Highland Humour
I was working late in the office tonight when I got a call from my colleague Gillian McNeil. She's developing a television programme about Highland humour and asked if she could pick my brains.
"It wont take long," she assured me. Hmmm.
So we got into a discussion about how Highlanders have been portayed in film, television and cartoon strips over the years. From Whisky Galore, through and Gregor Fisher's infamous Outer Hebrides Broadcasting Corporation. It was easy to think of things that has poked fun at Highland life, but we had more trouble coming up with names of actual Highlanders who had entered the comedy world, although I did mention Colin Campbell's famous sketches.
Then we started clutching at straws. Was Sir Harry Lauder's variety persona meant to be a caricature of a Highlander? Was Private Fraser ("we're all doomed") in Dad's Army supposed to be a dour Hebridean?
All suggestions welcome.
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