Steve Wright, Where are the comedy characters
Niall Lovejoy
scrapped? Some of them were actually quite amusing, rather surprisingly!
Is it because he just can't be bothered anymore? Or does he feel they have
'had their day' and wouldn't go down well with Radio 2 listeners?
As Mr Wright's Radio 2 show is essentially identical, in music, banter, and
'humour' to his old one, why doesn't go the whole hog and bring back all his
comedy friends?
It might just wake awaken the living dead that listen to him regularly
Linden Lovejoy and Niall Lovejoy
Neasden
London
karcus
"Stephen Bridges" <news...@bh01.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Niall Lovejoy in a moment of madness wrote:
>
> > Why have all the 'characters' from Steve Wright's Radio 1 show been
> > scrapped?
>
part of groing up I guess. Can't say I miss them.
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> Why have all the 'characters' from Steve Wright's Radio 1 show been
<FLASHBACK>
Diamond Geezer, gettin' serious,
Talkin' 'bout the guy who makes you delirious,
He's INE-sane, he's no cool cat,
Is he a Londoner? No, he's a prat!
He's the man on the bus with the vacant stare,
Tap him on the forehead - there's nothing there!
MISTER SPOO-OONS! MISTER SPOO-OONS!
</FLASHBACK>
Aaah, I feel better now...
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Marcus Durham
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>Niall Lovejoy in a moment of madness wrote:
>
>> scrapped?
>
I don't think there were any where there? I can't recall anything beyond
old woman. Although he did do something mildly amusing the other
afternoon when I was listening in the car (it involved a man with an
affliction that meant he would miss out whole bits of sentences).
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Marcus Durham
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>Why have all the 'characters' from Steve Wright's Radio 1 show been
It's a different show though. I have a tape somewhere from about 1992,
and it's very different to the R2 show. It's faster, there's more stuff
from the posse, songs, sketches, etc, etc. Some of it may not go amiss
on R2, but I think he'd should be careful.
In addition, the man behind much of it (Richard Easter) is now off doing
other work.
Mark Rimmer
I thought I was the only one left on this island that remembered them ...
When they were all the rage (I think 1981 was the year it all started) I and
a couple of friends spent the entire summer holiday listening to Steve and
his taped friends.
As I recall there was Sid the Manager, Mr Angry from Purley, Jervase the
hairdresser, Mr Mad, the Geese (remember 'get the geese off' ?) and Mr
Spoons. There was also an Ulster woman who always came on with ' Steve
Wright - he's got the perfect face for radio' and an insane laugh.
It all seems thinly funny now, but back then R1 appealed to the masses
(unlike the bile it has become) so everybody knew the characters and
everybody thought they could do the voices (which they couldn't). Even my
dad thought they were good, which even my mates thought was cool. It's
about time that Michael Barrymore owns up that he stole the 'Aw-wight' line
from Steve. (Steve even made a single out of it for God's sake.)
Maybe it's just me, but since Wrighty's return to national radio there's
been loads of people doing him down. Can't see why myself, as his style is
exactly what mainstream radio is all about. Whoever brought him to Radio 2
realised that the audience that listened to Steve Wright in the afternoon in
the eighties, (and latterly the Steve Wright Breakfast Show) have now
progressed to being the target for Radio 2 and not Radio 1. Who knows,
maybe they should go the whole hog and get Simon Bates, DLT, Gary Davies,
Kid Jensen, Janice Long and Andy Kershaw ? That way, Radio 2 will totally
capture the audience that made Radio 1 so popular back then ...
(Just a thought - don't shoot me for it)
Mark
Niall Lovejoy <clubbru...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Why have all the 'characters' from Steve Wright's Radio 1 show been
> scrapped? Some of them were actually quite amusing, rather surprisingly!
Ruby Flipper
<mark....@btinternet.com> wrote:
>As I recall there was Sid the Manager, Mr Angry from Purley, Jervase the
>hairdresser, Mr Mad, the Geese (remember 'get the geese off' ?) and Mr
>Spoons. There was also an Ulster woman who always came on with ' Steve
>Wright - he's got the perfect face for radio' and an insane laugh.
I always liked the Lusty Lines sketches myself.
Dave
"I'll be Baarrrk - Ooozie nine millimeter"
Dave
Neil Skinner
>As I recall there was Sid the Manager, Mr Angry from Purley, Jervase the
>hairdresser, Mr Mad, the Geese (remember 'get the geese off' ?) and Mr
>Spoons. There was also an Ulster woman who always came on with ' Steve
>Wright - he's got the perfect face for radio' and an insane laugh.
>
According to the dreadful Dream 100 website (www.dream100.com) one of
their presenters called Gavin McCoy was the voice behind Sid the Manager
and Gervaise the Hairdresser.
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Neil
Daniel Blythe
> This gives away your age, you're a good bit younger than me.
> The best characters from any Steve Wright show were;
> 1. Mister Angry - Dave Wernam
> 2. Gervaise - Gavin ??
> 3. The Professor - Steve himself
Well, I remember all of these. "Mr Spoons" is the only one whose "theme
tune" has stuck in my head, though!
For reference, I am 31.
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Smylers
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> Who knows, maybe they should go the whole hog and get Simon Bates,
> DLT, Gary Davies, Kid Jensen, Janice Long and Andy Kershaw ?
^^^^^^^^^^^
Erm ... Radio 2 _does_ have Janice Long -- she does a show at midnight
on weekdays.
Smylers
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>>Who knows,
> maybe they should go the whole hog and get Simon Bates, DLT, Gary Davies,
> capture the audience that made Radio 1 so popular back then ...
Kid Jensen was never on Radio 1 was he?
Phil
Chris
"Stephen Bridges" <news...@bh01.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Mark Rimmer in a moment of madness wrote:
>
> > Thank God for that !!
> >
> > I thought I was the only one left on this island that remembered them
...
>
> > As I recall there was Sid the Manager, Mr Angry from Purley, Jervase the
> > hairdresser, Mr Mad, the Geese (remember 'get the geese off' ?) and Mr
> > Spoons.
>
> Mr Mad (Peter Dickson) was a lot later, after Mr Angry left. As was Mr
> Spoons (Richard Easter).
>
> Do I remember the Geese? Oh yes we had great fun with them.
>
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Andy Clews
He most certingly was, back in the 1970's (and early 80's?). However he
later disowned the moniker 'Kid' (advancing age, no doubt :-) and was
thereafter known by his real first name, Dave.
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Marcus Durham
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>Kid Jensen was never on Radio 1 was he?
He was on Radio 1. Moved in the mid-eighties to Capital.
Mr Blowup
>
> In article <sL3a5.1481$6W.2...@nnrp4.clara.net> Phil
> <fusi...@nospamyahoo.com> shared the following with us in
> uk.media.radio.bbc-r2:
> [snip]
> >Kid Jensen was never on Radio 1 was he?
>
> He was on Radio 1. Moved in the mid-eighties to Capital.
and became plain 'David Jensen' shortly after his 50th birthday...