Max Wall (1941)

No titles. Commentator introduces that popular comedian of broadcasting and variety fame, Max Wall. Max Wall (looking very young) enters set dressed to look like a living room or drawing room, prancing about and singing how he has a smile to take him on his way. He realises the (off screen) orchestra have stopped playing and, saying he won t bother turns to walk off. Voices call him back. He begins his routine by making a pun on his surname Wall. He then does impersonations of Edmund Everett Horton and a cocker spaniel (by putting on a hat with earflaps undone and making his eyelids droop and his tongue loll out it looks very funny ). He next tells a convoluted story about a bee that is swallowed by a donkey. Max says The bee went to sleep for two hours and when he woke up, the donkey had gone He then sings a song in a North Country accent. It concerns Arnold who is a bit of a comic and tells jokes and stories to cheer people up. Max pulls faces as he sings. There is a verse