unearths some literary gems.
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When people came to interview me I was often so fascinated with their jobs I'd interview them!
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Everyone was charming, unassuming and send-uppy to the point of irreverence.
["Send-uppy"!]
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[On honoring his obligation to refrain from changing Shakespeare's script]
Never did I introduce an "Ooh" or an "Aah."
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I ran around quacking like an eight-legged duck.
[This expression does not come up in Google, at a glance. The idea is that Howerd was in a panic of activity as he and his colleagues tried desperately to salvage a dysfunctional production. Doing the math, I'm intrigued by the idea that the more legs a duck has, the more impressively it quacks!]
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[As previously discussed, Howerd wanted his "oohs" and "aahs" written right into his scripts, once he had professional writers working for him. But don't send him a script that's only "oohs" and "aahs"!]
[Scripts sent unsolicited by members of the public] almost invariably consist of pages of "Ooh...Ah...Yes...Well...Not on your Nelly." People don't realise that "Ooh...Ah...Yes...Well...Not on your Nelly" is the one thing I can do. What I need is original material.
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[Bonus: Howerd was in a place called Shoeburyness for a while; and the first time he mentioned being "in Shoeburyness," I thought it might be a jocular way of saying "show business"!]
