Noel Coward MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN (1955)

Phenominal. He's so funny and it's just brilliant to watch AND listen to!

How on EARTH does the accompanist stay with him!?? Genius.

wot no tea !!!!!

He looks the spitting image of Keith Floyd here

@vernonpage Here here. People are FAR too touchy these days. This song is hardly a BNP anthem. I doubt if many of them could understand it in any case.

its so fast. makes me nervous!

Fair enough, nightw4. It is clearly a song of cheerful English colonialism and probably would attract some controversy today. At least when knocking other cultures, the English were pretty self-effacing as well. Listen to Flanders & Swann's "A Song of Patriotic Prejudice" or some of Gilbert and Sullivan for songs in a similar vein.

And rap gets it's start...

Noël Coward is just incomparable and that's not an opinion, it's a fact. A genius in so many ways, and also a satirist genius :-)

He was brilliant and the song is a classic. I'd like to see the performers of today let that roll off their tongues. Only a select few could pull it off the way he did.