Grandage elicits beautifully unforced comic performances from Ron Cook, whose pint-sized Pistol has a smack of the disreputable actor laddie, and from Matt Ryan, who captures the deliciously comic combination of quaint pedantry and self-conscious dignity in this professional Welshman Fluellen.
"The bed's not aired, we've none of your favourite marmalade and the laddie come to do the cupboards in the spare room has left the most fearful mess".
Shankly half opened it and said, "Aye, laddie, what do you want?
The message is very clear: there is no such thing as safe sex for a soldier overseas so, laddie, keep your mind on your pure young girlfriend at home and say no.
"I'm just an ordinary laddie.
Then the probe, which goes by the acronym Ladee (pronounced laddie), will take a death plunge into the rocky surface of the subject it is studying.
In the past, advertisers paid more attention to men in the so-called laddie demographic, ages 18 to 30, who are more likely to spend their disposable income on alcohol and cars.
Regrettably, the laddie jokes (violence, bodily fluids, sexual accessories) outnumber the video pyrotechnics.
Irsay, happy to have at his side the laddie Luck, a younger, more athletic, version of Manning, caused hurt feelings when he said the Colts' parting with Manning represented a shift in philosophy aimed at winning more Super Bowls.
Extended narrative, however cartoonishly antic, does not serve the principals well, and the low-fi-video visuals that make their TV show so entertaining are outnumbered by comic gross-outs and other laddie humor (bodily fluids, violence, sexual accessories).
Sinden was made CBE in 1979, but his "old actor laddie" public persona, exuding an air of fulsome ingratiation, made him a sitting target for Spitting Image, the television satire show, where his florid, fawning puppet yearned for further recognition.
