The Three M's

A lot of it is the fact that he's so lanky. He had such great extensions and control over those ridiculous limbs. If you're not a hard one to to emulate, I don't know if anyone's tried to do it as well. But he was inspired by a guy called Max Wall, who was a musical and kind of panto entertainer guy in the 20s and 30s. So he married a woman called Marion and he's called Max and they had five children. They called the first Michael. And then they thought, Oh, wow, we've done the three M's thing. And so they went on to have four more children and called them Melvin Martin