Norman Wisdom died yesterday. This YouTube clip I'm posting by way of my tribute

[Joe Chi Minh]

to him, and shows him "taking a parade". The first part is a bit of nonsense about surveying in the vicinity of the army camp, and not so funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw3ZExDxySs

If it doesn't work, go to the YouTube site and look for the clip, Norman on Parade Square.

[Joe Chi Minh]

1. I was really disappointed with the other clips - I didn't see all of them -

because he's a lot funnier than that. He'd have to be.

He had the Queen in stitches at his investiture ceremony when he received his knighthood, and pretended to trip over as he moved away. He was doing his same brilliant pratfalls in his late eighties. The strange thing about this clip is that the humour's really in the comical steps the soldiers are put through on parade, not his usual, personal clowning around.