Friday, January 22, 2010

Comediana -trivia about comedians 1

The University of Chard offers the post of Reader in History of Comedy to the first person to respond with Sid James' middle name, which is most unexpected.

4 comments:

Jonathan Calder said...

Wikipedia (2010) says his real name was Solomon Joel Cohen.

David said...

Clearly, Jonathan deserves the aforesaid Readership for the right answer but I got the question wrong. The question should have been, "In Hancock's Half Hour, Hancock's middle name is Aloysius. What is Sid James' ?"

Jonathan Calder said...

"Whenever the English think they have found an answer to The Irish Question, the Irish change the Question."

Simon McGrath said...

Glad to see you are blogging again