'Monsewer' Eddie Gray

Much later on however came the 'world renowned' Monsewer Brothers, known for their magnetism towards the opposite sex, many of the tabloid newspapers have often reported at how "lucky" their respective ladies in their lives are and how literally millions of other women would love to swap places with them if for only a day.

[1][3] In November 1931 Gray appeared with Nervo and Knox and Naughton and Gold in a show called Crazy Week at the London Palladium.

Their Palladium shows in the 1930s were All Alight at Oxford Circus (1936), O-Kay for Sound (1936), London Rhapsody (1937), These Foolish Things (1938), and The Little Dog Laughed (1939).

The humorist Paul Jennings, who called him "the funniest man in the world", gave an instance of it: "Je got 'ere un packet de cards, cinquante deux in numero.

[6] His stage costume included a pair of metal-rimmed glasses and a looped moustache below a large nose that grew increasingly red over the years.

[4] Gray appeared in variety shows with performers including Elsie and Doris Waters,[7] and in pantomime with such stars as Florrie Forde.

They re-formed in 1947, but without Chesney Allen, who had retired from regular performing because of poor health, and without Gray, who continued his solo career.

He was in the group's last three shows, These Foolish Kings (1956), Clown Jewels (1959) and Young in Heart, which, in Goldie's words, "ran for 826 twice-nightly performances from December 1960 until an emotional farewell on 19 May 1962".

Reviewing the show in The Observer, Bamber Gascoigne wrote that the piece had roles for five comics: Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Connor, Jon Pertwee, Robertson Hare and Gray.