Prince Edward flopped royally when he tried to be a stand-up comedian.
Telly star David Baddiel, who was at Cambridge with the Duke of Edinburgh, has told how he had a disaster on stage.
The Three Lions singer said that while he had made it into the famous Footlights troupe, Edward couldn’t cut it.
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Baddiel, 60, said: “I knew he wasn’t funny enough to get into Footlights as I’d seen him hosting a CULES [Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society] revue at a May ball, and none of his jokes were going well.
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“His response wasn’t to draw on some deep comic reserve, as you are supposed to in these circumstances – a bad night can happen to any of us – but instead to get what I would call tetchily regal.
“‘Bloody laugh, can’t you?’ and ‘Well, I think some of you might have thought that joke was funny at least!’ were some of the ways he imperiously failed to turn his compering shtick around.”
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In his book My Family, Baddiel told how the Footlights once performed in front of the late Queen and her sister Princess Margaret. He said Edward told him he had to call the monarch “Your Majesty” if she spoke to him.
Baddiel said: “I thought that this was ridiculous” but added, “I had no intention of breaking protocol, in case I was executed”.
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
