Sunday, 22 February 2015

Kenneth Williams: Happy Birthday Kenny!

While waiting at Singapore Airport in May 1983, a fellow traveler tells Kenneth Willliams; 'You are brilliant!'

Came the reply...

'Tell me something I don't know.'

x

• The Unforgettable Kenneth Williams, ITV1, 12.40pm.

Update: TUKW has not been stored on ITVplayer for some reason, but you can watch it on YouTube here. A great little doc on the magnificent Kenneth's joy and pain. See also Stop Messin' About.

Fagburn's on a bit of a Kenneth Williams trip this year, reading him and about him rescued me. x

PS See also Kenneth Williams: Reputations. On the tortured queen and auto-didact, 'in search of his father....'

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