I used to listen to them on the radio every Sunday evening. So funny!
@Demun1649 Жыл бұрын
I worked as a professional DJ from 1974 until New Year's Day, 1990. I worked on two gigs with the Grumbleweeds. They were BRILLIANT, and SO FUNNY. The vocal ranges they could cover was mind-blowing. The musical skills just so impressive. And they had so many variations on Bohemian Rhapsody, the best one being "on the scales like a whale".
@MikeGMcDermott4 жыл бұрын
Robin Colvill as Jimmy Savile at the Children's Royal Variety Show - oh the irony...
@dennisjeffs42396 жыл бұрын
Another great group of the 70's & 80's, gone but not forgotten, a reminder of days gone by!!
@eointrill48582 ай бұрын
Loved watching them saterday evenings in the 80s never laughed as much and often in pain laughing
@WhosAGoodDogue6 жыл бұрын
Excellent moonwalk at 6:20 ! - And followed by the voice going up with the slide had me laugh out loud. I remembert the Grumbleweeds as a kid growing up. Mother in hysterics and Father laughing so hard the coffee came out of his nose. We hyasn't seen anything like it before. Proper comedy on TV, boobs from the girls almost falling out, innuendos, excellent impressions, fresh material, funny sketches, faces blacked up, gay characters (or ''camp'' as they were called back then), stereotyping characters, and music. It's everything todays politically correct person would hate. - But to us, it was normal, and bloody funny. I really miss television like this.
@francesjbutterworth5083 Жыл бұрын
Loved The Grumbleweeds and Baron Knights two of best comedy acts sadly not many of them left .
@TheWacoKid19636 жыл бұрын
This will make you feel old, Those "Kiddies" will be in their middle 40s by now
@graemescarlett5 жыл бұрын
a great set of lads, I worked with them a few times in the early 1980's, Carl was my favourite really nice lad
@markusspartikus15 жыл бұрын
I still keep in touch with Carl....they were a great bunch of guys as you said.
@DavidFlood-f3q6 ай бұрын
Absolutely loved the grumbleweeds.
@adamtzsch11 жыл бұрын
Best Savile, hands down.
@DRAINPIPE5710 жыл бұрын
Pure class cabaret entertainment They were the best comedy group ever Always there to guarantee a laugh Brilliant
@peterbattey82633 жыл бұрын
Surprising how people making comments have lost their sense of humour. No wonder the world is so bloody miserable and full of shit. We need more of this good clean humour.
@michaeldaley52539 жыл бұрын
Very talented and underrated. Robin always did a great Jimmy Savile impression and Graham was a good Charlie Drake, Very sad that Graham passed, as he was doing quite well as an actor.
@dlamiss8 жыл бұрын
+Michael Daley Agreed he was SUPERB at Savile, easily the best.
@callmemiss_aria Жыл бұрын
I love graham walker ❤ We will forever love him
@petyrkowalski98876 жыл бұрын
They did the Bee Gees brilliantly. Saw them live and they were hilarious.
@mrmethane1010 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite acts in the 1970s and 1980s. So sad to hear of Graham's passing - I only learnt of it today.
@oddities-whatnot6 жыл бұрын
My Gran got me into this lot ! Used to be on Radio 2 late at night many many years ago, I think
@kevindouglas86523 жыл бұрын
And Sunday Lunchtime,Radio 2.
@danw13743 жыл бұрын
Yes the grumbleweeds were a half hour show from 10pm on radio 2. Started around 1980 and ended about 1987. I still have a few old cassette recordings.
@thegrumbleweeds23228 жыл бұрын
Find us on our channel! We are uploading lots of new footage!
@Internetpolice66610 жыл бұрын
Amazing what passed for entertainment in those days.
@John2E0GTU3 жыл бұрын
Great to see Wilf again!
@a.tanner85242 жыл бұрын
Spoiled by the brief clip of Savile’s “this is the age of the train” advert at the beginning.
@quinnpaddock42412 жыл бұрын
I got to meet them a long time ago they were funny chaps in person as well
@Robh1966 Жыл бұрын
If we had that sort of comedy nowadays, I dread to think of the amount of complaints it would generate. But great fun to watch.
@markusspartikus18 жыл бұрын
I don't think that I have the whole thing, I know one of the guys from Dukes of Hazzard hosted it & Donny Osmond was on the bill.
@VideotapeFTW8 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for uploading this - I think it must be the 1984 Children's Royal Variety Performance, but could be wrong. I don't suppose you have the full thing, do you?
@Cromper8 жыл бұрын
So, are we going to get a clue as to exactly which year in the 1980's this is? In the life of Saville it's the difference between 9 and 9,999 kiddies!
@KevinDoyle-r1w5 ай бұрын
When we had proper entertainment 😁🤣
@paulineford465210 жыл бұрын
thats where mat lucas coppied is act from
@markfletcher7604 жыл бұрын
Robin Colvill on top form doing another top class impersonation of the late great DJ and charity fundraiser Sir Jimmy Savile OBE !
@wellmike33693 жыл бұрын
Lol
@ladair3011 жыл бұрын
Love it
@simonfuller73315 жыл бұрын
The parents get it ....... the kids dont
@tehf00n3 жыл бұрын
I worked at a place and we were talking about old comedy. Someone said The Grumbleweeds and I said "they were so shit". Then this voice popped up and said "oi my uncle is a grumbleweed" and I replied "they are still shit".
@rajnirvan3336 Жыл бұрын
Funny this guy was doing Jimmy Savile and at start saw the real one. How many people have done his impression I've lost count. Chris Tarrant once done him too on Tiswas and even Roland Rat once called him Jimmy Savile
@JasonUmbrellabird10 жыл бұрын
I chuckled.
@charmainetaylor35128 жыл бұрын
yeah they was love to meet them againe lol
@TheKalamazoo10 жыл бұрын
Any one got a clip of the balding front man telling the one about the cricket stump up his nose?
@charmainetaylor35128 жыл бұрын
haha i rember when i met the grumble weeds i was about 11 years old and they married me off with some lad pmsl he was about 9 or 10 and in the scouts
@markusspartikus18 жыл бұрын
great bunch of guys Charmaine, I'm still in touch with Carl :-)
@nicebrit11 жыл бұрын
run kiddies run hers Jimmy
@brianmccoll20608 жыл бұрын
Brill!!!.
@noddyholder792 жыл бұрын
bizarre and unsettling
@justininfrance Жыл бұрын
The Saville impersonation is technically superb, but it also highlights the problem with comedy from the 70s and 80s, its just so desperately dated, racist, misogynist, sexist, firmly planted on the wrong side of history all down the line. The individual performers were highly talented but socially and politically right-wing, their reputation quickly and eternally tarnished or forgotten.
@petemarr82410 жыл бұрын
Grumbleweeds.. How did I ever find this funny? Perhaps because I was about 12 years old
@bobknobbe3561 Жыл бұрын
wow didnt age well for that impression of that pedo
@FITZYIS5 жыл бұрын
am i the only one who never broke a smile ? only ones who where laughing were the pedo`s of the BBC
@Kuntyful10 жыл бұрын
this what humour was like in a Communist country...