photos from the lost world of british light entertainment

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

I had totally forgotten that Des O'Connor had died

There are many other David Hamiltons out there, including the main indie DJ in Southampton in the 90s and an extremely dodgy photographer.

amazing that a 70s Radio 1 DJ is neither the dodgiest David Hamilton nor the dodgiest Diddy

OTM

i could swear Tarby died at least a decade ago

He's about to go on tour.

Misread that as he’s about to go in an hour!

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

"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!

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.

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

> his Sky aerial wasn’t transmitting properly.

transmitting?

(we have the same problem at home. then my dad goes outside and scares the jackdaws away and that fixes it)

ghastly thread

Gyles Brandreth didn’t kill Rod Hull – I did, claims ex-Countess

Brandreth has always looked to me like a mf with some dark secrets, even seeing him as a kid on TVAM.

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/

"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)

er CR

Seems like you should take anything Gyles Brandreth says with handfuls of salt.

the last thing you want while you're examining porn is a handful of salt

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.