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During the shows in which Ernie's execrable plays were shown, a catch phrase for Ernie was developed.

This was, " The play what I wrote ", which also was used commonly elsewhere.

Guest stars were conned into taking part in these plays and made to utter such grammatical monstrosities as when Glenda Jackson ( at the time a noted Shakesperian actress ) had to say, " All men are fools and what makes them so is to have beauty, like what I have got ", to the obvious smug satisfaction of the words ' supposed author.