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Roy "Spook!" Jay on the Bob Monkhouse Show, 1983
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2014
- No, you didn't dream him, he was real. In 1984 he became a regular on The Laughter Show, which made the limitations of his act a bit too obvious. He disappeared off the public radar almost as quickly as he arrived.
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This guy got me out of soo much trouble with my Mum! She would be trying to tell me off and I would constantly copy the 'spook' and 'slither' gestures until Mum gave up. First time I have seen his act in decades -thanks for the great memories!!!!
He seems like he would be a character from a David Lynch movie..
He was right: we were all doing it tomorrow. But we'd all stopped doing it the day after that.
He seemed a bit of a one trick pony. Sorry he died broke, very sad. Remember him well.
Haha. He was. I remember us all doing it the school playground for ages after. Sad that he's died at what obviously isn't such an old age, but he's defo a great memory for my age group.
@@bonesf200 Mine to Bones, such good memories of someone who found fame then disappeared.
@@ratmanbug It seemed like it had more potential than 1 trick - I mean Joe Pasquale is just his silly squeaky voice bit weirdly made a career out of it
@@chrisd0801 In comedy terms he seemed to be a genuine 1 hit wonder
I was a roadie for Roy for about six months in the mid-eighties and was employed by his agent Jean Allen (JAVA). My remit was to keep him away from the drink which was nigh on impossible. A fantastic, generous, extremely funny man. Shame about his demons.
Thanks for the comment - great to hear from someone who knew Roy.
@@dunebasher1971 i was working in jersey and this gobshite was on at holiday, he was pissed, unfunny, obnoxious , pathetic and possibly the biggest dickhead ive ever seen
@@nevilletravis586 Oh, dear... .
I remember Roy Jay. His "walk" was copied from a black South African gardener he knew.
The music backing him is used as the theme for a UK IITV)political programme called Pr
Peston. Nothing to do with Roy Jay, but our prime minister is a clown
@@nevilletravis586 He looks the type
I used to roll about laughing at this guy when I was a teenager in the ‘80’s. Unusual and unique act. Plus great jokes. Thanks for uploading!! 😀😀
Poor Roy. Talk about 15 minutes of fame. The problem with his act was how new and different it appeared at the time, but once you’d seen it a few times it was already old. Old pub gags told very slowly with the same 2 catchphrases repeated over a musical accompaniment . RIP.
Friend and I remember him well as we quoted him a lot at school. As an adult I can’t help but notice nobody laughs at “slither” and the audience seems easily pleased.
I think it was "Spooks" that made us kids laugh.
As a young teen, I loved this guy. Shame he never had the stardom he deserved.
I totally agree, no comedian has ever made me laugh so much.😁
Omg! I’m so glad I found this. I loved Roy Jay as a kid! So unique and so funny. We really all did it tomorrow 😁😁.
RIP “Spook Slither”!💕
Put another log on the fire woman
This guy was a very good friend of my late father. He used to do shows in my home town and never believed when they said he was on TV
Suddenly remembered this guy today after 30 odd years. He was right enough - we all were all doing it the day after in the playground. Sad to hear that he went off the rails a bit at the end but he gave us all some laughs before he went.
Oh my gosh. I used to see him when I was 11/12 years old in Benidorm. I randomly thought of him this week and I’m gutted to hear of this!
Spooky
Thanks very much for this - finally a clip of Roy :)
I remember this man i loved the act and I was always going around "Slither Hither". You either loved him or hated him, but now I watched this a gain I really think he was a genius. You'll all be doing this tomorrow. Spike Spoke, Spook.
It was a memorable act to see once. But you only needed to see it once, and that was the problem.
😂😂
Bought a tear to my eye, always remembered "Spooks" and the jump back.
All of us kids in comp were doing this.
Didn't know about the rest of his life but God Rest Fella. Gonna walk through the Pearly Gates one day and see you standing there just to greet me "SPOOKS" then I'm gonna PMSL
Spook not spooks
Fantastic, I thought this guy was top. I would have been 14 when I last saw this clip, and find him just as funny now as I did back then. RIP Roy Jay, you where awesome.
OMG, I can't believe someone posted this - thank you so much!
Great intro from Bob. Love the way he conspiratorially leans in just ever so slightly before he announces Roy Jay. We're know we're about to see something bonkers and sure enough we did.
Tanx dunebasher 1971, because theres so little video footage of him on t'internet, was beginning to think I'd imagined him too. R.I.P. Roy Jay you were a true original ... spook!!!
My fav Roy Jay monologue includes "Walking through the park I stood on a guys bum ,& a womans voice said Thank Yoooooouuuuu"
That made me giggle!!!😂😂😂😂
Are you a pole vaulter?
- No, I'm a German, but how did you know my name?
Thats an old joke from legendary Scots comedian Chic Murray. Billy Connolly's hero.
Correct, and it's been repeated more times than Columbo
Here because of Cheapshow.
*_NOODLE POSSE! NOODLE POSSE! NOODLE POSSE!_*
Winkie?
Very unique, very funny. Good memories. Just goes to show you don't need profanity and bad behaviour to be entertaining. RIP Roy, slithering and spooking in heaven.
+namor357 I believe it was profanity and bad behaviour that killed his career in the UK. Getting his cock out on stage at a Pontins, or something like that?
Some such shenanigans. Apparently he had a serious alcohol problem which indirectly did for him.
MalcNedd62 Seriously late reply I know... What I heard was that he was at some Big BBC Bash..and said something really inappropriate to the wife of some High up BBC Executive...Career Over ! Dunno if that's true ..
I was there the night in Jersey in 1983 when he torpedoed his career. Parents managed to distract me when he dropped his trousers. Being ten or so I thought he was the funniest thing ever and was well chuffed when he ended up front page of the Sun the next day.
I remember part of one of his routines, about being on holiday..."I met a girl in the disco...she said 'I'm only here till Sunday'. I said 'I'm dancing as fast as I can'"....We went back to her place...I wouldn't say it was small but when she put the key in the door she broke a window.....We went inside....the curtains were drawn but the furniture was real..." This guy should have had his own show.
OK that is funny
Thanks dunebasher1971 for this upload 'spook' we'll be doing this tomorrow.RIP Roy Jay thanks for the legendary comedy routine 'slither'.
OMG! I'm 57 and I never knew this guy's name! I simply typed Comedian with the catchphrase 'Slither' and up he popped! This guy was all over the TV in the mid-80s and then disappeared completely! As I say, I never even knew his name, but I remembered him as one of the weirdest variety acts I've ever seen!
So sad. I didn't know that he has passed away. He was wonderful and had my belly aching and my face wet with laughter. R.I.P to a very funny man....Spook......She was wild. xxx
You are easily pleased lol
Me too! Loved watching him.😀
Thanks for uploading!
seen this kid in Benidorm 1990 had the venue creased up we bought him a pint after his set and spent 20 mins talking to him . top chap
Just going through old diaries and found this clip because I used to book cabaret acts. I went to see Roy at Blazers in Windsor in 1982. My diary reads 'Looks a good act. It's different but it's dirty'. I told his agent I couldn't book him and the agent said he'd get him to do a clean act one night so I could see he could do it but I never heard from him.
Ken Clayton who was the other comic from back them? Used to have blond hair, wear a pink jacket or suit, ladies man type of bloke?
@@fooman65 Duncan Norvelle?
@@elkiemart4132 no, i've since found out who it was, a scouse comic under the name of Tom Pepper.
Ken ,if you knew this guy then read my comment I.left for Mundy above ,looks like he carried on being surreal after death too !
"Spook! ........weird............slither! ......". As Alan Partridge would say "Your act is really poor..."
DON'T TOUCH IT!!!
you made me forget
From what I remember he was banned from British TV after dropping his pants on live TV, he went off to Spain to work the comedy circuit there, where he died prematurely due to alcohol abuse. RIP Roy and thanks for the laughs
I lived next door to this guy in benidorm woke him up at 6am every day on my way home from work for a joint and a few pints in the 24 hour bar we lived above lovely guy and miss him still
Someone on Facebook just mentioned this guy and unlocked a core memory. I remember copying his trademark "spook" thing and found it funny, I was around 16 at the time.
First time that i've seen this guy since the 80's. Slither!
I only remembered Him as "Spook", I even named one of My Cats "Spook"
Me too! Had a black cat called Spook for years. He even used to jump spook like 😆
About 20 years ago, i was employed as a photographer onboard cruise ships, another photog would say to passengers 'spin and grin', and 'slither hither' in order to take their photo, think i know now where he got the catchphrase from.
I have fibromyalgia so I do the Roy Jay walk every day, unintentionally.
This guy just randomly came into my head there.
Met this chap once...... He was booked for a party and post his stint was trying to get off with someone's wife. Genius.
If you can believe the punters at a gig where he exposed himself, someone's wife missed out.
Classic!! thanks for posting this.
Bob looking young, thanks for sharing x
Been trying to remember this guy for decades, all I could recall was the suit and the word "slither" finally found him. Kinda a let down, as a kid I thought he was awesome!
Guy was a genius.. Slither 👍
Genius??Are you sure about that ??
be careful on revisiting childhood heroes. I once thought about watching The Banana Splits Show as an adult I found it utter cack
Saw him at the Verbeer Manor Devon around 1984, funny guy .
Honestly, once we'd seen his fingers undulate about twenty times, it was already tired out.
I just found the whole beatnik clown thing quite creepy to be honest. Like a mask. Didn't want to know what was behind that mask. Didn't want to watch it any more.
No-one else has that to say though.
Expert on comedy eh? Where was your last perfomance- Edinburgh fringe?
Yessss, great post. I'm doing it right now!!!
I enjoyed watching him then and I am really enjoying watching him again now and, we were all going, SPOOK!
I had forgotten all about this. My God it's insufferable. I think I may have imitated him as a small child, saying "spook" a lot and jumping about like a twat.
Yes!! Me too!! Hasn't quite stood the test of time
He died penniless in Spain and his body lay unclaimed for two weeks. Life, eh?
I disagree I think his act has an originality of it's own
At least the twat part stayed with you all these years.
@Alex Martin ????
No
I said, do you want a drink?......she said, I guess I'll have champagne.....I said, guess again.
🤣😂
Sounds like Tommy Cooper😄😂
LOL
That jokes older than jesus
Probably a little bit ahead of his time, I can see his influence in some of todays comedians, Milton Jones for example. I think he would of gone down well with modern comedy club audiences. I could easily of seen him on that Harry Hill show that was on CH4 a while back, some of the gags might of needed to be updated but still, the idea was there
Interestingly enough, given your "ahead of his time" comment, he'd already been doing this act in the clubs for some years by this point.
Great showman, loved it...
I knew this girl. She was weird. She had wooden legs and real feet
Finally! Thanks for uploading!
This seems a bit avant garde for the kind of people i'd imagine to be in the audience of the Bob Monkhouse Show, but they seem to be enjoying it.
Monkhouse was a great comedian - he had excellent timing - but hes more remembered for being a smarmy game show host
It isn’t avant garde really, the material is your bog standard 70s club jokes stuff -but his daft costume and music bed is just his hook. A fair few of those traditional comics had a hook like that, like Jimmy Cricket with his stupid wellies, or Mick Miller’s hairdo.
@@Jegarduk yes but Roy was a true genius, if he was about today he’d make a killing in clubland.
2022 and I remember the spook and slither bits. So memorable. Good integration of physical humour and weirdness. Almost Fast Show -ish but before the Fast Show. What happened to him?
Had a drink problem that led to him getting his cock out on stage at a family show which killed his career in the UK. Went to Spain and basically drank himself to death in between doing his show in bars for dwindling numbers of tourists.
i picked up his lp from a charity shop just recently
Thanks for this
School yard full of people spooking and slithering the next day. I found this by accident. And the Smith's Square Crisps ad? It's weird, duh dur duh duh duh!
Had forgotten about him til he was mentioned on BBC Tees last night!
He was Roy 'Kinnell' Jay when I first saw him at Brighton's Jenkinsons Cabaret Bar in the 70s. He explained his middle (nick)name in song:
We all have heard of Robin Hood,
Maid Marion as well.
When she saw the size of his Little John
She said ... 'Kinnell'.
I guess he dropped the Kinnell for TV.
Loved him. Was with him in Steptoes bar in Benidorm, year before he died
He was amazing wasn’t he!!
Jodie Henson he was Jodie
Ahhh i worked steptoes in 2010-12 a funny lil gaff but his act worked there
That's better a comedian that made everybody laugh, very sadly missed, slither on roy.
underneath it all he's a Northern club comedian :)
"what a pad it was...inside toilet"
You'll all be doing it tomorrow! Not a truer word spoken! Everyone was doing it
I actually quite liked him. It is a shame that he was so troubled.
Note how Bob was always happy to see new comedians on the circuit...
Nowadays, much of the general public are quick to slag off us new comics, and write us off before we have a chance to get established.
Take a leaf out of Bob's book.
He did a Schweppes advert, it's on here - Schweppes - Speedy Disco & Weird Prisoner (Roy Jay) - UK Advert
Like a mix between John Altman and Tony Hawk UK Comedian.
Back in the day. My and my mate Bruce used to use ‘slither’ and ‘spook’ with the ladies at the Durham Ox, it didn’t really work! 😢
Meanwhile the USA had brilliant comedians like George Carlin and Bill Hicks while we had to suffer crap like this.
Eff off there then.
I saw Roy on telly once...a wasted talent
Should have been a comic superstar❤
There's an advert for Head & Shoulders (May 2019) the song is Aloe Blacc (a king is born) that samples Vehicle by Ides of March. The horn section got my mind racing ..... strange comedian.... don't know his name..... anything else? ..... suit with arrows?
I typed" Ides of March comedian arrows suit music" found a link, saw his name was Roy Jay and et voilà I'm watching him! Come on the web is something :o)
Now if anyone can remember a song called "the Stanley" It went something like "Come on the Stanley...we can do the Stanley... You can do the Stanley too" It's an incredibly distant memory of TOTP's, I'm sure I haven't made it up, It may take 10yrs but maybe someone involved with the song will read this and reply.... fingers crossed
Don't know if you've found out yet mate, but Do the Stanley was by a brilliant band called Stackridge.
Don't know if you've found out yet mate, but "Do the Stanley" was by a brilliant band called Stackridge.
@@danieldoherty2411 woah! Cheers mate, just listened to it, I got the words a bit wrong, but I had only heard it once 43yrs ago (it turns out) ...... you've made my year....really😊
@@danieldoherty2411 actually 46yrs ago just bought the single off ebay .... thanks again
@@hughjarrse You're welcome mate, glad to help. The Stackridge leader was a guy called Viv Stanshall...an absolute genius who was sought after by almost every band/musicians around. Played on Tubular Bells amongst many, many others. It's him who introduces "grand piano", "bass guitar" etc on Bells.
Was Roy Jay the Vocalist of It's Immaterial's z Driving Away From Home?
No, that was John Campbell.
I defy anyone to say that this isn't Roy Jay.
Jesus wept
He wept for your lack of a sense of humour.
SPOOK SLITHER SPOOK SLITHER SPOOK SLITHER SPOOK SLITHER SPOOK SLITHER
I was in my late twenties then and don't remember this guy at all. I'm guessing he wasn't around very long.
Bit too weird for me.....
He couldn't decide whethher he wanted to be English or America Gone Too Soon.
brilliant - he sounds a bit like Edd Byrnes in 77 Sunset Strip
Well done Roy.
Am I glad I didn't remember this chap?
@MrKayaker69 Irrelevant enough for you to take time out of your day to respond me!
@MrKayaker69 awwww bless your cotton socks. This comedian was a one trick pony and was never a success , but if thats your bag then that shows your level of comedic intellect
@MrKayaker69 mild abusing aside, hope you are well, staying safe and have a great weekend
In my opinion you a a prick but I still love you fool
CheapShow brought me here 🤣
He was weirdly funny.....
Yes my dad was doing it the very next day
I think the reason he was popular is that he moved & looked like a live action Looney Tunes character & the jokes were old groaners everyone knew
So kids copied him
But repeat viewings don’t hold up; not necessarily a problem then as video recorders weren’t that common, but now
good point about repeat viewings - i vaguely recalled seeing this act years and years ago so searched on youtube and up this pops. It does tend towards 1 trick pony but IMO its a good trick
I've watched shows at the edinburgh fringe that were worse, least he had jokes in this
if rodney dangerfield escaped from prison and was doped up .... funny guy back in the early 80s , sad to hear he passed away
Rodney Dangerfield surely?
Poor old Roy
Died penniless and all the other Benidorm comedians had a whip around to pay for his funeral. Liked his drugs and drink. Got his vock out on stage one night and was banned from all the hotels so I hear.
Cringe humour. Funny for about as long as his fame. 15 mins.
We did copy his spook and slither at school. For about a week until forgot all about him.
seriously, I think he was ahead of his time
I kind of agree - its almost Fast Show-esque where he repeats his catchphrases plus the overall weirdness of it all seems more in tune with the 21st century
You all be doing it tomorrow...
Why ain't this guy got his own wiki,n if he has me eyeballs must have fallen out coz i cant see one.....
he has but its in Chec ??
What did roy jay say the day before he died?
wow SPOOOK Hey, breathing, i wont be doin this tomorra
you could say he slithered off his mortal coil
im sure he got banned off the TV for life for dropping his trousers on stage when he was getting heckled by an audience member
The getting-his-dick-out thing happened *after* his TV career had already ended.
Happened in Jersey of all places
Sticky Vicky!
The audience were easily pleased back then. This guy was awful
Poor lad. This is awful.
No it’s top comedy, now slither man
Having oversized genitalia, fame, and an endless supply of alcohol and cocaine is all well and good.. Provided you are not also blessed with an innate desire to drop your trousers. RIP Roy
Why the fuck does he keep saying slither?
why not? its the yin to yang the salt to vinegar the smith to wesson of spook