Victor and Barry Comedy Duo on ITV Night Network - Alan Cumming High Life
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2012
- Found this off-Beat clip on VHS tape, from about 1987-89, broadcast by ITV during the first thru the night broadcasts, Night Network. This was the excellent Victor and Barry, who had recently won the Edinburgh Festival. The song is called Marks & Spencer, and sends up everything cheesy about M&S at the time!!!! Victor (Forbes Masson) and Barry (Alan Cumming) also starred in a comedy series called High Life. Alan went on to greater things, appearing in Hollywood movies, Forbes is best remembered from BBC Eastenders.
Hope you enjoy this Classic piece of Comedy (and a pretty good tune too!!) 
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Forbes Masson was no slouch either. It takes two to make a team like that. Fry and Laurie is an obvious example. I find it a gift to be able to roll of off somebody, theatrically, comedically, musically, that seemingly.
I lived in Edinburgh in '86-'88 and saw these two at The Fringe and thought they were excellent. Didn't manage to see them anywhere else but when The High Life surfaced a few years later I was really pleased for them - they'd got a good show, and they were being brought to a wider audience. I was just reminiscing with my girlfriend of the day about them and had just found the TV show on RUclips, while she managed to find this.
Great clip, thanks for sharing it, and helping preserve some of our best comedy talent 😎👍
They made a delightful duo. So very talented! I did truly enjoy The High Life series.
The High Life was a brilliant comedy !
Pity that there was only one series.
Give that man an Emmy - seriously!
'Statutory rights presairved' made me spit my tea! Haha!
Whenever anyone says Marks and Spencer I always automatically say Spencers and Marks.
+Stephen Wilson
snap, me too lol
They will always be two of my all time favourites. Talent just oozes from them
Fascinating, I really liked the High Life and I have the DVD, but I wish they had made more episodes it was really funny, "Oh Deary me" :)
Brilliant.
Excellent!
It was 1988. I saw the show in Edinburgh.
Who was the host in red?
Paul Thompson.
No Piff Paff Piff then?
Masson and Cumming are of course great here, but they really held their own against the dreadful presenter. He was really trying too hard - unfortunately a common factor of those late night "edgy" TV programmes of the time.
Barely let him breathe! Brilliant.
The presenter is Paul Thompson, hopelessly out of his depth. To be fair, Cumming is more talented, by several orders of magnitude. He's a household name, on both sides of the Atlantic; an accomplished actor, author; he's won two Tony Awards, an Emmy, a BAFTA, and was awarded an OBE. Where's Thompson now?