Roadhouse Resurgent
\VITH both The Goon Show and TIFH in recess, Radio Roadhouse holds the field of comedy shows virtually alone. The current series, despite some weak spots, is the best Roadhouse has given us. I feel that this feature has now come to be accepted by listeners without any of the patronising, "Not bad for a New Zealand effort" attitude, that it has its own widening circle of fans and that its removal would leave a yawning gap. I still believe that 9.15 p.m. on Wednesday is not a good listening time, and that a Sunday spot would give the RR. the larger audience it deserves. The interludes featuring the ’Arrises and friend Charley seem to me to be more Cockney than Kiwi; but, for the rest, there is an agreeable strain of unforced indigenous humour. Barry
Linehan gains in stature as a radio comedian from session to session, surely the first real specimen of his kind New Zealand radio has produced; and Noeline Pritchard, Eddie Hegan and Mervyn Smith have all established themselves as individuals. The perceptible movement away from overseas patterns, shown in the stronger intrusion of topicalities, indicates a confidence by the Roadhouse gang in their own competence, one shared by most of their
listeners.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 23
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211Roadhouse Resurgent New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 23
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