TED CHIPPINGTON Stafford College 9th May 1986

[@kidluna]

"Quiet down to this one, it's a sad one this. I went to the football the other day and I was walking down the road and this police man come up beside me he said "Uh, tell us a joke Ted.""

[@CatCasual]

Amazing that this exists. Thanks for posting.

[@herbieshine1312]

Until a couple of weeks ago I couldn't remember that it was Ted Chippington who did this. I remembered the delivery and accent but couldn't remember his name. I had thought it was Frank Sidebottom for ages but couldn't find this stuff amongst his songs and performances. This performance came up after listening to some other Fruiter than thou's uploads and I was so thrilled to become reacquainted with Ted's work. I've found other uploaded stuff since and it's still so funny and clever and wonderfully silly. What joyous nonsense!

[@TheLambLive]

"You said you were high class, that's a bit of a lie though eh?" "You said you were high class again... another lie". PMSL.

[@threethrushes]

1986 has let itself go.

[@leisureacademy]

1. It's bottle. 2. It's bloody genius. 3. There's no number three.

[@simonedgbaston]

👍 Despite living in Torquay now he still has a Brummie accent but at this stage you can here his Potteries accent quite a lot 😂

[@unclenoob3062]

how did I even stumble upon this

[@FruitierThanThou]

Natural instinct....

[@BritishEnglishJapan]

Tim Vine has a lot to thank Ted for...

[@simonedgbaston]

😂 Stewart Lee does thank him 🕊

[@Parallelwurlds]

It sounds like Ted wandered onto a stage and interrupted peoples night on the town while interjecting with a complaint 😂 Egregiously funny

[@kasumiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin]

I can't believe how fresh and funny this still is coming towards the end of 2020. He's still my hero... 20:59: "What did he say, Ted Chippington?" This was a fun moment.

[@nixonradio]

I love how deliberately perverse he is at that point - the one joke in his set the audience knows and expects, and rather than milk it, he throws it away purely to annoy them.

[@ereiou]

can please someone tell me the name of the song in the background during 38:00 - 41:00 (roughly speaking)?

[@IAMPLEDGE]

@ereiou Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree. True story that, chief.

[@KylieRamone]

Top entertainment. Cheers chief!

[@cmotdibbler8105]

This is ridiculius and yet the longer i listen the funnier it is.

[@johnman559]

It's his confidence, deadpan and nonchalance that's a bit amusing.

[@deanfowles3707]

Must be so much lost footage of this genius, it's a travesty.

[@manchesterukabriefvideooftime]

If you're the comedian that inspired Stewart Lee your doing something right, Well , Anyway... was walking through Timperly the other day when i inspired another comedian called Chris Frank Sidebottom Sievey .

[@markbailey1970]

“Who the fucking hell are you?”

[@steviedruce5615]

the only british stand-ups i find funny are ted chippington and stewart lee, nobody else takes risks.

[@Deady24]

I'd really recommend James Acaster's Repertoire on Netflix

[@fakrn]

@@Deady24 I'd really recommend a frontal lobotomy

[@joelfildes5544]

Roughly speaking...

[@hufclufc]

Who the fkn L are yo-o-o-ou?

[@valiantv2897]

port vale

[@matty81k]

Gold 🤣

[@petertracy3622]

Hp sauce lolol

[@jezbollahxxx5653]

I was about on the floor after that one.

[@souldreamer9056]

I didn’t get that Joke. Can you explain?

[@renhoek3851]

I didn't either, but I think it could mean 'hire purchase'? @@souldreamer9056

[@calumproctor981]

​​​@@souldreamer9056 HP = hire purchase/HP = the name of a sauce

[@johngrotefeld6302]

terrible but in some strange way compelling ...

[@adude9882]

The material's a bit weak in my opinion. Nice bloke though, yea.

[@nialllambert3194]

I was an undergrad at Manchester at this time, and I first saw Ted at the PSV in '84, and within a couple of years he'd gathered something of a dedicated following that could almost recite the whole set. A kind of cheap, naff version of the lot that were doing the Rocky Horror Picture Show routines around the same time.