Gorgeous George

[Peter Pedant]

I know George Galloway is wowing them in the US of A. I have to say I  thought his senate address was OK.

His nickname is Gorgeous George and he is definitely not the first to have this nickname - my mother used to call her Roman Catholic priest Gorgeous George - but obviously not to his face

Does anyone know which radio character was called this and in which program, ITMA or educating edward.

Did he have the catch phrase - I thank you......

[shaneystar]

There used to be a wrestler called Gorgeous George...and I'm sure it was Arthur Askey who had the catch phrase'I thank you'.
Also I have never heard of Educating Edward ...only Educating Archie.
There was of course ..Jimmy Edwards..in Whacko!!

[Peter Pedant]

thank you Shaney you're a star - I did conflate two or three people. I plead age - old age !

Any info on Educating Archie ?

My parents also had a nick name for someone else - Educated Edward - which I think was based on Archie....

and once you'd said it, I recollected Arthur my little brown jug Askey saying I thank you.....

oh, the Fifties - a lost and forgotten decade only to some !

[woofgang]

http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/other/archieandrews.htm

weird concept, a ventriloquist on radio

[sddsddean]

Rather than being a wrestler himself, wasn't Gorgeous George  Kendo Nagasaki's manager?

[Grunty]

Woofgang's site is complimentary about Brough, but my recollection of him on television is that he couldn't speak without moving his mouth.  That was how he had survived on radio.