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Comedians we forgot...
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Most of the above haven't been forgotten but it's debatable that they should have been.
Some of the forgotten ones are forgotten for a reason...
Charlie Drake, Harry Worth, Arthur Askey, Ted Ray, Dick Emery, Arthur Haynes...
...to name but 43
Dave Allen was okay.
M&W were definitely a curate's egg.
Humble etceteras...
Some of the forgotten ones are forgotten for a reason...
Charlie Drake, Harry Worth, Arthur Askey, Ted Ray, Dick Emery, Arthur Haynes...
...to name but 43
Dave Allen was okay.
M&W were definitely a curate's egg.
Humble etceteras...
[QUOTE 4414828, member: 45"]...or never realised back then how good they were.
I give you Jonathan Winters...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIN9TBN5rZs[/QUOTE]
Top suggestion, was watching a Robin Williams documentary the other night and RW cited him as an inspiration to him. Both very funny guys.
Woody Allen was a hell of a comedian back in the day
I give you Jonathan Winters...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIN9TBN5rZs[/QUOTE]
Top suggestion, was watching a Robin Williams documentary the other night and RW cited him as an inspiration to him. Both very funny guys.
Woody Allen was a hell of a comedian back in the day
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[QUOTE 4416562, member: 259"]Jasper Carrot. He appeared every now and then in later life, did that golden balls thing on TV and sank without a trace. A really funny man with that brilliant west Midlands comedy accent.[/QUOTE]
The Detectives with Robert Powell was exceptionally funny
Might need to dig out the DVD
The Detectives with Robert Powell was exceptionally funny
Might need to dig out the DVD
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Jerry Sadowitz was very funny. There was a Canadian comedy festival called Just for Laughs that used to be televised. Jerry Sadowitz was supposed to appear on it, but his routine only lasted five seconds before someone punched him for calling them moose farkers.
Emo Philips was very funny too. He was American, but I sometimes wonder what happened to him.
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People over a certain age up here still remember him well, but he retired from telly in the late '80s/early '90s, so it is hardly surprising he seems to have disappeared to anyone down south.
He does Panto and I have a sneaking suspicion (although maybe wrong) that he actually has had a cameo appearance or two in things on the telly in the past too.
He usually only participates in the sort of programmes about Glasgow, Scottish comedians and showmen of a past age like Harry Lauder, things like the Glasgow theatres/old dance halls, etc etc. Basically what he grew up with.
Or, this.
He is seen briefly at the beginning (in the blue polo shirt), but only appears properly at 5.28 onwards. Basically, he is just a bit older and greyer than he was, although, I hadn't realised how old he is now - He'll be 90 this year.
Oh and look out for the cycling scene from 11.08 onwards, and 11.43 onwards. It seems nothing has changed
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Russell Brand.
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The moment Miranda Hart is forgotten the better, also that Victoria Corren, I'm sorry, but you just aren't funny!!
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Victoria Coren is not a comedian MDB
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Billy Connolly.
Was he ever funny?
Was he ever funny?
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You try telling her that on Only Connect. Seriously, have you seen her? The contestants look like they are only laughing because they have to!
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Yes.
I know of a few Glasweigians and people from west central Scotland who don't like him as they feel he gives them a bad name, but many many more disagree and love him!
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Hang about.
Silly haircut, silly beard, silly voice and a blooming laughable three-wheeled motorbike.
And pathetic jokes....
Will that do?
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That's his choice, so what? And?
He had such a tough, restrictive and abusive childhood that I think he has always wanted to do and wear the opposite of what people think he should, you clearly being one of them.
That's how he speaks.
Yet again, and?
I know exactly what his response would be, and it would start in 'F' and end in 'f'!
I was going to say 'each to their own', but I am curious.
Pathetic?? Please explain?
Puerile and so on, maybe at times, but he never stays on a subject long enough and I would rather have him than someone who simply churns out a pre-prepared routine, especially when you hear them doing *exactly* the same jokes on more than one programme
Oh and he's 'forgotten' is he??
You don't come to Glasgow a lot, do you?? I mean, what a laughable statement (much more laughable than his trike)!
When he dies, Glasgow will practically give him a state funeral!
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