I agree, it's like they didn't feel the need to put the effort in for these brief cameo impressions, disappointing. The customers were hilarious though. I had no idea who Larry Olivier was supposed to be at first - and I think they knew it wasn't obvious as Cornwell / Williams had to announce it in such a loud clear voice - but his last two lines were genius.
Ooh, get her, Miss Sharp straight out of the knife drawer. Anyways, Mr Horne, what you trollin' in 'ere for? (Although that is really Julian and Sandy).....😆😆
@@MorristheMinor Around the Horne was a bit before my time but I've read about it and seen Paddick and Williams reprise them on later TV appearances together. Quite subversive at the time, given the laws on homosexuality.
@@thewomble1509 Me too! But I listened to the repeats on BBC Radio 4 Xtra (nee Radio 7). Get hold of the CDs, they're very much worth it. Also, if Williams is appearing with Hancock, shouldn't he be doing his 'Snide' voice?
@@MorristheMinor Thanks for the info. I'll look out for the CD's. Regarding Williams, he had so many variations of that "voice," I think most impersonators just go for the slightly snobby low "oh Noo" timbre or the "stop messin' about" campery and fall somewhere in the middle. The interviews he did with Parkinson are quite revealing, particularly the one with Betjemen and Maggie Smith as co guests.
To anyone not up on cockney rhyming slang a septic is a septic tank which rhymes with yank as in an American. This person is likely to be well over 50 as new generations dont use that term anymore.
Meh, John Sessions wasnt too bad with the fast talking speech pattern people like Tony and Richard Briers used to have but that other guy playing Williams (who Ive seen in Dead Ringers) was terrible, Ive seen better than him. And ive got absolutely no idea who the moustache was sposed to be, any answers people?
@@stephenpalmer9375 I don't read scripts and in that case it was terrible. I remember when this show was on in Australia in its hey day and it sounded interesting but I never watched it, if this is the calibre of the impersonations then just as well
@@stephenpalmer9375 oh right, fair enough. This is the first time I've seen a clip of it and yeah I did expect better but that guy doing Williams does a better Michael Caine cos he does him in Dead Ringers but every man and his dog does Caine, even Caine has done Caine it's these more niche personalities that are harder to get right
And no mention of Mick and Keith; who will someday gain the that very same boutique for their epicurean enterprise. Don’t get hung up on accuracy, the show was a whimsy, a pastiche of these characters placed in suburban drollery. It was John and Phil, with very few additions, so we got their take on each star in the stellar firmament, with a twist. Earlier, John would readily recreate some of the basic vocal affectations in, “Who’s Line Is It Anyway?” and simply transposed a costume onto that mouthpiece. Phil, like all mimics, has those he nails the impression one hundred per cent, yet the characters are scripted in a ‘Stella’ fashion; Mick, Caine and Bowie falling into this category. Like his Kenneth Williams, Jimmy Hill has enough of the traits of the subject to impart his role in the weird carnival and how much they can mould the strangeness of a mainstream personality appearing in this quirkiest of realms. John’s excellent Pesci, with his machine gun scat and chutzpah, is only challenged by the bland, and entirely fictional, Mrs Huggett. Unfortunately, we won’t see any recent Sessions’ reflections on this chapter in UK TV’s comedy history, therefore an interview of only Phil’s recollections could shed some light on how it all began and their modus operandi.
As a huge Stella St fan, I am most satisfied.
Given that John Sessions is dead, it feels unlikely we'll see a series! -- but, always a delight to catch a snippet from Stella Street.
oh no, i must have missed the fact he died back in 2020. :(
I used to know john sessions he lived in the same area as myself. Pleasant bloke
His Sir Larry is worth the admission price alone… genius!
What a duo. Phil's David Bowie doing stand up is superb. 😅
I have never seen this episode before, I thought I had all there is on DVD but this is new to me ??
I was thinking the same thing.
That Williams is a shocker. I would have expected better tbh.
I agree, it's like they didn't feel the need to put the effort in for these brief cameo impressions, disappointing. The customers were hilarious though. I had no idea who Larry Olivier was supposed to be at first - and I think they knew it wasn't obvious as Cornwell / Williams had to announce it in such a loud clear voice - but his last two lines were genius.
Thinking about it, I guess they must have decided that Phil Cornwell's Sid James was even worse.
What an unexpected pleasure, Stella Street I’d not seen before. Deleted scene?
What's with the silence at 0:27?
Maybe some casual homophobia.
Sessions is brilliant as Hancock here but Cornwell does a very obvious and poor Williams.
That's why it's funny though.
Ooh, get her, Miss Sharp straight out of the knife drawer. Anyways, Mr Horne, what you trollin' in 'ere for?
(Although that is really Julian and Sandy).....😆😆
@@MorristheMinor Around the Horne was a bit before my time but I've read about it and seen Paddick and Williams reprise them on later TV appearances together. Quite subversive at the time, given the laws on homosexuality.
@@thewomble1509 Me too! But I listened to the repeats on BBC Radio 4 Xtra (nee Radio 7). Get hold of the CDs, they're very much worth it. Also, if Williams is appearing with Hancock, shouldn't he be doing his 'Snide' voice?
@@MorristheMinor Thanks for the info. I'll look out for the CD's. Regarding Williams, he had so many variations of that "voice," I think most impersonators just go for the slightly snobby low "oh Noo" timbre or the "stop messin' about" campery and fall somewhere in the middle.
The interviews he did with Parkinson are quite revealing, particularly the one with Betjemen and Maggie Smith as co guests.
As a huge Hancock fan I am very disappointed.
I remember at university trying to explain to a Septic why this was funny.
To anyone not up on cockney rhyming slang a septic is a septic tank which rhymes with yank as in an American. This person is likely to be well over 50 as new generations dont use that term anymore.
Gonna dig out the DVDs now. Is Sessions dead? OFFS. Remember Phil from the 80s - easier times.
Sessions died of a heart attack in late 2020. He was 67.
No stick to the original please mate
Meh, John Sessions wasnt too bad with the fast talking speech pattern people like Tony and Richard Briers used to have but that other guy playing Williams (who Ive seen in Dead Ringers) was terrible, Ive seen better than him. And ive got absolutely no idea who the moustache was sposed to be, any answers people?
the say it in the script - he's meant to be Laurence Olivier
@@stephenpalmer9375 I don't read scripts and in that case it was terrible. I remember when this show was on in Australia in its hey day and it sounded interesting but I never watched it, if this is the calibre of the impersonations then just as well
@@Jeremy-f3s sorry I meant they literally said it out loud. But year it wasn’t the strongest
@@stephenpalmer9375 oh right, fair enough. This is the first time I've seen a clip of it and yeah I did expect better but that guy doing Williams does a better Michael Caine cos he does him in Dead Ringers but every man and his dog does Caine, even Caine has done Caine it's these more niche personalities that are harder to get right
And no mention of Mick and Keith; who will someday gain the that very same boutique for their epicurean enterprise.
Don’t get hung up on accuracy, the show was a whimsy, a pastiche of these characters placed in suburban drollery. It was John and Phil, with very few additions, so we got their take on each star in the stellar firmament, with a twist. Earlier, John would readily recreate some of the basic vocal affectations in, “Who’s Line Is It Anyway?” and simply transposed a costume onto that mouthpiece.
Phil, like all mimics, has those he nails the impression one hundred per cent, yet the characters are scripted in a ‘Stella’ fashion; Mick, Caine and Bowie falling into this category. Like his Kenneth Williams, Jimmy Hill has enough of the traits of the subject to impart his role in the weird carnival and how much they can mould the strangeness of a mainstream personality appearing in this quirkiest of realms. John’s excellent Pesci, with his machine gun scat and chutzpah, is only challenged by the bland, and entirely fictional, Mrs Huggett. Unfortunately, we won’t see any recent Sessions’ reflections on this chapter in UK TV’s comedy history, therefore an interview of only Phil’s recollections could shed some light on how it all began and their modus operandi.