I see they tried to jazz it up and modernize in the 90s, but it's still got its feet firmly planted in the light-entertainment horror shows of the 70s and 80s
I made the same mistake too. But John Hasler (T-shirt) was 17-18 or so at this time. I don't know if the Leonard Kirby here was the one born in Havering district in 1978 or the one born in Birmingham district in 1984 because he doesn't seem to be either 14 or 8 here, but somewhere in between.
‘Take That’ were hyped beyond sense by the BBC before their first single was even out. BBC 90s kids shows emblematic of pushing “people we’re told we like”.
See also NME with Britpop, The Strokes, and Arctic Monkeys. Simon Day's 'Indie Club' sketch on the Fast Show ("everything you know is WRONG") was maybe my all-time favourite Fast Show sketch. Spot on.
Blimey, how the analogue fuzz obscures the image. I genuinely thought those wallpaperers were Harry and Paul when they first came on. I also used to live up the road from the Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts. Tucked away down a little road with no pedestrian access, nobody ever went in or out. A truly Wonkesque landmark.
Thank goodness you said who that kid is, I'd have been going binoculars trying to work it out otherwise. My brain would've been going "is he t-shirt?" "No" "well, is he t-shirt then?" "No" "ok, how about t-shirt?" "NO" By the way next years was a full on banger festival so expect me to be performatively grumpy if you are rude about it, even though that is literally your job
The only thing worse than extremely posh children is extremely posh precocious children. I always viscerally hated those Young Musician of the Year programmes that always seemed to be on a Sunday evening, which I'd gaze at through a confused, hungover fog, during the days of 4 channels and no internet. "Hark! Here's young Rupert playing the harp with his toes, and next we have Cordelia telepathically playing the cello" etc. Or that young antiques expert who looked like Art Garfunkel. PS the cutaway to Frank Skinner after that Matthew Kelly, erm, 'moment' was absolutely inspired.
I love it! Bernard Cribbins and Right Said Fred were on the same stage. For those that don’t know, the band took its name from Cribbin’s old novelty song.
To be so out of touch with the younger generation that the producers of this show thought kids would be interested in Michael Ball singing "somewhere over the rainbow". Who in their right mind gave this the go ahead!
13:17 Surely, I can't be the only one to go back and marvel at that "small" tub of ice cream? Nowadays, that tub would be half the size and three times the cost!
So far I've been pretty astounded that ol' Jimmy Saville hasn't turned up in any of these considering how well loved he was at the time... maybe Princess Marge didn't want him there for some reason. 0_o
Haha I think I caught a glimpse of this at the time of broadcast but didn't persist when I saw Kelly doing his 4th Doctor forgets to shave impression. How often has that wall papering sketch been done at a royal variety? There was one in b&w with Bruce Forsyth and Norman Wisdom.
As someone who was a Scout and took part in 2 Scout shows in my local theatre when I was 11-12, I thought this wasn't too bad. But oh yeah this was meant to be a Royal Variety Performance or something.
Thanks for reminding me why I stopped watching these types of show back in the early to mid 80's. It took a while for the producers to catch up, for sure. Matthew Kelly looking like a charity shop Doctor Who, which is ironic seeing as Sylvester McCoy was doing the same a few years earlier. You could tell it was the BBC who orchestrated this by the number of, 'familiar faces', they used from shows that were relevant at the time. It makes you wonder whether they had clauses where they had to do a live performance written into their contracts. They had to have the obligatory, 'pop act', doing their act of trying to sing and an approximation of what passed for a dance routine, back then. At least they had a few time-served professionals to keep the show together. Having Andy Peters doing the big finale with his sidekick, Ed the duck was a bit of a cop out, though.
Bella Emberg wrestling to Dare from the Transformers soundtrack is possibly the greatest thing to happen on any stage. Plus watching a video of shit Royal Variety shows with commentary including random wrestling references is totally in my wheelhouse.
I wonder if the Matthew Kelly coming out in that particular get up had something to do with Dr Who ??? Matthew looks like he is dressed as Tom Bakers Dr. Who. And the fact that Sylvester McCoy was also Dr Who?? And not sure if he was directly after Tom Baker ??? Was this a hint at what was to come ? I have no idea if that would all tally up to when this was recorded ?? But the get up he is wearing is very similar to Tom Baker's Dr. Who. (The only Dr Who I remember watching, for Daleks. Obvs.)
I thought Leonard was John Hasler, who once featured in a show with painted sets and only two guest artists per episode…never liked musicals either, this has reinforced my opinion
you really think the likes of paul daniels, rod hull and bernie winters would've attached themselves to this shitshow? i'm surprised we haven't seen one of the unholy trinity pop-up yet on one of these; rolf harris, gary glitter or jimmy saville.
I think you mean Rolf Harris MBE, OBE, CBE and Sir Jimmy Savile OBE. Show a bit of respect mate. (Although I think you got Glitter's full title right).
Reaching Charlie Brooker levels of scorn and derision at the beginning there!
After watching this, you can fully understand why Margaret got through so much gin.
That was truly diabolical, you deserve a medal for all the appalling television you must have to watch to make these reviews.
My supposed tolerance for for cringe never survives contact with these shows. Still haven't been able to watch one in one go, even with commentary.
I can never fully hate something that features a Sylvester McCoy appearance
Not sure at aged 50 I am supposed to have a 'favourite TH-camr', yet here we are!
I see they tried to jazz it up and modernize in the 90s, but it's still got its feet firmly planted in the light-entertainment horror shows of the 70s and 80s
I thought that boy was T-Shirt (From the ITV Teabag series ) at first but I guess in 1992 T-Shirt would have been much older.
Like a few commentators here, I thought the same. "At least I get to talk about T-Bag for a bit. Oh..."
Fake T-shirt
I thought that for moment too.
I made the same mistake too. But John Hasler (T-shirt) was 17-18 or so at this time.
I don't know if the Leonard Kirby here was the one born in Havering district in 1978 or the one born in Birmingham district in 1984 because he doesn't seem to be either 14 or 8 here, but somewhere in between.
‘Take That’ were hyped beyond sense by the BBC before their first single was even out. BBC 90s kids shows emblematic of pushing “people we’re told we like”.
kinda episode that always reminds you the cards are against ya...
*Disney:* Write that down, write that down!
BBC Radio 1 was always the same, too.....basically 'you should like this group or that singer and we'll force it down your throat until you do'.
See also NME with Britpop, The Strokes, and Arctic Monkeys. Simon Day's 'Indie Club' sketch on the Fast Show ("everything you know is WRONG") was maybe my all-time favourite Fast Show sketch. Spot on.
The production companies own talent agencies, etc. It's why comedy today is just the same comedians on cycle.
Blimey, how the analogue fuzz obscures the image. I genuinely thought those wallpaperers were Harry and Paul when they first came on.
I also used to live up the road from the Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts. Tucked away down a little road with no pedestrian access, nobody ever went in or out. A truly Wonkesque landmark.
Thank goodness you said who that kid is, I'd have been going binoculars trying to work it out otherwise. My brain would've been going "is he t-shirt?" "No" "well, is he t-shirt then?" "No" "ok, how about t-shirt?" "NO"
By the way next years was a full on banger festival so expect me to be performatively grumpy if you are rude about it, even though that is literally your job
No worries there. Next year's is already up on Patreon with the subtitle "The Greatest Show Ever Staged"
@@StuartMillard it might just be, you know
@DemonTomatoDave yeah, I thought it was the t-shirt kid
I have being watching these for a while, hits the nail on the head, with the commentary. Have a takeaway on me :)
Thanks, Deano! Really appreciate it
The only thing worse than extremely posh children is extremely posh precocious children. I always viscerally hated those Young Musician of the Year programmes that always seemed to be on a Sunday evening, which I'd gaze at through a confused, hungover fog, during the days of 4 channels and no internet. "Hark! Here's young Rupert playing the harp with his toes, and next we have Cordelia telepathically playing the cello" etc. Or that young antiques expert who looked like Art Garfunkel.
PS the cutaway to Frank Skinner after that Matthew Kelly, erm, 'moment' was absolutely inspired.
I love it! Bernard Cribbins and Right Said Fred were on the same stage. For those that don’t know, the band took its name from Cribbin’s old novelty song.
I was at RADA in1992. Every single person on that stage is a million times better than I was at anything. which is very sad.
It's so weird watching them wrestling to an orchestral version of Megatron Must Be Stopped.
lol yeh, was trying to work it out and thought it was 'Escape' but i think you're right
This is an absolute worst nightmare!
3 hours of this
12:24 - this has to be the best edit I have ever seen on TH-cam.
"That's quite enough of that, Savile" killed me 😂
Spat out me vodka at the Saville comment...love this channel
I know a few people who had kids in a PQA academy, and I had no idea until now that the PQ stood for Pauline Quirke
Proper money spinner for old Pauline. Amazing how well she’s doing since that documentary they did on her where she cut up a cow in the kitchen sink
@@NecroMoz What documentary was that?
Nice of them to grab the zeitgeist and give a cameo to the Lyle's Golden Syrup spoons at 13:02
To be so out of touch with the younger generation that the producers of this show thought kids would be interested in Michael Ball singing "somewhere over the rainbow". Who in their right mind gave this the go ahead!
13:17 Surely, I can't be the only one to go back and marvel at that "small" tub of ice cream? Nowadays, that tub would be half the size and three times the cost!
Ahhhh…..I was wondering why Matthew Kelly was dressed like Tom Baker
I thought he was Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.
Haha I actually laughed out loud the way you said “... and not this sh1️⃣t” at the end 😂
This was worth it if only for the unexpected nostalgia for Transformers: The Movie
Thanks!
You invoke the name of Malcom Jamal Warner. Well done, lol.
Superb.
So far I've been pretty astounded that ol' Jimmy Saville hasn't turned up in any of these considering how well loved he was at the time... maybe Princess Marge didn't want him there for some reason. 0_o
Did an actual spit take at ‘her neighbour who absolutely loves a good old f--‘. I’ll send you the cleaning bill, Stuart!
Haha I think I caught a glimpse of this at the time of broadcast but didn't persist when I saw Kelly doing his 4th Doctor forgets to shave impression. How often has that wall papering sketch been done at a royal variety? There was one in b&w with Bruce Forsyth and Norman Wisdom.
2:18 which actually improves with every read
Damn, you beat me to that
I saw Billy do the echo gag at BP club in Hull. No, he didn’t do so well after this gig.
15:34 you know who i think could do a good wallpaper gag, matt and Bryan from supermega
Jesus! Henry Cavill singing at 17:38
As someone who was a Scout and took part in 2 Scout shows in my local theatre when I was 11-12, I thought this wasn't too bad.
But oh yeah this was meant to be a Royal Variety Performance or something.
Good use of the transformers movie soundtrack....
I almost feel bad for thinking "Fritzing out" was a Von Erich reference.
Come for Matthew Kelly, stay for the All Japan Women reference
Thanks for reminding me why I stopped watching these types of show back in the early to mid 80's. It took a while for the producers to catch up, for sure. Matthew Kelly looking like a charity shop Doctor Who, which is ironic seeing as Sylvester McCoy was doing the same a few years earlier. You could tell it was the BBC who orchestrated this by the number of, 'familiar faces', they used from shows that were relevant at the time. It makes you wonder whether they had clauses where they had to do a live performance written into their contracts. They had to have the obligatory, 'pop act', doing their act of trying to sing and an approximation of what passed for a dance routine, back then. At least they had a few time-served professionals to keep the show together. Having Andy Peters doing the big finale with his sidekick, Ed the duck was a bit of a cop out, though.
Billy Pearce has proven one thing. That there is such a thing as the poor mans Bobby Davro.
The next VHS: WTF, 1 Night in Emberg
Bravo
Loved your use of Larry Grayson, with Willy Thorne and Jimmy White. But not sure, even though I laughed, about this one.
Rat boy really looked like Tom Hardy. Can you confirm he isn’t?
To be fair, Brain Conley is a far more polished Hans Christian Andersen than Danny Kaye ever was
God that was painful.
Can confirm PGL generated stories but not really ones you could repeat in front of royalty.
Bella Emberg wrestling to Dare from the Transformers soundtrack is possibly the greatest thing to happen on any stage.
Plus watching a video of shit Royal Variety shows with commentary including random wrestling references is totally in my wheelhouse.
I wonder if the Matthew Kelly coming out in that particular get up had something to do with Dr Who ??? Matthew looks like he is dressed as Tom Bakers Dr. Who. And the fact that Sylvester McCoy was also Dr Who?? And not sure if he was directly after Tom Baker ??? Was this a hint at what was to come ? I have no idea if that would all tally up to when this was recorded ?? But the get up he is wearing is very similar to Tom Baker's Dr. Who. (The only Dr Who I remember watching, for Daleks. Obvs.)
Rosemarie Ford though, eh? Eh?
Paul Zenon - pound shop Martin Daniels
Was that Adrian Hedley with Pauline Quirk?
Rosemary Ford ....... Sigh
18:25 it’s The Renegade!!!
Well, that's ruined the Transformers the Movie soundtrack for me.
The similarity between Mathew Kelly and Steve Pemberton is uncanny, anyone else think that?
Fantasy Street also known as Savile Row?
I thought Leonard was John Hasler, who once featured in a show with painted sets and only two guest artists per episode…never liked musicals either, this has reinforced my opinion
WTF there was actually a time when Andy Peters didn’t just talk about competition prizes ?
Lol its true 😎
Splendid…. Well not. But love the vlog
This is actually the children's royal variety performance and not the adult one. Most of them followed this format
Good God that variety show is just cringe inducingly awful. So cheap and clueless.
Love your videos but this was so bad I had to click off - not you, you understand ! 😵😵💫🤪
you really think the likes of paul daniels, rod hull and bernie winters would've attached themselves to this shitshow? i'm surprised we haven't seen one of the unholy trinity pop-up yet on one of these; rolf harris, gary glitter or jimmy saville.
I think you mean Rolf Harris MBE, OBE, CBE and Sir Jimmy Savile OBE. Show a bit of respect mate. (Although I think you got Glitter's full title right).