This horrible era when they put Butlins Red Coats and Pontins Blue Coats on TV is not something I would ever wish to revisit.Even as a child I wanted to hurt these people.
@andyscott6315
5 ай бұрын
I like Jessica Martin and I seem Geoff Atkinson in the writing credits, I like them :( still do
@goodnightvienna8511
5 ай бұрын
Totally agree. There was a lot of weirdness and deviant behaviour in tv at the time as we now know and it does reflect in the programming. I made a comment about what little I did enjoy as a kid above 👆🏻
@alimantado373
4 ай бұрын
🤣
@saxongreen78
3 ай бұрын
HURT! 😆😆😆Agreed...a highly amusing observation.
@slaxxxer
2 ай бұрын
As a kid in the 70s & early 80s I genuinely look back at that time as being culturally vile, such a slag heap of barren & talentless rubbish.
@aifrench14
Жыл бұрын
I'd never seen Copy Cats before so never realised how accurate Ade Edmondson was in Filthy Rich and Catflap with the line "Nobody has ever recognised an impression on Copy Cats except when they say "Hello! I'm Benny from Crossroads!""
@DN21Media
11 ай бұрын
In an Irish accent
@1emmajones
8 ай бұрын
Filthy rich and Catflap is so underrated. I love it.
@Summer21.
7 ай бұрын
And coincidentally enough, that comedy series was created and written by Ben Elton (additional material by Rik Mayall) who was impersonated by Andrew O’Connor. 😃
@saxongreen78
5 ай бұрын
French and Saunders also had a bit where Dawn sings "Copycraps and Who Do You Do! - We've got lots of faces for you! - But most of the people we impersonate are completely unrecognisable!" to the tune of the Copycats theme...it was funny on its own before I saw this video, but with context I now see it was simply an accurate observation. Copycats is surreal in its crapness!
@Faithnomore227
4 ай бұрын
Yes I'd say the golden rule to a great impression is to not tell the audience who you are. It should be quite obvious if the impression is good.
@yesackram
6 ай бұрын
"A shit joke told by someone dressed as a funnier comedian is still a shit joke." There's your nutshell, ladies and gentlemen.
@ricardosp7975
Жыл бұрын
Copy Cats really does seem like a college revue that somehow made it to TV. The talentless imitating the talented with material they wouldn't use in a million years.
@medievalist
Жыл бұрын
Yes, that line about getting a woman "into trouble" out of the mouth of someone supposed to be Rik Mayall was a fucking crime against humanity.
@TimmehJay
Жыл бұрын
As an American with no knowledge or history of this show this was a wild ride.
@lindsaypollock597
Жыл бұрын
The propaganda about us English being sophisticated has done an amazing job of papering over what a bunch of halfwits we actually are
@vooveks
6 ай бұрын
I’m sorry I ever called American TV shit.
@strongcoffee7
Жыл бұрын
This is a level of hell I lived in, but repressed, thanks for unlocking the trauma
@michaelc3051
5 ай бұрын
Horrific. Even without the terrible impressions, the synchronised swaying whilst sitting down and singing the theme tune is criminal.
@bryanfish7303
7 ай бұрын
Wow, Andrew O'connor can do everyone from Rik Mayall to Kevin Turby to Rik from The Young Ones to that guy from the Dangerous Brothers. Truly a million people every day
@matthewhollingshead8618
Жыл бұрын
This video had me glued like I was watching the strangest car crash ever.
@vooveks
6 ай бұрын
I watched through my fingers, all the while exclaiming “oh god - no! No!!” a lot. When the bottom of the barrel falls out and hits the abyss.
@js2749
6 ай бұрын
Imagine the rehearsals for this, though. You've got a room, a few people - producer, stage manager, script editor, director etc - sitting down holding scripts. Watching all of this. And then saying 'yeah yeah it's really good'. I'm 59. I remember this tv bloodbath era. There were so many horrors like this on the telly.
@Faithnomore227
4 ай бұрын
My cousin was a singer on cruise ships in the 80s, (I know). She met Mark Walker n ended up going out with him for just over a year. I have several tenuous links to shit celebrities and this is the most cringe worthy of them. I fkn love your channel Stuart. Your commentary is always spot on n I'm hard to please. Very funny dead pan delivery. I've enjoyed about ten of your vids so far n look forward to watching them all eventually. You really have picked out the biggest wankers from the 80s n 90s. I'm subbed to around 150 channels and yours has stormed into the top 10 already. 😊
@marcraygun6290
Жыл бұрын
The "my name is" is just so painful
@Gannett2011
7 ай бұрын
When you say you remember watching something back in the day, the assumption is that you were sitting down and concentrating on the programme. I remember seeing this on the telly, but it was one of those programmes that was 'on' and just provided a sort of backing track to a dreary evening at home. There were a lot of programmes like that back then, but the nostalgia merchants have successfully airbrushed those out of history, or rehabilitated once crappy shows and transformed them into cult classics. The only time I think you'll ever see "Copy Cats" and "Cult Classic" in the same sentence is here. Thanks for reminding us,Stuart, that not even the rosiest of rose-tinted spectacles can make this stuff look any better.
@goodnightvienna8511
3 ай бұрын
Brilliant statement. That’s exactly what 75% of the output of TV was , and maybe still is . There was the odd gem like an Alan Clarke TV film or a TV version of an American Blockbuster, an extremely rare event though, or , for the mass population, a World or European Cup or Wimbledon, of which 3 produced some classic moments in the 80s- early 90s
@j0hnf_uk
25 күн бұрын
That's something that's pretty common, even today. The TV is, 'on', but people aren't necessarily sat down and giving it their full attention. Most of the time, it's mere background noise whilst they're doing something else. Only on the odd occasion doesn't something detract their attention. It's be interesting to see the viewing figures of some shows with the proportion of those which were, 'on', for the sake of being, 'on', rather than being watched removed! The main issue with television is that it's a hungry beast. It demands something to fill in the air-time slots, and particularly nowadays with the number of channels available, we've become satiated with countless shows that we don't give our full attentions to, if at all. Even when this show was broadcast, back in the days of only 3 or 4 channels, cost came into it. It was cheaper to have shows that fit the criteria of, 'comedy', with a bunch of non-entities trying desperately to be funny, than to pay the amounts demanded by those who were guaranteed a huge audience.
@riChchestMat
7 ай бұрын
Never go quadruple Benny
@jonsmith20766
4 ай бұрын
I went triple Benny once and instantly regretted it. I can't even imagine what triple Benny plus one (I can't even bring myself to repeat the horror you wrote) must have been like for these soldiers of light entertainment.
@LeeHardingakaFirmament
Жыл бұрын
Oh blimey - I’d forgotten about this horror show: a car crash of spectacular proportions. I expect I’ll be having nightmares about this now.
@paulhollett8415
Жыл бұрын
I did have the best breakfast at Gary Wilmot's wedding though.
@faysmith7999
7 ай бұрын
You bounced back with that comment
@dav147
5 ай бұрын
Partridge Line.
@ollieclixby3199
2 ай бұрын
Use the sausage as a breakwater.
@andrewdalton3185
2 ай бұрын
did you bring your big plate?
@FurQ69
9 сағат бұрын
@@paulhollett8415 did you make sure there was distance between the eggs and the beans ? Use the sausages as a breakwater.
@paulhollett8415
Жыл бұрын
The sort that would happily sit down on a Saturday night and enjoy this sort of detritus are the same lot that complain that there is no decent comedy on these days , not like the good old days !
@bryanfish7303
7 ай бұрын
Also those people who whinge at kids who never go out these days. This is why we went out, the TV was the sole "home entertainment" and your parents were always watching something as pure evil as this
@FurQ69
7 ай бұрын
Is there anything you recommend comedy wise in the last few years ?
@paulhollett8415
7 ай бұрын
@@FurQ69 The problem here is what periods we are comparing. Some compare now to a period of several decades , not really a fare contest. Mind you you have given me a few years , although most compare to now and the eighties and seventies. I think that , apart from People Who Just Do Nothing on the tv the most recent for me has been on the radio and that is more than likely 10 years old. Hut 33 , Chambers, Double Science , Cabin Pressure . There is a panel show with Frank Skinner about guessing reviews which started last week. I had a similar debate with my aging father and i rattled off 20 - 25 shows - he hadn't heard of hardly any of them. Some are so incurious as well as having a sense of humour so far more obvious (ya know jokes and slapstick) than myself as well and thus part of the reason that some cannot get humour in the same way. Anyway - Copy Cats really is indefensible.
@FurQ69
7 ай бұрын
Copycats is dross and even poor for the time Rattle of those 20-25 show's on here and perhaps I may find a couple that are watchable. @@paulhollett8415
@paulhollett8415
7 ай бұрын
I quite like The Skewer on Radio 4@@FurQ69
@robnorman1365
Жыл бұрын
Makes me laugh in this show how they have to announce who they are before doing the impression
@pipster1891
4 ай бұрын
That's learned in Impressionist School, lesson 1.
@benrichards399
Жыл бұрын
I watched several episodes a while back, thinking it will either be funny or so bad it would be funny. It however was neither. I found myself hypnotized watching every episode waiting for a sketch to make me laugh, but it never came.
@ianbeale2527
10 ай бұрын
Bloody Hell ! I've just done the same a few days ago. Other half was watching that "Get me out the Jungle" crap when I came across it here on KZitem and remembered watching it as a kid. I ended up watching 6 shows, but I only laughed at that Krankies sketch. But yes, for some reason it was oddly hypnotic.
@mcbpete
Жыл бұрын
1:00 Never thought I'd hear Pinball Dreams - Nightmare table as a sound bed for a documentary before, but it works great !
@gazmachine
2 күн бұрын
I had a double take when I heard it, hahah
@jekw23
4 ай бұрын
This unearthed some memories as a very young boy. Having seen this I’m happy to put them back where they were.
@robmortimer4150
Жыл бұрын
I’m pretty sure I saw this as a kid, but for obvious reasons I never thought about it again until I saw this video
@lizzyk.3306
Жыл бұрын
10:32 I’m sure you’ll be pleased to hear that someone has uploaded Series 1 & 2 to KZitem in full…
@StuartMillard
Жыл бұрын
Sobbing right now. Absolutely distraught.
@garethsavin4464
8 ай бұрын
good. Sorting notes into categories? Oh my god how sad and lonely are you? Get a life you sad virgin
@j0hnf_uk
25 күн бұрын
I always suspected there was a reason why I never gave this show, (or any shows like it), the time of day, based simply on the fact that I knew none of those who starred in them, and having seen this video, it seems I made the right choice. The words, 'trying too hard', spring to mind with a lot of these impersonations. The fact that, a lot of the time, they have to introduce themselves as whatever character they're trying to be, says enough about how convincing they are. Although as though they're trying to convince themselves more than anyone else. The over-exaggeration reeks of desperation to be taken seriously as an impressionists worthy of their own series. I guess that's why the producers of the show decided to rope them all in together as none had the ability to go it alone for more than 10 minutes straight.
@eddiepurple
Жыл бұрын
I've just come back from a funeral, and this is perfect, cheers!
@KatMusic2009
Жыл бұрын
There was an earlier series than any of these where the cast included the late Dave Evans (father of Lee Evans), & the late Johnny More, along with Gary Wilmot, Bobby Davro, Jessica Martin, Andrew O'Connor, Allan Stewart, & Aiden J Harvey. As the first 5 left, one by one, later casts added Mike Osman, Hilary O'Neil, Cheryl Taylor, and finally Mark Walker (son of Roy), & Pauline Hannah.
@Larry
Жыл бұрын
When your sole talent is pretending to be other people, impressionists end up with absolutely zero personality of their own to craft any future TV career with.
@markglendinning3956
Жыл бұрын
Hello you! Impressions are easy … :)
@KatMusic2009
Жыл бұрын
That is not true at all. Most of the Copycats STILL have successful careers in theatre, tv & much more!
@ottagol1985
Жыл бұрын
Well, many people did have a point about poor Mike Yarwood.
@therealobanir
Жыл бұрын
Before I even started reading the comments, I just knew Larry was going to be here.
@SanFran51
10 күн бұрын
Bit like Carol Vorderman.
@anophelesnow3957
Жыл бұрын
"Any Yewtree, Millard, mate?" Bless you, Stuart. You do this for us. The chorus line of Benny from Crossroads was very nice, quite a lot going on there. On the other hand, not everything landed. "Igor blimey" maybe wanted a bit of script tightening, eh. Towards the end we see a skit with Little and Large. Have a watch of them, Millard. Very odd stuff - Large often ignores Little and knocks out rubbish gags while Syd shuts up politely. Or can't think of anything it is hard to tell with his face for comedy.
@bryemycaz
Жыл бұрын
"No one has ever recognised a single impression on Copycats, except when they say, "Hello, my name's Benny from Crossroads." In an Irish accent." Eddie Catflap.
@Summer21.
7 ай бұрын
And coincidentally enough, that comedy series was created and written by Ben Elton (additional material by Rik Mayall) who was impersonated by Andrew O’Connor. 😃
@Extreme_Rice
Жыл бұрын
18:46 is that Suggs in the garage so he can go driving in his car?
@fraserkatie
7 ай бұрын
I know Hilary O Neil , shes amazing , I had a zoom session with her on how she started in theatre. My friend Kev Orkian knows her too as he worked with her in pantomimes
@RichardCJohnson
Жыл бұрын
I have a horrible feeling I may have laughed at this…but then I was 11. Then again I may have thought it was shite as I remember thinking Bobby Davro’s Phantom of the Opera skit around the same time was utter balls.
@StevesMagic
Жыл бұрын
Loving this channel but its really strange to realise that so much TV of the era wasnt just bad, but so bad. Were we all hynotised? Why didnt we notice at the time how awful this was?
@squeezyjohn1
2 ай бұрын
I remember knowing it was bad at the time ... when decent stuff like Red Dwarf appeared for the first time I was like whoah? what is this? It's really good.
@crispindry2815
Ай бұрын
"Why didnt we notice at the time how awful this was?" I'm pretty sure people will be looking at us in 40 years' time and thinking the same thing. We are no better than these arseholes were.
@robfuller7841
Жыл бұрын
Thankfully this passed me by.
@Nap1st
5 ай бұрын
I see Mike Osman is now touring as a tribute to Jethro!
@SenatorAri
2 ай бұрын
I just can't imagine being any of these people, waking up in the morning and thinking you're actually creating something that's not just utter shite
@markdavidson9100
Жыл бұрын
I remember Andrew appearing in Get Fresh on a Saturday morning…his characters were Les Hope, a guy in glasses who emphasised all words with a p in it. His second contrasting persona was poseur Austin Tayshuss…stay cool
@chuzzwozzer
4 ай бұрын
I love the background music from Pinball Nightmares on the Amiga 500!
@EnCryptedHorror
5 ай бұрын
That Clint Eastwood impression would have made a good Jimmy Cricket 😅
@tonywilliamson3532
Жыл бұрын
Good times.. I'd just hit the age to fuck off to the pub and avoid this back in 1987😂
@MrBillybobyeah
4 ай бұрын
I hate it when people say the 80's were the best. I'm glad there's people like you to reminds us how shit it really was.
@andrewbarton2590
Жыл бұрын
Jessica Martin and Gary Wilmot from Copycats (they were in the first series, as Hilary O'Neil and Pauline Hannah didn’t join until later) would later provide the voices to animated show The Junglies, shown in the latter days of TV-am before closure. Andrew O'Connor is more a producer nowadays. His Objective Productions produced Balls of Steel, which was hosted by Mark Dolan. Yes, that Mark Dolan.
@nickmazonowicz511
Жыл бұрын
Andrew O’Connor also redeemed himself, comedy wise, by producing Peep Show
@freakglitcha8390
Жыл бұрын
That Frank Bruno puppet might be the most egregious thing you've covered on the channel so far. Was dreading where things were heading when you mentioned Gary Wilmot doing a sketch with "Bet Lynch"...
@vikingsong2068
Жыл бұрын
Bet Lynch was a character in Coronation Street played by actress Julie Goodyear. The character was not remotely racist nor had anything to do with lynchings. She was a brassy blonde barmaid.
@CycolacFan
5 ай бұрын
Pity the props, set design, costume depts and, yes makeup people, clearly put so much effort in to something that turned out so awful.
@IamRobotMonkey
Жыл бұрын
Christ. It's like a somehow even worse parralel universe.
@nickmazonowicz511
10 ай бұрын
I did spent a pleasant half an hour wondering what copycats would have been like if they made it in today’s box set Netflix era *enter Mike Osman with bald wig and fake beard* ‘Hi it’s Walter Whyte, Heisenberg here. You know, I’ve been worried about Jessie Pinkman mixing in brake fluid with his crack…but he says it’s okay…he can stop anytime he wants *enter Mike Osman with a garish suit on* ‘Hi, it’s me Don Draper from Mad Men. You know, we get a lot of strange requests at the ad agency. Someone wanted us to run an ad for a five legged turkey. I said ‘what does it taste like?’ He said ‘I don’t know, I’ve not caught it yet” *enter Aidan J Harvey on his knees* ‘Hi, it’s Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones here. You know, my brother asked for a loan to pay soldiers to fight Ned Stark. But I said ‘I can’t. I’m a little short right now’
@nickmazonowicz511
10 ай бұрын
Okay…but I was amused.
@RJAY63
3 ай бұрын
Remember seeing snippets of an episode back in 1986 before the channel got changed. My schoolfriends were all raving about it the next day and I thought I'd missed out on some brilliant TV. In hindsight, a lucky escape! Watched a complete episode a year later and it was painfully unfunny even as a 9 year old. But this show did have genuine fans.
@liamjay6844
Жыл бұрын
I must apologise to Bobby Davro for saying his Michael Caine is the worst impressions I've ever heard, the Rowan Atkinson just took the crown.
@medievalist
Жыл бұрын
I find the Rik and Ade ones physically painful.
@leejones8582
11 ай бұрын
@@medievalist Ade is good Rik is not
@warrenrandall6936
Жыл бұрын
Although we were still laughing at blacked up characters with Little Britain. I think the proshetics helped bring some of the characters alive in that and the scripts were funny and I'm not against black comedians dressing as white people (Coming To America?) - that doesn't bother me (just like the argument that only gay actors should play gay characters - a nonsense) - it's whether the sketches are funny or lazily written.
@carn9507
6 ай бұрын
the history of blackface and how it was used to belittle and dehumanise black people, a race whom had been slaves of white people and still lacking equal rights for a long time is why a white person 'blacking up' is much, MUCH worse than a black person 'whiting up'. And it had been seen as racist way before this show even aired. Remember the notorious Black and White Minstrel show? In May 1967 the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination submitted a petition calling for the show to be axed.
@ottagol1985
Жыл бұрын
I can't really hate on these guys for trying. But I can understand why they weren't asked to do voice work on Spitting Image.
@Banksy-q9l
Жыл бұрын
I can. They shouldn't have tried, especially the blackface stuff
@drdassler
Жыл бұрын
That has a years worth of cringing crammed into such a short time. 😬
@nbaldwin45
27 күн бұрын
This show was the pits. In fairness to Andrew O’Connor though and dire as his impressions were here, he went onto host the criminally underrated Saturday kids show ‘On The Waterfront’ before disappearing behind the camera. ‘On The Waterfront’ was genuinely funny and mildly anarchic and you should cover it in one of your Saturday morning kids programme recaps
@rangerquiet6192
Жыл бұрын
Curse you I'd forgotten all about this.
@stevehyperdriver
4 ай бұрын
I’m 64 and it pains me to know that there are people who are nostalgic about this sort of cr**. It is mildly funnier than Jim Davidson, although that is a low bar.
@PHILD0
Жыл бұрын
So Eddie Catflap was right!
@therealobanir
Жыл бұрын
*best Irish accent* "Hello, my name's Benny from Crossroads."
@DeclanLestat
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for reminding me of Allan Stewart. Been trying to remember his name for years!
@dinogoldie9716
Жыл бұрын
3:52 I never knew Brian Walden hated double-glazing salesmen and Jehovah's witnesses. ;)
@steviegTVreturns
Жыл бұрын
I was too young to remember Copy Cats first time round. I saw an episode on Granada Plus once in its early incarnation, and it’s half an hour of my life I never got back. (I don’t think it was ever repeated after that) I remember it being bad, but not this bad. You can kind of forgive the impersonating of the celebrities of the era type thing, it has that working men’s/Phoenix club feel to it, but more polished with an 80s set… but the Frank Bruno puppet and Mr T, wow… Perfectly nailed as ever Stuart.
@a3lfeoxld
Жыл бұрын
They don't make TV like they used to... thank fuck for that.
@flemishdog
Жыл бұрын
you know what? John Cleese DID say "RIGHT, okay" a lot.
@tedpilledtonysoprano5512
Жыл бұрын
Well spotted.
@warrenrandall6936
Жыл бұрын
As did Clive Anderson.
@liamjay6844
Жыл бұрын
How does the Rene look more like Lt. Gruber?
@CyberpunkStudiosLtd
Жыл бұрын
Oh my God! You started with music from Fury of the Furries on the Amiga! What a wonderful surprise 😁
@rangerquiet6192
Жыл бұрын
I swear I remember seeing them on some royal variety show and making a joke that referenced a previous episode. "They obviously didn't watch us last week" one of them quipped at the meagre laughter. Yeah.
@RLukeDavis
Күн бұрын
Thanks for reminding me why I never watched TV in the 90s! 😱😱🙀🙀🤯🤯
@Kousaburo
3 ай бұрын
This looks as painful as that Dorito's Freindchips advert.
@eggbod
Жыл бұрын
Luckily I have no memory of this....
@LordmonkeyTRM
Жыл бұрын
10:05 cursed, so cursed.
@_MD80
Жыл бұрын
No way. I haven't thought about that programme since seeing it as a kid.
@Tomurow
Жыл бұрын
Syd Little's best impression is an unintentional likeness to guitar impresario Paul Reed Smith!
@MendelsonShape
Жыл бұрын
Parodying soap operas and movie stars was the done thing at the time, but even as a kid I remember thinking, "Why are they copying other comedy characters?" That music you played in the background near the beginning. That's from the Nightmare stage of Pinball Dreams on the Amiga, isn't it? Pleasant surprise to hear that after all these years. :)
@tombstoneharrystudios584
Жыл бұрын
Especially when the other comedy characters were either still in use (CU Jimmy, Cooperman) or long retired (Kevin Turvey/Rowan Atkinson Angry Of Mayfair)
@MyNameIsMichellePamelaLyons
Жыл бұрын
3:54 I think that's meant to be Jasper Carrott? Also at 4:56, I must admit I was weirdly pleased to see an attempt made at Mary The Punk From Eastenders, as an impression of that character on Copycats is one of the most 1986 / 87 things in existence. (Even if she does look a bit more like a weird cross between Sue Catwoman and Juiia Davis.) But everything else, bloody hell...
@DjynnFlyssa
Жыл бұрын
That's DEFINITELY Carrott, yeah.
@kisbie
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I would have thought ‘80s + Brummie accent + stand-up routine about Jehovah’s Witnesses = Jasper’ fairly obviously tbh. Mind you, another comment mentioned Rowan Atkinson and I genuinely have no idea which bit they’re referring to.
@blackmichael75
Жыл бұрын
*Soo Catwoman
@paulhollett8415
Жыл бұрын
Thanks , re the Jasper Carrot - well i wouldn't have guessed that myself.
@pencilpauli9442
Жыл бұрын
Sounds nothing like Jasper. Doesn't even sound like a Brummie. Not saying you are wrong, just that the impersonation is so bad
@lbyrne74
10 ай бұрын
How the hell did I watch this? Maybe it was the consolation that later in the night I'd be watching my heartthrob Michael Brandon in Dempsey & Makepeace.
@theefishlippedone
Жыл бұрын
It was supposed to be Rik Mayall's Kevin Turvey at 4.04
@BigSpud
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I hated *every* *second* of that. But, like you, I probably would've eaten it up when it was first on.
@eatmywords
Жыл бұрын
yeah, this was truly awful. even worse that what bobby davro used to crap out each week. the 'comedy' actually became white noise as i tried to figure out why the audience were laughing. impersonators really were the worst, because they're so unoriginal. why on earth would you try to mock comedies that were x1000 better than what you appallingly tried to do? well, it was ITV I suppose, and their record for decent comedy was woeful. I can only remember Spitting Image and The New Statesman; and you could argue Spitting Image was an impersonating show. They did first air Men Behaving Badly with Harry Enfield, but that went to the BBC a year later. Overall though I can't think of another decent comedy other than Rising Damp, that aired in the 1970s. Channel 4 was making all the noise comedy-wise; Saturday Night Live, Drop the Dead Donkey, The Comedy Strip Presents... They really were ground-breaking, that took extraordinary risks which, admittedly, resulted in some terrible shows; such as Dream Stuffing. But this investment paid off over time, with bangers like Father Ted, The IT Crowd, Spaced.
@BigSpud
Жыл бұрын
@@eatmywords it's the instant laughter that depresses me. "I recognise that person!!!" the Derek Jameson was hinting at something interesting, taking an impression but then dropping it somewhere else to create a scene. But no.
@JasonC1782
Жыл бұрын
Many people did; it regularly pulled in over ten million viewers.
@martinfenton1275
10 ай бұрын
I don’t remember Bernard Manning having such a squeaky voice.
@custardgannet4836
7 ай бұрын
Its a fookin disgrace.
@crispindry2815
Ай бұрын
It got to the point that I just couldn't watch any more.
@ieuanjones4157
4 ай бұрын
I believe that to be a lesser spotted impression of political commentator and sometime actual politician Brian Walden. Rare.
@haileyshannon7548
4 ай бұрын
2:11 Charlie Watts? 4:50 Stephen Fry? 5:55 A Young Ones parody! You know it's sad when you have use blackface to play Uhura, Mr. T, Tina Turner, MJ, etc.
@JB_inks
Жыл бұрын
Christ, this was a tough watch. I managed it though, do I get a prize?
@jimmelton5846
3 ай бұрын
Atrocious TV. Just the way I like it.
@paulburton9386
Жыл бұрын
A good, popular LWT Saturday night series in its day.
@B3tanTyronne
Жыл бұрын
I have yet to watch the vid, but I thought it's best to say thanks in advance for having to endure more of copycats than anyone should actually endure to make it. If there was an award for such acts of watching bad TV valour, you should win it :)
@dab88
6 ай бұрын
4:59 the closed captions, lmao
@weavehole
5 ай бұрын
What year was the Iced Ink joke from? I remember that and similar going round the playground at primary school... so 1987 or 88 at the latest. Did we get it from this show or was that just an age old joke that they used to fill time?
@richardlewis3575
Жыл бұрын
No mention of the first series that had Johnny More and Lee Evan’s dad Dave in the cast - both seemed past it then! Dave Evan’s impressions were prehistoric - The Goons and E.L. Wisty etc.
@johnrider5701
Жыл бұрын
God that show was really bad and until now I'd completely forgotten about it. I guess i must have blacked it out of my memory and now I can't get it out of my mind😵💫
@blackmichael75
Жыл бұрын
I think the guy who does Bob Monkhouse, Rik Mayall etc. is quite good.
@Summer21.
7 ай бұрын
He’s Andrew O’Connor.
@daviebananas1735
4 ай бұрын
@@Summer21.yes his Andrew O’Connor impression is spot on as well.
@kildogery
Жыл бұрын
Wow, the Erroll Brown bit, was too 80s. Christ almighty.
@kildogery
Жыл бұрын
Just after Bruno too, I was giving them the benefit of the doubt 🤷♂️
@gibbogibbogibbo
Жыл бұрын
Why all those children?
@theflyintheointment
Жыл бұрын
@@gibbogibbogibbo because he's singing It Started With A Kiss (I never thought it would come to this) I presume the joke is "I didn't realise something innocent like a kiss would end up with us having loads of kids". That combined with a very, very racist 'all black people are promiscuous' joke presumably, if the rest of the show is anything to go by.
@KatMusic2009
Жыл бұрын
@@theflyintheointment don't presume maybe?!
@andrewlane801
Ай бұрын
Some horrors are just best forgotten.
@iestyndavies2675
Жыл бұрын
For Julien Burchill Good impressionist yourself? Give us your Frank Spencer Fill in the blanks: 'I had a lot of trouble as a ... The cats done a .....on the carpet
@JohnMTennant
Жыл бұрын
Excellent as always.
@JohnMTennant
Жыл бұрын
Favourite moment is the Dracula Forsythe, where the guy has such little faith in the swill material, as well as obviously having no faith in the audience, that he completes the call and response catchphrase by himself, with no pause or delay. You can hear the audience trying to do it, and getting cut off. An incredible display of unspoken rage.
@80srenaissance67
4 ай бұрын
Tim Thaler / Tyler ....the boy who lost his laugh. How apt
@animaltvi9515
Жыл бұрын
Magnus pike bought the cafe in allo allo ?
@leejones8582
11 ай бұрын
That Rik Mayall is bad
@andyjohnson4907
Жыл бұрын
Was that a Barry Shitpeas impression at 10:17?
@fredmason7425
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant stuff, thanks for sharing, I hope they repeat this soon, it was probably one of the funniest things ever on TV, genius from everyone involved 👍👍👍
@lewiscalvert2577
Жыл бұрын
Jeezo fred your easily suited 😂
@growlerthe2nd712
Жыл бұрын
I’ll be honest the costumes were pretty good, but the scripts and acting were appalling 😂
@mrspanman1045
5 ай бұрын
Oh sweet jesus. I had successfully repressed the trauma of watching this back in the day. Thanks very much, it's now fully recalled and I am fully traumatised.
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