Showing posts with label Carry On Films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carry On Films. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 April 2025

Ooh, don’t mind if I do

All rides at UK Universal theme park to be Carry On themed

Every single ride at the UK’s Universal theme park will be based on bawdy films laced with tortuous double entendres, it has emerged.

Construction plans for Europe’s first Universal theme park have revealed that the site in Bedford will be predominantly dedicated to rides based on saucy comedy movies shown on ITV2 every Bank Holiday weekend.

A Universal spokesperson said: “This park will be a celebration of the best of British filmmaking. And it doesn’t get any better than Barbara Windsor’s bra pinging off with a silly sound effect.

“Visitors can look forward to drop towers that descend to the tune of a suggestive slide whistle, and bumper cars that go ‘Ooh, don’t mind if I do’ in Kenneth Williams’ camp, reedy voice when they slam into each other.

“To create a truly immersive experience, every ride will be staffed by frumpy matrons and saucy nurses, and mascots will patrol the grounds dressed as Sid James to meet and greet the crowds. It promises to be a magical, unforgettable day out.

“If it’s a success then there’s always scope to expand. We’re already thinking of opening resorts based on other British franchises like Gonks Go Beat and On The Buses.”

Tom Booker from Croydon said: “I was hoping for punishingly bleak attractions inspired by Threads or A Taste of Honey, but I suppose this’ll have to do.”

The Daily Mash

Of course.

[The "real" story.]

Saturday, 15 March 2025

Beware...



...The Idas of March!

[L-r: Ida Barr, Ida Lupino, Ida Clough]


"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!"

Ides of March on Wikipedia

[In case you have a feeling of deja vu, dear reader, this has become a bit of a tradition - see here and here. Too good not to repeat, methinks...]

Saturday, 9 May 2015

A dirty sense of humour











"To be a comic woman, you have to put up with quite a bit of banter. But I didn't mind. I've got a dirty sense of humour and I never found those things really offensive."

"I used to be very extravagant. Once, because I was appearing on The Kenneth Williams Show I went to Harvey Nicks and bought two outfits for £600 - which was a fortune in those days - and then took myself to the Hyde Park Hotel for tea."

"I was once mistaken for Shirley MacLaine in a fish-and-chip shop off the Edgware Road."


The marvellous Joan Sims would have been 85 today.

Apparently: [she] felt that the Carry On films had cast a shadow over her career, but she enjoyed the fame they brought her and liked to recall a cab driver who spent an entire journey talking wistfully about other Carry On stars. As she got out and was walking to her door he called out, "Shame you're all dead, innit?"

Shame, indeed. Only Babs Windsor and Jim Dale are left (from the "core" team), I believe...




Irene Joan Marion Sims (9th May 1930 – 27th June 2001)

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Sydney Ruff-Diamond



Just time to mention - and shamefully there have't been a lot in the way of tributes in the British media - that today marks the centenary of the birth of the archetypal craggy-faced letch of the Carry On films, Mr Sid James! Here is a fab tribute documentary to the man...


Sid James (born Solomon Joel Cohen, 8th May 1913 - 26th April 1976)

Friday, 25 July 2008

Ooh Matron!



On the BBC website today they ask the question "Do Carry On films have a deeper meaning?".

Read the article

Well on this evidence I would say probably not!


Sunday, 1 June 2008

Do you mind if I smoke?



I was overjoyed to see the simply marvellous Fenella Fielding at the Bette Bourne event on Friday - madder than a box of frogs, but still exuding that sultry charm every time she spoke...

It was her delicious smoky voice that made Fenella such a camp icon, as well as her exotic looks, and who can forget her genius performance in Carry on Screaming?