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Post by Dirty Epic on Mar 24, 2021 11:53:06 GMT
John Shuttleworth in The Paradise Club.
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Post by Sparky on Mar 24, 2021 12:23:58 GMT
A lot of club comedians were part time straight actors, other than Bernard Wrigley I can think of Duggie Brown ,Bobby Knutt, Jim Bowen, Mike Reid, Dave King. Funny how a lot of comedians/comic actors were once school teachers. You don't seem to see it happening the other way round though, from comedian to school teacher or actor to comedian, this tells you something about the acting profession I think. A Teacher from my sons comp seems to think he is some kind of Comedian (in an unfunny way) - I've had some monumental run ins with this gentleman.
Most of the "ITV" comics of the 70s seemed to come from the 'Comedians' show - which featured Bernard Manning, Jim Bowen, Mike "runarraaaand" Reid, Roy Walker (who won New Faces), Mick Miller, Les Dawson etc. Via that, they ended up on Wheeltappers.
There must have been 100s working the Club Circuit - only a handful becoming well known.
I seem to remember a fair few popping up on New Faces- though (apart from Victoria Wood, Jim Davison, Marti Caine, Roger DeCourcy) - I can't even recall any others!
Didn't Duggie Brown end up working on early series of "3-2-1"?
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 24, 2021 18:47:03 GMT
That Paradise Club appearance predates shows like 'Saturday Zoo', not sure when Graham Fellows created the character.
Duggie Brown was on 321 along with Chris Emmett who did voices on Spitting Image, Debbie Arnold ( once married to Boycey from OFAH ) & Irishman Mike Newman. Other resident 321 comedians included George Roper & Dave Ismay.
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Post by Sparky on Mar 24, 2021 19:01:48 GMT
That Paradise Club appearance predates shows like 'Saturday Zoo', not sure when Graham Fellows created the character. Duggie Brown was on 321 along with Chris Emmett who did voices on Spitting Image, Debbie Arnold ( once married to Boycey from OFAH ) & Irishman Mike Newman. Other resident 321 comedians included George Roper & Dave Ismay. Crikey Arthur.... I'd forgot about George Roper - the comedian. There's a blast from the past.
Used to get him mixed up with the character of the same name in George & Mildred....
I worked on a job a few years back - one of the locations was a Working Mens Club. Quite a nice place- though the moment you walked into the main entrance - you walked into a portal and into 1970 (the bar prices didn't reflect this). The place still had a nicotine stained ceiling - and a "resident" Compere / Comic (with frilly shirt and sideburns) called Bernie Bennet..... I'm sure he had an entire repertoire of Mother in Law gags. That was the real Pheonix Nights....
I think Paul Shane (he of Hi-Di-Hi) had something to do with the place. (Either on the committee, performed there, or even both)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2021 21:51:58 GMT
Mick Miller, Colin Crompton (of Wheeltappers fame), Marti Caine (went on to present New Faces), Al Dene, Mike "Stand" Douglas.
There was also Alton Douglas (was also a warm up man on Golden Shot), Felix Bowness (The Jockey in Hi-De-Hi) - he did warm up on "3-2-1".
Am I the only one on here who thinks Crompton looks like Frank Skinner (or vice versa)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2021 21:56:28 GMT
A 'forgotten' comedian that comes to mind is Max Boyce. As I was working in Neath in 78/79 it was about the time of his rise to fame so I'd seen him at local events. A couple of years later he was on national TV but then seemed to disappear. A quick Google shows he's still working though. Another comedian was Tony Slattery. He seemed to be everywhere during the 80s and 90s on shows like "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" but then he disappeared out of the limelight. There was a program about him last year, about his fall from grace, alcoholism, financial problems and mental health issues. Max Boyce I remember used to turn up on Tiswas quite often. And some of the time he seemed quite nervous - not sure if this was due to the restrictions put on him (as it was supposed to be a Kids show). Though I felt he never really fitted in. None the less a good comedian in the right surroundings I suppose. Also from the Tiswas stable was Clive Webb - I think a Brummie comedian.
Tony Slattery did a bit in the West-End - in particular in a musical called "Radio Times" in the 90s.
It made me think of others:
John Sessions (sadly no longer with us), John Bird and John Fortune (also no longer with us). I used to love watching them on "Bremner, Bird & Fortune". on C4.
Poor Tony, he had so many problems. If you watch back his last episodes of Whose Line, you can see that he is clearly 'alert' in them and very agitated looking and not his usual laid back self, he'd definitely taken something. I had such a massive crush on him when I was a teenager - never knew he was gay until recently - and I mentioned to him on Twitter once that I had a crush on him and still do and I found a photo of him in a TV magazine and cut it out and put it on my wall as a little poster. He was so so lovely about it, he just said 'thank you!' and that was it but it was so lovely to get a reply from him that I was that teenager all over again. And people say 'never meet your heroes'. I say balls to that! :)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2021 21:58:46 GMT
The only 'forgotten' name that comes to my mind is Arnold Brown. He was around the time of the Alternative Comedy boom in the early 80s, his most known joke being that he is 'scottish and jewish, two racial stereotypes for the price of one'. He was in an ep of Young Ones but he was older than everyone else at the time and you didn't see much of him on the telly, to my knowledge.
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Post by Steve Austin on Mar 26, 2021 22:21:40 GMT
The only 'forgotten' name that comes to my mind is Arnold Brown. He was around the time of the Alternative Comedy boom in the early 80s, his most known joke being that he is 'scottish and jewish, two racial stereotypes for the price of one'. He was in an ep of Young Ones but he was older than everyone else at the time and you didn't see much of him on the telly, to my knowledge. Why not? Is that the chap?
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Post by Cartman on Mar 26, 2021 23:04:12 GMT
The only 'forgotten' name that comes to my mind is Arnold Brown. He was around the time of the Alternative Comedy boom in the early 80s, his most known joke being that he is 'scottish and jewish, two racial stereotypes for the price of one'. He was in an ep of Young Ones but he was older than everyone else at the time and you didn't see much of him on the telly, to my knowledge. I don't remember him at all, will have to check him out
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Post by Sparky on Mar 27, 2021 10:27:57 GMT
The only 'forgotten' name that comes to my mind is Arnold Brown. He was around the time of the Alternative Comedy boom in the early 80s, his most known joke being that he is 'scottish and jewish, two racial stereotypes for the price of one'. He was in an ep of Young Ones but he was older than everyone else at the time and you didn't see much of him on the telly, to my knowledge. Didn't Andy Der La Tour come from the alternative comedy stable too? (along with Alexi Sayle?)
He popped up in the Young Ones presenting a mock Public Information Film (The "Think Bike" one)
During the early days of Central TV; they let Chris Tarrant loose on Saturday late night TV. The result was an adult version of Tiswas - this called OTT. It went out live, and lasted about 2 months before it was pulled off air. A lot from the Alternative Comedy circuit would pop on on the show - alongside Lenny Henry, Bernard Manning - and even George Roper. After it was axed, they introduced Saturday Stayback - this came live from a different pub each week - again with Mr Tarrant & co and a long list of alternative scene comedians.
Helen Atkinson-Wood also appeared on both - more than often as a TV Announcer.
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