Spoof 'stage psychic' comedy acts

[the]

How many spoof 'stage psychic' comedy acts are there?

Clinton Baptiste
Shirley Ghostman
Ian D Montfort

Any others?

What differentiates them?

[idunnosomename]

Shirley not

[Dewt]

I don't know but I keep hearing "Anna Mann"'s podcast being advertised and I would be that the person behind it has gravitated towards that mediocrity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iqVXyjbSvA

Absolutely no evidence, I just bet it.

[Captain Z]

None of them can really tell jokes, it's just an act.

Would you count Raymond Day (Limmy)?

[SteK]

Sally Philips

[NoSleep]

Who of them can come close to "Mary loves Dick"?

[samadriel]

Loved Tony Martin's "Simon Liminal" sketch. https://youtu.be/SvvvKb_Y8hg

[Tony Yeboah]

Clinton Baptiste is a straight-up piss-take of Derek Acorah with lots of gags. Saw him live a few months ago and it was very funny although there might be a bit of frantic rewriting going on at the moment.

Ian D Montfort actually employs some of the techniques used by mediums (i.e. basic magic tricks) so is closer to seeing a spoof of a 'real' psychic show. Saw him live a few years ago and he was very good as well.

Fading now.

[the]

Clinton Baptiste is a straight-up piss-take of Derek Acorah with lots of gags. Saw him live a few months ago and it was very funny although there might be a bit of frantic rewriting going on at the moment.

Was Clinton Baptiste arguably the first of these?

I like Alex Lowe a lot, I was just rewatching Big Field with him as Paxman in University Challenge

[studpuppet]

If this doesn't count, it ought to.

[Rolf Lundgren]

Was Clinton Baptiste arguably the first of these?

I like Alex Lowe a lot, I was just rewatching Big Field with him as Paxman in University Challenge

Alex Lowe is great, an underrated talent. He's very active posting his stuff on youtube and recommend listening to his out of character interview on Three Counties Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3cscgZUWYg

It's a Desert Island Discs rip-off but interesting to hear him talk about his career and his approach to stand-up.

[Panbaams]

Clinton Baptiste is a straight-up piss-take of Derek Acorah with lots of gags. Saw him live a few months ago and it was very funny although there might be a bit of frantic rewriting going on at the moment.

I'd recommend the Clinton Baptiste podcast, too.

[Brundle-Fly]

The Peter Serafinowicz Christmas Show (2008) had a running psychic medium comedy character. The first sketch at 9:20 mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KpGVXI-IUI

[dissolute ocelot]

Copycats! On YouTube, there's a 1906 British short film comedy called The Medium Exposed, aka Is Spiritualism a Fraud?.

[darth andy]

None of them can really tell jokes, it's just an act.

Would you count Raymond Day (Limmy)?

Never see much love for Raymond Day from Limmy fans, he's one of my favourite recurring characters. A live version could be great

[Captain Crunch]

Ash Pryce doesn't market himself as a comedy act, more of a historic debunk spectacle thing but with a fair amount of humour:

https://www.ashprycecreative.co.uk

[Famous Mortimer]

I'd recommend the Clinton Baptiste podcast, too.

I gave it a couple of episodes and I thought it was awful. Horses for courses and all that.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I can't help feeling all I need to see of Baptiste was in the Phoenix nights, and any more would just be spreading that titan thinner.

[Tony Yeboah]

Tom Binns, having performed his 'Psychic' Character Ian D Montfort, claims to have discovered a genuine 'psychic' ability and now performs as The 'Psychic' Comedium.

[petril]

Never see much love for Raymond Day from Limmy fans, he's one of my favourite recurring characters. A live version could be great

it's that Xander voice off of the podcasts that does it for me. Such a perfect voice for that sort of cunty character

[Johnny Yesno]

Never see much love for Raymond Day from Limmy fans, he's one of my favourite recurring characters. A live version could be great

Yes, he's excellent. I suppose he's a spoof of no particular medium but he always reminded me of Colin Fry.

Colin Fry - 6ixth Sense Reading 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54UBCAugPJU

Edit: Actually, the 'I'll leave his/her love with you' catchphrase suggests it is a spoof of Colin Fry after all.

Limmy's Show: Paraside: Doonstairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vjxen7weKU

[clarkgwent]

"World of the Strange" Trevor and Simon live. A lot of kids present, natch.
A telepathy demonstration
(to 12 year old boy)

"the human mind is a very powerful organ.....I am going to probe you with my powerful organ..."

What became of them?

[privatefriend]

Kate Berlant is a newer act that does this, but in a creative and non-hacky way.