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David Walliams All New All Right On The Night

Started by Malcy, August 22, 2018, 10:10:52 PM

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Malcy

This was just on and featured a somewhat Asian looking cartoon Walliams and a load of bloopers that I saw on an old episode I watched on YouTube last week.

Dunno if it's a one off or a series but I'd hope they have new stuff if they do anymore. Always been a show I like to watch.



Doesn't look like him at all!

Black Ship

David Walliams doesn't look like David Walliams anymore. I saw that google advert 3 times before I realised it was him.

kalowski



Bad Ambassador

There's a second one next week. Nice to see some great clips again - the Surprise Surprise one from Not Going Out was great - but the presentation was horrendous.

remedial_gash

Fucking hell Dennis Norden is 'only' 96 - surely they could wheel him out with  a clipboard to stutter over cock-ups instead of this young pretender.

Sebastian Cobb

Norden's been in that void where I just assumed he was dead, but had missed the announcements.

The Culture Bunker

Quote from: remedial_gash on August 22, 2018, 11:02:30 PM
Fucking hell Dennis Norden is 'only' 96 - surely they could wheel him out with  a clipboard to stutter over cock-ups instead of this young pretender.
He looked close to 96 in 1987 or whenever it was I first watched It'll Be Alright on the Night. I just assumed he was born in 1880 and they wheeled him out of cryogenic storage to do the show once a year.

Maurice Yeatman

"If... if... if... if... if you're one of those people who doesn't realise that Griff Rhys Jones had already been presenting this show for 8 years after I left... then perhaps my 96-year-old brain could give yours a run for its money." [audience laughs politely]

BlodwynPig

Just shows, laughing at people not with people is the secret to longevity.

trabuch

I won't hear a word against Denis Norden (Merchant's slagging him off on xfm makes me question how much of a genuine comedy nerd he really is). Also why does Griff Rhys Jones veer between cockney and poshney? I hope this marks the end of David Walliums.

gilbertharding

Yeah, Muir and Norden were the Gervais and Merchant of their day. Except that reruns of Take It From Here can still raise a smile after 60 years.

the science eel

Muir was phenomenally entertaining on Call My Bluff

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: gilbertharding on August 23, 2018, 09:44:44 AM
Yeah, Muir and Norden were the Gervais and Merchant of their day.

I bet G & M didn't have their own word puzzle game in the shops though. Little playaz.


DrGreggles

It'll Be Alright On The Night was the first thing I ever recorded on VHS when we got a video in the 80s.
Had to make sure it worked because series 2 of The Young Ones started that week.
The tape will still be at my Dad's house.

Don't worry, I'll let you know when my autobiography is available so you can read more of these fascinating tales.

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: DrGreggles on August 23, 2018, 11:40:48 AM
It'll Be Alright On The Night was the first thing I ever recorded on VHS when we got a video in the 80s.
Had to make sure it worked because series 2 of The Young Ones started that week.
The tape will still be at my Dad's house.

Don't worry, I'll let you know when my autobiography is available so you can read more of these fascinating tales.

I remember the first episode airing when I just started secondary school in Sept '77. The clip of the dancer's bikini top coming off was a real ice breaker conversation in the playground. Funnily enough, I just googled the IBAOTN transmission date on IMDB and in somebody's review they say pretty much exactly the same thing.

Don't ya just miss the great 20th century organic UK collective consciousness?

ajsmith2

Surely it should be updated to 'AltRight on the night' for 2018? Lead off with the Richard Spencer punch and take it from there.

Spoon of Ploff

#17
I remember Denis Norden used to make little cups out of Murray Mint wrappers that were structurally sound enough to stand up on their own. I bet David Walliams couldn't do that.

Thinking about it, they were more like tiny goblets really.

The best one they ever did was a late-night one with swearing and stuff, although some of that might make pre-Watershed these days. It was certainly better than Auntie's Sporting Bloomers, possibly the worst TV series ever made.

My main caveat about this, however, is that celebs presumably can veto anything truly embarrassing. You're not going to get Fergie pissing herself, for example, especially as she's former royalty.

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Satchmo Distel on August 23, 2018, 03:18:19 PM

My main caveat about this, however, is that celebs presumably can veto anything truly embarrassing. You're not going to get Fergie pissing herself, for example, especially as she's former royalty.

It's a bloopers show not revenge porn.

RedRevolver

Quote from: Satchmo Distel on August 23, 2018, 03:18:19 PM
The best one they ever did was a late-night one with swearing and stuff, although some of that might make pre-Watershed these days. It was certainly better than Auntie's Sporting Bloomers, possibly the worst TV series ever made.

My main caveat about this, however, is that celebs presumably can veto anything truly embarrassing. You're not going to get Fergie pissing herself, for example, especially as she's former royalty.

On the other hand, you will get a Fergie shitting herself, gotta hit those brown high notes.

Rolf Lundgren

They've dropped the "It'll Be". Now we won't know if it will indeed be alright on the night.

Chriddof

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on August 23, 2018, 11:54:15 AM
I remember the first episode airing when I just started secondary school in Sept '77. The clip of the dancer's bikini top coming off was a real ice breaker conversation in the playground. Funnily enough, I just googled the IBAOTN transmission date on IMDB and in somebody's review they say pretty much exactly the same thing.

Don't ya just miss the great 20th century organic UK collective consciousness?

First episode is up here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iok_VqYUKQ

Quite odd watching it now as the bits between the actual clips needed some work. The title sequence, though it must have made sense in 1977, is just weird and way too on-the-nose zany compared to what came along by the early 80s. The way the set is arranged is also strange, with Norden almost surrounded by the audience. They go further in that direction in the second episode and it's a bit distracting - your eye keeps wandering over to this stern audience member behind Norden's shoulder during the links. While the outtakes are all quality from the get-go, it isn't really until the third edition (the proper third edition - there was a combined re-edit of the first two in between, in 1980) that they properly work out the set. Takes a fair bit longer for Rod Argent to come up with the right and true theme tune, though. Which, incidentally, was ruined in the last few Griff Rhys-Jones editions by playing it all off-key as if that made it more suitable for a comedy show.

Weirdly enough one of those archive clips that crop up in these "TRY NOT TO LAUGH OR CRINGE I'M NOT SURE ANYMORE" challenge videos on Youtube happens to be a no-audience version of something from, I think, the fifth edition of Alright On The Night - where some 80s American news bloke is walking through a store saying "Alcohol, Liquor, Booze..." and then inexplicably disappears. The version in these compilations is clearly taken from the news station's rushes and hangs on longer after that bloke's fallen down a trapdoor or whatever.

Quote from: Satchmo Distel on August 23, 2018, 03:18:19 PM
The best one they ever did was a late-night one with swearing and stuff, although some of that might make pre-Watershed these days. It was certainly better than Auntie's Sporting Bloomers, possibly the worst TV series ever made.

Wasn't that the sport-only version of that show? The original thing was just Auntie's Bloomers. And even both of those were better than the agonising OutTake TV (or whatever it was called), the BBC's unwise decision to make the former into a regular multi-episode series which had hosts like a post-Weakest-Link Anne Robinson and a just-pre ITV Paul O'Grady narrating any old shit where someone coughed or something, because they couldn't edit it all down to the good stuff like Alright On The Night did. The worst one of those I caught had an agonising sequence where a clearly miserable Jessica Hynes kept fucking up a line in that According To Bex thing for what felt like an hour, which bordered on the distressing.

H-O-W-L

I always honestly thought that Gervais and Merchant "riffing" (read: bitching) on Norden was like two old hags in a tea shop gibbering to each other about some telly person they don't like rather than any actual observation. Some of the early XFM stuff has em painted as the reet cunts they are.

Twit 2

I met Dennis Norden once, at a charity event for children with poorly faces. He was surprisingly empty, like a hollow mannequin or a scarecrow devoid of stuffing. And very smelly.

amnesiac

I watched this in complete apathy and incredulity that THAT Chris Kamara clip was brought out again.

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Chriddof on August 23, 2018, 06:04:11 PM
First episode is up here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iok_VqYUKQ

Quite odd watching it now as the bits between the actual clips needed some work. The title sequence, though it must have made sense in 1977, is just weird and way too on-the-nose zany compared to what came along by the early 80s.

Thanks for the link. That title sequence goes on for an age; excruciating when you can see the payoff coming from outside Teddington. Watching Norden again today, it suddenly struck me how much David Baddiel sounds like him albeit less RP.

Jockice

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on August 23, 2018, 11:54:15 AM
I remember the first episode airing when I just started secondary school in Sept '77. The clip of the dancer's bikini top coming off was a real ice breaker conversation in the playground. Funnily enough, I just googled the IBAOTN transmission date on IMDB and in somebody's review they say pretty much exactly the same thing.

Don't ya just miss the great 20th century organic UK collective consciousness?

Indeed. But the talking point in my class (1L - it was 1L of a class) was John Boy Walton saying something about hanging someone by the balls from a Christmas tree.


Hecate

That bit where he goes "Oooooh" like Kenneth Williams and we fly into his mouth was a bit unsettling.
My mam didn't care much for David Walliams, said there was something slimy and seedy about him and she wasn't keen on the low tooth to gum ratio neither.



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