Fun Fact: Peter Hawkins was the UK's Mel Blanc. In 1950 he voiced Mr. Turnip, Alexander Scrope and Petrio in Whirlygig, which ran until 1956. Two years later he created Bill and Ben's language and voiced them. Two years after that he voiced Billy Bean in the titular series. His characters in The Woodentops are still unknown. He voiced every character in Captain Pugwash, much like Eric Thompson on The Magic Roundabout and Ken Barrie on the first series of Postman Pat. From 1963-1968 he voiced the Daleks and Cybermen. Like on Captain Pugwash he voiced every character in The Adventures of Sir Prancelot. He originated the role of Zippy in 1972, before Roy Skelton took over the following year, the most prolific in that role and the Daleks. In 1979 his first cartoon role was the narrator of The Perishers. He would go on to narrate SuperTed with Third Doctor Jon Pertwee, who voiced the Spotty Man. He voiced Jimbo the Jet-Set in the titular series. He voiced the characters of Stopit and Tidyup, narrated by Sir Terry Wogan. He recorded a voice track for Gromit for use in A Grand Day Out but Nick Park said it was already difficult to animate Peter Sallis' voice. Despite this he is still credited with providing his vocals.
@@ianmcclavinNick Park's comment suggests to me that Grommet did have a "voice" but that just doing Wallace's was hard enough having 2 speaking characters throughout would have been a challenge too far.
Oh two stokers of the time all shedly waterlode as it where too soon it in the early mordy as to effit and blindy all smoochit and stiffy so as not to be and do it for the kidly winklode all innosetting uncorrupted ft t ft out the backdrove so it say we'll done it and tubery what lode and medle on the chesty rorcus for celebratit and scuffle all the food and stuffy? Deep joy.
Brilliant!!! My favourite was the Woodentops. Mummy Woodentop had a real Dior couture skirt if I remember. I wonder if Stanley would have had such a riveting conversation with the Teletubbies?
Oh, please. Afterlubrious is all one word. Think of the misinformation such a basic error will create for uninformed and subsequent generations of linguists? My reply is written the early mordy which is two words as you have correctly written. Deep joy.
My intro to Hawkins but Unwin I learned of when I first saw The Secret Service. Stateside counterparts were the stand-up comedians "Professor" Irwin Corey and Norm Crosby (note his hearing aids), but Corey's motive was to confuse. I'm convinced Unwin doesn't try (at least not very hard) to do that but challenges you to come along for the ride. To see and hear him do that without seeming effort is a gift.
There was another American doing this before. Clifford 'Swivel Tongue' Nazarro. His career stretched from 1930 to 1949 and included movies and many appearances on tv including the Jack Benny show. I think Mr Unwin perfected the art though.
The real genius of this is that it could be sub-titled. Both types of gibberish are actually making complete sense - just slightly out of reach of our cognitive faculties. Understanding drifts in and out as we listen. It’s an incredibly small needle to thread but here are two people who have independently developed the ability to do it in totally different ways. I bet they each had a deep understanding of and admiration for the others’ craft.
What I meant was, this was far too complicated (going round and round/rotatey film-fold) to try and understand at this time of day, (time on the face/face meaning clock-face). I was speaking 'Gobbledegook' like Professor Stanley Unwin here. This is my first language. Give it a try 😂🏆
Bill and Ben are in the pub. Bill says to Ben "Ooh flob a dop liddy bop flob a dop bob dop!" So Ben says to Bill "C'mon Bill I think I'd better take you home, your'e absolutely pissed!"
Who in their right mind would take up a pen and paper and object to this? This just goes to show how little some people have to do in their everyday lives. I was one of those small children who used to tune in daily to watch the antics of Bill & Ben and I was heartbroken when they took it off. Programmes like this taught us to use our imagination as all inquisitive children tend to do. Was Teletubbies any more coherent? Just think, that Teletubbies generation will now be 25+ and old enough to vote.
The distance of time makes the popularity of both 'Professor' Stanley Unwin and Bill and Ben baffling. TV viewers in the 1950s-60s in the UK didn't know any better, of course. At the same time as children were being exposed to Bill and Ben (and I was one of them) American kids were already getting The Jetsons and The Flintstones
The Flintstones had scripts that were rubbish. I seldom enjoyed TV cartoons, especially those with laughter tracks. Top Cat annoyed me immensely as a child with the faked laughs fading in and out. Now Gibberish is much more complex and better suited to children who have a better grasp of it than most adults. 😉
Peter Hawkins voice of aliens and Thunderbirds, David Graham has gone to shore up all those other voices (21/9/24). Just give us a minute David and we'll catch up with you... Seems like - THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO...
Priceless. Of zero value today, inasmuch as mental effort is involved to appreciate, whereas a swift thumb on the smartphone offers an alternative mindless gratification.
Stanley is buried with his wife Frances. Their gravestone bears the epitaph, "Reunitey in the heavenly-bode - Deep Joy!".
Lovelode!
Unwin and Hawkins are amazing! Godspeed gents!
Stanley unwin deep joy máximo joyloads
Coddily- stiddlie- Copple- a- wads ….Maximo-skiffle-o-pods lol 😂😅😅. paul
This is fabulous. I dont know how the two men didnt collapse into hysterics doing that "interview".
Deep joy for the eyebolds and earlodes! Both linguistic legends.
I'm a bit embarrassed. I actually caught myself nodding to most of this conversation!
Don't worry, they'll soon be round with the meds trolley😉
As a young child in the 50s I loved these programmes,
I did then too, and as a young child in my '70s I still do.
Fun Fact: Peter Hawkins was the UK's Mel Blanc. In 1950 he voiced Mr. Turnip, Alexander Scrope and Petrio in Whirlygig, which ran until 1956. Two years later he created Bill and Ben's language and voiced them. Two years after that he voiced Billy Bean in the titular series. His characters in The Woodentops are still unknown. He voiced every character in Captain Pugwash, much like Eric Thompson on The Magic Roundabout and Ken Barrie on the first series of Postman Pat. From 1963-1968 he voiced the Daleks and Cybermen. Like on Captain Pugwash he voiced every character in The Adventures of Sir Prancelot. He originated the role of Zippy in 1972, before Roy Skelton took over the following year, the most prolific in that role and the Daleks. In 1979 his first cartoon role was the narrator of The Perishers. He would go on to narrate SuperTed with Third Doctor Jon Pertwee, who voiced the Spotty Man. He voiced Jimbo the Jet-Set in the titular series. He voiced the characters of Stopit and Tidyup, narrated by Sir Terry Wogan. He recorded a voice track for Gromit for use in A Grand Day Out but Nick Park said it was already difficult to animate Peter Sallis' voice. Despite this he is still credited with providing his vocals.
Stoppit and Tidyup was EPIC!
Grommet did not speak in any of nick parks films
@@dameceliamolestrangler3379He's talking about voicing Wallace, I imagine!
@@ianmcclavinNick Park's comment suggests to me that Grommet did have a "voice" but that just doing Wallace's was hard enough having 2 speaking characters throughout would have been a challenge too far.
@@ianmcclavin was that before he became the current Environment Secretary and bought the ukelele?
I'm sitting here thinking, why the heck am I listening to this, but it is giving me deep joy I must admillipede....
Deep, deep joy. Deserves 1m views.
They make more sense than all the Government spokes-persons put together! Deep Joy!
I’d love to have had Stanley deliver my eulogy, hilarious
Classic Unwin, and with Bil & Ben. Brilliant concept. Takes me back to being a kid.
sheer magnificence, if only we could see the people in the production box during the recording, I expect they were in hysterics
Glorious!
Absolute deep joy.
A perfect nostalgic match up. A brilliant retrieval. Thanks Pickles Norman.
Love this one.
I understood this when I was five.
And it's been downhill ever since, eh?
More of this is what’s needed these days.
Deep joy.
Totally effing BRILLIANT
Oh two stokers of the time all shedly waterlode as it where too soon it in the early mordy as to effit and blindy all smoochit and stiffy so as not to be and do it for the kidly winklode all innosetting uncorrupted ft t ft out the backdrove so it say we'll done it and tubery what lode and medle on the chesty rorcus for celebratit and scuffle all the food and stuffy? Deep joy.
Superb.
Wonderful
Absolute classic clip.
Incredibilly madnesses yep gladnesses!
Brilliant!!! My favourite was the Woodentops. Mummy Woodentop had a real Dior couture skirt if I remember. I wonder if Stanley would have had such a riveting conversation with the Teletubbies?
No doubt, they speak the same language
If only.
This would have been gibberish heaven,, and no doubt provided deep joy.
I am only 52 and I found this hilarious! Brilliant off-the-wall wierdness well before altcom hit the scene. Love it!
Don’t forget that the Goon Show started in 1951 and was the precursor to Not Only But Also and TWTWTW etc long before Python.
Brilliant, in a wode.
Brilliant!
Loved in the 'early mordy and the after lubrious' hysterical
Oh, please. Afterlubrious is all one word. Think of the misinformation such a basic error will create for uninformed and subsequent generations of linguists? My reply is written the early mordy which is two words as you have correctly written. Deep joy.
DEEP JOY!
Amazing they broke the mold with these two chaps ha ha
videocurios , No-one around comes Even close to those master's of the vernacular.
brilliant !
Falollop! Deep joy!
Probably the greatest interview in TV history.
Deep joy folly good Splendi voice load 😁
My intro to Hawkins but Unwin I learned of when I first saw The Secret Service. Stateside counterparts were the stand-up comedians "Professor" Irwin Corey and Norm Crosby (note his hearing aids), but Corey's motive was to confuse. I'm convinced Unwin doesn't try (at least not very hard) to do that but challenges you to come along for the ride. To see and hear him do that without seeming effort is a gift.
There was another American doing this before. Clifford 'Swivel Tongue' Nazarro. His career stretched from 1930 to 1949 and included movies and many appearances on tv including the Jack Benny show.
I think Mr Unwin perfected the art though.
Why can't our modern politicians talk so clearly? astute and to the point without any woffle!! Masterly.
Ήταν απίστευτο.❤️
And almost a decade before Monty Python ... well done the Beeb!
Most senselow beebinseenin maky in all historibo Goodlbbyeload...........
Let’s hear it for Bill and Ben and Weed……I loved them .
Flubberdup!
This is one of the great interviews in history, easily equal to and possibly even better than Frost/Nixon!
fundamole of deep joy, ta.
o deep joy
Lol.. never seen this before.. its amazing, and i actually understand!!.. 😅
LOL. I love it.
G R E A T !!!
Fundymold deep joy 😂
Yep - Understood every word !!!
It's called talent. You don't get that on television these days.
Wonderfully stuffly
The real genius of this is that it could be sub-titled. Both types of gibberish are actually making complete sense - just slightly out of reach of our cognitive faculties. Understanding drifts in and out as we listen. It’s an incredibly small needle to thread but here are two people who have independently developed the ability to do it in totally different ways. I bet they each had a deep understanding of and admiration for the others’ craft.
You realise that this constitutes history - a fixed moment in space and time.
Bill, Ben, Pete and Stan -- could be another Beatleyobsingsters!!
Hilarious
Everyone forgets Weeeed!!
It's on in the afternubrious
Genius.
I’m crying with laughter
Makes me very very proud to be British…
In all fairness, this is far too rotatey flim-fold for this time on the face.
What do you mean?
What I meant was, this was far too complicated (going round and round/rotatey film-fold) to try and understand at this time of day, (time on the face/face meaning clock-face). I was speaking 'Gobbledegook' like Professor Stanley Unwin here. This is my first language. Give it a try 😂🏆
nigelcarren
Ha ah
See I
Nice to see what Stanley did before he became a priest and secret agent
Bill and Ben are in the pub. Bill says to Ben "Ooh flob a dop liddy bop flob a dop bob dop!" So Ben says to Bill "C'mon Bill I think I'd better take you home, your'e absolutely pissed!"
Makes perfect sense to me, easier to understand than the House of Commons.
It was a keggyflade inti view mold.
😂 excellent
Superb! Also, Peter Hawkins has to me, a passing resemblance to the Hungarian footballer Ferenc Puskas!
Does anyone else detect a hint of a Norweigian accent in Hawkins's 'Ben' voice?
BRILLIANTFOLDYOLDYMARVYFABALOTALOON!
Unimitigated mayhem lol!
Didn't he used to be on the Braden Beat.)
The female voice - is that Valerie Singleton?
Every Englishwoman of a certain class sounded like Valerie Singleton in those days.
Yes, it is Valerie.
Loved let’s go to San Francisco
Who in their right mind would take up a pen and paper and object to this? This just goes to show how little some people have to do in their everyday lives.
I was one of those small children who used to tune in daily to watch the antics of Bill & Ben and I was heartbroken when they took it off. Programmes like this taught us to use our imagination as all inquisitive children tend to do. Was Teletubbies any more coherent? Just think, that Teletubbies generation will now be 25+ and old enough to vote.
This explains Angela Rayner's enunciation.
hahahaha love it😂 that andy pandy music always awakens the childhood joy that's almost lost in me
Can anyone help me who was the man at the start please
Robert Robinson
lololololiddwle-poddle-cott-a-La-wob lolol. 😂😂😂😅 paul
Folly! Shlobalop!
Robert Robinson 😊
I grew up with Watch With Mother. I liked Bill and Ben. Couldn't stand Andy Pandy.
I thought I was the only one who couldn’t stand Andy Pandy. Thank you for ending my misery as the big seven oh looms.
What's the programme, anyone?
Points of View, which Robert Robinson introduced for years.
@@grahamturner97 oh thanks, I remember that programme!
Behold! Without equal. Unparalleled British humour. Completely bonkers, even in 60’s TV.
Flobby Dobby Makeymost not now anymold. Deep Folly.
Completely bonkers!
However, hilarious
The distance of time makes the popularity of both 'Professor' Stanley Unwin and Bill and Ben baffling. TV viewers in the 1950s-60s in the UK didn't know any better, of course. At the same time as children were being exposed to Bill and Ben (and I was one of them) American kids were already getting The Jetsons and The Flintstones
Perhaps they were popular because people had a sense of humour back then.
The Flintstones had scripts that were rubbish. I seldom enjoyed TV cartoons, especially those with laughter tracks. Top Cat annoyed me immensely as a child with the faked laughs fading in and out.
Now Gibberish is much more complex and better suited to children who have a better grasp of it than most adults. 😉
@@john_g_harris Yep. I remember humour! Of course, I was born at a very early age.
Monty Python "borrowed" some of this....•°•°•
Ha Ha - along with the Goons we were priviledged not to take life too seriously, 'today's entertainers' take note!
Peter Hawkins voice of aliens and Thunderbirds, David Graham has gone to shore up all those other voices (21/9/24). Just give us a minute David and we'll catch up with you... Seems like - THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO...
Every bit as intelligible as the average modern podcast, and less hateful. Deep joy.
Blobadob!
That’s exactly how politicians speak today.
They most certainly do not. This is pure Gibberish rather than verbal effluent.
This is priceless or plicelebold if you will
Priceless. Of zero value today, inasmuch as mental effort is involved to appreciate, whereas a swift thumb on the smartphone offers an alternative mindless gratification.
John Cleese boxing a girl
Who needs mind altering drugs when you have this standard of entertainment?
Goodly Byeload .
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