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@frankhovis Жыл бұрын
He did OK, becoming master of the Daleks.
@zoekm3 ай бұрын
Took me a couple of seconds, I'll admit.
@jonsmith207663 ай бұрын
You're thinking of Kojak's brother.
@joblesswideo-fb7nj3 ай бұрын
@@jonsmith20766no, hes thinking of Harry Enfields kebab seller from the '80s
@alundavies10167 күн бұрын
They named that Swiss town after him as well
@rymixxx4 ай бұрын
I remember meeting Bobby one time. Can't remember what sort of event it was. He was surprisingly down to earth, and very funny.
@Kenneth-cn8dx4 ай бұрын
Limmy?
@MrHeppinstall Жыл бұрын
That final clip IS his legacy
@COL321 Жыл бұрын
Haha you're right, I did think you'd forgotten his faceplant. I was surprised how close his normal stand-up voice was to Jim Davidson's, it was almost like he was doing an impression of Jim. Maybe that's why people don't remember any of Davro's bits, his stage persona is so similar it's all been eclipsed by JD and all that people remember is Davro's name? Great video as usual, cheers!
@NicholasBerry-ku9rd Жыл бұрын
Davro's clumsy neo-noir parody is based on an advert For Barclay's bank, made by Ridley Scott himself in Blade Runner style. Scott has a background in advertising and gave us 1973's Hovis advert where a baker's delivery boy pushes a bicycle up a cobbled road to the tune of Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 from The New World. Everyone here probably knows that anyway.
@kisbie Жыл бұрын
Yes, Gwyneth Strong (Cassandra from Only Fools & Horses) plays the frustrated customer in the original ad.
@anophelesnow3957 Жыл бұрын
Here is Scott's original Barclay's ad: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJ-5qnSEmpWNpKc It's still relevant in the way customer service is just dead-end menus on a computer screen. It makes more sense than Davro's skit, he's robbing a bank without cash? Something like that?
@NicholasBerry-ku9rd Жыл бұрын
@@anophelesnow3957 If he was still on TV, perhaps he'd have a sketch where he tries to pay with cash at a cashless Aldi and maybe show how relevant he by still doing impersonations of Alex Higgins and Albert Tatlock.
@dcthomas89594 ай бұрын
I worked with the kid on the bike, he became a fireman.
@zoekm3 ай бұрын
We do know that, but I still gave you a like anyway. ❤
@kisbie Жыл бұрын
His legacy is that line in Red Dwarf where it’s implied one of his descendants becomes one of the most renowned geniuses in human history. (And even then, it’s not entirely clear that was meant to be direct reference.)
@SweetStevieAaron9 ай бұрын
I’d say that’s definitely the joke given the audience reaction.
@Romanplaystation5 ай бұрын
"Dya watch the quiz games? Eh? You've seen them. The quiz games on TV? Great arent they. The quiz games. On the telly. I love the quiz games, me. I love all the quiz games. All of them . . . .Blankety Blank" Stuart Davro.
@tombstoneharrystudios584 Жыл бұрын
Another Millard masterpiece! Davro was a case of right place, right time…the only major impressionist on TV was Mike Yarwood, who fell out of favour with audiences Come the 80s, Mike was a middle-aged man doing impressions of out-of-power politicians, film stars from the 40s etc Sure, Bobby Davro is hardly the epitome of great talent...but he was young, he was parodying pop stars and TV shows of the time, and it was fresh. I mean, he did Max Headroom who was big at the time, and said that it took hours of very painful prosthetics just for a 30 second sketch. Meanwhile Yarwood was gurning and still doing Steptoe!
@jonboulton6701 Жыл бұрын
As well as Yarwood falling out of fashion there was also the early passing of Dustin Gee when his and Les Dennis’s laughter show was fairly popular. Dennis could never carry on as a solo comedian so it opened a gap for comedy impressions that Davro was there to fill.
@tombstoneharrystudios584 Жыл бұрын
@@jonboulton6701 a good point! Les was far better as an ensemble player with Dustin, or with Russ Abbott Seems to be a nice enough guy but didn’t quite have enough to carry it by himself Saw him as Uncle Fester in the West End; actually surprised me how good he was
@BigyetiTechnologies Жыл бұрын
@@tombstoneharrystudios584well, Les "I don't really know Vera" Dennis was a terrible impressionist, I don't remember Dustin Gee being any better but he could pull a brilliant Robert Mitchum face.
@tombstoneharrystudios584 Жыл бұрын
@@BigyetiTechnologies Sadly Dustin died young 😢
@richardgale4827 Жыл бұрын
Yarwood fell out of favour, but for about a decade afterwards, other impressionists were doing Mike Yarwood impressions every time they did someone he'd already done. What set an impressionist apart was who they could land outside of the Yarwood canon.
@jonboy8951 Жыл бұрын
Not sure what's sadder, Bobby Davro or the fact I instantly recognized the music from beach volley on the Amiga in the background
@Kenneth-cn8dx4 ай бұрын
Nothing sad about the amiga mate
@jonboy89514 ай бұрын
@@Kenneth-cn8dx couldn't agree more. Still got and use my original Amiga
@therespectedlex97943 ай бұрын
Remember Zool?
@jefyhunt6219 Жыл бұрын
Lionel Blair at the end, summed it up wonderfully
@stephenhough4957 Жыл бұрын
As Stuart points out Davro just turns up and says ‘do you remember everyone else is rubbish?’ when he’s rubbish himself. It wasn’t even for kids but has a strikingly unfunny, precocious child at Christmas vibe.
@nforne3 ай бұрын
Ironic. Saying, “do you remember this, wasn’t it rubbish?” is literally the business plan of this channel.
@B3tanTyronne Жыл бұрын
Those of us who lived through those dark TV times of the 80s really suffered. It was a boon that the home computer era started near enough at the same time, that was the only thing that made it worthwhile.
@jonboulton6701 Жыл бұрын
It was also the rise of home video, so increasingly a Saturday night trip to the video store became the norm, but for my family my dad would religiously videotape all the rubbish we were forced to watch on a Saturday night like this then force us all to watch it through again on a Sunday!!!
@sambwoy3 Жыл бұрын
The BBC Micro! The UK computer scene was detached from the US games crash.
@learntooilpaint9 ай бұрын
@@sambwoy3well we had the spectrum, cpc and c64. All cheap devices, and the games were cheap and could be copied. Piracy and cheap games protected the whole industry.
@katewolfspirit67225 ай бұрын
@@learntooilpaint My friend owned an Acorn Atom. Was total crap but we managed to amuse ourselves with it. Hilarious when you look back on it ;-))
@ITVWeatherFans Жыл бұрын
The series 'Bobby Davro On The Box', 'Bobby Davro's TV Weekly/Annual', 'Davro's Sketch Pad' and 'Davro' were all made by TVS (Television South) for ITV. The rights to many TVS programmes over the years have been lost or tangled up in legal framework which may partly go some way to explaining why his own shows are not repeated or have been released on DVD.
@abbafan509863 ай бұрын
I suspect that's not the only reason
@zoekm3 ай бұрын
@@abbafan50986Not even near an actual reason, really.
@WFitzgerald16 күн бұрын
Its definitely odd that he didn't try to buy back the rights to his TVS shows when they lost their franchise, even just to release them on VHS compilations - but even on this YT documentary, theyre looking pretty shite 😂
@Larry Жыл бұрын
These were the wilderness years when ITV were desperate for their own Russ Abbot.
@FixerUK Жыл бұрын
Hello you. Bet nobody has said that before to you. 😉
@richardlewis3575 Жыл бұрын
Davro still does stand-up these days, but has rebranded himself as a right wing anti-woke “tells it like it is” act. He played a club near me in Muswell Hill last year. I’d have love to have seen how his pro-Brexit material would’ve fared in a lefty liberal area like N10, but someone uploaded a clip of the gig which mainly consists of him doing musical impressions of Elton John, Macca etc. to backing tapes. He makes one confused comment about how Black Lives Matter is dividing us, before closing with Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me. ( Jessica Martin draws graphic novels these days BTW )
@anophelesnow3957 Жыл бұрын
Vivid image of Bobby these days, I might not get tickets. Jessica Martin's graphic novel work is good, in fairness. Stories about Clara Bow and old Hollywood.
@macdoherty Жыл бұрын
Nice karmic vibe from the final clip now, knowing that Davro was BRUTALLY LAMPOONING both Bowen and Cheggers in his show. I bet he had a Lional Blair impression in his back pocket and all. I reckon the fall was no accident...
@jonboulton6701 Жыл бұрын
Their reactions are very interesting, Cheggars seems genuinely concerned and tries to help, Bowen doesn’t know what to do, Blair remains the consummate professional and calls for calm from the audience with the raise of a finger!
@katewolfspirit67225 ай бұрын
@@jonboulton6701 Very true, but then Cheggers was a child actor so maybe he was good at improvising.
@jesushitler20004 ай бұрын
You can see Davro push his feet forward over the edge of the box just before the close up on his legs then gravity made comedy GOLD FRIED GOLD !
@lbyrne743 ай бұрын
Bloody hell that fall at the end looked very painful. A bit like watching his shows. I do remember the "We got the nose, we got the nose!" bit. Watching your channel is very addictive.
@danielwilliamson61806 ай бұрын
3:01 Bobby Davro's impersonation of George from Rainbow is spot on.
@simondennis94605 ай бұрын
It was his only true comedic master stroke.
@commandingjudgedredd18414 ай бұрын
I did like his Max Headroom impression and his piss take of Thomas the Tank Engine.
@danielwilliamson61804 ай бұрын
@@commandingjudgedredd1841 I remember once. I don't recall what show it was and there's no videos of it on YT. Davro once did a brilliant Thomas the Tank Engine sketch which he played Ringo Starr, and it was done on roller-skates and it ended with Davro losing control and accidentally crashing into the camera.
@LovecraftComedy28 күн бұрын
mine is better
@TheCrumb743 ай бұрын
Last five seconds.. chef’s kiss. I had never seen that before, so thank you!
@PooperScooperTrooper Жыл бұрын
Hahah at the end bit! I was just waiting for the moment Blair hold a finger up in the air, looking at the camera...I wonder if it was his idea?
@bobbydavro7533 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Stuart! Great montage of my early work 🥰 Certainly bought back some wonderful happy memories apart from that last clip of me nearly breaking my neck in those stocks 🤪 Ouch! Excellent work sir! 👏 Oops silly me... apologies for presuming your gender. But once again thank you for all your hard work in putting this together whatever the chosen pronoun you identify as! 🥰
@NicholasBerry-ku9rd Жыл бұрын
That accident at the end was horrific Bobby. I had to look away. It really shocked me. I hope you made a quick recovery afterwards. It's really bad that you were put in such an unsafe position and whoever was in charge of the stage, they must have taken their eye off the ball there. I bet it sticks in your memory as a really nasty incident. I've made a couple of snarky comments about your comedy but I haven't got anything against you personally. I imagine you're a decent bloke and seeing people make jokes about that accident is really upsetting. No one deserves that.
@ottagol1985 Жыл бұрын
Glad to see you take it on the chin, Bobby.
@jackdubz4247 Жыл бұрын
"Remember Bobby Davro?"
@AlexCoxhipattack Жыл бұрын
Christ on a bike I'd never seen that final clip before. Might explain a bit about his views later in life...
@80srenaissance673 ай бұрын
Knocked some sense into him?
@LittleMissGrosser Жыл бұрын
Love the story from the narrator about being applauded off stage by a teacher! 😂😂😂
@damianeadie510 Жыл бұрын
In the 80s my mum made stage wigs for theatre and occasionally tv. She made one for Davro too. She hand stiched a big fluffy wig for an Elton John sketch, from the soft white hair from a Yak's belly... yes really 😂 All us kids got to try it on, and eventually see it on TV, a little trimmed and caked in hairspray. She was sent a signed photo from him to thank her for it too. Not my cup of tea though.... and looking back at 80s TV now I can't believe how shit it all was.
@ladyrose32853 ай бұрын
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” ― Oscar Wilde
@MrDavey20109 ай бұрын
Excellent! Fabulous commentary. Very insightful.
@BixRibene6 ай бұрын
That six week stint I spent flipping burgers at Bultins Bogner Regis, Davro was the headline act... ...He really milked that Alex Higgins impression :P
@therealobanir Жыл бұрын
22:21 Jim's revenge for this 12:06 See the sneaky little touch on his leg to knock him off balance? I always knew it was deliberate and now we know why. Had a memory like an elephant did Jim. Funny how after Davro's kamikaze faceplant, he's the only one from that clip still breathing today.
@katewolfspirit67225 ай бұрын
Yeah, apart from Davro himself.
@JD-wn3cc2 ай бұрын
Jim is also dead
@MrDannyDetail21 күн бұрын
It took Jim until the end of the ad-break to count out in 2018, whilst Lionel tappped on until 2021. Sadly Cheggers went pop first, in 2017.
@fakeigniz13 Жыл бұрын
Remember him as being a bit crap, but for some reason he was always on the telly, but it seems like he really wasn't
@ivanmcgann1989 Жыл бұрын
You'd need a thousand faces to take that fall at the end. Fucking hell
@beingatliberty4 ай бұрын
It’s easy to mock the past, if you can do the media archaeology to uncover the vhs, it worked at the time, though it was a comedic recession in the 70’s & the 80’s, there was a comedy boom after that era ended, 90’s, 2000,s . Give him his due, he was versatile and worked, if you think the 80’s were a joke, you haven’t looked at britain today, I think it will look shabbier than the 80’s in 20 years time?
@Nobody-xe9fc Жыл бұрын
I remember him from the first time I found out about him, which was Thomas the Tanked-Up Engine
@robertjames73896 ай бұрын
Bobby is a great stand up, I think a bit of a fun sketch show would be nice to come back now! ❤
@Monumentum616 Жыл бұрын
Another banger, thank you Stuart!
@Ceej_MM Жыл бұрын
Nah, pregnant Bungle is amazing. That got a genuine laugh out of me.
@a3lfeoxld Жыл бұрын
Thank you for always reminding me how shit and cringe a lot of mainstream TV was in my youth - this channel is fucking gold, love it.
@Gannett201110 ай бұрын
As a teenager then, ITV Saturday evenings were a no-go area, total cringe. It would be on the telly in the front room, with mum and dad dozing in front of it, and you'd catch a sketch here and there between the bouts of embarrassment that made you look away. 35+ years on, while the material is still shite, it is a goldmine of 80s pop culture. It also reminds you that that jokes about adverts and parodies of pop acts just don't exist anymore, can you imagine someone trying to do a popular stand-up about what he saw on Netflix? I will say that "Best of Bobby Davro" was an epic burn!
@NicholasBerry-ku9rd Жыл бұрын
I don't remember Jessica Martin because I avoided this sort of low comedy back then even as an 80s child. Watching this though, it's clear that she was far more talented than Davro while she was playing second fiddle to him. She's better at impersonations, she has a good singing voice, she's a really good dancer and she's quite hot in that quirky Helen Lederer/Laurel from Emmerdale sort of way. Jessica's no Felicity Kendall but then again, who is?
@lukeb247 Жыл бұрын
She was also great in an episode of doctor who as an alien werewolf
@rowanc88 Жыл бұрын
@@lukeb247 A role she reprised in a couple of the Big Finish audios.
@anophelesnow3957 Жыл бұрын
Jessica Martin is now an actually good graphic novelist, about silent film stars. You are right, she has talent and nunce.
@Battismore-Blue3 ай бұрын
I would
@Chris_Elliot84 Жыл бұрын
That was a hell of a bump
@markdavidson9100 Жыл бұрын
His Jools Holland popped up frequently, but I couldn’t compare it to the original, as I was too young to watch The Tube
@junglejamesie Жыл бұрын
That faceplant was awesome.
@saxongreen783 ай бұрын
His Brian Tilsley (Chris Quinten) fixation was understandable...he made the others on Corrie seem like Bogie and Bacall!
@knshinn2 Жыл бұрын
Also, Postman Pete - such inventive wordplay - while everyone else in the sketch has their mouths closed but obviously their own, why does Pete have that hideous papier mache Chelsea smile of a rictus grin?
@ottagol1985 Жыл бұрын
I've learned about Bobby Davro for about two years, and I still think there's a likability factor to him. Sure the impressions aren't always the best and the jokes don't always land, but I can't blame a guy for trying. I still enjoy his Max Headroom impression from time to time.
@tombstoneharrystudios584 Жыл бұрын
I think THAT was the key to his success as I wrote above - he was young and dynamic and doing impressions of current pop stars & adverts etc The likes of Mike Yarwood were still doing Steptoe and Jimmy Cagney impressions years after they'd fallen from relevance
@ottagol1985 Жыл бұрын
@@tombstoneharrystudios584 Ah, I see. Granted, some people have used the Jimmy Cagney impression for cartoon voices before.
@markdaly1648 Жыл бұрын
The master impressionist of the 1990s was Rory bremner. And davro knew his material material was safe. Where as bremner was very savage in comparison. Especially with bremner, bird and fortune. Behind the scenes. Bobby davro was in a battle with his bosses which cost him his mental health and he vanished from TV. He hated his own series. Which he agrees deeply unfunny. And utter rubbish. He was interviewed when he got the role on eastenders. He was he said in that interview straight out of drama school and very keen.
@therealobanir Жыл бұрын
@ottagol1985 A place I worked at back in the eighties used to have a Fed EX driver come everyday to collect things. I'm pretty sure it was '87 when he told me he had been asked to give Davro a lift in his van. I asked what he was like, he said he's a prat. He said he never stopped talking, constant bad jokes and worse impressions, and to make it worse he was laughing at his own "funnies". The driver told me he'd never tried to drive somewhere so fast. Just thought I'd try and shift your opinion of him. It may actually endear you to him more, we all love a tryer after all. You have to admire someone who has that much belief in themself, unless it's Davro of course.
@claresherman2278 Жыл бұрын
@@tombstoneharrystudios584You are so right. The sheer variety of impressions- even if they are rubbish- in this show is impressive. Yarwood’s downfall was he never upated his act.Couldn’t do Thatcher because she was a woman, and then her most celebrated impressionist wax a man ( Steve Nallon in Spitting Image).
@williambriggs79 Жыл бұрын
Always love your content .❤❤❤❤
@NicholasBerry-ku9rd Жыл бұрын
Man of a thousand faeces more like.
@chrisefc3579 Жыл бұрын
Genuinely enjoyed those last 10 seconds. Enjoyed it all to be fair, but that last bit made my day.
@MrTommygun19799 күн бұрын
This video is a masterpiece. I am hugely appreciative that this video content exists, for it is truly elite material 🔥 🔥 🔥 tremendous treatment of the subject 👏 genius video ❤
@TruculentSheep Жыл бұрын
Kim Justice's epic rant about impressionists and why they are appalling is apropos at this point.
@ianjones3346 Жыл бұрын
What video is that in?
@TruculentSheep Жыл бұрын
@@ianjones3346 Apologies for the delay - here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKHakpuJiq92rNk
@knshinn2 Жыл бұрын
17:03 'Not after that last log that you gave me...' WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN
@liamjay6844 Жыл бұрын
Good Lord, that Michael Caine was one of the worst impressions I've heard.
@PooperScooperTrooper Жыл бұрын
I know right? The worst, low level poor effort I've witnessed...I reckon a lot of kids did a better one at school!
@Trebor74 Жыл бұрын
Not a lot of people know that. Few,if any,care
@theflyintheointment Жыл бұрын
@@PooperScooperTrooper embarrassingly bad, but not even in the same league as Mike Osman's Del Boy in Stuart's 'When Barrymore Was King Of Summer' video, which I can confidently say is possibly the worst impression I have ever seen, hands down.
@blueluny6 ай бұрын
on big brother once a davro dvd was given as a treat for them to watch. no one laughed so they turned it off
@R82TV Жыл бұрын
Superb stuff and well put together
@factoryfactory71425 ай бұрын
Another belta!
@zeeox Жыл бұрын
I got an advert for Davidson's god-awful u-streme halfway through watching this. One for Private Eye's 'Malgorithms' perhaps?
@upthebuffer1921 Жыл бұрын
Beach Volley on the Amiga music :))
@therespectedlex97943 ай бұрын
9:54 Golliwog jam baseball cap 👍
@contessaguapatini4 ай бұрын
It’s a fine line between innocent nostalgia and Ooh my god what did we laugh at? 😮it was an innocent time where we were no so educated. But at the time it worked. And made people happy. BUT i would be remiss if i didn’t respect the level of attention to detail and fast edit you brought to this hilarious and insightful recap. Kudos. Keep it up. Hope you can do one for me and my 90’s crock of shite i presented and wrote in the 90’s for CBBC. Thank you for this. I love it. Even if it makes me feel slightly uncomfortable 😳 hahaha 😝
@strongcoffee7 Жыл бұрын
Oh Bobby !
@pfhastie4 ай бұрын
I'd call him a better stand-up by far than Robin Williams. Have a look at stuff he's done in the last ten years (here on YT). He's sharp and unpretentious, and never lets go of the audience.
@BigSpud Жыл бұрын
Very astute observation - he doesn't have a 'bit'. And the earnest stuff was so bad. ALMOST impressed by the musical bits though, decent parody lyrics.
@dilwich4 ай бұрын
The 80s were good times no matter how bad it looks like from 40 years away.
@iskye0725 күн бұрын
I realise now the pastel colours and harsh video taped lighting haunt me as much as the imminent threat of nuclear war. Or perhaps they're part of the same phenomenon. Cheers all the same Stuart. I think.
@4879daniel4 ай бұрын
Please do a video on Brian Conley.
@DruGunners Жыл бұрын
Bobby's Bob Geldof looked more like Harry Henfields Wayne Slob, or should I say, did Harry Henfield steal this idea 😂
@babettesfeast63474 ай бұрын
Jessica Martin is a revelation
@haileyshannon75482 ай бұрын
2:17 That is the most 80s set design I have ever seen. It reminds me of my parents bedroom! Making children's characters do "adult" things, that's new!
@vykkye Жыл бұрын
Stuart you are wonderful 👏 I wanna watch old TV with you
@Phoenix23124 ай бұрын
Oh Lord that "Fall"... I remember hearing about that... First time I have ever seen teh clip though... I do remember enjoying Davro back in the day... But it was always when he was on a Variety Show - I feel that is where he worked best, His own show? Or Shows as he appears to have had a few... NAH! I never got to see these back in the day, And I dont feel I missed much... He was one of those acts that was never suited to a "One Man Show"
@jonhay3141 Жыл бұрын
There's a few Davro DVDs avaliable, but they have nothing to do with any of his TV series, which either remain in the archives or occasionally appear on YT. With his blacking-up, jokes about asians, and references to Jewish noses, ol'Bob was certainly a Brextremist in waiting even several decades ago with his mate Jim Davidson.
@therookerybookery2 ай бұрын
If Charlie Brooker does Screenwipe again someday, you need to have a regular section on it...
@fuhqsideways2 ай бұрын
Yea right like he's gonna do that! Sell out shill
@knshinn2 Жыл бұрын
So, let's see - Sade was boring and deserves to be summoned up with stereotypical comments about black people and their supposed staple diet. Nice.
@GlynnMarley11 ай бұрын
That has to be a pre-anything-else-she's-ever-done Catherine Zeta Jones, if I'm not mistaken 11.10 11:12 ?
@WFitzgerald16 күн бұрын
Did I imagine it, or did one of his early saturday evening shows have a full blown musical number about "Jack the Ripper"?! 😮 (Early as in time of day - I think it might have been an episode that went out towards the end of TVS 😏
@danielwilliamson61806 ай бұрын
22:25 FATALITY!!!
@leegoode35794 ай бұрын
He's still working and his live shows are still popular in theatres and comedy clubs. He's a fantastic powerhouse of jokes and impressions. Many a comic could learn from his stagecraft. Not for the ❄️and woke...
@davidbrokend3 ай бұрын
Let's get some yew tree in here.... Haha
@LovecraftComedy28 күн бұрын
I genuinely laughed at his Chegwin... and also his Jools Holland...
@craiglittle14374 ай бұрын
He was in panto about 20 years ago when I saw him last. He seemed really lovely at the end and maybe after seeing this back even a bit repentful for some of these exploits.
@blackmichael75 Жыл бұрын
These Adam Curtis documentaries are getting weird.
@johnwelch513211 ай бұрын
Like les Dennis he always uses his own voice
@thekeypresser4 ай бұрын
This is the music from Beach Volley on the Amiga
@user-xr2lv4ll6jАй бұрын
Were Bobby Davro and Freddie Star the same fella? Lol.
@tonycowin Жыл бұрын
The only problem with Davro is he was criminally unfunny and was a shit impressionist.
@camptube7621 Жыл бұрын
I’d forgotten him… the only good thing was the costume department.
@CycolacFan3 ай бұрын
I’d guess that before they did television they were all doing the club circuits where it didn’t matter if you’d stolen bits of everyone else’s act because there was a different audience every night. Suddenly having to come up with three hours of material must have been a massive strain, even with seven writers.
@simonhall13285 ай бұрын
I grew up watching Not the 9 o'clock news. Bobby Davro was terrible.
@ianbeale25278 ай бұрын
Another "impersonator" where you know who it is they're taking off, but it still sounds more like themselves. Davro is only well known because he was always on the TV. Not because of any of his actual work. Although I do remember the one where Davro and Jessica Martin do "Kenneth Williams/Barbara Windsor where they're having food . Davro -"Have some tongue" -JM "I couldn't eat anything that's come out of an animals mouth" Davro, "Well have a boiled egg then, eh." JM "This egg's off", Davro, "Don't blame me , I only laid the table !". All whilst curling his nose but somehow managing to sound more like Zippy than Kenny. Come to think about it, I only remember that episode because I was a massive Queen fan at the time and got my mom to video the episode because Davro did a (terrible) Freddie Mercury impression and I was far too busy enjoying my youth to stay in on a Saturday night to watch it.
@liamgillett90684 ай бұрын
Sade has more talent in her little finger than Bobby Davro has in his entire body
@blueluny6 ай бұрын
I was about 10 or so when he was on. even then, because I was gratefully exposed to the young ones, Saturday / Friday night live on channel 4 and the likes, I was fully tuned in to exactly how awful he was.
@Tomurow Жыл бұрын
This was the kind of ITV show that yer mum's werkin' class best friend would rave about, to the embarrassment of all the middle class grown ups stood around in the kitchen…. when you were sat in the living room, head buried in a Ghostbusters comic wanting all the pain to go away...😢
@tonycowin Жыл бұрын
Bang on. He was part of the last scraps of working men's club acts that was already fast falling out of favour by the time he got his first TV vehicle.
@Tomurow Жыл бұрын
@@tonycowin He was arguably usurped by Brian Conely just a few years later.. A kind of gurning, flexible proto-Bradley Walsh, popular among Findus Crispy-housewives. And he did songs.👍
@tonycowin Жыл бұрын
@@Tomurow I somehow forgot about Conely ("It's a puppet", was that his catchphrase?). At least he had a certain charm about him.
@TECHNOIR4 ай бұрын
Outrageous! Nowt against Conley but that was a Frank Sidebottom joke! (Of little Frank, incredulous at audience sympathy 'HE's only a puppet!' ). 'Light entertainment' was really that @@tonycowin
@tonycowin4 ай бұрын
@@TECHNOIR Was that what it was?
@MrDenzal274 ай бұрын
Is it ok when Lenny Henry did the Jamaican migrant. "I come over in a banana boat" sketch?
@daviebananas17352 ай бұрын
Nah, it was just a young black guy trying to fit in to a mainly white audience. It’s sad to watch.
@TheRetroManRandySavage Жыл бұрын
I liked watching his shows back in the day. I never had a problem with any of the Saturday night entertainment shows in the 80s & 90s. Helluva lot better than the garbage that's on the box these day's.
@Wizard-uo4wj9 ай бұрын
this guy was f---king brutal
@Paul-yz4gx5 күн бұрын
Every time I think about the depressing reality of being in my 50s, I seek out Millard's channel to remind me how absolutely abject the 80s were, and to thank my lucky stars that I can turn on Netflix or Amazon, and not have to watch this appalling base level chunder that once passed as comedy.
@knshinn2 Жыл бұрын
...Like A KURGAN?...
@gamesmasteruploader4863 Жыл бұрын
alright what's the context for the final clip?
@WilsonWilson33 Жыл бұрын
interesting stuff. Not great but pretty inoffensive for family viewing which I guess was the target audience. Definitely better than anything ITV were serving up early Saturday evening when I last watched TV in the UK.
@lazlowolf Жыл бұрын
In fairness, I do have strong memories of two Davro routines, one 'New Kids on the Block' and one with Frank Sinatra and John Inman. I remember them because even as a kid they lodged in my brain as confusingly unfunny, and the images now return from time to time to haunt me. Also I saw him live supporting the Krankies once. Such hypocrisy.