Alastair McGowan
Samuel Hogarth
Skinner impression would have totally convinced me. And Hugh Grant
sharing a room with Richard E. Grant - that was inspirational. I hope it
was the beginning of a series, rather than a one-off.
BTW, did anyone see whether he was credited as a writer? I forgot to
look - I don't know why, but somehow there's always an inclination to
hope that the star you see is the clever, witty one.
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and Beckham sketches were the best, but the Moira Stewart and "Welsh"
newsreader routines were about as funny as cancer.
C O'Grady
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I didn't see it - I was watching The Sopranos and forgot, but I love
Alastair McGowan on Radio 5 Live very good voice impressionist. He also
popped up in Jonathon Creek the other day as Maddie's boyfriend in the very
first episode.
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Samuel Hogarth <sam...@lansup.demon.co.uk> writes:
| Did anyone see his show tonight? I thought he was fantastic - the Frank
| Skinner impression would have totally convinced me. And Hugh Grant
| sharing a room with Richard E. Grant - that was inspirational. I hope it
| was the beginning of a series, rather than a one-off.
|
Becks: These cucumbers are warm, princess
Posh: They're courgettes, babe
The Huw Edwards/Moira Stewart stuff, I'm not sure about.
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Sally
aville.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>I didn't see it - I was watching The Sopranos and forgot,
The Sopranos - a truly excellent programme. (Taped it).
> but I love
>Alastair McGowan on Radio 5 Live very good voice impressionist. He also
>popped up in Jonathon Creek the other day as Maddie's boyfriend in the very
>first episode.
I don't remember that. He did a *very* good Jonathan Creek last night
though !
>
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> I thought overall his impressions were good but the script was poor. The Posh
> and Beckham sketches were the best, but the Moira Stewart and "Welsh"
> newsreader routines were about as funny as cancer.
The Moira Stewart sketches were hilarious, I want to see more!
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Samuel Hogarth
very likely have heard these words of wisdom:
Yes... but did anyone notice that his make-up for Jonathan Creek made
him look exactly like Jeremy Paxman?
Samuel Hogarth
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> Samuel Hogarth <sam...@lansup.demon.co.uk> writes:
>| Did anyone see his show tonight? I thought he was fantastic - the Frank
>| Skinner impression would have totally convinced me. And Hugh Grant
>| sharing a room with Richard E. Grant - that was inspirational. I hope it
>| was the beginning of a series, rather than a one-off.
>|
>It was patchy, but worth putting in the half-hour for the lines:
>
>Becks: These cucumbers are warm, princess
>Posh: They're courgettes, babe
>
>The Huw Edwards/Moira Stewart stuff, I'm not sure about.
>
I was sort of expecting it was someone who was actually nationalist,
unlike Huw Edwards who looks totally harmless. The Edwards and Stewart
sketches were quite funny, but they're not really based on anything
real.
Dom
Sally <bro...@brookesdata.demon.co.uk> writes:
>In article <7qn8mk$lv9$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>, C O'Grady <Catkin@spamxen
>aville.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>
>>I didn't see it - I was watching The Sopranos and forgot,
>
>The Sopranos - a truly excellent programme. (Taped it).
I missed the first 10 mins and then started to tune in, but the good parts are
few and far between. The rest is so dull I couldn't cope.
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Samuel Hogarth <sam...@lansup.demon.co.uk> writes:
>I was sort of expecting it was someone who was actually nationalist,
>unlike Huw Edwards who looks totally harmless. The Edwards and Stewart
>sketches were quite funny, but they're not really based on anything
>real.
It was a good Huw Edwards, but why go on about Wales all the time just because
he's Welsh? The script went nowhere.
Malc92
<sam...@lansup.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Did anyone see his show tonight? I thought he was fantastic - the Frank
>Skinner impression would have totally convinced me. And Hugh Grant
>sharing a room with Richard E. Grant - that was inspirational. I hope it
>was the beginning of a series, rather than a one-off.
>
>BTW, did anyone see whether he was credited as a writer? I forgot to
>look - I don't know why, but somehow there's always an inclination to
>hope that the star you see is the clever, witty one.
His impressions were extremely good. The Frank Skinner and Michael
Parkinson ones in particular were spot on. Unfortunately, the actual
material for the sketches let the whole thing down, IMO. If he can
get a better team of writers to creates the sketches, he should have a
winner on his hands.
Ian Miller
>
> In article <TMaLEeAY...@lansdown.demon.co.uk>
> Samuel Hogarth <sam...@lansup.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >I was sort of expecting it was someone who was actually nationalist,
> >unlike Huw Edwards who looks totally harmless. The Edwards and Stewart
> >sketches were quite funny, but they're not really based on anything
> >real.
>
> It was a good Huw Edwards, but why go on about Wales all the time just
> because he's Welsh? The script went nowhere.
I think the joke is just that he is so very obviously Welsh, unlike a lot
of other Welsh TV presenters ... I mean, when's the last time someone
presented the *national* news with such a strong regional accent? I don't ever
recall such a thing happening before...?
I'm in Scotland, and I remember the first time I saw Huw Edwards on the
news.... I thought they'd buggered up the regional link, and accidently
patched through BBC Wales!! I mean, his Scots 'equivalent' in accent-strength
would probably be Billy Connolly...
cheers,
ian
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impressionists. I mean, EVERYone can do a Des Lynam, Tony Blair, Ian
MacKaskill, Geoff Boycott, etc., but when has anyone heard a Jonathan Creek? a
Frank Skinner? a David Beckham?
Unfortunately, now that someone's come accross some original impressions,
there's going to be a lot of copies and me too's...
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e
>
> In article <7qn8mk$lv9$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>, C O'Grady <Catkin@spamxen
> aville.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>
> >I didn't see it - I was watching The Sopranos and forgot,
>
> The Sopranos - a truly excellent programme. (Taped it).
sexual/violent/mafiosi overtones
what a load of crap
e
Jerome O'Donohoe
> don't bother watching it. turning into corry street with
> sexual/violent/mafiosi overtones
> what a load of crap
>
> e
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e
> I think the joke is just that he is so very obviously Welsh, unlike a lot
> of other Welsh TV presenters ... I mean, when's the last time someone
> presented the *national* news with such a strong regional accent? I don't ever
> recall such a thing happening before...?
I dunno whatsername Ward needs subtitles
>
> I'm in Scotland, and I remember the first time I saw Huw Edwards on the
> news.... I thought they'd buggered up the regional link, and accidently
> patched through BBC Wales!!
Unlike normally, hearing a Scotch accent each time when tuning into the
Beeb.
Sally
<s...@srendle.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>Sally wrote:
>> The Sopranos - a truly excellent programme. (Taped it).
>don't bother watching it. turning into corry street with
>sexual/violent/mafiosi overtones
>what a load of crap
No no surely not ? I thought it veered between terribly funny with a
black comedy slant and rather tragic. Mind you, I watch Coro as well so
what do I know ? :-)
>
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Bryan
>|
>It was patchy, but worth putting in the half-hour for the lines:
>
>Becks: These cucumbers are warm, princess
>Posh: They're courgettes, babe
>
>The Huw Edwards/Moira Stewart stuff, I'm not sure about.
>
>SAm. (Insert bandwidth-wasting disclaimer here)
> - Good evening, Blazing Apostles, can I help you?
Just goes to show - I thought the line you quote was one of the poorest
jokes in the programme, but the newsreader stuff I thought was really
funny (especially the post-credit glowering Huw Edwards). He managed to
avoid the problems of impressionist stand-up routines ("And here's my
friend Brucie, say hello to Elvis Brucie"), but overall wasn't as good as
on radio (partly because he doesn't look enough like most of the
subjects). His Alan Davies was particularly bad, thought the sketch was
quite funny.
e
>
> e <s...@srendle.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > don't bother watching it. turning into corry street with
> > sexual/violent/mafiosi overtones
> > what a load of crap
> >
>
> You, sir, are quite mad.
>
Simon Wyndham
<pbkb...@aol.com> writes
>I thought overall his impressions were good but the script was poor. The Posh
>and Beckham sketches were the best, but the Moira Stewart and "Welsh"
>newsreader routines were about as funny as cancer.
Hmmm, I agree with you about the script. I didn't find it side
splitting. Though I have to say that the best impression IMHO that no
one here has mentioned was the totally exact Michael Parkinson one!
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><pbkb...@aol.com> writes
>>I thought overall his impressions were good but the script was poor. The Posh
>>and Beckham sketches were the best, but the Moira Stewart and "Welsh"
>>newsreader routines were about as funny as cancer.
>
>Hmmm, I agree with you about the script. I didn't find it side
>splitting. Though I have to say that the best impression IMHO that no
>one here has mentioned was the totally exact Michael Parkinson one!
I'm surprised. The Parkinson one was the only one I thought wasn't very
good. I thought the best impression was Frank Skinner, and the best
script was the posh+beckham ones.