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Cardew the Cad? How could you hate Cardew the Cad?

I confess, the first time I saw him in starring in a film was a few weeks ago, when there was one on BBC2 or London Live* early one Saturday morning. He played someone who had never left school, or something like that. It was pretty bad anyway, though it might have been enjoyable if you were in the mood. Before that, I'd seen him in small parts in other comedies (a traffic policeman in Oh What a Whopper!, with Adam Faith, where he appeared in one scene, one shot really. Otherwise, I just knew him from a  stack of Radio Fun Annuals that my Uncle had.

Viz used to do some wonderful parodies of the Radio Fun style; the characters always looked as though they were dancing, with pointed feet and elbows, and the Viz artist captured this style wonderfully. The only example of this I can find on nine is a strip about Mervyn King looking for toilet paper, so I think I'd get grief off Jonjel (at least) if I reproduced it here. It's good though.

*London Live, if you don't know it, shows things like an extremely stiff 50s Sherlock Holmes (that has nothing to do with the original stories) and all the Ealing films you've never heard of. It might not even be called London Live, now that I think of it.