He was best known for his puppet characters including Dickie Knee, The Angel, and Doctor Ben Dover.
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00:00 What do you call a man with no arms and no legs sitting on your doorstep?
00:05 Matt. Matt. Matt.
00:07 Just as well we're not on air, eh?
00:09 Yeah.
00:11 Dickie, we are on air.
00:13 Do you like my new flaps?
00:15 Your new flaps are really looking up.
00:17 Look at that, my brand new flappers.
00:19 They look great too.
00:21 The guy that operated Dickie was Crystal, originally, our floor manager,
00:25 and then Mark McGann, and they spent most of the show lying prostrate in front of Darryl,
00:31 which is how a lot of us got into the business.
00:33 [laughter]
00:36 Darryl knows I do that joke, but basically he would have a little speaker on the floor
00:42 and as soon as he heard my voice he'd get Dickie up and waggle him about,
00:46 and it was only like a fraction of a second, but it seemed like it was instantaneous.
00:50 [silence]