Top
Welcome
Title
FOR YOUR DELECTATION:
A SYMPOSIUM OF JOCULAR MONOLOGUES,
HUMOROUS RECITATIONS & WHIMSICAL POETRY
( Where possible, every effort has been made to trace copyright holders. ) 
 
div
 
index-1
Marriott Edgar, the monologue maestro's legendary 'The Lion and Albert' plus Stanley Holloway's equally famous 'Sam Small (pick up tha' musket)' plus fun and mayhem from Robb Wilton, Cyril Fletcher, Pat O'Malley, Al Read and many more...
index-2
More stars of music hall and radio with Ernest Hastings, Albert Chevalier, Will Fyffe, Bernard Newman and others...

vert

 index-3
Including Joyce Grenfell, Gracie Fields, Elsie & Doris Waters, Doris Hare and, of course, our very own Pam Ayres.
index-4
Mike Harding, Les Barker, Gary Hogg, Max Boyce, Bernard Wrigley, Bob Newhart and many other modern-day proclaimers continue the glorious monologue tradition...

index-5
Featuring a few names you wouldn't normally associate with comic verse - so enjoy Eric Idle's 'Wife-Swapping Party' or Denis Healey's 'Ode To Westminster'...

 vert

index-6
Read the gripping tale of 'White Willie' the heroic one-legged horse or gasp at Old Jeff, dragged from beneath his steam-roller and folded neatly before being put to bed!!!
index-7
Discover the fate of the 'Cabbage Rose', the good ship ' Glue-Pot' and the 'Whats-Her-Name'... and read, with awe, the tale of 'The Diagonal Steam-Trap' and the legend of 'The Million Tonne Tanker'.
index-5
Take a ride on 'The 11:69 Express', read the hair-curling 'Engineer's Tale' or enjoy the heart-warming story of 'Casey's Billy-Goat'.		 index-5
Have a few giggles with the lads of the Army, Navy, RAF and t'Home Guard at home and away or in war and peace.
index-10
A lighter look at some of our favourite sporting events, cricket, football, boxing etc... including the epic tale of John Christopher Brown's mountaineering battle against the villainous Reginald Hake for the love of the beautiful Mary Jane Smith (what a peach!).
index-5
Albert lives!!! Albert Ramsbottom, reincarnated in a host of new and hilarious situations.		 index-5
Turning in his grave?... I imagine the poor old bard must be known as 'Spinning Willy' on the other side!
index-10
Do you remember those black and white film shorts of the 1950s/60s with Cyril Fletcher, and others, warning of the hazards of 'Coughs and Sneezes' or 'Posting early for Christmas'... and, of course, poor little 'Gertie' who wouldn't wash her hands!
index-5
A prolific writer this fella 'Anon' so here's a selection of his more popular verse, 'Piddlin' Pete' and 'The Doggies Meeting' included.		 vert index-5
A selection of my own and other readers favourite childhood verse... including Robert Browning's 'The Pied-Piper of Hamlin'.
index-10
Go riding, riding, riding with 'Dick Turpentine' or enjoy 'The End of the Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe's cat. All the usual apologies will apply.
index-5
Visitors have been posting their own monologues and poetry on this site for quite a while, now. Here they are under one heading.		 vert index-5
Everybody seems to know at least one limerick that's guaranteed to reduce family and friends into fits of embarrassment.
index-10
Blood-curdling, heart-rending, hair-raising, tear-jerking, heroic... these should bring you back down to Earth with a soggy bump!
index-10
Just a few of my favourite sketches from old 78rpm records, radio and tape. One of my earliest childhood memories is 'The Lost Policeman' by Sandy Powell... then, years later, as teenagers, listening to Blaster Bates on a small, ultra-modern, portable reel-to-reel tape player.
 
div
Base
Top
 
Ramsbottoms
 
div
 
The New Forum
Pencil Portraits
Pedro Postcards
Amazon Store
Contact
 
div
 
LATEST ADDITIONS
 
Tom and Marilyn
by
Mary Druce
50 (Not Out)
by
Chris Mangham
Samson & Delilah
by
Roger Brocksom
The Bard of Armagh
by
Jimmy Rafferty
General Augustus
Moor O'Toole
by
Anon
The Saddler of Bawtry
by
Andrew Vasey
 
div
 
KindleKindle
Kindle, Wi-Fi,
6" E Ink Display
£89.00
 
Kindle
Kindle
 
div
nav-bot