There Will Always Be An England, Music Hall Department

[chrishansenhome]

My favourite English comedian has to be Kenneth Williams. Not only an erudite autodidact, but a master of innuendo, the saucy laugh ("Ooooh, Matron!" he would giggle at Hattie Jacques), and the pun ("Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!").

I had never come across this video before. "Oh, what a beauty!" is an old music hall song that manages to be extremely smutty without actually ever using profanity or sexual language at all. It's all how you sings it, Matron...