 He claims that his mother, a rag-and-bone woman, said that after he was born the sun began to shine and that a swallow began to sing.Mentions of his father suggest Compo was born illegitimate from a brief liaison; Foggy states of Compo's father that "he was away before you got a good look at him... in fact, he was away before your mother got a good look at him".Having rigged Compo up to look like a kamikaze pilot, and impressed with the likeness, Clegg jokingly suggests Compo's father to have been Japanese, to which Compo replies "Japanese?