Comedians we forgot...

[smutchin]

Back in the early 90s, I saw a young up and coming comedian called Jeff Green perform at a local comedy night in Leeds. He was superb.

He went on to have moderate mainstream success - even had his own series on ITV for a brief while, and was on all the panel shows. Never quite made it to Michael McIntyre levels though.

No idea what has become of him. Haven't seen or heard of him for years.

 

[Davos87]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bkODEM1uzE&feature=share

 

[guitarpete247]

Back in the early 90s, I saw a young up and coming comedian called Jeff Green perform at a local comedy night in Leeds. He was superb.

He went on to have moderate mainstream success - even had his own series on ITV for a brief while, and was on all the panel shows. Never quite made it to Michael McIntyre levels though.

No idea what has become of him. Haven't seen or heard of him for years.

This guy?


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rpEP93duDJE

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Green_(comedian)

 

[ufkacbln]

Back in the early 90s, I saw a young up and coming comedian called Jeff Green perform at a local comedy night in Leeds. He was superb.

He went on to have moderate mainstream success - even had his own series on ITV for a brief while, and was on all the panel shows. Never quite made it to Michael McIntyre levels though.

No idea what has become of him. Haven't seen or heard of him for years.

I loved the fact that the" Live at the Appollo" profiled a variety of comedians from lesser known to"up and coming"

However if Michael McIntyre appears then so does the remote control's change channel function

 

[Beebo]

Back in the early 90s, I saw a young up and coming comedian called Jeff Green perform at a local comedy night in Leeds. He was superb.

He went on to have moderate mainstream success - even had his own series on ITV for a brief while, and was on all the panel shows. Never quite made it to Michael McIntyre levels though.

No idea what has become of him. Haven't seen or heard of him for years.

I saw Jeff on the same bill as Phil Jupitus at the comedy store.
Jeff was very good, Jupitus was just a grumpy git who got very angry with hecklers. Not sure how he became so successful.

I also used to visit Lee Hurst's comedy club, not seen him for ages either.

I used to like Rob Newman, but he seems to have given up comedy to concentrate on writing.

If you watch old panel shows on Dave you see lots of comedians who were flavour of the month, but have now dropped off the radar.

I watched Greg Proops and Mark Lamar on a repeat recently, havent seen either of them for ages, but they were popular about 15 years ago.

 

[raleighnut]

View: https://youtu.be/LL11ViEgWVY

 

[Vapin' Joe]

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...

Harry Worth was quite a good comedy actor in his day, a favourite in mine and many other households. I haven't seen any of his shows for years so it would be difficult to know if his style of humour has aged well.

 

[smutchin]

This guy?

That's the fella. I remember his material being a bit more inventive than the stock observational stuff in that clip, but that was possibly because he had to sanitise it for TV.

 

[guitarpete247]

That's the fella. I remember his material being a bit more inventive than the stock observational stuff in that clip, but that was possibly because he had to sanitise it for TV.

The wiki link I added says he's living in Melbourne.

 

[smutchin]

The wiki link I added says he's living in Melbourne.

And the link on there to his 'official' website takes you to a Myspace page! He seems to be still touring, apparently, just doesn't ever visit down my neck of the woods.

 

[smutchin]

The only time I've seen Phill Jupitus live was when he co-presented an evening of Looney Tunes cartoons with Emma Kennedy as part of the Canterbury Animation Festival. That was fun. Possibly helped by the fact that he was talking about something he was genuinely interested in rather than trying to make jokes.

Most of the comedians I've seen live have never become well known enough to be forgotten.

 

[ufkacbln]

A similar recording of a pilot totally revised my opinion of Janet Street-Porter

We were at TVS for a pilot also involving Ned Sherrin, Helen Lederer, and John Sessions

Janet Street-Porter was wearing a "T shirt dress" when this oor young lad approached her with a microphone, lead and box

She was brilliant.... took him aside a few seats from us, and started off with "You're wondering how you are going to run those wires on this dress?"

Then spent time explaining how to avoid the situation by asking how the performer wanted the microphone positioning

The 15 minute "tutorial" was informative, and you could see the young lad had benefited tremendously from it


Also funny was during the break when she asked one of the camera men about a football score..... he said he didn't know, until she pointed out that his recording light wasn't on, he was fixed to the viewing screen, and the only possible reason was a fed from the match.

He admitted his guilt .. and was tasked with keeping the audience informed

 

[ufkacbln]

One of the modern comedians who deserves to be remembered is Shapi Korsandi

 

[stephec]

One of the modern comedians who deserves to be remembered is Shapi Korsandi

Indeed!
And on a similar note I used to quite like Lucy Porter.

 

[Bollo]

I was lucky enough to see Bill Hicks live, in both senses of the word, twice. Some of his stuff has dated badly, but at his best he was bleak, funny and vulnerable all in a single sentence. Some of his stuff (US foreign policy, gun control, Christian evangelicals) is scarily prescient.