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Bob Monkhouse at the Beeb
- A Look Back at a Lifetime of Laughs
- Narrated by: Bob Monkhouse
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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- Stuart
- 19-04-06
Rolling around laughing
This autobiographical account of Monkhouse's work had me in stitches. He is surely the high priest of the one-liner!
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- Mrs A
- 29-06-15
Needed something...
I laughed! I also skipped some too... Lots of singing!
BUT - I was expecting more. It seems that there are HUGE chunks missing.
I was dissappointed - NOT by the comedy or Bob, but by the lack of information and the huge amount of signing in it.