{"id":1698,"date":"2008-11-16T16:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T16:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/songs-of-praise\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T23:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T22:31:02","slug":"songs-of-praise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/index.php\/songs-of-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs of Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1690\" src=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"330\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise1.jpg 444w, https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise1-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Episode shown 4th September 2005, from Blackpool.<br \/>\nCannon and Ball were appearing at the Blackpool Grand in their <a href=\"\/index.php\/summer-2005-legends-of-comedy\/\">2005 Summer Season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Aled Jones, the guests were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cannon and Ball<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Shelton speaking on Blackpools piers<\/li>\n<li>Barbara Thompson\u00a0of Blackpool Pleasure Beach<\/li>\n<li>Len Cunliffe\u00a0from local bus project<\/li>\n<li>Mica Paris, singing<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Osmond, appearing at the Grand Theatre that summer<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Armfield, former professional footballer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They were briefly interviewed and asked about how long they had been coming to Blackpool, and the relationship between faith and comedy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1691\" src=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise4.jpg 440w, https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1692\" src=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"330\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise3.jpg 444w, https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise3-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Aled knocks on dressing room door)<\/p>\n<p>Bobby: Come in<\/p>\n<p>Tommy: Hello.<\/p>\n<p>Aled: Only me.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy: Hiya pal, how are you doing? How you mate?<\/p>\n<p>Bobby: How are you, Tom?<\/p>\n<p>Aled: I\u2019m alright, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>Bobby: How are you, Aled? Alright. Sit down, mate.<\/p>\n<p>Aled: How\u2019s the show going?<\/p>\n<p>Bobby: Fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy: It&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby: How are you, mate?<\/p>\n<p>Aled: Yeah, good. How many years have you been doing summer seasons now in Blackpool?<\/p>\n<p>Bobby: Well, we&#8217;ve been together 41 years. First summer season we did was 80<\/p>\n<p>Tommy: 1980. So we&#8217;ve been coming back since 1980.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1693 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"330\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise5.jpg 444w, https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise5-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aled: Would you say your act\u2019s changed at all?<\/p>\n<p>Tommy: No, I think people think it&#8217;s strange really, because they seem to think because you&#8217;re Christian lads that you suddenly have become religious. And it&#8217;s nothing to do with religion.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby: We&#8217;re not religious at all.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy: We&#8217;re not religious at all. It&#8217;s nothing to do with it. Religion has a lot to be blamed for what goes on in the world. So no, it&#8217;s nothing to do with that.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby: And we&#8217;ve never been blue us, me and Tom<\/p>\n<p>Tommy: We&#8217;ve never been blue anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby: We&#8217;ve always done sketches, so it&#8217;s it&#8217;s the act what we do, but it&#8217;s not changed at all in that respect now.<\/p>\n<p>Aled: Do you think comedy and faith goes hand in hand?<\/p>\n<p>Bobby: Well, yes, they do. It&#8217;s just the British conception that they don&#8217;t, because the British conception is to be Christian is very reverent and do good. It&#8217;s not. To be a Christian is having good fun and it&#8217;s fantastic. I go to churches, me and him go to churches where they&#8217;re having good fun, man, and they&#8217;re alive, and enjoying Christ, you know. So no, I don&#8217;t. I think comedy and Christianity do go together. I&#8217;m not talking blue comedy, but I&#8217;m talking about family fun. Question is, if you see a Christian walking along (looking miserable)\u00a0 it\u2019s telling really because if you&#8217;re a Christian, you believe in what God says within the Bible, it says we&#8217;ve got eternal life. Wow, how happy can you get?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1694\" src=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"330\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise2.jpg 444w, https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise2-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1695\" src=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"330\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise6.jpg 444w, https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise6-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1696\" src=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"330\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise8.jpg 444w, https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise8-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1697\" src=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise7.jpg 444w, https:\/\/comedykings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/songsofpraise7-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode shown 4th September 2005, from Blackpool. 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