Saturday 13 April 2019

A Comedy On This Day: Up Pompeii - The Senator & The Asp (13 April 1970)



 "Not you, you dirty beasts! Step back! This isn't The Wednesday Play".
 Although one's primary focus is always on his face and what he's saying, Frankie Howerd's hands are interesting once you start to notice them notice them in this. He almost always holds them up at elbow height to gesticulate with them when he talks to us, while also using them to keep the world away whenever he gets asked to do anything - especially anything that he can construe as being lecherous. Once I started to notice this posture, Frankie Howerd began to remind me of a dog on his hind legs holding out his paws, which fits Howerd's hangdog persona quite well.

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