Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball, comedy double act, were surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
The duo met in the early 1960s while working as welders in Oldham, Lancashire. They started out as singers working in the pubs and clubs of Greater Manchester, but switched to comedy after being told comics earned an extra £3 a night.
Their first television appearance was in 1974 on the variety show, The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. A later performance on Bruce Forsyth's Big Night, led to ITV offering them their own television series, The Cannon and Ball Show, in July 1979.
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