Comedians & Comedy Writers

[En Passant 3,772]

8 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

And very crap

 

That's like saying I'd rather eat a turd than a bowl of diarrhoea.

 

Cilla was as annoying as hell in anything, there was a woman who should have stuck to singing - and blind dates only positives are that it's A: gone and B:  Love island and towie are even worse.

Am I a snob? Probably, but this stuff is lowest common denominator garbage of the worst (and cheapest to make) kind.

 

 

[time 8,721]

30 minutes ago, En Passant said:

 

That's like saying I'd rather eat a turd than a bowl of diarrhoea.

 

Cilla was as annoying as hell in anything, there was a woman who should have stuck to singing - and blind dates only positives are that it's A: gone and B:  Love island and towie are even worse.

Am I a snob? Probably, but this stuff is lowest common denominator garbage of the worst (and cheapest to make) kind.

 

 

[En Passant 3,772]

58 minutes ago, time said:

 

 

I didn't say I liked that either, I don't - but in honesty my post seemed negative enough even for a grumpy old git,  really just seemed overkill making it even more so.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,715]

Cilla was all those awful things and more, but you can’t really hang ‘faux Scouse’ at her door. 
 

Duncan Norvelle, the name rings a bell, but I’ve just watched a routine on 3-2-1 and, er, it’s even worse than Ted Rogers’ schtick. 

[YoungWillz 21,488]

I picked Norvelle for three years running after his appearance on Celebrity Pointless in 2019. He did not appear well then.

 

Lest we forget, he was a straight man who pretended to be a gay man for money. Once the great British public found that out, his popularity and national TV appearances dried up like a cow pat in the sun.

 

The public are less fond of your out gay man, in general imo they love an obvious flappy wristed screaming queen. Hence we are landed with the likes of Alan Carr, Graham Norton, etc etc filling our screens for what seems like an eternity. It took decades for the likes of Ian McKellen to be an accepted face of the community, for example.

 

When Norvelle was outed as straight, he was relegated to pantos, pubs and clubs, precisely because he thought he could get away without being found out.

 

Anyway, just my opinion. That and his limited repertoire was always likely to die on its arse very quickly.

[Sly Ronnie 949]

He was something for about 5 minutes in 1986 and then, ahem.."poof" he was gone.

[Phantom 2,559]

Just now, Sly Ronnie said:

He was something for about 5 minutes in 1986 and then, ahem.."poof" he was gone.

That's about how long his act was amusing for. 

And, I'm being generous.

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,241]

I remember him, he was on TV quite a lot, back in the day. I'm sure he was done for or accused of assaulting somebody, many moons ago.

Has to be said that, as unfunny as he was, he would have done the social clubs, as did most comics then,  and would have grafted his way on to TV as opposed to grifting it like too many comics/ celebs nowadays. 

He was from a different era, variety shows on TV were full of piss poor acts and, probably, that, in no small way, could have had more to do with them having to seriously tone down their acts for the screen.

It's a different world now, or summat.

[Grande Pablo 115]

10 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

I picked Norvelle for three years running after his appearance on Celebrity Pointless in 2019. He did not appear well then.

 

Lest we forget, he was a straight man who pretended to be a gay man for money. Once the great British public found that out, his popularity and national TV appearances dried up like a cow pat in the sun.

 

The public are less fond of your out gay man, in general imo they love an obvious flappy wristed screaming queen. Hence we are landed with the likes of Alan Carr, Graham Norton, etc etc filling our screens for what seems like an eternity. It took decades for the likes of Ian McKellen to be an accepted face of the community, for example.

 

When Norvelle was outed as straight, he was relegated to pantos, pubs and clubs, precisely because he thought he could get away without being found out.

 

Anyway, just my opinion. That and his limited repertoire was always likely to die on its arse very quickly.

David Walliams seems to have done pretty well out of it.

[YoungWillz 21,488]

7 minutes ago, Grande Pablo said:

David Walliams seems to have done pretty well out of it.

I'm going to say he is more your character actor/comedy type. Who just happens to be a bit of a prat.

 

Who doesn't love a bit of dress up and pretend?

 

Contrary to that, Norvelle made it his business to present as a gay man and a screamer at that. I don't think they are exactly comparable. Had Norvelle actually been gay, he may well have had quite the national profile and die a national treasure. As it is, only fogeys like me actually remember him.

 

As I say, just my opinion.

[Handrejka 1,923]

I'm surprised he was only 66. He looked 40, 40 years ago.

[Spade_Cooley 9,690]

Terry Ree, the first half of double-act "The Indian and the White Guy" with Bruce Williams, dead at 75. I know who he was because I read a book about the history of Native American comedy. It was full of interviews and the descriptions of comics who spoke reverently about their ancestors and explained the struggles and abuses on modern reservations, and then the chapter on Ree is just him running about doing "Little Plum" wardances and saying "me have big um' penis to fuck squaw with".

[Ulitzer95 13,058]

Duncan Norvelle's cause of death revealed to be a chest infection and sepsis.

[ajlposh 573]

Dick Capri has died

[livingbygrace 532]

Was just watching some old Carol Burnett Show clips, and I could not help but wish Tim Conway and Harvey Korman were still  around today to give us some more laughs. They were so brilliant together. Of course no one lives forever, but sometimes there are some people that you miss what they gave the world and you want just for a moment to have it back.