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Willie Rushton was sent to Shrewsbury public school where became friends with Christopher Booker, Paul Foot, and Richard Ingrams, who was born the day after him. A keen cartoonist, Rushton’s drawings appeared in the school magazine, The Salopian, and in also in a parody of it called the Wallopian, which he produced with Ingrams and Booker.
50 Years Without A Clue (as Willie Rushton) Self (Archive Material) 1997. Willie's Wake - Celebration Of The Talents Of Willie Rushton (as Willie Rushton) Self (Archive Material) 1996. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Series 28 (as Willie Rushton) View episodes. E1 - Episode One.
William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine. He is honoured by a Comic Heritage blue plaque at Mornington Crescent tube station, a reference to the game Mornington Crescent on the BBC radio comedy show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A ...
17 de sept. de 2018 · Sadly missing from the 'complete' Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball DVD (no idea as to why). I must have taped this back in 1989 and I'm glad I hung on to it e...
Hace 3 días · Actor, Writer, Presenter. Willie Rushton - he once said he was Willie on the BBC, William on ITV - is generally identified with the 'satire boom' of the early 1960s as a regular on That Was the Week That Was (BBC, 1962-63) and a co-founder of Private Eye magazine. But he is fondly remembered as an exponent of a more genial, specifically English tradition, of the surreal and ribald protruding ...
4 de feb. de 2017 · An hour of the dry, mad, hilarious wit of William Rushton
William George Rushton (1937-1996) One of the architects of the 1960s satire boom, Willie Rushton co-founded the magazine Private Eye, producing its first cartoons and its layout from his mother’s home in Kensington.He achieved fame as part of the 1962 BBC series, That Was the Week That Was, alongside the likes of David Frost and as a regular panelist on the BBC Radio 4 game show, I’m ...
