We have either reached self parody or Princess Margaret is doing the closest modern interpretation of Sisyphus. Instead of being destined to push a boulder uphill for all eternity, she has to watch the Royal Variety again and again and again until the end of time.
I was going to leave a comment saying something like "Billy Pearce must have played Buttons in a panto production of Cinderella at least once," but my curiosity got the better of me and I looked it up - he's actually playing Buttons this year in Bradford with Bernice off Emmerdale! It's the role he was born to play!
The NSPCC gunge plunge came to my high school. It had a proper host, outdoor trailer, stage and stuff. Far more professional looking than my high school deserved. A couple of teachers and some kids got gunged. I remember the host kept plugging Noels House Party throughout. He also said he wished he could gunge every single one of us, which is pretty mean for the NSPCC.
An eyewitness report! Absolutely classic Noel to make sure House Party's getting a plug. It's like when record companies used to send new boy bands round schools.
Watching these, one can understand why Princess Margaret needed such copious amounts of refreshments to steel herself from one year to the next. You don't get public duty like that these days.
Just found this channel after a CAB forum recommendation. Excellent stuff. I an ideal look back at what a weird place the UK was (and still is) in that not so distant past.
Recently discovered this channel and have been binge watching my way through, love it. Would love a video on the Big Breakfast and if you get into the 2000s, I recently rewatched Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned and it has not aged well 😂
Pretty sure my school did the gunge plunge as part of a fete. I remember helping out, and me and some other students had, what in hindsight was obviously an old paedo, talk to us for about ten minutes. He quickly disappeared before a teacher came over -- so thankfully, it didn't become a different kind of gunge-plunge... Gotta love the 90s... :/
At 11:10, I'm almost convinced it's Davro that shouts out "Eat yer own arse." Sounds just like him. I'm also, slightly concerned for my mental health that I'm able to recognise and isolate the voice of the wannabe 'national treasure' after about 30 years of not hearing it. Like some sort of dystopian Pavlovian response. I don't see him on the cast list, so was he either waiting in the wings and not allowed on after the arse eating comment or did he have a ticket in the audience just on the off chance that some two-bob magician cut himself in half and he could shout out "eat yer own arse"? I'm truly intrigued by this. Can anyone help me out here? Is there anyone on here who sat next to or near Davro at this performance and heard him shout out "eat yer own arse"? Or, is there anyone on here who did in fact shout out "eat yer own arse" during the 1994 Children's Royal Variety Performance? I would write to Princess Margaret and ask if she knows but she died in 2002 and has taken the secret of the arse eating shouter to the grave with her. Anyone got a number for Anthea Turner? She might know.
21:00 - if he hadn't have introduced himself as Max Bygraves, nobody would have had a clue who he was. Not even Bygraves himself. As we all know young kids are mad for post war music hall acts. I mean, who else? Arthur Haynes?
I think I’m most surprised at just how old some of Darren’s impressions are I mean, Cliff and David Essex were old enough, but Max Bygraves? Just who was the audience they were writing for? And Wayne Dobson with the rope tricks! Left the knob jokes at home tho 😂
Walked into college one day and PC Darren Stamper and Sgt June Ackland were stood next to the metal detectors. I remember June Ackland staring back at me as I walked past. Perhaps she was in character
To me Darren Day was just the regeneration of Cliff Richard weirdly coexisting in the same timeline. And the classic announcing the impressions before doing them bit....
I've always wondered why impersonators introduce their impersonations with "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cliff Richard", etc. Why the "Mr." bit? Its like they are being super polite... right before the travesty begins.
Great video! Giggled at the idea of Margaret buying Minecraft from the Xbox store! Also, sorry to lower the tone, but 19.12 is a good candidate for Viz magazine's "Up the ****** corner".
Day had absolutely no talent but his Schofield was pretty good. Though I didn't know who it was meant to be until he said. So maybe it wasn't thst good.
Oh these are so awful, yet weirdly nostalgic. Like suddenly remembering the nightmare that plagued you throughout your middle school years in the 80s, when you're sat farting about doing nothing waiting for a crap advert on TH-cam to finish. I've got to hand it to you though - that was nice use of the Shelley theme tune. Rather listen to that than anything shat out by Eternal's writer's friend's auntie's current shag any day. I fear for that comedian, Mike Doyle. In amongst my disabilities I have a brain condition, and I don't do the stuff he was "exhibiting" around the 8.36 to 8.46 mark. Wanker. All this shite on display, and I failed an audition I didn't know I was having for "Behind The Bike Sheds" (our Drama teacher entered us, and we only found out who the two wonks that sat with her one afternoon were way, way later). By the way, "Eat Your Own Arse". Classic! Sadly, I'd managed to totally forget about Billy Pearce, until this nonsense brought him back into my brain again. Billyfuckinpearce. Whaddatwat. The kind of shite served up with the all you can eat "buffet" at old style Pontins. You, Mr. Millard, may like Billeh Pearce, but he upsets and embarrasses us from The North, so we'll let you have have him. And every scrap of media containing his "comedy". Nice to see Mr. Noel "Talent Vacuum" Edmonds turning up for his fee... I mean, to entertain us, at 16m46s. The only man I've ever heard the legendary John Peel have a go at. Nice to see him "not inventing" a format again. Well, since I never watched ANY of these first time round, it was no stroll down Memory Lane for me. Your videos, Stuart, are much more of a crawl across the barbed wire and minefields of the past you kind of wish had stayed there. But keep them coming my friend! Your brand of pisstaking and acid wit combined with finding just the right clips proves what I've always suspected - most of us in the UK are just masochists at heart...
Whenever Bobby Davro appears there should be a clip of him face planting while in a comedy stocks, like, every time. After watching a couple of these now one thing is clear, it's apparently impossible to do a decent del boy for these 90s professional light entertainers lol.
Incredible. "My dad's been gunged (with official House Party gunge)" wins every argument. There's no topping that. "Your dad's a policeman, is he? He's best mates with Mr. T? Well..."
Who told Shane Richie he could sing, anyway? Or, for that matter, told him he could be on TV, apart from 'villain of the week' on Crimewatch? I remember these entertainment programmes being on and my mum telling me I was a "miserable bugger" when I told her it was crap, (but she thought Mr Blobby was hilarious). Also, (no) thanks for reminding me about the terminally unfunny Billy Pierce. I'd manage to blot that memory out from my youth. Surprised we didn't get a guest appearance from Jim Davidson. The one thing that really makes my teeth itch is when "impressionists" tell you the name of the person they're going to impersonate. The only good thing about 1994 was that I was old enough to go out drinking and could escape this kind of sh!te. Thank f**k for alternative comedy.
Ah yes Anthea Turner the butt end of every viewers jokes for her time on breakfast television with Eammon Holmes where viewers wrote in to troll Anthea’s appearance that irked her so much she left .
Well, it's relatively well known he was massively anti-German because someone close to him (I think a girlfriend or immediate family member) was blown to pieces in the Blitz. Which is kinda fair enough. But I suspect its something worse.
Dignity is a rare thing in Royal Variety. Beige ‘comedians’ with impressions from 25 years ago and middle class stage school kids putting on cockerney accents, guvnor! No, thanks.
You can tell what kind of kids are there - a ballet section. If it were outside, they'd've had some dressage. Did they ever have an audience of kids the NSPCC were helping?
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A jawdroppingly savage and accurate summation of Eternal's dancing
The school bell ringing at the end had me howling.
We have either reached self parody or Princess Margaret is doing the closest modern interpretation of Sisyphus. Instead of being destined to push a boulder uphill for all eternity, she has to watch the Royal Variety again and again and again until the end of time.
We used to laugh at how peed off she always looked desperate for it to be over so she can get to the bar
And that's why she drank.
I was binge watching these videos so much, last night I had a dream that I was trapped in a warehouse with Bobby Davro.
I was going to leave a comment saying something like "Billy Pearce must have played Buttons in a panto production of Cinderella at least once," but my curiosity got the better of me and I looked it up - he's actually playing Buttons this year in Bradford with Bernice off Emmerdale! It's the role he was born to play!
Haha seriously? Isn’t buttons meant to be a young cheeky chappy type lad?
Edit: haha he’s also going to be in Pinocchio coming up this Christmas 😂
The NSPCC gunge plunge came to my high school. It had a proper host, outdoor trailer, stage and stuff. Far more professional looking than my high school deserved. A couple of teachers and some kids got gunged. I remember the host kept plugging Noels House Party throughout. He also said he wished he could gunge every single one of us, which is pretty mean for the NSPCC.
An eyewitness report! Absolutely classic Noel to make sure House Party's getting a plug. It's like when record companies used to send new boy bands round schools.
Watching these, one can understand why Princess Margaret needed such copious amounts of refreshments to steel herself from one year to the next. You don't get public duty like that these days.
At the risk of showing my age... What twisted mind dubs Eternal with the theme from Shelley!? Sublime 🤣
This is the first video from Stu I may not be able to finish. The mockney kids at the beginning is finishing me. 😢
You just got a shout out from the chaps at A Wheezing Groaning Sound podcast. It's like the crossover I never knew I was waiting for. Love the show.
Just found this channel after a CAB forum recommendation. Excellent stuff. I an ideal look back at what a weird place the UK was (and still is) in that not so distant past.
i bet you're loving this on etc
Recently discovered this channel and have been binge watching my way through, love it. Would love a video on the Big Breakfast and if you get into the 2000s, I recently rewatched Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned and it has not aged well 😂
I'm about to record the voiceover for a Big Breakfast video.
@@StuartMillard singing wakey wakey wakey rise and shine...
a Transformers joke in 1994 somehow does feel like the oldest thing here
Billy Pearce - jobber to the stars
Put everyone over though
Day’s hair makes him look like every kid I went to school with
Sir Patrick Moore once wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury asking him to ban foxhunting on C of E land
Pretty sure my school did the gunge plunge as part of a fete. I remember helping out, and me and some other students had, what in hindsight was obviously an old paedo, talk to us for about ten minutes. He quickly disappeared before a teacher came over -- so thankfully, it didn't become a different kind of gunge-plunge... Gotta love the 90s... :/
At 11:10, I'm almost convinced it's Davro that shouts out "Eat yer own arse." Sounds just like him. I'm also, slightly concerned for my mental health that I'm able to recognise and isolate the voice of the wannabe 'national treasure' after about 30 years of not hearing it. Like some sort of dystopian Pavlovian response. I don't see him on the cast list, so was he either waiting in the wings and not allowed on after the arse eating comment or did he have a ticket in the audience just on the off chance that some two-bob magician cut himself in half and he could shout out "eat yer own arse"? I'm truly intrigued by this. Can anyone help me out here? Is there anyone on here who sat next to or near Davro at this performance and heard him shout out "eat yer own arse"? Or, is there anyone on here who did in fact shout out "eat yer own arse" during the 1994 Children's Royal Variety Performance? I would write to Princess Margaret and ask if she knows but she died in 2002 and has taken the secret of the arse eating shouter to the grave with her. Anyone got a number for Anthea Turner? She might know.
Just saw a video of Davro from that period.... sounds exactly like him.
The girl in pink at 2:23 is in the Barrymore's Best Bites video in the 'Didj'a Ever' song singing Ah-so Ah-so! 😂
I'll never forgive myself that I didn't spot this. Never.
@@StuartMillard All roads lead to Barrymore. And Paul Miller.
But most famous for being in the Demon Headmaster.
21:00 - if he hadn't have introduced himself as Max Bygraves, nobody would have had a clue who he was. Not even Bygraves himself. As we all know young kids are mad for post war music hall acts. I mean, who else? Arthur Haynes?
I think I’m most surprised at just how old some of Darren’s impressions are
I mean, Cliff and David Essex were old enough, but Max Bygraves? Just who was the audience they were writing for?
And Wayne Dobson with the rope tricks! Left the knob jokes at home tho 😂
I’m amazed he didn’t do Mavis off Coronation Street. And as well as being decades out of date it isn’t even a good Max Bygraves impression.
The title of the episode is genius, especially as the performance itself is worse than the dystopian future from that X-Men story.
This was to be the final Children’s Royal Variety Performance
That figures!
Walked into college one day and PC Darren Stamper and Sgt June Ackland were stood next to the metal detectors. I remember June Ackland staring back at me as I walked past. Perhaps she was in character
22:00 fuck me, I thought you said "DDP" then. Was expecting to see Princess Margaret to take the Diamond Cutter.
To me Darren Day was just the regeneration of Cliff Richard weirdly coexisting in the same timeline.
And the classic announcing the impressions before doing them bit....
Love the Shelley choreography
The unbroken run of gold could not continue. The endless parade of stage school kids is tiring.
I loved Shelley
I can stomach any third rate end of pier comedian down on his luck but not screeching stage schoolkids doing a song and dance routine
I've always wondered why impersonators introduce their impersonations with "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cliff Richard", etc. Why the "Mr." bit? Its like they are being super polite... right before the travesty begins.
I think you know the reason... because the impression is not great.
Great video! Giggled at the idea of Margaret buying Minecraft from the Xbox store! Also, sorry to lower the tone, but 19.12 is a good candidate for Viz magazine's "Up the ****** corner".
Literally impossible to lower the tone on one of my videos.
Loved to have seen a Wayne Dodbson in a boxing ring with Bobby Davro fighting over Wayne wife would have been barbaric but fun!
I always thought these shows were boring and crap as a kid
Hangman Adam Page must have based his look on Hunter here.
16:45 is it me or is Edmunds channelling Ted DiBiase?
Day had absolutely no talent but his Schofield was pretty good. Though I didn't know who it was meant to be until he said. So maybe it wasn't thst good.
PC Tony Stamp looks a bit like Hugh Jackman in the cowboy skit.
Oh these are so awful, yet weirdly nostalgic. Like suddenly remembering the nightmare that plagued you throughout your middle school years in the 80s, when you're sat farting about doing nothing waiting for a crap advert on TH-cam to finish.
I've got to hand it to you though - that was nice use of the Shelley theme tune. Rather listen to that than anything shat out by Eternal's writer's friend's auntie's current shag any day.
I fear for that comedian, Mike Doyle. In amongst my disabilities I have a brain condition, and I don't do the stuff he was "exhibiting" around the 8.36 to 8.46 mark. Wanker.
All this shite on display, and I failed an audition I didn't know I was having for "Behind The Bike Sheds" (our Drama teacher entered us, and we only found out who the two wonks that sat with her one afternoon were way, way later). By the way, "Eat Your Own Arse". Classic!
Sadly, I'd managed to totally forget about Billy Pearce, until this nonsense brought him back into my brain again. Billyfuckinpearce. Whaddatwat. The kind of shite served up with the all you can eat "buffet" at old style Pontins. You, Mr. Millard, may like Billeh Pearce, but he upsets and embarrasses us from The North, so we'll let you have have him. And every scrap of media containing his "comedy".
Nice to see Mr. Noel "Talent Vacuum" Edmonds turning up for his fee... I mean, to entertain us, at 16m46s. The only man I've ever heard the legendary John Peel have a go at. Nice to see him "not inventing" a format again.
Well, since I never watched ANY of these first time round, it was no stroll down Memory Lane for me. Your videos, Stuart, are much more of a crawl across the barbed wire and minefields of the past you kind of wish had stayed there. But keep them coming my friend! Your brand of pisstaking and acid wit combined with finding just the right clips proves what I've always suspected - most of us in the UK are just masochists at heart...
One of those kids was in Imogen in the Demon Headmaster.
Whenever Bobby Davro appears there should be a clip of him face planting while in a comedy stocks, like, every time.
After watching a couple of these now one thing is clear, it's apparently impossible to do a decent del boy for these 90s professional light entertainers lol.
You might have to do a deep dive on the gunge obsession of the 90's.
My dad got gunged as part of the gunge plunge. Still have a before and after photo somewhere
Incredible. "My dad's been gunged (with official House Party gunge)" wins every argument. There's no topping that. "Your dad's a policeman, is he? He's best mates with Mr. T? Well..."
7:09 For what TV show was that the theme? - just occurred to me, it's from the sitcom Shelley.
thank you, it was bugging me. Obviously a tune i had heard many times but had no idea
Maggie phished as usual
Things that I disliked:
Day
Benson Phillips
Turner
Dancing/singing/comedy
Kids
Things I liked:
"Eat your own arse."
Darren Noshed Everyone
The theme from Shelley! - that'll separate the men from the boys or us old buggers from people going wtf was that?
Who told Shane Richie he could sing, anyway? Or, for that matter, told him he could be on TV, apart from 'villain of the week' on Crimewatch? I remember these entertainment programmes being on and my mum telling me I was a "miserable bugger" when I told her it was crap, (but she thought Mr Blobby was hilarious). Also, (no) thanks for reminding me about the terminally unfunny Billy Pierce. I'd manage to blot that memory out from my youth. Surprised we didn't get a guest appearance from Jim Davidson. The one thing that really makes my teeth itch is when "impressionists" tell you the name of the person they're going to impersonate.
The only good thing about 1994 was that I was old enough to go out drinking and could escape this kind of sh!te.
Thank f**k for alternative comedy.
Was so disappointed with the final Quantum Leap episode, love the follow up series however…which is more that can be said about musicals
Pretty sure one of the stage school urchins was in The Demon Headmaster, which was much better than this Children's Royal.
Paul Gannon from Cheapshow sent me here. Cheers!
Gawd bless 'im!
Ah yes Anthea Turner the butt end of every viewers jokes for her time on breakfast television with Eammon Holmes where viewers wrote in to troll Anthea’s appearance that irked her so much she left .
Clunge plunge
'eat your own arse'
9:38 fake T-shirt
I heard an awful rumour about Patrick Moore... i'm sure it's not true
Well, it's relatively well known he was massively anti-German because someone close to him (I think a girlfriend or immediate family member) was blown to pieces in the Blitz.
Which is kinda fair enough.
But I suspect its something worse.
Like a paper coffin funny
Ignorant, monetarist, bullying and abusive. But the NSPCC will be £43 million better off before long!
So... according to Darren Day, Paul Daniels was Scottish?
Never liked Darren Day-had a massive crush on Anna Friel at the time.
Dignity is a rare thing in Royal Variety. Beige ‘comedians’ with impressions from 25 years ago and middle class stage school kids putting on cockerney accents, guvnor! No, thanks.
You can tell what kind of kids are there - a ballet section. If it were outside, they'd've had some dressage. Did they ever have an audience of kids the NSPCC were helping?