Mike King

[The Enclosure]

Well known local after dinner speaker Mike King has sadly passed away at the age of 83.

[Bosscat]

RIP Mike

I've been to a few sportsmans dinners where he emcee'd down the years ...

[Clarets4me]

RIP Mike ... I've been to a few sportsmans dinners where he emcee'd down the years ...

In his pomp, it was hard to find one where he wasn't the MC !!
RIP, Sir !

[conyoviejo]

RIP Mike

[ClaretTony]

Has he taken Mrs Gandhi’s fruit cake with him?

[Longsidelenny1882]

That one was is best tony rip mike utc

[Bfc]

RIP Mike. A big Burnley fan, who knew his football.
I saw him at a lot of Dinners and as many times he'd told the Fruit Cake joke, I couldn't help but laugh like it was the first time I'd heard it. Whenever an auction was held as the last event of a Dinner, some guests had usually had a skinfull and got loud. Mike mainly kept his calm by calling sssshhhhh ssssshhhh. If that didn't quieten them, he would humiliate them with his one liners. Thanks for the memories Mike.

[MT03ALG]

RIP Mike. An excellent MC.

[Rumpelstiltskin]

RIP Mike. An excellent MC.

The Best...R.I.P Mike King

[Duffer_]

I had never heard of him before but with a name like Mike King (hope it wasn't his stage name), could he have been anything but an MC?

I think those that know it should share his Fruit Cake joke as a tribute.

[Fenwick]

RIP Mike. A big Burnley fan, who knew his football.
I saw him at a lot of Dinners and as many times he'd told the Fruit Cake joke, I couldn't help but laugh like it was the first time I'd heard it. Whenever an auction was held as the last event of a Dinner, some guests had usually had a skinfull and got loud. Mike mainly kept his calm by calling sssshhhhh ssssshhhh. If that didn't quieten them, he would humiliate them with his one liners. Thanks for the memories Mike.

God help anyone who got up to go to the bogs during his turn. Just not worth it !

[TVC15]

By a distance the best MC I’ve ever seen at the many sportsman’s dinners I have attended.
Most of the time he was funnier than the booked comedian or after dinner speaker.

[Herts Clarets]

By a distance the best MC I’ve ever seen at the many sportsman’s dinners I have attended.
Most of the time he was funnier than the booked comedian or after dinner speaker.

Without question when the speaker was ex Liverpool striker David Johnson, a speaker who could send a glass eye to sleep. Another King classic- thanks to the smiling bar staff. They're only smiling because they've got their hands in the till.

[ClaretTony]

I had never heard of him before but with a name like Mike King (hope it wasn't his stage name), could he have been anything but an MC?

I think those that know it should share his Fruit Cake joke as a tribute.

It was his real name but I’ve found something out about him tonight that I didn’t know. He was a copper.

[ClaretTony]

I had never heard of him before but with a name like Mike King (hope it wasn't his stage name), could he have been anything but an MC?

I think those that know it should share his Fruit Cake joke as a tribute.

Announcing the raffle prize winners. Third & fourth prizes were extravagant but second prize was just a fruitcake. Winner of fruitcake complained it was a poor prize but was told it was a special fruitcake because Mrs Gandhi had baked it. “F*** Mrs Gandhi,” he said only to be told that was the first prize.

It was funny when Kingy told it.

[bfcjg]

Best MC I have ever witnessed, a naturally funny sharp witted man RIP.

[claretgimmer]

Did many of our junior football club dinners in the valley, never let us down, even made the real raffle a fun occasion, RIP Mike you were a pleasure.
PS. His Tesco joke went down as well as his fruit cake one