Joan Rivers - Donald McGill postcode - Cemetery Junction 2010 - Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006 - Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh - Fred Dibnah TV - Mark Williams TV - Miller’s Crossing 1990 - Samuel Johnson - Philip Treacy - Marvin Gaye et al - Lewis Carroll - Spitting Image TV - Peaky Blinders TV - Alexei Sayle TV - Ancient Aliens TV -
I worked in clubs. You passed the hat. The hat wouldn’t come back. Comedy Legends s1e3: Joan Rivers, Sky Arts 2019
Nurse delivering newborn baby to mother: What was the colour of the father’s hair?
Mother in bed: I don’t know. He kept his hat on. Donald McGill seaside postcard
Q) Why does Noddy wear a hat with a bell on it?
A) ’Cause he’s a cunt. Cemetery Junction 2010 starring Christian Cooke & Felicity Jones & Tom Hughes & Ricky Gervais & Jack Doolan & Emily Watson & Julia Davis & Albert Welling & Ralph Fiennes et al, directors Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, Snork on stage
In Fargo one may be jailed for wearing a hat while dancing, or even for wearing a hat to a function where dancing is taking place. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
Grab your coat, and get your hat,
Leave your worry on the doorstep
Just direct your feet
To the sunny side of the street … Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh, Sunny Side of the Street, song 1930
I like my oily cap. It has a smell all of its own. Fred Dibnah, The Fred Dibnah Story: Reformed Character, BBC 1996
Mercury poisoning sent them mad: mad as hatters in fact ... Industrialisation turned hat-making around. Steam power drove new machinery ... New equipment for each stage of the process. Mark Williams: Industrial Revelations s2e2: What to Wear? Discovery 2005
I want my hat. Yeah, I want my hat. What are you going to do with it? Miller’s Crossing 1990 starring Gabriel Byrne & Marcia Gay Harden & Albert Finney & John Turturro & Jon Polito & J E Freeman & Steve Buscemi & John McConnell & Mike Starr & Al Mancini & Olek Krupa & Michael Jeter et al, directors Coen brothers, Tommy
Nothing more foolish than a man chasing his hat. ibid.
As with my hat upon my head
I walked along the Strand,
I there did meet another man
With his hat in his hand. Samuel Johnson
There’s a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it’s like architecture or mathematics. Philip Treacy
By the look in your eye
I can tell you’re gonna cry
Is it over me?
If it is, save your tears
For I’m not worth it
You see
For I’m the type of boy who is always on the roam
Wherever I lay my hat that’s my home
I’m telling you that’s my home
You had romance
Did you break it by chance
Over me?
If it’s so, I’d like for you to know
That I’m not worth it
You see
For I’m the type of boy who is always on the roam
Wherever I lay my hat that’s my home
That’s my home. Marvin Gaye et al, song Wherever I Lay My Hat
‘Take off your hat,’ the King said to the Hatter.
‘It isn’t mine,’ said the Hatter.
‘Stolen!’ the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a memorandum of the fact.
‘I keep them to sell,’ the Hatter added as an explanation; ‘I’ve none of my own. I’m a hatter.’ Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Sorry, Miss Kendal, you can’t go in the enclosure – you are not wearing a silly hat. Spitting Image s6e3, Dimbleby and Felicity Kendal at Royal Ascot, ITV 1989
From where I’m from, a hat on the bed’s unlucky. Peaky Blinders s4e4, Mafia dude Changretta to Michael, BBC 2017
Reminds me of that marvellous Paul Young song, Wherever I Lay My Hat That’s Where My Hat Is. The All New Alexei Sayle Show from s2e5, BBC 1995
Shadowy figures appear in the night terrifying all who encounter them. They paralyse their prey. And according to some, they are not only frightening but deadly. Could dark entities known as the Shadow People be more than a product of the imagination? Ancient Aliens s18e8: The Shadow People
‘Shadow beings go far back into antiquity.’ ibid. Mike Ricksecker, A Complete Guide to Shadow People
An entity known as the Hatman … a curiously recognisable form. ibid.
‘Both the Men in Black and the Hatman are known for wearing a hat.’ ibid. comment