Denis norden autobiography of missouri

  • The memoirs of the late DENIS NORDEN reveal his own life was as riotously funny as his famous TV bloopers.
  • This is the extraordinary life story of comic legend Denis Norden, told in momentary snapshots by the master British comedian himself.
  • Denis Norden was best known as the host of long-running out-takes show It'll Be Alright On The Night but had previously come to prominence as a successful.

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    My success? I owe it all to an incontinent baby elephant! The memoirs of the late DENIS NORDEN reveal his own life was as riotously funny as his famous TV bloopers

    Denis Norden believes his career with Alright on the Night came from a cup of tea in the ITV canteen discussing a mishap on the BBC

    For a television series whose success depended on things going wrong, It’ll Be Alright On The Night had a remarkably trouble-free birth.

    Over a cup of tea in the London Weekend Television canteen, producer Paul Smith and I were chatting about the famous Blue Peter episode featuring Valerie Singleton and the incontinent baby elephant, when one of us — and, for the life of me, I can’t recall which — mused: ‘Wonder if it would be possible to string together a whole programme of out-takes?’

    (Strictly speaking, that one wasn’t an ‘out-take’ because it had been transmitted, which made it what we later called a ‘blooper’.)

    After mulling it over for all of five minutes, we phoned upstairs to Michael Grade, then Head of Entertainment, and asked if we could meet to talk about a programme idea.

    ‘Come up now,’ Michael said.

    He received us, red-braced and shirt-sleeved, waved us into chairs and said: ‘Tell me about it.’ I can recall the next two lines of dialogue verbatim.

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    Denis Norden dead: TV presenter and host of It'll be Alright On The Night dies aged 96

    Denis Norden, the comedy writer and TV presenter best know for hosting It'll be Alright On The Night, has died at the age of

    Norden's family said he died on Wednesday morning after a period of "many weeks" at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.

    A statement from the presenter's children, Nick and Maggie Norden, said: "We'd like to say a huge thank you to all the dedicated staff and doctors who have looked after him - with much devotion.

    "A wonderful dad, a loving grandfather and great great-grandfather - he gave his laughter-mongering to so many. He will be in our hearts forever."

    Norden presented the ITV bloopers show for 29 years until his retirement in

    After stepping down he gave a lot of attention to raising awareness of macular disease, a degenerative eye condition from which he suffered, and became a patron of the Macular Society.

    Born in Hackney, east London, in February , he trained as a manager for the Hyams brothers, owners of impressive London picture palaces.

    He served in the RAF in the Second World War with such other future famous names as Eric Sykes and Bill Fraser, and wrote shows to entertain the troops - and get off guard duty.

    Norden met future writing partn

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