Comedy Court and Social, now, and the major announcement of the day is news of a wedding for what The Sun describes as the “third Chuckle brother”. In fact, there are four brothers – none of whose surname is technically Chuckle. There are brothers Barry Elliott and Paul Elliott, who are the Chuckle Brothers. And then there are their elder brothers Jimmy Elliott and Brian Elliott. They perform as The Patton Brothers. Jimmy and Paul also appeared in the Chuckle Brothers’ act, as No Slacking and Geroutofit respectively.
That being cleared up, we must offer congratulations to Jimmy, 85, who has married his fiancee Amy Phillips, 26. They met on Facebook. “Amy has been a fan of Chucklevision all her life,” says Jimmy, “and commented on something I posted. It just went from there.”
As for the ceremony itself, there do seem to have been a couple of notable no-shows. Bobby Dennis was there. Bernie Clifton was there (though the attendance of Oswald the ostrich is not specified). Brian Elliott – the other half of the Patton Brothers – was there. But the Chuckles were not. “Supposedly Barry was ill,” Amy’s dad tells the Sun. “That’s all I know.”
But is that all there is to know? You’d have expected them to do the “to me, to you” routine with the rings, at the very least, and the pointed failure to do so suggests we can’t rule out hearing more on this subject in due course.
