London Coliseum". Royal Variety Performance Archive. Royal Variety Charity . Retrieved 2 March 2019. D'Silva, Beverley (10 December 2000). "The way we live now: Mind your language". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 July 2018. Her theatre roles included Mrs. Prentice in What the Butler Saw at the Royal Court Theatre in 1975, and Mrs. Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1982. Her role of Aunt Dahlia was removed from Andrew Lloyd Webber's flop musical Jeeves (1975) before opening night. [7]

a b c d e f g Grose, Francis (2012). 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. tebbo. ISBN 978-1-4861-4841-7 naff". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press . Retrieved 5 March 2019. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Stevens, Christopher (2010). Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams. John Murray. p.206. ISBN 978-1-84854-195-5.I was twenty-three when I created Campion," said Allingham in a 1959 press interview. "I gave him the age of twenty-seven because I believed it important for a hero to be older than I was at the time. In those days I thought twenty seven was a very advanced age. Krutnik, Frank; Neale, Steve (2006). Popular Film and Television Comedy. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-94686-0.

Once Upon a Time". Film & TV Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 9 January 2014. In the last episode of Series 4 in 1968 (which turned out to be the last ever episode of the show, due to Horne's sudden death) Julian and Sandy are revealed, very incongruously, to be "married" to a pair of "dolly palones" named Julie and Sandra. Also, Julian's full name is revealed to be Julian Mungo Lestrange.In 1960 Horne also appeared on Top Town, Meet Yourself, Laugh Line, Live a Borrowed Life and Ace High. [82] In 1990, in Issue #35 of Grant Morrison's run of Doom Patrol, the character Danny the Street is introduced; they speak English heavily flavoured with Polari, with "bona to vada" ("good to see [you]") being their favourite way to greet friends.

Robb, Simon (4 February 2017). "Priests delivered a service in gay slang and the church weren't happy". Metro . Retrieved 9 May 2018. The same year, the English-language localisation of the Japanese video game Dragon Quest Builders 2 included a character called Jules, who spoke in Polari with non-standard capitalisation. [33] [34] The old actor laddies were to be called J. Behemoth Cadogan and T. Hamilton Grosvenor. [84] Took later wrote that he and Feldman named the chorus boys after Julian Slade and Sandy Wilson, the composers of the popular 1950s musicals Salad Days and The Boyfriend. [85] Obituary of Maurice Denham Actor Whose Wide Range of Vocal Expression First Became Famous in ITMA and Much Binding in the Marsh". The Daily Telegraph. London. 26 July 2002. p.29.

In the Doctor Who serial Carnival of Monsters from 1973, Vorg, a showman, believing the Doctor also to be a showman, attempts to converse with him in Polari. The Doctor says he does not understand him. [24] In 2005, to mark the 40th anniversary of the show, the BBC published a boxed set containing all episodes, on 35 CDs, with an accompanying 3-hour, 3-disc set "Round The Horne: The Complete and Utter History", written and narrated by Took: Round the Horne: The Complete Radio Archive (Audio CD). BBC Audiobooks. 2005. ISBN 978-0-5635-2749-7. Flood, Rebecca (4 February 2017). "Church expresses 'huge regret' after Cambridge LGBT commemoration service held in gay slang language". The Independent . Retrieved 9 May 2018.