Bizarre Careers Outside of Comedy

[Tony Tony Tony]

I have just discovered the most odd piece of comedy related trivia I have ever encountered.

It turns out Bob Carolgees has invested some of the untold millions he and Spit the Dog earned in a fancy candle shop near Frodsham in Cheshire.

The website is at http://www.carolgeescandles.com/ if proof were needed.

Firstly,I would dearly love to know if any CaBers have visited? Was it the waxy wonderland the website suggests?

Secondly can anyone floor me with equally bizarre investments/business involvements/careers after or outside of comedy for our fave funnymen/women?

EDIT I have just perused the 'useful tips' section of the Carlogees candles site. Turns out Bob can give shedloads of handy hints for all your candle needs. I heartily recommend a look... its probably the funniest thing I will see today

   

[Bennett Brauer]

It's been mentioned a few times on here before without going full CaB meme. There was a game on it involving his hawking hound at one time.

[bobloblaw]

Bob's name and visage are surprisingly downplayed on the site. Guess the candles can speak for themselves.

[checkoutgirl]

The obvious...

[Brundle-Fly]

Freddie 'Parrott Face' Davies ran a wool shop in Pitlochry, Scotland.

David Copperfield thatches rooves in the Taunton area.

Rowland Rivron is now a much sought after painter and decorator in North London.

[poodlefaker]

Stewart Lee does English & History tutition (key stage 3/GCSE) in the Hackney area

[magval]

Does he really?

[thenoise]

I have just discovered the most odd piece of comedy related trivia I have ever encountered.

It turns out Bob Carolgees has invested some of the untold millions he and Spit the Dog earned in a fancy candle shop near Frodsham in Cheshire.

The website is at http://www.carolgeescandles.com/ if proof were needed.

Firstly,I would dearly love to know if any CaBers have visited? Was it the waxy wonderland the website suggests?

Secondly can anyone floor me with equally bizarre investments/business involvements/careers after or outside of comedy for our fave funnymen/women?

EDIT I have just perused the 'useful tips' section of the Carlogees candles site. Turns out Bob can give shedloads of handy hints for all your candle needs. I heartily recommend a look... its probably the funniest thing I will see today

I'm not quite convinced that Bob's Candle shop is still going.  The 90s website and dead links isn't that promising, although there are comments on the Facebook group from as recently as 2017 (no references to Bob himself since 2014 tho).  It is supposed to be part of Lady Heyes Craft and Antique Centre, whose (also very dated looking) website make reference to Candles Plus, but whose TripAdvisor reviews also suggest that Bob sold his candle shop in or before 2016.

[Tony Tony Tony]

Seems Carolgees Candles didn't set the world alight?

[thenoise]

The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

And Bob Carolgees Candles Plus has burned so very brightly.

[Brundle-Fly]

Carolgees really gets on my wick.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Bob Carolgees is a cunt, and he can shove his candles up his arse.

[Gulftastic]

He's sort of comedy, but Timmy Mallett is quite well regarded as an oil painter

https://www.google.com/search?q=timmy+mallett+oil+paintings&rlz=1C1ZKTG_enGB803GB803&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYvLan_JrfAhXfRBUIHVrKB1sQ_AUIDigB&biw=1280&bih=579

[Brundle-Fly]

He's sort of comedy, but Timmy Mallett is quite well regarded as an oil painter

https://www.google.com/search?q=timmy+mallett+oil+paintings&rlz=1C1ZKTG_enGB803GB803&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYvLan_JrfAhXfRBUIHVrKB1sQ_AUIDigB&biw=1280&bih=579

I actually like those. Would be nice to own a Mallet. Pronounced 'Mal-lay', naturally.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I was going to start a similar thread the other day about how many comedians used to be teachers.

Boyle
Davies
Ranganathan

[Pranet]

I actually like those. Would be nice to own a Mallet. Pronounced 'Mal-lay', naturally.

I was thinking of mentioning this. I found out about his artistic career a few years ago when I was walking past a shop in Salisbury which had a display of his work.

[Tony Tony Tony]

I was going to start a similar thread the other day about how many comedians used to be teachers.

Boyle
Davies
Ranganathan

And from the old guard...

Jim Bowen (PE)
Tom O' Connor (maths and music)

I would love to hear from any former pupils of their views on their teaching styles. I know Greg Davies tells an excellent story about one of his pupils attempting to have him nominated as Teacher of the Year on the basis that ""Mr Davies is a well good laugh, and he don't make us do no work."

[Pranet]

From memory so this could be balls..

Hale and Pace met at teaching college.

Frank Skinner did a stint at a FE college.

John Cleese taught at his old school while waiting to go to university.

Did did Nick Hancock actually teach or was that just in that sitcom?

[Sebastian Cobb]

And from the old guard...

Jim Bowen (PE)
Tom O' Connor (maths and music)

I would love to hear from any former pupils of their views on their teaching styles. I know Greg Davies tells an excellent story about one of his pupils attempting to have him nominated as Teacher of the Year on the basis that ""Mr Davies is a well good laugh, and he don't make us do no work."

In his most recent Netflix comedy You Magnificent Beast he has a review from one of his students along the lines of 'Your lessons were fun, but you were a shit teacher'.

Come to think of it I find Man Down, and him on RHLSP talking about how him and his mate used to underline parts in hymns to make rude words far funnier than his stand up.

I also approve of you padding the profession on to bowen and o'connor, if only because it maintains the angle of my post of teachers.

[Brundle-Fly]

I was thinking of mentioning this. I found out about his artistic career a few years ago when I was walking past a shop in Salisbury which had a display of his work.

Derren Brown's artwork blows me away far more than his mind tricks.

[bigfatheart]

Did did Nick Hancock actually teach or was that just in that sitcom?

Yep, he talked about it when he was a guest on Room 101, the first one after Paul Merton took over from him. He was a teacher (PE and drama I think?) but only for about a year or so.

[Jack Shaftoe]

French and Saunders also teachers, weren't they? Or was it that they met in teacher training but didn't get as far as actual teaching?

[buzby]

French and Saunders also teachers, weren't they? Or was it that they met in teacher training but didn't get as far as actual teaching?

French got as far as being an English and Drama teacher at Parliament Hill School for Girls. They met on a drama teachers' course at the Central School of Speech and Drama - French wanted to be a drama teacher, Saunders' mother had enrolled her on the course by mistake (she never wanted to be a teacher) and she went on the dole after the course.

[Panbaams]

Did did Nick Hancock actually teach or was that just in that sitcom?

Speaking of Nick Hancock, he became a mortgage broker after leaving They Think It's All Over. I'd thought that he was doing this for a good decade or so, but according to Wikipedia it was between 2005 and 2007.

[Bennett Brauer]

Speaking of Nick Hancock, he became a mortgage broker after leaving They Think It's All Over. I'd thought that he was doing this for a good decade or so, but according to Wikipedia it was between 2005 and 2007.

He's an insurance consultant now.*


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[zomgmouse]

Not quite comedy but

The Vanilla Ice Project is an American reality television series on the DIY Network. It is hosted by handyman and rapper Rob Van Winkle a.k.a. Vanilla Ice

[thenoise]

Jerry Sadowitz works in International Magic shop in Clerkenwell (or at least did until recently). He also publishes a clandestine Magic magazine that hardly anyone gets to read.

[MuteBanana]

Greg Davies another teacher.

[Emotional Support Peacock]

Not sure if this is comedy as such, but Jean Chalopin, creator of Inspector Gadget is now owner and CEO of an "interesting" offshore bank.