Bob Monkhouse
Bob Monkhouse Archive is the notable work associated with Bob Monkhouse, a comedian, actor, television presenter, and writer who built a career across multiple disciplines in British entertainment.
Monkhouse was born on 1 June 1928 in Beckenham and received his education at Dulwich Prep and Senior School before continuing at Dulwich College. From those early years he went on to work simultaneously in several professional capacities: as a comedian, as an actor in both film and television, as a television presenter, and as a writer and screenwriter. The range of roles he occupied across his working life was considerable, and the Bob Monkhouse Archive stands as a named work connected to that output.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his work. Monkhouse died on 29 December 2003 in Eggington, having been born seventy-five years earlier in a different corner of England. The Bob Monkhouse Archive remains the single titled work the facts attach to his name.
Quotes by Bob Monkhouse
Bob Monkhouse's insights on:
Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can’t fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
Personally, I don’t think there’s intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
My wife said, ‘Can my mother come down for the weekend?’ So I said, ‘Why?’ And she said, ‘Well, she’s been up on the roof two weeks already.’
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.
