This old interview with Saville on the sadly missed 'Off the Telly' site continues some lines that these days can only been read with a sick mind:
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“Ooo, Jimmy’s got too moral, it won’t work”. It only ran for 20 years! We made decency not only popular, but wildly successful.
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I swear to you, true story, I walked down into the audience, and they were going, “10, nine, eight,” and I was looking around and I saw this girl. I said, “Come here”. “Five, four,” I sat her down. “Three, two, one”. “Good evening ladies and gentlemen, it’s Clunk-Click, Bob’s your uncle … Now then [to the girl], what’s your name?” This was a girl who was very attractive...
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Well, you see, I’m not keen on kids. I’m a single fella, I’m not into kids at all. And they suddenly sussed this. So I’m not some yucky adult that talks to them … And of course, even though I’m not a kids’ person, very often they had to prise the bloody kids away from me with a crowbar! You know!
No doubt that Louis Theroux doc will have a more outings soon, with the audience observing every twitch.