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Dorian Crook, uncontroversial Air Traffic Controller, acclaimed Comedian and a Trans-European aviator, graduated with a BA in Fine Arts towards the end of the last century, but has never had a solo exhibition, until now. This is your chance to enter his misspent teenage years of note-taking, underlining, sandwich-eating and hangar-entering. The life of a …
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Jim’s mate Dorian Crook would come on stage wearing a tweed suit and a cravat and tell one-liners. On every punchline, the audience would shout, ‘Fuck off, Toff!’ and Dorian would reply, ‘Why, thank you.’ A year after that, I went to the Edinburgh Festival to see my mate Dorian ‘The Toff’ Crook perform in …
“Dorian Crook was (and still is) a man from another age. The late fifties, I would say. The clothes he wore, the car he drove – even the jokes he told – could have come straight out of a Terry Thomas film. By day he was an air traffic controller, by night he was an …
WE’RE S-P-O-T-T-I-N-G. WE’RE SPOTTING: another song the Pet Shop Boys should have made, but can be forgiven for overlooking. No, ‘plane spotting’ never was and never will be fashionable. It’s only now, decades after I fell under its spell, that I can dare to share with you some of the strange experiences that my early …
Most pilots learn to fly simply to annoy Air Traffic Controllers. We asked our favourite ATCO, Dorian Crook, for the top 8 ways to keep these coffee-sucking control freaks furious. 1. Calling yourself “THE Bluebird 342”. No, you’re just “Bluebird 342”. You’re not The Dude. It makes you sound like a Hospital Radio DJ. So …
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I was in a very quiet country pub one night wondering how they make a living. A poster said “Friday night: Dave Wilson” Thinking there was a band, I went along on Friday. Turned out that Dave Wilson was the bloke drinking in there that night. From Joker Face by Steve Best
Edinburgh Fringe Festival show 1993 at the Gilded Balloon, with Matt Lucas as Sir Bernard Chumley.