Nice to see yer, to see yer nice
Bruce Forsyth:
Brucie once revealed his catchiest phrase of all had its origins in his boyhood trips to watch Arsenal.
He would sit near the players’ tunnel and one day as the players came out, he shouted: “Nice to see yer”, and it became a regular exchange. Much later, the BBC told him he needed a catchphrase.
As he was racking his brains, a make-up girl walked past and said: “Nice to see you again, Mr Forsyth.” The memories flooded back. Paul Daniels: Paul FAN QUIP Brucie
Before he was a TV star Paul was in one club in Bradford when he coined his catchphrase, thanks to a rowdy crowd who were hard to please. For once, a heckler proved useful because the phrase was Paul’s spontaneous putdown to the troublemaker. And it stuck. GENIUS Homer apes a line by Jimmy Finlayson in Laurel & Hardy