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Frank Carson RIP – a life in photos and Tiswas

by | 23rd, February 2012

FRANK Carson RIP. You were the funniest thing to come out of Belfast since the man who dubbed Gerry Adams’ voice on the BBC. “It’s the way I tell ’em,” and “It’s a cracker!” Those were your catchphrases. Said Carson’s friend Eddie McIlwaine: “He met the present Pope (Benedict XVI) and the Pope said ‘Did you ever meet Elvis Presley?’ Frank said ‘No, I have not, but it won’t be long now’.”

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Comedian Frank Carson (c) after receiving the Zantac 75 consolation prize for the celebrity diet most likely to trigger indigestion, during the launch of the Zantac 75 Acid Test Plan in London. Frank Bruno (r) received the golden stomach award for a good diet and Lesley Joseph (l) was second



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