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Fuck a duck. And Duncan Norvelle is a “comedy legend”? Really?

Abernathy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:05 am Fuck a duck. And Duncan Norvelle is a “comedy legend”? Really?

I must admit that his career had passed me by.

And what a fucking idiot Anderson proves himself to be here...

Lee Anderson is a comedy legend.

All the warmth and sincerity of a Speak Your Weight machine. His delivery of "absolutely hilarious" was so flat I thought he was being sarcastic rather than sycophantic.

Was that the only clip they could find? Was there nothing else, no evidence of an act beyond the catchphrase?

In the mid 80s, he hosted an unscreened pilot dating show called It's a Hoot for London Weekend Television. The series was eventually re-titled Blind Date and hosted by Liverpudlian singer and entertainer Cilla Black. In 1991, Duncan appeared on the ITV comedy panel game show Through the Keyhole. 2008 saw him go out on tour as part of the Ricky Tomlinson Laughter Show. Norvelle spent the 2009 pantomime season playing Buttons in Cinderella in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

In 2011, he appeared on Celebrity Come Dine with Me with Sean Hughes, Gina Yashere and Paul Tonkinson.

Health
Norvelle was hospitalised in 2012 after suffering a stroke, leaving him paralysed down the left side of his body. After nine weeks in hospital, he cancelled his summer season with comedy duo Cannon and Ball, and was replaced by Stu Francis.

I mean, sad times about the stroke, but his career details aren't exactly screaming "massive star". Outside of alternative comedy, there are plenty of names - Cannon & Ball, Little & Large, Russ Abbott, Les Dennis, Barrymore, etc - who could be said to have been big stars in the 80s.

Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 10:39 pm Lee’s salary doesn’t reflect his interviewing talent

Reminds me of Richard Whiteley Unbriefed, where Richard interviewed celebrities without knowing who any of them were.

The name vaguely rings a bell, but I seem to recall his entire ‘act’ was ‘being a bit gay’.

Yeah, it was. Like a sort of extended catchphrase. Fairly likeable, but always going to have a shelf-life.

"Oxbridge lefties" chuck out proper comedians was a thing in the early 90s, particularly after Thames cancelled Benny Hill (whose shows cost a fortune and weren't pulling in the ratings they used to). Is Lee still doing that one?

In reality the old school gag meisters that went over our heads as kids were doing great in the 90s. Bob Monkhouse returned to stand up, Jim Bowen was popular on the college circuit and remember seeing Mike Read, a phenomenal comic. These guys cut their teeth in clubs where the boozed up audience would boo you off if there was any dead time.

Even the independent councillors are dodgy in 30p Lee's constituency

Ashfield District Council leader Jason Zadrozny in court on 22 charges

Councillor Jason Zadrozny had been charged with offences including the alleged possession of cocaine, alleged money laundering and alleged income tax evasion...

...One of Ashfield District Council's deputy leaders, Councillor Tom Hollis, was charged with two offences relating to allegedly failing to declare an interest in a property. Both men remain in their respective leadership roles ahead of their appearance at Nottingham Magistrates' Court this morning.

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/not ... 617233.amp

Everything's brilliant in Kirkby-in-Ashfield. I know they're independents, but I wonder what sort of relationship they have with their local MP?

All a bit Happy Valley - get on the council, then help yourself to the tenders.

Independent = Tory without the baggage. On local councils t'was ever thus.

Men and women of the people elected to show those no nothing Tory and Labour layabouts how it’s done.
If you are a dodgy dickhead standing for public office, make sure you’re an ex-villain with washed money and legitimate businesses. Tommy Shelby MP may have gotten away with it but he isn’t real.

He was being tipped as their candidate.

Lee’s gag to get matey with 85 year olds in Wetherspoons

Must admit, we did chortle at that gag.

Anyone else getting a Phoenix Nights flashback?

I must say I was fairly shocked to discover that Anderson had fathered a kid who was bright enough to go to university.

satnav wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 10:34 pm I must say I was fairly shocked to discover that Anderson had fathered a kid who was bright enough to go to university.

I wasn't shocked at all to hear than neither of them could be arsed to travel the thirty miles from Mansfield to Sheffield for months.