Russ Abbot at Christmas

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@strongcoffee7 8 ай бұрын

Genuinely thought Abbot was in his 50s not 30s at the 'height' of his fame and was looking good for a bloke in his 90s in his more recent Barbados Captain Tom shenanigans!!!

@ebneigh5191 8 ай бұрын

Bella Emberg and Dustin Gee were the genuine talent… and Bella in Blunderwoman costume coinciding with my adolescence means I owe her, wherever she is, a blushing debt of awakening…

@TheLizardmonkey 8 ай бұрын

Agreed… I think a lot of CIS heterosexual men owe more to Bella Emberg, Lesley Joseph, Faith Brown and Moira Stewart than they’d publicly confess…

@knshinn2 8 ай бұрын

@@TheLizardmonkey Faith's sly, cheeky demeanour and mountainous bosoms added half a foot to my dick in just 6 months of puberty and I really don't care who knows it...

@AlexMitchell-sj4sb 7 ай бұрын

She did it for me too

@Toooldforthis78 8 ай бұрын

“3 minutes doesn’t sound long if you’re having sex…” alright show off!!

@Ceej_MM 8 ай бұрын

Russ Abbot is the only comedian of this era that I still occasionally find genuinely funny. And if Atmosphere isn't played at my funeral, then I'm not going.

@TECHNOIR 8 ай бұрын

Start with the Abbot, then round it off with Joy Division's 'Atmosphere'. Will be a cheery occasion regardless. All respect to Bella Emberg, she was lovely.

@markmckinney4149 4 ай бұрын

@@TECHNOIR somebody should do a mashup if they haven't already.

@TECHNOIR 4 ай бұрын

@@markmckinney4149 There's a few out there, one with Abbott dubbed over Curtis performing and vice versa, but these are just visual gags. There is a mashup too though and it's.....erm b̶l̶o̶o̶d̶y̶ a̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ 'atmospheric?' kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaLdpaBjYpmVg6M&pp=ygUjYXRtb3NwaGVyZSBqb3kgZGl2aXNpb24gcnVzcyBhYmJvdHQ%3D

@danslider9014 8 ай бұрын

Its soooo Tony Ferrino, without the acts or the audience, in the know

@eggbod 8 ай бұрын

The best panto I ever saw as a child was Russ Abbot in Jack and the Beanstalk at Birmingham Hippodrome. My mother took me on the annual Chesterfield l Top Rank Club panto coach trip. I'd had a new leather jacket for winter, We were the final drop off and as I was very travel sick she decided to carry my jacket in her hand in front of me off the coach. Unfortunately I was sick down her back and head as she walked down the steps in front as ahe got off 1st....my jacket was fine, my mother screamed.

@SweetStevieAaron 8 ай бұрын

He seems to be a nice bloke but I found it all a bit childish even as a kid. I couldn’t believe the prime time showings this man got. Still, at least he’s not Les Dennis. How that man got a Christmas special is a complete mystery and hopefully you’ll cover that showing us all that perhaps Russ wasn’t all that bad after all.

@markdavidson9100 8 ай бұрын

See you Jimmy sketch shows Gordon Kennedy from Absolutely, Hudzen 10 and the lottery video. Think he was only in one series

@JamesGillComedy 8 ай бұрын

This is really great, Stuart. Well done. Incredible

@danbit 8 ай бұрын

Whenever I get a notification from your channel I always think: "You Rang Millard!"

@Dripfed 3 ай бұрын

Never ever got his obsession with Teddy boys.

@benwhite8924 3 ай бұрын

what is immediately clear is the FUN everyone is clearly having. That seems to be absent from comedy nowadays.

@saltoftheearth6209 6 ай бұрын

Hi Stewart, amazing Video. Cheered me up on a horrible day. Thank you. I seem to recall Russ's deal when he left ITV/LWT and joined the BBC was that he couldn't take any of his "characters" like C.U Jimmy, Basildon Bond and Cooperman and Blunderwoman with him. I remember tuning in aged 11 to the new BBC show and couldn't work out where my "favourites" were and I found it out later. I think he may have gotten them back later in S3 or S4 of his BBC Show. But the idea of ITV/LWT hanging onto these "Characters" or IP's, so Russ couldn't perform them on the BBC does make the 48 year old me laugh.

@cambs0181 5 ай бұрын

I lived through these years of late 80s prime time comedy. To be fair he was good for the time, though I wouldn't watch it now. He came off TV in the early 90s which was the start of real change in British comedy. Newman and Baddiel, Bottom, Men behaving badly, Punt and Dennis etc. I now find I have to explain the Basildon Bond joke to gen-z, that didn't age well.

@espurious 9 ай бұрын

Truly one of the comedians of the 80s

@niceuneasy 8 ай бұрын

Bella emburg so underated 😎

@williambriggs79 8 ай бұрын

God damn I love your videos. Good stuff mate.

@retrorambles517 8 ай бұрын

Apart from the two Ronnies and sometimes even they were crap I never liked singing in any of the comedy Hour shows in the 80s and 90s

@klisher 6 ай бұрын

Yeah it always feels like an easy way to fill up 5 minutes and looses my attention.

@stewartcohen-jones2949 5 ай бұрын

Yes the jokes were utterly dreadful and the shows barely watchable but Abbot’s comic timing was impeccable.

@DelosFive 8 ай бұрын

I enjoy your content far too much not to buy you a Ginsters. Enjoy, m’lad.

@StuartMillard 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'll scoff my way into one of those fat suits yet

@theflyintheointment 8 ай бұрын

The greatest video on the internet is the video for Russ Abbot's 'Atmosphere' but changed to moody black and white and.....with the audio changed to Joy Division's 'Atmosphere'. Russ singing Ian Curtis' sombre "don't walk awaaay, in silence" is equally hilarious, poignant and moving, and creepily in time in places. The slow-mo long distance pans over the dancefloor and shimmering disco lights are particularly beautiful. Like an Anton Corbijn video. It's what Ian would have wanted...... kzbin.info/www/bejne/haDOdZubq96ghas And Joy Division covering Russ' 'Atmosphere's is brilliant too kzbin.info/www/bejne/m53HaqqDnZyWZ8k

@DelosFive 8 ай бұрын

What a delicious treat. Thanks so much for posting, Stuart!

@freakglitcha8390 9 ай бұрын

"Russ, the wardrobe department have been in touch. They've a little confused by the request for "One XL Christmas jumper with blacked-up snowmen"... Great video, and really puts me in mind of the clip of Limmy watching a Little & Large routine, and getting righteously angry about how easily audiences laughed in the 70s and 80s. I'd be shocked if the writers were even quarter-arsing the scripts for this series.

@davidbrokend 5 ай бұрын

How U only got 6.6k following? Ur really good mate. Love Ur style. Keep going

@TheUnfinishedSynth 8 ай бұрын

To think Susie Blake was doing this AND Victoria Wood at the same time.

@iainmhepburn 8 ай бұрын

And to think we were denied the big Russ comeback a few years back… I was at the staged reading for the Russ Abbot Sketch Show pilot in 2016. Geoff McGivern, Victoria Wicks and Javone Prince as the supporting cast. One CU Jimmy appearance, an episode long Basildon Bond skit and some surprisingly ‘adult’ sketches. It was oddly not terrible, either.

@TheFlamingBridges 6 ай бұрын

Mate. I'm sitting in a motel room in New Zealand (I moved here 20 years ago) watching your videos and having horrific 80's flashbacks. We must be around the same age. Thanks for the vids though. x

@TheFlamingBridges 6 ай бұрын

oh, by the way, I don't live in a motel, I'm touring my new album with an acoustic guitar and a growing debt. Buy my music. Thanks x

@j0hnf_uk 5 ай бұрын

Very much of it's time, although the variety style of shows were very much on the wane by the end of the 80's. The dancing and musical numbers in particular were deemed very old-hat, as the 90's came along. Which is why a lot of these entertainers fell out of favour, simply because that's all they really knew what to do. I didn't mind a bit of variety in these types of show, but like everything else, it's always best done in moderation. More than about 10 minutes per show and my attention soon got drawn elsewhere. A perfect excuse to go for a piss whilst the dance number is on. Abbot doing his own version of, 'Dad dancing', to his only hit would have been enough for me.

@chunkymonkey55555 4 ай бұрын

I saw Russ at pantomime when I was a kid, he read a welcome to everyone in the theatre super fast, every name that booked, and I swear, I heard him say our surnames during the recital,

@adrinathegreat3095 6 ай бұрын

I couldn't stand russ abbot, his obsessive wig wearing and any excuse to sing

@williamcameron1971 2 ай бұрын

Les Dennis is so bad he can't do impressions of Les Dennis.

@venablesricky 14 күн бұрын

If you come out of a box your instantly over

@paultaylor9477 8 ай бұрын

Hello Stu. Love your channel and put others onto it. Could you do something on James Whale? I can't believe he's still broadcasting. I can't believe he was ever allowed to broadcast.

@StuartMillard 8 ай бұрын

Cheers! If you go back in the archives, I covered Whale for Halloween a couple of years ago.

@retrorambles517 8 ай бұрын

Another cracking upload

@SUK2293 7 ай бұрын

Dustin Gee was going to open our school fair in the 1980s but he died.

@ModernPict 6 ай бұрын

I’m sorry I laughed at this

@pinkgregory4365 8 ай бұрын

what's really striking, seeing a lot of these comedians for the first time, is how many sketches/routines that involve impersonating other comedians kind of boil down to "I'm just going to do someone else's act for a bit, alright?"

@MyNameIsMichellePamelaLyons 8 ай бұрын

2:55 and 8:12 ...Is that Gordon Kennedy from Absolutely?

@StuartMillard 8 ай бұрын

Yep

@I_Am_The_Paulrus 8 ай бұрын

Tommy Cooper did the 'different wig different character' himself - can you confirm that Russ's version was the exact same skit? As in the same words? If so, was the Cooper impression just an excuse to steal his material?

@gregmark1688 6 ай бұрын

Geeze ... the music video for 'Atmosphere', tho. AND the song. I mean, I'd rather be forced to listen to Jimmy Nail for 10 hours.

@womblediehard123 8 ай бұрын

I met Bella Emberg once in Wimbledon and didn't leave me with an everlasting great impression in truth! Found her to be miserable and hated being recogonized too! Still probably didn't help me and my mates shouting out blubba woman! Russ was OK not that funny but better than Little & Large which is saying something!

@benedikte8813 8 ай бұрын

Lol you need to do one on hells kitchen circa the lad Jodie from shameless and Paul Dunan on the original love island 😂

@dannyd464 5 ай бұрын

These were innocent times where comedy wasn't used as a weapon, it was just comedy to make people laugh, nobody made fun of the left or the right they just had fun, you should try that...... having fun.....🔥🤣🔥

@abelmanmoth1 8 ай бұрын

An old mate used to go to the same church as him in St Albans with The Bedingfields and former Wimbledon goalkeeper Hans Segers

@thatidiotmonro22 8 ай бұрын

Must have been an offshoot of one of those Hollywood megachurches.

@mikb5587 4 ай бұрын

These are the titbits of celebrity trivia that I like.

@goodiesguy 7 ай бұрын

I don't think we ever got Russ here in NZ (or Cannon and Ball, or Little and Large for that matter!) but I recognise Bella Emberg from her brilliant appearances years earlier in The Benny Hill Show.

@PooperScooperTrooper 8 ай бұрын

I, as many other kids my age in the mid-80s (about 10) lovef Russ Abbot and all those stupid sketches. I even remember hitting 'record' and taping Atmosphere off the Top 40, so I could play it over and over again 🙂 Great video though, I know you kinda take the mick out of all this stuff but it's the nostalgia I like :-)

@SlowMotionAtomicBomb 8 ай бұрын

This might be a step too nerdy, but at 2:12, is that the Nags Head? Presumably a lot of sketch shows would have been able to do their little skits on repurposed sets to give it a bigger feel (i.e. The Glam Metal Detectives doing a American talk show satire in what was blatantly the studio Big Break was filmed in), or maybe it's just a remarkably generic brand of pub wallpaper?

@multirevelator 6 ай бұрын

looks like it!. Blimey Glam metal detectives, i still have the cd single 'everybody up' from when i was about 13yrs old

@jazzygeofferz 8 ай бұрын

Great video. We were watching a video of The Spanners last Sunday. Russ was great in the last few series of Last Of The Summer Wine alongside Brian Murphy and the late Burt Kwouk.

@strongcoffee7 8 ай бұрын

Atmosphere wasnt a comedy song - it was serious - I actually cant believe it!

@paul_oswell 8 ай бұрын

Cowboy outfit/Sky TV is a solid gag. Lovely stuff as usual, thanks Stuart!

@zetametallic 3 күн бұрын

I didn't think Russ was very funny as a comedian at all but my parents watched it. However, confession time I was 8 in 1984 when 'Atmosphere' was released and I loved the song. I really like his singing voice and ended up getting the album; my parents took the rip out of me for it. I play it sometimes quite proudly. 😂

@TheRetroManRandySavage 8 ай бұрын

I enjoyed all comedy back then. Whether that was Ben Elton or Roy Chubby Brown. Funny is funny to me. I don't turn my nose up to any of it.

@Return26-p4t 8 ай бұрын

I agree. Its not against the law to have liked both Benny Hill and Ben Elton.

@TheRetroManRandySavage 8 ай бұрын

@@Return26-p4t Seems popular at the minute to hate on many of the old school comedians, especially those that are considered, "low brow" but I refuse to do it. They all made me laugh, in different ways. High or low brow, makes no difference to me. I'm not snobbish.

@citizenhal 8 ай бұрын

There’s a lot of great classic comedy, but it’s hard to find a lot of those old blokes funny when half their jokes are straight up racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic for the SAKE of it. Great funny jokes can be written about any marginalised group if done with intelligence but when the joke is literally just “they’re gay, look at them do a voice” or “hey look I’m Mexican and dressed up in brown face isn’t that funny” then it’s just plain old shit comedy.

@TheRetroManRandySavage 8 ай бұрын

@@citizenhal Stop being perpetually offended on the behalf of others, fella. I'm Jewish and grew up with many of the old comedians telling "antisemitic" jokes about us, whether that be about the holocaust or the way we looked, but I laughed at those jokes like I laugh at any other. Even today I'll laugh at Jewish jokes from Ricky Gervais and such like. Like I say, sometimes funny is just funny. It's like water off a ducks back to me. We went from, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me" to "words are violence." Lol. We're now living in bizarro world.

@citizenhal 8 ай бұрын

@@TheRetroManRandySavage Who said I was offended? I don’t think I’ve ever been offended in my entire adult life. I just don’t find blackface very funny. Offensive jokes are great, I love them. It’s funny when actual thought goes into them. I’m talking about jokes that russ abbot does where he’s just putting on some Chinese accent or something for no reason. They’re not funny jokes, they’re so badly written. Like really boring easy jokes.

@olliebeak131 6 ай бұрын

I'd much rather watch this than the crap that's on nowadays...

@TheNightBadger 4 күн бұрын

_"Throw an accent in there and it'll only get funnier"_ - Does that not work? Seems like a sure thing... _"Beano quality"_ - That really does sum it up. Childish and silly, but at the same time familiar and easy to digest. Whether you intend this or not, your videos really make me nostalgic... you shred what was clearly pap, and all I feel is 'Ah, Christmases past...'

@ethansmith6873 3 ай бұрын

More Ideas: Kenny Everett Countdown Last of The Summer Wine and it's place as the "assisted living facility" for old actors, actresses and comedians Chris Morris (The Day Today, Brass Eye) Blue Peter How How 2 Connections & James Burke Reeves and Mortimer I know these aren't bad programmes I'd just like to see you do video essays on them Excited for more vids

@VambeefcoHorzey Ай бұрын

"There's also a downbeat number about being sick on a ferry."

@paulderby2117 8 ай бұрын

Thank You Stuart. Great Stuff as usual. All the Best to You

@leejohnson3209 3 ай бұрын

I can still mostly enjoy Morecambe and Wise in the 70s but this mid to late 80s era really truly was awful. As a child of the 80s I remember finding the sketches boring and they seemed to go on and on. It put me off the scetch show format for years, until the Fast Show came along in the 90s.

@ChorltonandtheWheelies 3 ай бұрын

I used to work in an office with mainly women who were always falling out for stupid reasons so it wasn't unusual for so and so not talking to so and so. I used to sing "What an Atmosphere" at such times and make myself (and the sane ones in the office) laugh. It even made people make up (sometimes!) The power of laughter eh? You definitely took one for the team watching this! I thought it was shit as a kid and I've not changed my opinion! 😊✌