Best quote from Kenneth Williams EVER
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Uploaded by MLG101 on Aug 21, 2008
"It's frightening to think with modern medicine and all the technique available to them...they can't really help you..In the old days, you know, you were better off because nowadays, they are all specialists.Everyone's becoming better and better at less and less ....Eventually someone's going to be superb....at nothing"
This was taken from an interview on the Aspel & Co show in 1987 - a year before his suicide in April 1988.
His words from 20 yrs ago ring SO true today.
After 40 yrs of him suffering with stomach, intestinal complaints, the doctors still were not able to help him at all and he spent every day in chronic and severe pain.
His words here vent his frustration and such a modern view today
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Very poignant to watch this and hear the laughter when you know that he was in so much physical pain and he was venting his frustration with the medical profession.
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@sslaxx I know. I know.....but its so cruel to speak of the dead in this way - he can't defend himself......poor thing.
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@Thesaeed23 It's called homophobia.
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@sulijoo Such as Stan Laurel's womanising?
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reminds me of paul o grady!
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Brilliant from the man himself..Legend! I didn't think he actually spoke that way..lol..Go on Kennefh..Give em hell my good man..yeehaa!
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Sort of sums up the education sytem. Everyones a winner!!
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Sort of sums up the education sytem.
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Rik Myall copied him.
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@s4vann4r0ck5 mmm...i did this and then thought why would you scrutinise a video like this?
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You can see that he absolutely meant it. He was a true comic- and a true tragedian- at the same time in his usual demeanour. It wasn't just to get a cheap laugh. He could sense that the modern world seemed to be becoming less and less about being a 'renaissance man' (perhaps like him) and more and more about the marketing of the modern world where being really good at something very small is more profitable.
Picnicl 7 months ago 29
A specialist knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows absolutely everything about absolutely nothing. A generalist knows less and less about more and more, until he knows absolutely nothing about absolutely everything.
Who actually originated this quote would require some research, but it certainly goes back quite a while. As with most good quotes it's been repeated and passed down through many well-known people.
MagiMysteryTour 6 months ago 6