Claude's mummikins was indeed posh and had a Rolls Royce and fur coats, but his daddikins was shown to be a street vendor of hot dogs. However, we see a different father driving the Rolls Royce. Very strange.
Claude first appeared in Cheeky Weekly issue 3, dated 05 November 1977, and featured in 106 issues.
The scriptwriter wasn't averse to recycling posh jokes, either.
| Character | Total Issues | First Appearance | Final Appearance |
| Posh Claude | 106 | 05-Nov-1977 | 02-Feb-1980 |
| Element | Number of Appearances |
| Saturday | 28 |
| Wednesday | 18 |
| Friday | 15 |
| Tuesday | 15 |
| Thursday | 14 |
| Sunday | 13 |
| Monday | 11 |
| Sunday evening | 4 |
| What a Cheek | 3 |
| Boxing Day | 2 |
| Cheeky's Week | 2 |
| Interval | 2 |
| Happy leap year | 1 |
| Suddenly | 1 |
| Page | Number of Appearances |
| 12 | 15 |
| 2 | 13 |
| 30 | 12 |
| 31 | 12 |
| 10 | 7 |
| 19 | 7 |
| 1 | 6 |
| 15 | 6 |
| 26 | 6 |
| 20 | 5 |
| 21 | 5 |
| 7 | 4 |
| 18 | 4 |
| 23 | 4 |
| 4 | 3 |
| 6 | 3 |
| 9 | 3 |
| 28 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 |
| 8 | 2 |
| 22 | 2 |
| 11 | 1 |
| 13 | 1 |
| 17 | 1 |
| 25 | 1 |
| 29 | 1 |
The earlier Posh Claude appearances certainly suggested he had an affluent background - with the trappings of such visually depicted on several occasions (the Rolls, etc).
ReplyDeleteLater however (mainly after Cheeky Weekly had been sucked into Whoopee) the joke changed to reveal that this was all affectation on Claude's part. His family were actually shouty working class caricatures with a big scabby flea-ridden mongrel.
My favourite Cheeky joke about Posh Claude: "They're so posh in their house, all their cups have handles..."