TS: Bernie Clifton vs Derek Bailey

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It occurred to me while watching The Entertainers last night - gruff, miserable but smart Northern comedian with one basic act which is unreproduceable by anyone else, and who plays the object(s) of his contempt like a fiddle (or guitar - though Mr Clifton's a trombone man, apparently). And someone who exalts in his own "dullness."

The ostrich = Evan Parker, obv.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 November 2002 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Out of all the people on The Entertainers I think he's come out in the best light. He's treating the student-schmuck with a nice pinch of careful disdain tempered by nicety, he obv. knows that it's not going to get him back on the telly (oh yeh, HAR HAR) so he's playing. I have no idea who this Derek Bailey chomper is so Bernie = the winner.

Sub-qn: could you marry Leo Sayer?

― dwh (dwh), Friday, 29 November 2002 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

what do you mean by 'you don't know who derek bailey is'. haven't we (N)educated you on that?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 29 November 2002 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Harry Hill played on this on TV Burp, telling Clifton to get another idea. Clifton comes on later dressed as an ostrich riding a human.

Derek Bailey has never made me laugh, but then again neither has Bernie Clifton, so the Skidmore pools panel calls it a scoreless draw.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 29 November 2002 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

thirteen years pass...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-36129559

― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 05:58 (ten years ago)

who is famous for riding a yellow ostrich

― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 09:40 (ten years ago)

TS: Tracks from Bernie Clifton's The Impossible Dream album vs Tracks from Abhorrent Decimation's Miasmic Mutation album
Wind beneath my wings Eternal repulsion
Lady in red Souls of sedation
The sunshine of your smile Echoes of the vortex
Count your blessings Odious

― Mark G, Friday, 29 April 2016 16:08 (ten years ago)

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