Tommy Trinder

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I nominate old time comic Tommy Trinder.

I have just watched “Eating Out with Tommy Trinder” on Talking Pictures TV and can only conclude that the man was an utter cunt.

1. His singing consists of him speaking to music,
2. He insults his potential mother in law about her cooking while promoting the new British Restaurants,
3. The script writer for that film wrote, “…and actors like me don’t eat often”.
What the fuck are you then? A crocodile?
He should have written “…and actors like me don’t eat out often”.

His delivery of how the spud peeling machines works has now been stolen by that other cunt Gregg Wallace in those factory programmes.

I read that he wasn’t well liked in showbiz in his day because he used to tread on other people’s jokes. Maybe Sir Limply Stoke can elucidate.

If you are under 45 then look him up and judge for yourselves You Lucky People:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YnFGx1rv20

Nominated by: Anton Pillar 

67 thoughts on “Tommy Trinder”

  1. Is this supposed to be some kind of post modernist joke or what? The cunt has been dead for 30 odd years and no fucker under 60 has ever heard of him.
    This is way above my head.

  2. Ruthlessly parodied as Arthur Atkinson on The Fast Show, and rumoured to be a petrol-dial.

    • Arthur Atkinson was, of course, not prima facie a parody of Tommy Trinder. Apart from the dead give-away in the Christian name, the clue in the surname and the merciless lampooning of Arthur Askey in particular and unfunny öne-trick-pony music-hall in general.

      The sketch when Arthur Atkinson corpses with the uncharacteristically vulgar one-liner: “is that a moustache on your lip or is it shit?” was indeed a specific pasquinade of Tommy Trinder’s sacking by Lew Grade in 1958 I’ll admit. However, while Paul Whitehouse also got in a swipe at Max Wall, Max Miller, Charlie Drake and others, Arthur Atkinson was basically a piss-take of this cunt.

      https://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/a-to-z-arthur-askey

      orphan: [How’s the server change going? Not a cluster-fuck, one hopes.]

      • 𝕰𝖘 𝖜𝖎𝖗𝖉 𝖇𝖊𝖉𝖆𝖓𝖐𝖙, 𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖚𝖊𝖗𝖚𝖓𝖌. 𝕰𝖎𝖓 𝖇𝖎ß𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖓 𝖘𝖕ä𝖙 𝖆𝖇𝖊𝖗!

  4. My 83 yo neighbour thinks he’s crap. But, he was doing a lot of propoganda stuff as it was wartime, so just lime covid shit now.

  5. Who? How about Arthur Askey? Who I hear you say? No me either , just some old codger who was about during the war ……I think.

  6. 𝕸ary had a little lamb
    Little lamb, little lamb
    Mary had a little lamb
    It’s fleece was white as snow
    Everywhere that Mary went
    Mary went, Mary went
    Everywhere that Mary went
    The lamb was sure to go
    It followed her to school one day
    School one day, school one day
    It followed her to school one day
    Which was againts the rules
    It made the children laugh and play
    Laugh and play, laugh and play
    It made the children laugh and play
    To see the lamb at school
    And so the teacher turned it out
    Turned it out, turned it out
    And so the teacher turned it out
    But still it lingered near
    Why does the lamb love Mary so?
    Love Mary so, love Mary so
    Why does the lamb love Mary so?
    The eager children cry
    Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know
    The lamb, you know, the lamb, you know
    Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know
    The teacher did reply
    Mary had a little lamb
    Little lamb, little lamb
    Mary had a little lamb
    It’s fleece was white as snow
    Everywhere that Mary went
    Mary went, Mary went
    Everywhere that Mary went
    The lamb was sure to go
    Mary had a little lamb
    Little lamb, little lamb
    Mary had a little lamb
    It’s fleece was white as snow

      • A reference to Edison’s historic recording on a wax cylinder, obviously enough, RTC.

        I had been trying to reply to Chimp Licker’s Arthur Atkinson reference passim, but was thwarted by the server transition and multiple Error 502 notifications.

        At 07:52, the nursery rhyme was (I know) the first comment on the momentous new server. Groundbreaking stuff.

        I’m having a few days off, and indeed have been somewhat over-refreshed since vorgestern¹. (I’ve also been talking to an old flame from College days about getting married again. She edits Der Spiegel, lives in Hamburg and my German is now better than her English, strangely.)

        A few strong cups of Prime Washed Jamaican and a little marching powder have seen me right for the time being though, thanks!

        ¹ the day before yesterday (in German)

      • I got the reference ok, but Edison only recited a small snatch, didn’t he?

        Only a person afflicted with a serious psychotic illness would stretch it out like you did!

        Enjoy your break… but don’t make a stranger of yourself, yeah? Remember the Ruff, yeah?*

        * Oblique reference to Alice Cooper ‘Alma Mater’

        (He said “snatch”, hur hur – Ed.)

      • Not serious psychotic illness (though my shoulder is still bloody sore), just laziness RTC. One could say “it takes one to know one”, but in all truth I just cut/pasted the nursery rhyme in full, awaiting the resumption of “normal service”. Silly of me.

        Well-met though with the Knobby-Knowles-ism reference to Alice Cooper. I don’t quite fully understand the animosity (not from you in particular). I suppose I don’t care enough to mull it. I do, however, entirely take your point nevertheless.

        Time to get down to some hard work. I’m cat sitting Venetia’s Ragamuffin at the moment in Didsbury. Convenient enough for my work, but the cat is quite demanding. Venetia’ll be back from London soon and I promised to finish painting her front door; mental illness for sure on her part if I haven’t done so on her return.

        Enough procrastination for now, so BSY!

      • No animosity intended on my part, CS.

        Quite the opposite in fact!

        🎶 Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood. 🎶

  7. Trinder limped into the 1960s – not that long ago Talking Pictures even repeated some of his “Sunday Night At The London Palladium Shows” – he had a habit of patronising members of the public who took part in the Beat The Clock segment.

    I believe at one time he was even the chairman of a football club.

    I saw him in the 1950s (he was doing a show in Portsmouth when I was on leave) and he was one of those “matey” comics like Charlie Chester and Arthur Askey (look e up boys!), who pretended great empathy with the working class but was really quite hoity toity if the public tried to get matey with them – the chauffeured car would drive away very quickly from the stage door. A boring old fart, even in 1958.

    The only good thing about him is that he would have appalled todays woke shower.

    • I think that the club was Fulham.
      Ted Ray, Tommy Trinder, Arthur Askey and Charlie Drake- none of them made me laugh. Norman Wisdom was pretty useless too.

      • Wasn’t Norman Wisdom ‘Big In Albania’?

        Quite adept at his one and only ‘gag’ ie falling over.

        Come the Revolution I await the return of Till Death Us Do Part but of course in the meantime it won’t even be risked on that Shitbox archive will it.

  9. I’m pretty sure that I’d prefer to listen to corpse-gas hissing out of Mr.Trinder’s decomposing ring-piece than be forced to listen to Sarah Millican, that bong-eyed Cunt, Ramjam Raganathian or any of the other modern comedians.

    Bravo,Mr.Trinder…you’ve made me giggle already this morning..and you’ve been dead 100 years or something….that’s a true comedian for you.

    • PS I think the Cunt touched me up in the BBC studios circa 1921…..did he leave much money?

    • Re : Millican. I quite agree Dick.

      However she’s a comic genius compared to the utterly useless “BBC mainstay “ Miranda Fart. Fart also has the N.Wisdom trait of falling over to gain a laugh. Is she by any chance a ‘friend of Steph McGovern’?

  10. Even dead cunts aren’t safe here.
    Arthur Askey will be trembling in his grave.
    We’re coming for you, Arthur.
    Morning, cuntmates.

    • I bet Arthur and the boys would have loved a platform like IsAC-to cunt- cunts, with total “gay abandon”

      “I’d like to be, a busy, busy cunt!”

      👍

  11. Arthur Atkinson was, of course, not prima facie a parody of Tommy Trinder. Apart from the dead give-away in the Christian name, the clue in the surname and the merciless lampooning of Arthur Askey in particular and unfunny öne-trick-pony music-hall in general.

    The sketch when Arthur Atkinson corpses with the uncharacteristically vulgar one-liner: “is that a moustache on your lip or is it shit?” was indeed a specific pasquinade of Tommy Trinder’s sacking by Lew Grade in 1958 I’ll admit. However, while Paul Whitehouse also got in a swipe at Max Wall, Max Miller, Charlie Drake and others, Arthur Atkinson was basically a piss-take Askey.

    orphan: [How’s the server change going? Not a cluster-fuck, one hopes.]

    • That typographical fuck-up was meant in reply to Chimp Licker.

      What is a “petrol-dial” btw (other than, curiously, an anagram of «trollpedia») ?

      • Petrol dial, I assume is a clever euphemism for Peter-File, which is a euphemism…….

        Morning CS

  12. Find it difficult to cunt Trinder. Perhaps he could be a bit of a cunt in his private life. But when I compare him to our current crop of so called “comedians” – the aforementioned Millican with her endless routines based on her cunt, her tits and her periods and Ranji Ragawotsit with his mum, he looks like a comedic genius.

  13. Coming soon to an ISAC near you – cuntings for Norman “swinger” Vaughan, Arthur “beef hearted” Askey and Dickie “back ride” Henderson!

    • 早上好， RTC！

      A parallel URL «was-a-cunt» running in tandem on the same server-cluster as the URL «is-a-cunt» will, perchance, be the next development from The Eye of Provedence?

  14. I’m going off road for a moment.
    Yesterday, we were discussing Cressida Dick – Head and the Met.
    Well they have excelled themselves, with the heavy handed treatment of mainly white women who were holding a vigil in Clapham.
    One woman being pinned to the ground.
    If these women had been black, Londonistabistan would be burning this morning.
    The Met. and Dick are a complete fuck up. She couldn’t face the camera herself, so sent a deputy out to deliver a wishy washy statement.
    The police are loving lockdown, it provides lots of easy opportunities, rather than solving real crime.
    Cunts.
    Get To Fuck.

    • Cressida Dickhead is a disaster. She only got the job because she’s a woman. The Met are useless and are only interested in pursuing the innocent for reasons of political correctness. Meanwhile knife crime runs rampant.

    • Funny how Cressida Dick found time to apologise at length for the entirely legal stopping of the darky athlete but sends a stooge for this latest incident .
      It is amazing that she got the top job in the first place but even more amazing is that she manages to retain it.

    • If they had been black, the cunts would have been kneeling. None of the papers dare mention that fact. Cunts everyone of them. Thank fuck we beat the frogs yesterday. Good morning.

      • Quite right, Harry. If they’d been black …… nothing to see here.
        The Met. ….Making London safe by beating up white women.

      • I read some of that story last night.
        To be fair Jack, pinning white women to the ground is Strapon’s usual Saturday night activity😉

        There are lot of mealy-mouthed twats out in force, over this case. Enough crocodile tears to flood the Thames barrier.

        Did I read correctly, Kate Windsor got in on the Vigil?
        Now Strapon pinning Kate to the ground-what a fucking tremendous headline👍

        Has Woko Ono Sparkles jumped in the misandrist band wagon yet?
        We all know that she has put Harry Hewitt under house arrest, between the hours of midnight and 11.59pm😂

    • Ah, but the Fatsos have promised that ‘lessons will be learned’ so that’s alright then! Morning, Jack, morning everyone.

  15. There’s a so called comedienne, who’s name escapes me, that’s made a career out of joking about her dry itchy fanny.
    I’ve obviously missed a trick here. I should ditch the heavy manual labour and take to the stage, giving endless renditions of my hilarious experiences concerning my itchy arse, and side splitting prostate problems.
    I’ll have them rolling in the aisles.
    Get To Fuck.

    • Comedy gold Jack, I got a standing ovation and 3 nights at the palladium by telling them I got worms from eating from the dog bowl.

      Morning 👍

      • Channel 4 would sign you up in an instant. They’d even let you flash your knob on live TV.
        Morning, MNC. 😀

  16. Arthur Askey was an even bigger cunt if I recall correctly. Fucking shit about bees. The fact that cunts like Trinder and Askey hung around so long was is astonishing if you think that great US clowns the Marx Brothers had already come and long gone.

    There were funny men around in the heyday of of the comedic cunts. Sykes, Milligan, Bygraves (yes Maxie was a great stand up), Williams and Horne, so there was not real excuse for Trinder and co to hang around for so long. I blame the BBC for it. The old cunt Charlie Chester was broadcasting his threadbare shit right up to the mid 1990s ffs.

  17. Fucking hell never mind these fossils,Marvelous Marvin Hagler has died!
    66 is not a particularly good innings.

    • ,☹️ My grandad rated Marvin the best boxer hed ever seen.
      RIP
      Marvin

  18. Off topic but did anybody have Marvellous Marvin Hagler in the Deadpool by chance?
    A true boxing legend and a genuinely hard cunt who was robbed in his final fight against Ray Leonard.
    His tear up with Tommy Hearns is the best 3 rounds of top level boxing you will ever see.

    • He deserves a Cunting for that atrocious Grease rip-off he did with Hilda Baker.

      • Ha ha-never touched me!

        Ruff-cunting George Formby would be like drowning some puppies😢

        Whatever would Miserable say? It’s part of the curriculum in his part if the world 😀👍

  20. My old grandfather told me about this fella. Reasoned he was a bit of cunt.

    Maybe some auld Cunters could rate him on a scale of 0 to 10, where 10 is the most unfunny cunt, like a Nish Kumar or Cunt Arthur Strong or that Cunt from Ballam, also called Arffeer, or a Sue Perkins, or any Jo Blrand. Christ so many unfunny cunts, I may do a nom.

  21. Just out of interest did anyone notice the price of the jar of Quality Street I’m the Woolies ad. £3.99!!! Almost 40 years on and they’re the same price now! Must have been wrapped in gold leaf or summat.

  24. Wasn’t it our old mate Flaxen Saxon who passionately despised Arthur Askey?

    Jimmy Jewell was a cunt and all.

  25. Fuck me, are we cunting Charlie Chaplin next?

    I bet George Formby was a cunt an’ all. Cleaning t’winduz an’ t’ flickin’ t’ v-sign at th’inhabitants. Maybe dirty fucker gorriz cock oot when t’ climbin’ ladder? Rum bugger.

    • Charlie Chaplin, another overrated unfunny cunt. He was ok in The Great Dictator, though, if memory serves.

      • Charlie Chaplin is held up as one of the greats from the silent screen.
        He was fuckin rubbish.
        And a commie.
        Little tramp my arse.

      • Harold Lloyd was better than Chaplin. So was Buster Keaton.

        And Stan and Olllie were the undisputed kings. Still are.

  27. I am only in my mid-40s and I have the greatest respect for George Formby, Will Hay and Max Miller but Tommy Trinder always irked me. Charlie Drake was also a cunt so much so that a props man “fixed” a fake wall that was supposed to come apart easily which caused him to get a fractured skull when he was thrown at it but he did appear in The Cracksman which was quite good and Professor Popper’s Problems when he realised he had a massive hole in his pension fund.

    Arthur Askey was a bit of a pain in the arse but his film The Love Match was made tolerable by the stuttering wonder Glenn Melvyn.

    Interestingly I think Bruce Forsyth based some of his style and delivery on Tommy Trinder but he softened it so that the joke was always on himself and not at the expense of the contestant. That’s why Brucie was a class apart from Tommy Trinder.

    I take on board Mr Fiddler’s comment though: Tommy Trinder was by far funnier than most of today’s comedians, which is to his credit.

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