photos from the lost world of british light entertainment

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soref, Monday, 14 June 2021 10:50 (three years ago)

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Actor Stephen Lewis from On the Buses is lifted by the Dymo Dollies (l-r) Daphne Hodge, Liz Donnelly, Elaine Norton and Lesley Brown, outside the Royal Albert Hall. They helped launch a treasure trail in which teams from the National Association of Youth Clubs raced around London.

soref, Monday, 14 June 2021 10:51 (three years ago)

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soref, Monday, 14 June 2021 11:03 (three years ago)

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larry grayson looking like he was really into throbbing gristle

disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Monday, 14 June 2021 11:15 (three years ago)

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Ted Rogers at the re-opening ceremony of a branch of the Cavendish Woodhouse furnishing shop chain in Hamilton, 1985.

calzino, Monday, 14 June 2021 11:27 (three years ago)

larry grayson looking like he was really into throbbing gristle

Awesome, love Larry + TG.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 14 June 2021 11:34 (three years ago)

The GENeration Game.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 14 June 2021 11:35 (three years ago)

this thread rules

Full Kit Starmer (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 June 2021 20:53 (three years ago)

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Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 14 June 2021 21:30 (three years ago)

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calzino, Monday, 14 June 2021 22:17 (three years ago)

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Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 14 June 2021 22:32 (three years ago)

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the forensically bad impressionist

calzino, Monday, 14 June 2021 22:42 (three years ago)

"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)

xp
big 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)

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)

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soref, Monday, 14 June 2021 23:17 (three years ago)

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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)

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

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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)

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calzino, Monday, 14 June 2021 23:48 (three years ago)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Leapy Lee looks like a hoot.

chap, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 08:23 (three years ago)

lol was about to post Joe Henderson eh?

calzino, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 08:25 (three years ago)

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)

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)

Yes, Lionel Blair is still alive.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 09:10 (three years ago)

dickie davies, too

soref, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 09:13 (three years ago)

Maybe one for the 'Horrible 70s stars of BBC light entertainment album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do' thread?

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disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 09:23 (three years ago)

Brain May

Neil S, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 09:24 (three years ago)

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)

the best thread

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:12 (three years ago)

Misread that as 'remembering the laughs with Philip K Dick'.

chap, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:20 (three years ago)

it's comforting that some of these guys are still around

A case in point...

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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)

Apparently the Joe Henderson on that album is this guy.

but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:25 (three years ago)

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)

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Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:35 (three years ago)

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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)

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)

What if I really want to?

Full Kit Starmer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:42 (three years ago)

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

soref, Saturday, 30 March 2024 14:11 (one year ago)

OTM

The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 March 2024 14:26 (one year ago)

i could swear Tarby died at least a decade ago

Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 March 2024 14:41 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

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

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 30 March 2024 16:21 (one year ago)

one month passes...

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 (one year ago)

"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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

> his Sky aerial wasn’t transmitting properly.

transmitting?

koogs, Saturday, 4 May 2024 13:29 (one year ago)

(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 (one year ago)

ghastly thread

brimstead, Saturday, 4 May 2024 14:29 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

"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 (one year ago)

er CR

glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 18:31 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

five months pass...

https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2022/242/146165381_ce20efbb-3995-4274-8da1-fe6738c6f40c.jpeg

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Saturday, 12 October 2024 10:32 (seven months ago)

Pere Lachaise?

pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 October 2024 12:26 (seven months ago)

that is one fucked up gravestone!

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 12 October 2024 12:40 (seven months ago)

Yeah, no Cuddles

woof, Saturday, 12 October 2024 12:42 (seven months ago)

Also "upto" all one word.

pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 October 2024 12:45 (seven months ago)

Cuddles banned because he hates that duck

Yuwen Hu's army (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 October 2024 12:45 (seven months ago)

That was his fourth wife btw. Regardless of his material I always thought Keith Harris was a really good ventriloquist.

pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 October 2024 12:48 (seven months ago)

will Bob Carolgees have a gravestone that refers to Spit The Dog as a real life character that has also passed away by default? Maybe just me, but I find this shit very weird.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 12 October 2024 12:49 (seven months ago)

probably a bad example there, not really one of the ventriloquist community

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 12 October 2024 12:50 (seven months ago)

I like the implication that Orville has been buried with Harris, like the servant of an Egyptian Pharaoh, in order to attend to him in the afterlife (or possibly the other way round)

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Saturday, 12 October 2024 12:50 (seven months ago)

I imagine Cough the Cat will not appear on any Bob Carolgees headstone.

pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 October 2024 12:51 (seven months ago)

tbf Orville was over 200 years old in duck years

Yuwen Hu's army (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 October 2024 12:55 (seven months ago)

Amusingly this is that grave's second appearence on this thread!

Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 12 October 2024 13:10 (seven months ago)

Upon the death of Keith Harris Orville regenerated into a new, secret form, and is currently engaged in the process of transmuting his latest human servant. Nasty!

the nervous laughter of fools (Matt #2), Saturday, 12 October 2024 13:11 (seven months ago)

From age nine Harris appeared on his father Norman's knee as a "dummy" in his ventriloquist act.[6][7]

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 12 October 2024 14:27 (seven months ago)

Other way round but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzlvFRYYSLU

pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 October 2024 15:45 (seven months ago)

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.


Might it have been the Fry & Laurie Countdown sketch? Steve Steen or Jim Sweeney (can never remember which is which) in Dictionary Corner with a jumper saying TWAT on it.

Michael Jones, Sunday, 13 October 2024 08:25 (seven months ago)

one month passes...

"A reminder that the BBC One ident for Christmas 1993 literally has to be seen to be believed."

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jjkzilhmaloqzp4yutbovcrb/post/3lbuademx5s2e

koogs, Tuesday, 26 November 2024 14:43 (six months ago)

that feels like the end of an era in lots of ways - the final series of the The Paul Daniels Magic Show would go out spring-summer 1994 (it was followed by Paul Daniels's Secrets, but that went out in a weekday slot rather than Saturday and only lasted one series), last Bruce Forsythe hosted series of the Generation Game was also 1994. The Little and Large show had already finished up in 1991.

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Tuesday, 26 November 2024 15:02 (six months ago)

Heh, this one came up on my YT feed today and I had to double check it wasn't a parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U8kAVYxmw0

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 26 November 2024 17:27 (six months ago)

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: with Brucie four shows from the end of his Generation Game tenure, games involve Royal Navy members with plastic logs, Christmas cracker building and a Moulin Rouge finale judged by the epitome of Parisian class, Su Pollard. https://t.co/Eg1uPDGiO5

— Why Don't YouTube? (@whydontyoutube) December 3, 2024

On this day 30 years ago, the Playstation was released. pic.twitter.com/dOmIqyTw7g

— Web Design Museum (@WebDesignMuseum) December 3, 2024

these tweets appeared on my feed just a minute apart, bizarre to think think the Playstation and Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game briefly co-existed, gives me the same kind of feeling as remembering that Harriet Tubman was alive at the same time as both Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan.

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Tuesday, 3 December 2024 18:12 (five months ago)

My recollection is that Bruce Forsyth had a second wind at around that time. Bruce Forsyth and Bob Monkhouse. In the 1980s and early 1990s they were bywords for old-fashioned overly-slick naffness, but at some point in the Britpop years the collective culture decided that there was still a place for them. Paul Daniels never had the same level of rehabilitation for whatever reason. Noel Edmunds likewise, although he was of a younger generation. Although he did have a comeback with Deal.

Or was it a few years later? Wikipedia suggests that Forsyth's appearance on Have I Got News For You in 2003 brought him back to public attention, but I remember that Monkhouse guest-presented a few episodes of The Big Breakfast in the mid-late 1990s and was pretty good.

I suppose if you were very young Forsyth and Monkhouse might have come across as a post-postmodern parody of Vic Reeves. It probably helped that they didn't have the kind of old-school 1970s creepiness of other light entertainment stars from the past, such as Jimmy Savile, who was also still around at the time.

Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 4 December 2024 20:47 (five months ago)

The reason it didn't happen for Paul Daniels is he was an outspoken bitter unpleasant cunt. Bruce on the Generation Game 30 years ago must've been a tawdry lolstslalgia callback, he'd left years before and Larry Grayson was hosting in the 80s at the latest

badder living thru Kemistry (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 December 2024 20:52 (five months ago)

... I was going to say followed by Jim Davidson, lest we forget, but he came after Brucie's 2nd stint in charge.

if you like this you might like my brothers music. his name is Stu Morr (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2024 22:08 (five months ago)

also it's weird that i don't remember Bruce ever getting much creepy pushback even tho he had a history of marrying women at least a generation (no pun intended) younger than him

badder living thru Kemistry (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 December 2024 22:15 (five months ago)

also thanks Tom i think my trauma brain bits have erased Jim Davidson from that show

badder living thru Kemistry (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 December 2024 22:18 (five months ago)

Yeah given Bruce Forsyth was presenting Strictly till 2014 and The Generation Game has been on as recently as 2018 (with Mel and Sue! Missed that), the PlayStation thing doesn't strike me as that odd

Alba, Friday, 6 December 2024 07:34 (five months ago)

I remember, sometime in the late 90s, seeing Paul Daniels doing tricks to an audience of two people at Brent Cross, standing on a bench outside where Athena used to be. Sad!

I can’t recall a period where BBC wasn’t full of self referential oldies or club comedians, or at least the spirit of the those types. I guess the most gruesome period was actually when the younger hosts were in primetime slots - Davidson on Big Break and GG, and Noel on Noel’s House Party. It felt inescapable - any Saturday night where you didn’t get invited out felt doubly depressing as a result. I mean, it was so bad even Chris Evans (!) felt like a breath of fresh air

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 6 December 2024 09:23 (five months ago)

Also God Tenko reunion looks like the dullest show ever made

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 6 December 2024 09:25 (five months ago)


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