Denis Mostyn Norden (born February 6, 1922 in Hackney, London) is an English comedy writer and television presenter. February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Hackney is the principal area of the London Borough of Hackney in East London. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... A television presenter is a British term for a person who introduces or hosts television programmes. ...

Norden is nowadays best known to television audiences for his two occasional ITV shows. Independent Television (generally known as ITV but also as ITV Network or Channel 3) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990...

• It'll be Alright on the Night, which consists of out-takes from film and television linked by witty comments and has run since 1977. Much of the material from the early episodes was used on Dick Clark's "Bloopers" specials which aired on NBC a few years later. A couple of mid-1980s editions featured several home video clips; these were soon dropped as such material was spun-off into the long-running You've Been Framed (1990-) as camcorders become more commonly owned.

• Denis Norden's Laughter File, which showcases spoof adverts, real foreign adverts, practical jokes, live television mistakes, and other various items, which, as he once put it, "tickled our fancies, just when they needed tickling". These items are virtually everything that is discovered when researching material for Alright on the Night that aren't out-takes, and thus cannot be shown on that show. They are collectively known as 'oddities'. This show has been running since 1991.

Aside from this success, he has had a long and distinguished career as a scriptwriter and radio and TV personality, frequently partnered by Frank Muir. Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Sony DV Handycam A camcorder is a portable electronic device for recording video images and audio onto an internal storage device. ... Youve Been Framed (or New Youve Been Framed) is the name of a British television show, produced by ITV Productions for ITV1 where viewers send in humorous home videos (often with somebody suffering pain, e. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... This list is poorly defined, permanently incomplete, or has become unverifiable or an indiscriminate list or repository of loosely associated topics. ... Frank Muir (5 February 1920 - 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. ...

Early life & career

Educated at the City of London School with Kingsley Amis, Norden "was considered to have a fine academic brain". The red-brick City of London School beside the River Thames. ... Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. ...

Upon leaving school he worked as a stagehand. He then managed a theatre at the age of 17 and organised variety shows. His writing career began in the RAF during World War II for troop shows, following which he wrote material for comedian Dick Bentley, before meeting Muir in 1947. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Theatrical_Technician. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits, especially on television. ... RAF is an three letter acronym for: Royal Air Force -- the Air Force of the United Kingdom (see also Air Ministry) Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) -- a German terror organisation Rigas Autobusu Fabrika -- a factory making buses in Riga, Latvia Rapid Action Force in India Računarski Fakultet RAF... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Dick Bentley was an Australian comedian and actor. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Their first joint venture was the radio show, Take It From Here, which they scripted from 1948 to 1959. They went on to write many successful radio and television scripts, including Whacko (1956-60) and three series of Faces of Jim (1961-63), both as vehicles for Jimmy Edwards. In 1964, their writing partnership broke up, as Muir moved into management with the BBC. Over the next several years, Norden, who had long had a fascination with Hollywood, wrote the scripts for several films, most notably Buona Sera Mrs Campbell. While no longer writing with Muir, they continued as something of a double act, and were regular participants in panel shows such as My Word! (1956-90) and My Music (1966-93), first on radio then TV. Norden also hosted an ITV nostalgia quiz, Looks Familiar. Take It From Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced tife) was a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1947 and 1958. ... Whack-O! was a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards. ... Faces of Jim was a black-and-white British comedy television series starring Jimmy Edwards, June Whitfield and Ronnie Barker, with each episode being an individual half-hour sitcom. ... For other people also known as Jimmy Edwards, see James Edwards. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... My Word! was a radio panel game which premiered on the BBC Home Service on January 1, 1957. ... My Music was a radio panel show which premiered on the BBC Home Service on January 3, 1967. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV but also as ITV Network or Channel 3) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990...

Retirement & legacy

He and his wife Avril have a son, Nick, an architect, and a daughter, Maggie, a radio presenter and lecturer at the London College of Fashion. An architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... A radio presenter is a broadcaster who hosts a radio show or a segment thereof. ... London College of Fashion frontage above Oxford Street The London College of Fashion is a member of the University of the Arts London It specialises in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in fashion and related industries. ...

He announced his retirement from his two ongoing ITV shows It'll be Alright on the Night and Denis Norden's Laughter File, on 21 April 2006. is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

A special show was recorded on 14 May 2006 as a 'farewell tour' to all his shows over the years, called All the Best from Denis Norden, which was shown on 2 January 2007. As the show's closing credits were shown, the studio audience arose to give Denis a standing ovation, and this was followed by Denis placing his trademark clipboard on his desk, which the camera then zoomed in on to as the credits ended. May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Trivia

Norden also has an unusual link to the James Bond movie series. In 1965, Norden wrote, narrated and starred in a short featurette jointly made by the Bond producers and The Ford Motor Company. The colour short, entitled "A Child's Guide To Blowing Up A Motor Car", went behind the scenes of an exploding car stunt being filmed for Thunderball. The story of the short is that Norden is taking a young relative on a day out to a movie set. He meets several stars and production team members, but not Sean Connery. Lost for many years, it is now available on the 'Ultimate Edition' DVD of Thunderball, as released in late 2006. Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Ford may mean a number of things: A ford is a river crossing. ... Thunderball refers to a James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and its subsequent cinematisation. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. ... Thunderball refers to a James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and its subsequent cinematisation. ...

See also

• List of British Jews

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External links

• Denis Norden at the Internet Movie Database