to him, and also to appreciate the unusual touch of imaginative whimsy in the scripts+-the glorious Indian Rope-Trick scene, for instance, or the adventures in a beehive. Much of the appeal of BBC comedy features seems to lie in the fact that the comedians grow on you, that catch-phrases, by repetition, become unanalysably funny, like family jokes, and that the cast really seem to be enjoying themselves. In any case, I’m now an Archie fan,-and am glad that, now Max and Archie have given way at 1ZB to a newer and livelier Horne and Murdoch, there are still a few more episodes to
enjoy from 1YA.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 783, 23 July 1954, Page 10
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204Educated by Archie New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 783, 23 July 1954, Page 10
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