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Article: Profile: Michael Parkinson: Auntie's uncle chat
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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KENNETH Williams waspishly recorded him as a "North Country nit"
in his diaries, and if you want to watch an outpouring of honest
emotions and confessional complex humanity, you'd be better off going
to the pub.
Yet Michael Parkinson remains the king of the British chat show,
one of those mystifying institutions - like panto or cheese and onion
crisps - that leave foreigners shaking their heads in disbelief.
A relatively new extension of the Parky persona is his sporadic
offscreen swipes at young pretenders to his crown, the parlous State
of Television Today, and those who underestimate his interviewing
skills. Last week he managed the hat-trick by grouching against
celebrities who turn ...