https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/08/benny_hill-300x300.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 14 June 2021 21:30 (three years ago) link
https://televisionheaven.co.uk/assets/sez_les_004-1584277477.jpg
― calzino, Monday, 14 June 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link
https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/160596b/925c5a86/wedding-of-les-dawson-and-tracey-roper-at-lytham-st-annes-britain-jul-1989-shutterstock-editorial-160596b.jpg
― calzino, Monday, 14 June 2021 22:27 (three years ago) link
https://i2-prod.southportvisiter.co.uk/incoming/article10580879.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200c/LESDENNIS.jpg
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 14 June 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/5894146a/d2c07b4e/the-end-of-television-programme-opportunity-knocks-presenter-hughie-green-with-some-of-the-stars-who-gained-success-on-the-tv-talent-show-peters-lee-tony-holland-neil-martin-bernie-flint-duane-family-millican-nesbitt-freddie-parrot-face-shutterstock-editorial-5894146a.jpg
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 14 June 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
https://televisionheaven.co.uk/assets/look_mike_yarwood_003.jpg
the forensically bad impressionist
― calzino, Monday, 14 June 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
"Millican & Nesbitt are a British vocal duo, comprising Alan Millican and Tom Nesbitt." What, they're still alive!?!?! GTF!
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1wYixwjlvOw/WQRIdX39exI/AAAAAAAACW4/d54wjJKekHM3dtv-nPrqPejlZJqe6xkNgCLcB/s1600/XXX-328689.jpg
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 14 June 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/9131195a/e0ac7d56/ventriloquist-roger-de-courcey-right-and-nookie-bear-winners-of-the-tv-talent-show-new-faces-box-762-805061711-a-jpg-shutterstock-editorial-9131195a.jpg
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 14 June 2021 22:50 (three years ago) link
xpbig collars ... big cohonies! They remind of a time when park bench alcoholics still dressed in suits!
― calzino, Monday, 14 June 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
I was going through an interesting google image search wormhole related to this thread that led me to pics of Jayne Mansfield hanging out in the Batley Frontier club.
― calzino, Monday, 14 June 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/616JM5ZNiuL._AC_.jpg
― soref, Monday, 14 June 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/0C-BIccykzQUYaYed4BSzZUfZK4RC6Dj1BvGQZXlSCRvFxOL3i8KB1If619MA999aJPYtGaIHLEP28szJsktMg1ohndz2-zVB5Mf2xZvi88b1d1QEQ
― soref, Monday, 14 June 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
https://archivetvmusings.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/paul-84-03.jpg
Paul Daniels Christmas special where he attempts to teach Robert Maxwell the art of making a million quid disappear, such hubris from the novice.
― calzino, Monday, 14 June 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/-N1n_KMdGJS6905sdfDV_P_gMYc=/fit-in/600x624/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5676311-1399644403-7077.jpeg.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 14 June 2021 23:36 (three years ago) link
it's comforting that some of these guys are still around, and embracing new technology
you can get a personalised video message from Freddie "Parrot-Face" Davies for £30 on Cameo : https://www.cameo.com/funnybones?qid=1623712897
The Bachelors have been doing performances via Zoom during lockdown
https://i.imgur.com/wAtXnfp.jpg
The Bachelors' website has a huge archive of photos of them with pretty much every light-entertainment person you can think of http://www.thebachelors.co.uk/index.htm
― soref, Monday, 14 June 2021 23:42 (three years ago) link
http://www.tvcream.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/1980.jpg
― calzino, Monday, 14 June 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/A1WGAX/jimmy-clitheroe-and-danny-ross-A1WGAX.jpg
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/english-comedian-jimmy-clitheroe-dressed-as-a-school-boy-balancing-on-picture-id481560067?s=2048x2048
― soref, Monday, 14 June 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
https://worstmoviesevermade.com/wp-content/media/2014/07/wheeltappers-shunters_crop.jpg
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 14 June 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
the search results for 'the clitheroe kid' on getty images features a picture of Ian Brady halfway through https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/the-clitheroe-kid
― soref, Monday, 14 June 2021 23:55 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.discogs.com%2FJimmy-Edwards-Jimmy-Edwards-At-The-Top-Of-The-Pubs%2Frelease%2F5726720&psig=AOvVaw0SQ_1zrGTLAAVByoYyX7SH&ust=1623831503086000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCJjKtfGZmfECFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 08:19 (three years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/s6df7OgLhOIsMYcBptuFWrVOBPg=/fit-in/600x586/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5726720-1432645463-8038.jpeg.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 08:20 (three years ago) link
I'm guessing that's not the Joe Henderson who recorded for Blue Note - but I wish it was!
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 08:21 (three years ago) link
That Batchelors site is amazing mix of period detail, such as People queued around the block in London to see 'The Bachelors Show' causing Traffic Jams in Victoria. the Bachelors did a 4 Month Season at The Victoria Theatre in London when 'The Black and White Minstral Show' was taken off due to a Labour Government ruling that the price of an existing product could not be increased.Was trying to work out when they last had a hit record… 67/68?
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 08:21 (three years ago) link
Leapy Lee looks like a hoot.
― chap, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 08:23 (three years ago) link
lol was about to post Joe Henderson eh?
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 08:25 (three years ago) link
relevant twitter account
The divine Diana Dors, 'Please Sir's Carol Hawkins and Liz Gebhardt, and Olive from 'On The Buses'. pic.twitter.com/OTmZW91Gn4— Who's Lionel With Today? (@WhoLionel) September 14, 2018
― soref, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 08:56 (three years ago) link
A Freddie Mercury impersonator,Kerry Katona, Brain May/Jim Baines off Crossroads and Big Heather from Eastenders. pic.twitter.com/ArKYjr5iJR— Who's Lionel With Today? (@WhoLionel) February 17, 2019
Remembering the laughs with Prince Philip and Dickie Davies! pic.twitter.com/qPe7yrXbJe— Who's Lionel With Today? (@WhoLionel) April 9, 2021
― soref, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 09:08 (three years ago) link
Yes, Lionel Blair is still alive.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 09:10 (three years ago) link
dickie davies, too
― soref, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 09:13 (three years ago) link
Maybe one for the 'Horrible 70s stars of BBC light entertainment album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do' thread?
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71h-Z7GmU7L._AC_SX425_.jpg
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 09:23 (three years ago) link
Brain May
― Neil S, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 09:24 (three years ago) link
Dear Danny, Pet, Lennie Bennett...
https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTE3MjQyNjIz.jpg?width=640
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:04 (three years ago) link
the best thread
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:12 (three years ago) link
Misread that as 'remembering the laughs with Philip K Dick'.
― chap, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:20 (three years ago) link
it's comforting that some of these guys are still around
A case in point...
https://img.discogs.com/z0niBEpvmWlN4ZGOm0F3rCVf3A0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8848330-1516000229-2131.jpeg.jpg
72 of his greatest hits? Are we sure that's enough?
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:23 (three years ago) link
Apparently the Joe Henderson on that album is this guy.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:25 (three years ago) link
Pretty sure I posted one of his albums on the WRONG DUDE thread.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:29 (three years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/65scBdC3SDA/sddefault.jpg
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/images-a.jpimedia.uk/imagefetch/http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/webimage/Prestige.Item.1.88975723!image/image.jpg?crop=982:524,smart&width=990
going slightly offtopic here, a global megastar like Louis Armstrong at the Batley Variety Club seems like an unusual event considering the town is in such decay now. The flash wideboy owner of the club offered Dean Martin the small fortune at the time of £45 000 to play there as well and his agent responded he wouldn't get out of bed for a piss for that pittance!
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:36 (three years ago) link
There's a 2021 release by DJ Herzbeat feat. Roger Whittaker on Spotify. I made it through 35sec, so you don't have to.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:40 (three years ago) link
What if I really want to?
― Full Kit Starmer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:42 (three years ago) link
I like Roger Whittaker.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:45 (three years ago) link
Oh, go on then. Don't say I didn't warn you.
xp (I like a bit of Roger too!)
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/J3crbMR/Capture.jpg
dick emery on a chopper
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:48 (three years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/kX9Bhsx/Capture2.jpg
jon pertwee looking well balearic
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:50 (three years ago) link
https://motorbikewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/geomil.gif
^ from george and mildred - someone needs to do a study on the role of the sidecar in british comedy
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:54 (three years ago) link
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/79/590x/secondary/2173515.jpg
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 12:25 (three years ago) link
https://i2-prod.chroniclelive.co.uk/incoming/article13936984.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/DMR_NEC_040717rodney_01.jpg
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
love some old football grounds action
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 13:13 (three years ago) link
St James's Park looks so small!
― Tim, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 13:50 (three years ago) link
This was back when women were alien space creatures that didn't exist. They were the other. It's disappointing that Jimmy Saville's answer to the question of "What I Want in a Wife" wasn't more creepy. People will probably laugh at us in thirty years.
Sidney Shipton is a man after my own heart. "She should be reasonably attractive and intelligent, but not more intelligent than me". I can get behind that. He seems to have been one of those quasi-celebrities who might have been familiar to people who read the newspapers in 1975, but not otherwise.
When they asked Ian McKellen what he looked for in a wife I'm curious as to whether McKellen made a pact with the interviewer to go along with the charade, or whether he went along because he felt he had to.
Oh, this was covered on this very website in 2017. It's from Cosmopolitan:What I Want In A Wife article from Cosmopolitan (April 1972) - least vile man on this list?
There was a third panel:https://emmapeelpants.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/wife3.jpg
Sheila Ravenscroft was indeed shorter than John Peel.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 24 June 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
The Rod Hull and friends shoot couldn’t have been 91 as UK Gladiators only started in 92
(Really important correction)
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 24 June 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
"she doesn't exist" is barely going along with the charade, though.
― soref, Saturday, 25 June 2022 11:20 (two years ago) link
The Rod Hull and friends shoot couldn’t have been 91 as UK Gladiators only started in 92(Really important correction)― Master of Treacle, Friday, 24 June 2022 23:00 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 24 June 2022 23:00 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
looks like the Rod Hull/Scorpio Turkey photoshoot is from 1 December 1992, the other pictures with Faith Brown, Ronnie Corbett etc are a different photoshoot from 20 November 1991
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-rod-hull-and-emu-seen-here-atttacking-gladiator-scorpio-during-british-82136624.html
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-rod-hull-and-emu-seen-here-attacking-ronnie-corbett-as-left-to-right-82137706.html
― soref, Saturday, 25 June 2022 11:36 (two years ago) link
If only Immanuel Velikovsky was still alive. He would come up with a theory that the 1991 British Turkey Christmas photoshoot was actually the same photoshoot as the 1992 British Turkey Christmas photoshoot, and that our current dating of UK Gladiators was incorrect. And that the year 1990 did not happen. And that Not with a Bang and Lazarus and Dingwall were in fact the same television programme.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 25 June 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
Mr Pastry Pop A Part Target Game
https://i.imgur.com/ZANPHRc.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 9 July 2022 21:52 (two years ago) link
You could hold up an old style barbers with that replica shooter there...
― Mark G, Saturday, 9 July 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
I don't know how anyone could bring themselves to point a gun at Mr Pastry's poor hapless face
― soref, Saturday, 9 July 2022 21:58 (two years ago) link
https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/gavin-campbell-gives-cleo-rocos-a-wheelie-wobble-test-in-london-at-a-photocall-for-the-television-programme-thats-life-2775949a
https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/preview/2775949a/daef6fea/Shutterstock_2775949a.jpg
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:09 (one year ago) link
a lost world for real
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:20 (one year ago) link
that's life
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:26 (one year ago) link
Before I saw the link text I was wracking my brain trying to remember who Gavin Campbell was
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:43 (one year ago) link
Plainly a very talented man.
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:49 (one year ago) link
the lost world of British light entertainment still lives on via Jess Conard's twitter account
https://i.imgur.com/jHMIy10.png
― soref, Sunday, 3 September 2023 10:34 (one year ago) link
Was going to say he's missed out "Diddy" David Hamilton but maybe "Diddy" David Hamilton doesn't have a twitter account.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 September 2023 10:41 (one year ago) link
don't think David's 1974 book David Hamilton's Beauty Tips for Women has been posted yet
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/K4sAAOSwECRg-UZT/s-l400.jpg
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UZQAAOSw0c1g-UZV/s-l400.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 3 September 2023 10:59 (one year ago) link
Errrrrr.....
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 September 2023 11:04 (one year ago) link
Jimmy Tarbuck remembering people he's outlived
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Khr4ovwoSGiOh_TxnCjSnA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD02NzU-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2023-08/f2cf5ec0-3ddc-11ee-8ff7-c894c83eada2
https://assets-jpcust.jwpsrv.com/thumbnails/8qplhim8-720.jpg
https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/jimmy-85f3.png?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=480%2C262
https://assets-jpcust.jwpsrv.com/thumbnails/m7sj7bl7-720.jpg
https://videos.metro.co.uk/pix/met/2017/09/12/13/4431314E00000578-0-image-a-8_1505221125693.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 30 March 2024 13:55 (five months ago) link
but maybe "Diddy" David Hamilton doesn't have a twitter account.
imagine him signing up for twitter this week and getting all excited when he looks at the trending topics and then disappointed when he clicks through
― soref, Saturday, 30 March 2024 13:57 (five months ago) link
I had totally forgotten that Des O'Connor had died
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 30 March 2024 13:57 (five months ago) link
There are many other David Hamiltons out there, including the main indie DJ in Southampton in the 90s and an extremely dodgy photographer.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 30 March 2024 14:01 (five months ago) link
amazing that a 70s Radio 1 DJ is neither the dodgiest David Hamilton nor the dodgiest Diddy
― soref, Saturday, 30 March 2024 14:11 (five months ago) link
OTM
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 March 2024 14:26 (five months ago) link
i could swear Tarby died at least a decade ago
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 March 2024 14:41 (five months ago) link
He's about to go on tour.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 30 March 2024 14:44 (five months ago) link
Misread that as he’s about to go in an hour!
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 30 March 2024 16:21 (five months ago) link
Seems the right thread for this.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/04/i-killed-a-man-gyles-brandreth-says-rod-hulls-death-was-his-fault
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 May 2024 10:01 (four months ago) link
"he wanted to watch the football, but his Sky aerial wasn’t transmitting properly."
tbf it was actually Rupert Murdoch who was indirectly responsible for Rod Hull's death, it was one of his employees who did a shoddy Sky installation and that's why the fucker died!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 4 May 2024 10:11 (four months ago) link
the one time I had Sky, the installation was abysmal. The dish was hanging off my wall because it had been fixed to the rendered insulation rather than to the house bricks. When a sky employee arrived he said he can't fix the problem because Sky don't supply him with long enough coaching screws to fix to the brick. He said if you just pop down to B+Q and get some 100mm coaching screws then I will come back today and fix it. I said ffs please tell me this is some kind of fucking joke, no he was completely serious.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 4 May 2024 10:35 (four months ago) link
Speaking to John Cleese on the latest episode of his Rosebud podcast, Brandreth said: “I killed a man. It was Rod Hull, the emu man.”
Imagining Brandreth saying this like Robert Shaw delivering the "Mr Hooper, that's the USS Indianapolis" line in Jaws
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Saturday, 4 May 2024 10:48 (four months ago) link
> his Sky aerial wasn’t transmitting properly.
transmitting?
― koogs, Saturday, 4 May 2024 13:29 (four months ago) link
(we have the same problem at home. then my dad goes outside and scares the jackdaws away and that fixes it)
― koogs, Saturday, 4 May 2024 13:30 (four months ago) link
ghastly thread
― brimstead, Saturday, 4 May 2024 14:29 (four months ago) link
Gyles Brandreth didn’t kill Rod Hull – I did, claims ex-Countess
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 17:36 (four months ago) link
Brandreth has always looked to me like a mf with some dark secrets, even seeing him as a kid on TVAM.
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 17:47 (four months ago) link
Lord Longford head hunted him for research imo p0rn when he was only 22.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/fyi/284/gyles-brandreth-talks-porn/
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 18:26 (four months ago) link
"So, Cliff Richard and I, the Bishop, the Archbishop, and the Rabbi all gathered at a room at London University. Lord Longford welcomed us, and then he distributed filthy magazines and we sat there, the Bishop, the Archbishop, the Rabbi, me, Cliff Richard in a circle with Lord Longford, flicking through these disgusting magazines going, 'Oh, no, oh' no!' (...) anyway, God, this went on for several months."
extremely interesting (I'll never believe that CF is clean, i'm afraid)
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 18:31 (four months ago) link
er CR
Seems like you should take anything Gyles Brandreth says with handfuls of salt.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:19 (four months ago) link
the last thing you want while you're examining porn is a handful of salt
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:21 (four months ago) link
I've got a faint memory of Harry Enfield doing a parody of Brandreth or his type, wearing a knitted jumper with I AM A GIT on the front using the catchphrase "how mildly whimsical". At least it reminded me of him. Can't remember where I saw it.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:27 (four months ago) link