Boring - Neil Innes (HD)

Boring from ‘The Innes Book of Records’.
Original broadcast date: 7th July 1980.
A song first featured by Neil on Rutland Weekend Television in 1975. Neil plays Batman in this take on the campy sixties TV show ably assisted by Robin (Chas Lacey) & Batgirl (Angie Gold) as they set out to thwart The Joker (Terry Pearson). Fans of The Goodies please take note that Neil is riding their famous trandem bicycle in this clip. Filmed in Buxton, Derbyshire.

[@terrypearson7787]

I have happy memories of filming this sequence - Neil Innes was an absolute delight to work with!

[@godfather3357]

Oh great!

[@chocsal]

Was it the Goodies' trandem at 1:33?

[@terrypearson7787]

@@chocsal Absolutely correct - well spotted!

[@chocsal]

@@terrypearson7787 To be fair, a friend pointed it out to me.

[@reckley]

Nice to hear that Terry! Are you still working?

[@birdthompson]

that Anne is a work of art!

[@SharoKham]

The production design in this is legit. I'd love to see someone revisit this version of Joker.

[@buddyneher9359]

All hail the YT algorithm for delivering this gem to me. 🙏

[@wylierichardson-tu6zs]

Thanks for posting this. I would love this song a lot more, if it weren't so... you know... dated. 😛

[@regantoomer6074]

Thanks for posting these in such great quality, SO appreciated: any more most welcome. I still sing this great song in the mornings after all these years. AND I still have a milkman delivering!

[@highwindsclarke2685]

0:43 Batman, Robin and Batgirl briefly appeared in the Morning Song.

[@beatlefreakers]

:)

[@jasminjavorina199]

Still better than Joel Schumacher's Batman movies...

[@kevlandy]

I wonder if they were riding the Goodies trandem?

[@akadventuring]

0:19 IT'S BATCOMEDYGENIUS!

[@martinsmith500]

Why wasn't he a bigger star

[@bgbstrm2352]

RIP Neil! So versatile and underrated...