old comedians

[heididog]

Years ago (and I mean a long time) there was a foreign (English speaking- ish) comedian, could have been German or Austrian who used to mispronounce words deliberately. Please, does anyone, or their grandparents, know his name? He was very funny.

[squarebear]

You don't mean Stanley Unwin do you? He used to have a weird language all of his own.

[Braniac10]

I think you may be thinking of Victor Borge. He was also a very good pianist. One of his funniest sketches was about punctuation.

[vehelpfulguy]

It sounds like Victor Borge to me also.

http://www.victorborge.com/

[vehelpfulguy]

Clip here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-buiOOwXatM

[DottyH]

Victor Borge was on the Royal variety loads of times and always wore one of those shiny dinner suits, he was a foreign cross between Les dawson and Tommy Cooper.

[captainkirk]

As Brainiac says, he was a brilliant pianist, certainly of concert ability. One of his sketches involved him playing a piece of music where he supposedly had the music upside down and the orchestra were in stitches at him, not to mention the audience. He also did a sketch about inflation, where any word that involved a number, would have the number increased by one, e.g. "any two for eleveniss?", i.e. anyone for tennis. He said he had a relative in the United States Air Fiveses (forces) who had a bruise on his five head. I have some of his videos. A very funny man of brilliant musical ability.