Frank Muir (5 February 1920 - 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... January 2 is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Comedy is the use of humor in the performing arts. ...

Born and brought up in Kent, he spent part of his childhood in the E.10 district of London. In later years, whenever his dignified speech patterns caused listeners to assume that he had received a public-school education, Muir would demur: "I was educated in E.10, not Eton." Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ...

Frank Muir joined the Royal Air Force during World War II and became a photographic technician, being posted to Iceland. While there he became involved with the forces radio station. While serving in Iceland, he sustained a medical condition which required the surgical removal of one testicle: an incident which he later described in detail in his autobiography. Despite the loss, he later fathered two children. The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the...

Upon his return be began to write comedy for BBC Radio, soon forming a partnership with Denis Norden which was to last for most of his career. Muir and Norden became principal writers for Take It From Here, starring Jimmy Edwards. They created one of the most popular segments from the show, "The Glums". He and Norden continued to write for Edwa rds when he moved to television with the series Whack-O. BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. ... Denis Norden (born 1922) is a British comedy writer and television presenter. ... 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. ... Jimmy Edwards (23 March 1920 – 7 July 1988 was a British radio and television comedy actor, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as the headmaster Professor James Edwards in Whack-O. Born James Keith ONeill in Barnes, London, Edwards served in the Royal Air... Take It From Here was BBC radio comedy programme starring Jimmy Edwards, a moustached comedian; Dick Bentley, an Australian; and Joy Nicholls, later to replaced by June Whitfield. ... Whack-O was a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards. ...

The pair were also invited to appear on the newly-formed humorous literary radio quiz My Word!. A feature of the show was the final round, in which Muir and Norden would each tell a long-winded story inspired by a well-known phrase provided by the quizmaster and ending in a terrible pun on the phrase in question. My Word! was a radio panel game which premiered on the BBC Home Service on January 1, 1957. ...

Frank Muir was also a contestant on the My Word spinoff My Music (as was Norden). As a television personality, Muir's unofficial trademark was a crisply knotted bowtie. My Music was a radio panel show which premiered on the BBC Home Service on January 3, 1967. ...

He was well-known to televi sion audiences as a team captain on the long-running BBC2 series, Call My Bluff, and did voice-overs for advertisements, notably Cadbury's Fruit & Nut chocolate, and a coffee advert in which he coined the phrase impending doom, and the Unigate milk Humphreys. In 1954 he founded the amateur dramatic society "Thorpe players". He was a writer and presenter on many shows including the 1960s satire programmes, That Was The Week That Was and The Frost Report. BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and... Call My Bluff is a British game show between two teams of three contestants. ... Humphreys may refer to: People Humphreys, Andrew A. (1810-1883), U.S. Army officer and Union general Humphreys, Benjamin G. (1808-1882), U.S. politician and Confederate Army general Humphreys, Charles (1714-1786), U.S. miller, Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania Humphreys, Christmas (1901-1983), British High Court judge and founder... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 1960s, or The Sexy Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... That Was The Week That Was, also known as TW3, was a satirical television comedy program that aired on the BBC in 1962 and 1963. ... The Frost Report was a satirical television show hosted by Sir David Frost. ...

His pets, which prompted many an anecdote on My Word!, included Afghan Hounds and Burmese cats. The hounds were also the inspiration for a series of picture books about an accident-prone Afghan puppy called "What-a-Mess". Country of origin Afghanistan Classification Breed standards (external links) FCI, AKC, ANKC, CKC KC(UK), NZKC, UKC The Afghan Hound is a very old sighthound dog breed. ... The Burmese is a breed of domesticated cats descended from a specific cat, Wong Mau, who was found in Burma in 1930 by Dr. Joseph G. Thompson. ...

Other shows he was associated with include Take It From Here, Whacko! and Brothers in Law. 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. ...

In the 1960s Frank Muir was Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC and in 1969 joined London Weekend Television as Head of Enter tainment. His magnum opus, The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, was published in 1990.

He married in 1949 and had two children. His wife, Polly, died on 27 October 2004. 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1997, his autobiography, A Kentish Lad, was published. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External link

• The Official Frank Muir Tribute Page

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