His father said, "He's feeling to see if there is any meat on it. And the little boy said, "Daddy what's he doing?" And his father told him. Listen, listen, are you listening? Right.įather and son, the boy would be 8 or 9, he may be 10, we don't know, who cares anyway? His father took him to a cattle show on Saturday afternoon where the farmers were buying the bulls and cows, mostly bulls, when all of a sudden the little boy saw a farmer go up to a bull and the farmer started feeling the bull all along the back, he was feeling it, all down and all round, feeling all over. So I said to myself, I'll find out exactly what the idea is so I said, "What's the idea of wearing a knife at the top of the stocking?" She said, "That's to defend my honour." I said, "What, a little tiny knife like that?" I said, "If you were in Brighton, you'd want a set of carvers!"
Listen, I was in Spain four years ago and in Spain all the girls wear little knives in the top of their stockings. Which would you like, the blue book or the white book? You like both don't you? This is where we all get pinched! I don't care. Now listen! You can't expect too much from the white book. Why did the chicken cross the road? For some foul reason.Īnd when she was good, she was very, very good,Īnd when she was bad she was very, very popular.
What, no? You got to go further back than that. To test you out, why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side. And by that you can gather I got two sorts of stories. I got two books, a white book and a blue book.
But these rumours only helped Miller's reputation as daring and naughty, and led to increased box office sales. It was said that Miller was banned by the BBC twice, first in the 1930s and then in the 1950s. You’re the sort of people that get me a bad name!" He would then say, "I know exactly what you are saying to yourself, you’re wrong, I know what you’re saying. Or he would leave the last word out for the audience to finish and blamed them if they laughed. The jokes in the ‘blue book’ were the naughty ones. In one of his acts he would take from his pocket two books, one a white book and the other a blue book, explaining to the audience that these are joke books and asking them which the audience would like the crowd almost always chose the blue book. However he never swore or told a dirty joke on stage. Miller's material needed approval by those bodies but by using innuendo, leaving out the last word or words of a joke, he could get away with much risqué and saucy material. Those responsible for censorship were the Lord Chamberlain in London and local watch committees in the provinces. The laws on censorship were strict during Miller's lifetime.
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