I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

In the early 1970s he appeared on BBC Radio in Mostly Monkhouse with Josephine Tewson and David Jason. The format of the interviews varied between "true" chat and analysis of comedy to scripted routines in which Monkhouse would willingly play the role of the guest's stooge as he did with Bob Hope.

Robert Alan 'Bob' Monkhouse OBE (1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003) was an English entertainer.