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"Like the beard, bridesmaid...gives me something to hang onto..."
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In person....a milder quieter laid-back bloke you couldnt wish to meet. Most would pass him in the street and not recognise him. I met him at an awards night. Top bloke.
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Dangerous brothers were originally from violent slapstick sketches the two did with comic strip and a slot on Saturday Live, which evolved into the characters they did in later shows. My fave was the comic strip's Mr Jolly lives next door, where peter cook is a hitman who is supposed to "take out" nicolas parsons but rik n ade get the message by accident so they take parsons out for a meal! 
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You were in London, mcGann?! The eels? Nev-ver herdovem.
Jellied eels are vile. 
Nobody eats them anymore.
But then there arent any cockneys left.
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Lambeth walk was more south london millwall cockneys.
Im from the bow bells north of thames east london roots.
We sang it around the old joanna when everyone's nan livened up parties by playing - along with Roll out the barrel, on mother kelly's doorstep and my old man said follow the van - but lambeth was more hijacked by the south londoners !
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Being half way between Barnsley and Rotherham, I'm a true (South) Yorkshireman, and I'm happy to say we have a proper little cockney geezer coming into my local (well, one of them) on fairly regular basis. Frank and myself have plenty of what we in the North like to call banter at each other's accents etc. My, how the hours fly by....!
Anyway black pudding must be almost as awful as Jellied Eels, and Barnsley has many a proud butcher making it. Yuk. Never fancied having a go at either of them. Used to love pork scratchings until my teeth eventually said NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
But you southern types can tell me.. am I right in saying that the pie in pie and mash is nearly all pastry with the tiniest smidgen of potted meat style meat in the middle, and that 'liquor' is very thin watery parsley sauce? Always suspected this.. BUT! I bet they don't traditionally have mushy peas with them do they? Always assumed 'pie and peas' was a northern thing.
Anyway, good as Only Fools and Horses is, and I remember the long process of series reruns it took to become the icon it's reckoned to be now, the sitcom I vote for as the sweetest is Dad's Army. I always feel guilty if I come across it and am about to change the channel.
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