But because back in 1979 she did her level best to tempt then radio producer and Not the Nine O'Clock News creator John Lloyd to abandon his subversive comedy ambitions and join her choreographed backing group of acceptably witty "boys".
He also won amateur contests with his impersonations and was named "Wittiest Boy" in his yearbook.
I sort of hate it when something is so almost perfect but actually utterly ruined, the last page of your gripping thriller having been secretly ripped out by a witty 'friend', a boy soprano's voice deciding to choose that one second to crack, during a beloved's funeral, and start to funnel-gurgle like a belching tramp steamer.
Witty books about a boy with attention-deficit disorder.
Fall Out Boy This witty emo band has a hit with a big, rousing break-up song, "Sugar, We're Goin' Down".
Offering some respite from fluffy, furry and feathered characters are two titles from author-illustrators – Ed Vere's bright and bold Bedtime for Monsters, and David Mackintosh's Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School, a witty tale of a boy who shows that you do not have to be like all the others to make friends.
AF Harrold's Fizzlebert Stump and the Girl Who Lifted Quite Heavy Things is the most recent title in a witty series about a boy who from a travelling circus who's own job is to put his head in the lion's mouth until he finds other delights – including the library.
Channel 4's Top Boy was, bizarrely, witty.
The discovery was Douglas Booth as Boy George: moving, witty, he also got the singer's wheezy enunciation down pat; all that, plus cheekbones that Boy George would have killed for.
An engagingly witty story, it offers ready boy-appeal - though girls, too, will appreciate its sharp stance on gender stereotyping.
