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Quickest Fall From Fame

Started by Small Man Big Horse, April 08, 2015, 07:39:30 PM

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koeman

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on April 11, 2015, 03:52:09 PM
If you watch Wolfie's video, he's actually a perfectly serviceable old school stand up. Good opening gag, nice dead pan delivery, tailored material for the night.

That's a lovely first gag, brilliantly delivered.

Phil_A

Quote from: holyzombiejesus on April 11, 2015, 04:07:01 PM
David 'Not the real David Copperfield' Copperfield. According to wikipedia, he had a couple of series of his own but I don't remember them at all.

However badly Copperfield is doing, the fate of his "Coppers & Co" co-star Tony Howes is even bleaker. I seem to remember he had a showreel on his website that only succeeded in making it abundantly clear he hadn't had any work for about twenty years.

Still, we have youtube to remind us of the glory days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPht4FBcSMU

Quote from: Phil_A on April 11, 2015, 04:48:53 PM
However badly Copperfield is doing, the fate of his "Coppers & Co" co-star Tony Howes is even bleaker. I seem to remember he had a showreel on his website that only succeeded in making it abundantly clear he hadn't had any work for about twenty years.

Still, we have youtube to remind us of the glory days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPht4FBcSMU

His Medallion Man sketch, from Three of a Kind, is still a total classic.

Rolf Lundgren

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on April 11, 2015, 03:59:55 PM
It's interesting to read between the lines 

In what little spare time he has.

2015 in general
I am still busy with cruise work but have decided this year to make much more free time available to myself. I'm enjoying spending more time at home in Southampton.

It's a common theme on websites like these where they feel the need to let people know how in demand they always are. I'm sure most do make a good living but the constant reassurances that everything is great does hint at protesting too much.

Phil_A

Quote from: MrSerious on April 11, 2015, 12:05:01 AM
There's a creepy mystery/sci-fi thriller that needs to be written about an island that these people disappear to (I don't mean Benidorm, Roy fans) and their inability to escape. Basically just a remake of The Prisoner starring Justin Lee Collins, (Little Miss) Jocelyn, and Richard Herring.

Ha. I always wanted to make a feature length finale for "Last Of The Summer Wine", in which it's revealed Holmfirth is a kind of Prisoner village for retired comedy actors and entertainers, who have all had their memories wiped and been given new identities as wacky northern eccentrics. Anyone who figures out the truth and/or tries to make a break for meets a terrible fate at the hands of a sinister fleet of tin baths on wheels.

"Who's been saying I'm a number? I am not a number. One thing I certainly am not, is a number."

I still do genuinely think LOTSW will be rebooted sometime in the next twenty years. Johnny Vegas, David Mitchell and Steven Merchant in the leads. I'm calling it now.

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Rolf Lundgren on April 11, 2015, 05:15:11 PM
It's a common theme on websites like these where they feel the need to let people know how in demand they always are. I'm sure most do make a good living but the constant reassurances that everything is great does hint at protesting too much.

And these people are always painting, writing poetry, exploring local history, being interesting... etc.
Nobody ever says, "When I'm not busy, I sit around the house all day with a massive hangover, surfing the net for porn, playing Alien Isolation and reading a free newspaper on the bog for three quarters of an hour, whilst having the squits from last night's iffy kebab."

Quote from: chand on April 10, 2015, 11:31:41 AM
Impressionists shouldn't have careers in this day and age anyway. We have about five impressionists already and that's easily five more than anyone ever needs.


Years ago there was even room for an impressionist who sang like famous singers. Remember Joe Longthorne?

Steven

Quote from: Nice Relaxing Poo on April 11, 2015, 06:43:45 PM
Years ago there was even room for an impressionist who sang like famous singers. Remember Joe Longthorne?

What about room for ventriloquists who have puppets that sang like famous singers?

daf

Quote from: chand on April 10, 2015, 11:31:41 AM
We have about five impressionists already

Renoir - "What a Silly Billy"
Monet - "Ooh Betty, the cat has done a whoopsie"
Manet - "Jingle-jangle, jingle-jangle, shah-waddeh-waddeh"
Cézanne - "G-G-Good game, g-g-good game"
Degas - ". . . And this is me"

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: MrSerious on April 11, 2015, 12:05:01 AM
(Little Miss) Jocelyn

The above fits in to the thread remit really well, her and the women from TittyBangBang. All primed to be the next big thing, and then seemingly disappeared. Katy Brand seemed hugely popular for a while too, and since has disappeared from, well, my radar at least. And it's a mighty impressive radar.

Sexton Brackets Drugbust

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on April 11, 2015, 07:36:21 PM
The above fits in to the thread remit really well, her and the women from TittyBangBang. All primed to be the next big thing, and then seemingly disappeared. Katy Brand seemed hugely popular for a while too, and since has disappeared from, well, my radar at least. And it's a mighty impressive radar.

Lucy Montgomery from Tittybangbang is still very active. She's pretty much now an established member of the extended Fast Show ensemble; she was in Down The Line, Bellamy's People and the Brian Pern stuff - being married to Rhys Thomas obviously strengthens that connection - but she's also got a stage/singing career.

Gulftastic

Quote from: Nice Relaxing Poo on April 11, 2015, 06:43:45 PM

Years ago there was even room for an impressionist who sang like famous singers. Remember Joe Longthorne?

Yes. Wigan Warriors had a player called Simon Haughton who we used to think looked a bit like him. Whenever he come on the field, we used to sing 'GOLD-FIN-GAH!' like Longthorne doing his Bassey impression.

Phil_A

Quote from: Nice Relaxing Poo on April 11, 2015, 06:43:45 PM

Years ago there was even room for an impressionist who sang like famous singers. Remember Joe Longthorne?

It was also a big part of Mike Yarwood's act. Although God knows why, he was fucking dreadful at it.

Quote from: Sexton Brackets Drugbust on April 11, 2015, 07:55:57 PM
Lucy Montgomery from Tittybangbang is still very active. She's pretty much now an established member of the extended Fast Show ensemble; she was in Down The Line, Bellamy's People and the Brian Pern stuff - being married to Rhys Thomas obviously strengthens that connection - but she's also got a stage/singing career.

And the other one, Debbie Chazen, has done loads of acting work since then, although she looks completely different now due to having lost a huge amount of weight.

Mark Steels Stockbroker

Quote from: koeman on April 11, 2015, 03:40:26 PM
I remember seeing Dave Wolfe when I was watching some old Blankety Blanks on Youtube. He did a joke about the emergency services in Wetherfield being slow, as someone had a heart attack at eight o'clock on the Monday night, and the ambulance didn't arrive until 7.30 on Wednesday.

Solid gag

Sorry, is there a clever pun that I'm missing, or one that only works in a particular proletarian accent?

Danger Man

It's a Coronation Street joke, you Oxbridge ponce.

Mark Steels Stockbroker

Quote from: Phoenix Lazarus on April 11, 2015, 05:05:02 PM
His Medallion Man sketch, from Three of a Kind, is still a total classic.

I'd quite like to know who wrote that. Ben Elton and Jenny Lecoat are both in the credits for the TOAK book, some bits of which I am sure I can tell were written by them (the stuff about being right-on, which may be leftovers from Al Fresco. Also the "Jenny Hill" sketches).

Mark Steels Stockbroker

Quote from: Danger Man on April 11, 2015, 09:37:13 PM
It's a Coronation Street joke, you Oxbridge ponce.

Oh I see, nothing that would make sense to a BBC2 audience.

Small Man Big Horse

#137
Quote from: Nice Relaxing Poo on April 11, 2015, 06:43:45 PM

Years ago there was even room for an impressionist who sang like famous singers. Remember Joe Longthorne?

I've a friend who loves Joe Longthorne, and regularly goes to his live shows and posts a huge amount of photos. I've chatted to him about it (he's otherwise lovely!) and he can't explain it, other than loving his voice.

Quote from: Phil_A on April 11, 2015, 09:02:15 PM
And the other one, Debbie Chazen, has done loads of acting work since then, although she looks completely different now due to having lost a huge amount of weight.

Yeah, I saw that on her wikipedia page, but I guess the thing is that I expected her to be a big thing comedy wise, whereas instead she's carved out a career in soap operas.

HappyTree


Jockice

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on April 11, 2015, 09:54:31 PM
I've a friend who loves Joe Longthorne, and regularly goes to his live shows and posts a huge amount of photos. I've chatted to him about it (he's otherwise lovely!) and he can't explain it, other than loving his voice.

My mum was a massive fan. I still bear the scars. I used to regularly ask he what was the point of someone doing impressions if they just weren't funny. I disliked him even more after reading an interview in which he reminisced about being on Junior Showtime, a horrible children's programme featuring the kind of show-offy little brats that, even as a five-year-old, I wanted to hit.

MuteBanana

Quote from: Sexton Brackets Drugbust on April 11, 2015, 07:55:57 PM
Lucy Montgomery from Tittybangbang is still very active. She's pretty much now an established member of the extended Fast Show ensemble; she was in Down The Line, Bellamy's People and the Brian Pern stuff - being married to Rhys Thomas obviously strengthens that connection - but she's also got a stage/singing career.

I always get her and Elizabeth Bower confused. Bower is more a Sally Phillips lookalike. I thought she'd done more comedy but all that stands out on her CV is Spoons and Trollied. Another comedy actress I seem to group with these two for some reason is Lucy Punch. She has done very well though.

Rob Rouse? He was about and then not.

Mark Steels Stockbroker

I heard once that Debbie Chazen hated TittyBangBang but did it for the work. She was also the Mayoress in We Are Klang. What happened to the other 2 out of Klang?

Hank_Kingsley

I heard Dapper Laughs is taking some time out to study Yiddish theatre in Prague.

Anyway, this guy is the new Dapper Laughs. https://twitter.com/arron_crascall.

Fantastic banter. Fantastic.

Mark Steels Stockbroker

Quote from: Hank_Kingsley on April 12, 2015, 09:34:20 AM
I heard Dapper Laughs is taking some time out to study Yiddish theatre in Prague.

Anyway, this guy is the new Dapper Laughs. https://twitter.com/arron_crascall.

Fantastic banter. Fantastic.

How has that cunt got an agent???

Mark Steels Stockbroker

References to JLC in the BTTF thread reminded me:

There's a twatty Nathan Barley coffee shop on Bermondsey Street, that is decoreated with all sorts of old shit put up "ironically". Posters of Stalin and Mao and Philip Schofield and old Smash Hits pullouts of Take That.

They used to have a picture of JLC on display. After his court case, someone scribbled a comment on it, "bad boy" or something like that. But now he has been removed entirely.

So that's how low he's fallen. Even a load of soulless Shoreditch cultural space-fillers can't bring themselves to like him ironically. He's that far beyond the pale.

Funcrusher

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on April 11, 2015, 01:50:54 PM
and Fogwell Flax from the same era is now a Sting impersonator. No, really.

I like the picture with the caption Foggy as Sting . It's no different to his personal headshot.

http://www.fogwellflax.com/foggywebsite2011/WELCOME.html

"The Sting/Police tribute I perform has gone from strength to strength, and includes two new songs, King of Pain and Synchronicity II."

He's going for the popular toe tappers there.

MuteBanana

Quote from: Hank_Kingsley on April 12, 2015, 09:34:20 AM
I heard Dapper Laughs is taking some time out to study Yiddish theatre in Prague.

Anyway, this guy is the new Dapper Laughs. https://twitter.com/arron_crascall.

Fantastic banter. Fantastic.

He needs to disappear like that Matty Robson. He had a shot at fame when the tabloids discovered his rant at NHS boob job girl. He had a website done up for him and was given a headline slot at a gig in Glasgow. Ballsed it, owed all the people who bought tickets through his website refunds, threatened to sue the agency then deleted all the threats from his page. Now he's left to posting on his Facebook his Dapper Laugh's inspired sexism interspersed with Gervais style posts and videos on how he doesn't care about haters. Lot of followers but way to go at destroying a potential career.

http://mattyrobson.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/matty.robson.77?fref=ts

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Hank_Kingsley on April 12, 2015, 09:34:20 AM
I heard Dapper Laughs is taking some time out to study Yiddish theatre in Prague.

Anyway, this guy is the new Dapper Laughs. https://twitter.com/arron_crascall.

Fantastic banter. Fantastic.

No, he's the new James Corden!

Jake Thingray

Quote from: Jockice on April 12, 2015, 02:31:06 AM
My mum was a massive fan. I still bear the scars. I used to regularly ask he what was the point of someone doing impressions if they just weren't funny. I disliked him even more after reading an interview in which he reminisced about being on Junior Showtime, a horrible children's programme featuring the kind of show-offy little brats that, even as a five-year-old, I wanted to hit.

In his autobiography, Longthorne begins each chapter with a quote from the lyrics of a song he's performed, then attributes the song to himself, regardless of who actually wrote it.

Regarding what MuteBanana said about Elizabeth Bower, maybe the impression that she's done more comedy than she really has is due to the amount of commercials and trailers she's made. Slightly off topic as this guy hasn't had initial fame or a fall from it yet, but still in the cruise ship entertainers vein, I first heard this person -- http://www.lloydhollett.com/-- being interviewed on local radio and when asked about his comedic influences, he replied Jim Davidson, Bobby Davro, Russ Abbot and (ulp) Michael Barrymore. I thought he'd go on to say that was a joke, or meant ironically, but it clearly wasn't, and he's gone on to work with his hero Davidson.

Puce Moment

Quote from: Hank_Kingsley on April 12, 2015, 09:34:20 AMAnyway, this guy is the new Dapper Laughs. https://twitter.com/arron_crascall.

An actual humour vacuum. Like jokes that have got too close to a black hole. Fucks'sake.