clutterbuck. jeremiah clutterbuck. aye. now, listen, jerry. jerry?on't mind, i i have a handle to my name. so sorry, mr buttercluck. clutterbuck, shuttlecock. i'll stand the whole book from thee! i was only saying mr cluckinghen, erm... my name is cattletruck, erm, chutterpluck, i'll. have no more of this. calm yourself. 0h! he would generate laughter that was extraordinary. my father would be weeping with laughter. and my mother too. for a kid, it was, it wasjust overwhelming, erm... ..and just the joy of it. and i think that, that does stay with you. and i've worked with comics a lot, and i think it stems from that, thatjust enjoyment of seeing a full house rock with laughter. seeing what it's like to get a reaction on a stage, did it, did that, were you tempted by performance to work on the stage yourself? oh, i was desperate. i mean, the other big influence was going to stratford—on—avon, we lived 30 miles from stratford. i used to cycle to stratford with friends or on my own, cycle to stratford in an evening and cycle back at midnight, having se

clutterbuck. jeremiah clutterbuck. aye. now, listen, jerry. jerry?e of this. calm yourself. 0h! he would generate laughter that was extraordinary. my father would be weeping with laughter. and my mother too. for a kid, it was, it wasjust overwhelming, erm... ..and just the joy of it. and i think that, that does stay with you. and i've worked with comics a lot, and i think it stems from that, thatjust enjoyment of seeing a full house rock with laughter. seeing what it's like to get a reaction on a stage, did it, did that, were you tempted by performance to work on the stage yourself? oh, i was desperate. i mean, the other big influence was going to stratford—on—avon, we lived 30 miles from stratford. i used to cycle to stratford with friends or on my own, cycle to stratford in an evening and cycle back at midnight, having seen the great plays and the great actors of the time, 0livier or gielgud or michael redgrave or all the stalwarts of the shakespeare memorial theatre, as it was then. you studied law at oxford, didn't you? yeah. why didn't you pursu