I like that k.d. lang hit the punchline and Bill Bailey ran with it. I find watching comedians who think a non-pro nailed it interesting. An appreciation for good humour no matter where it came from. As they say, "Funny is funny."
Nope. That's early 60s hair. Beehive and Big Hair was 60s thing until hippies flat long hair. Then thanks to mousse and hair bands - big nasty stupid 80s hair happened - teased and moussed rat's nests - yuk. 🐒
@@cuda426hemi 1964 release. But some women held on to those styles well into the 70s. I remember a teacher with a beehive in the mid-80s, but she was nuts.
I noticed that immediately. It has to be a joke album or something. They all three look like men with wigs on. The lighting doesn't quite seem right either. Not to mention the album is called "Jesus Use Me".
This had me in absolute stitches! But then (sort of inevitably) I went a-googling and ended up listening to Geraldine and Ricky (although not for long!). Oh heck, don't make the same mistake...
I don't think that a lot of the humour in these 'bizarre' record covers is really about anyone's plain looks, but more about the layouts, tone or extremely dated aesthetic. I mean the "Use Me Jesus" title is hilarious, and the way the three heads were arranged made them look like they were those wobble headed dashboard ornaments. And those sixties perm hairdos combined with horn rimmed glasses were a bit confronting even back in the sixties. Meanwhile the Ken and ventriloquist doll ones just looked creepy. So it's more a comment on the album cover designers than anything else.
If you track the reactions of most pop and movie stars from the USA, you will notice they are rather restraint, maybe both out of consideration for other people, as well as from the intelligence that the rest of that show is sometimes lacking, when it falls into bigger silliness than the one they want to mock. Apart from the degree of jadedness they may have developed, or else the grooming they may have received to avoid being singled out as offenders to this or that group of people.
It is PC in the US and good breeding to NOT slander or shame people for their looks! If you have nothing nice to say you are expected to keep quiet. You see her shocked face. This "hilarious" fun making is quite english. Would they have dared to make fun of stupid looking asian or black people? That is why.
@@johannalange802 - They're not making fun of their looks but their retro or dated styling and vibe. It is funny - given the chance, Ken would probably laugh at his fashion sense from back then, too. You people honestly take everything far too seriously.
Talk about a lack of self awareness 😂, have any of these people actually had a look at themselves in the mirror, it’s not like they have super model looks 😂
Weird trying to imagine a world where it didn't matter what a singer looked like as long as they had a talent to sing. No make up industry, plastic surgery or semi porn outfits. Just keep laughing everyone that was the world your parents knew you have left your kids a much worse one !
I see what you're saying, and in many ways, I agree. It shouldn't matter what someone looks like, their singing should matter most. But I think there's almost always been a make up industry. I think you might have to go back to Shakespeare before you can find a time when there was no make up industry. Or maybe just go back to before the industrial revolution to when there was make up but it wasn't mass produced. As to a time when looks weren't as important, that might be when there was radio, but no television. Or even before radio, but they did have records. Or before records when they only had sheet music. They did have Vaudeville stage acts, and I suspect looks were still pretty important there, except in comedy routines. But the album covers shown here looked to be from the 60s and 70s, and looks were still very important for the most popular singers of that time. I think record producers still took that into consideration.
- Ken, by requests only
-Go away Ken!
-No! I am not going away. I'm coming closer
I laughed so hard I nearly pissed myself!!
he looked like when they make a doll of someone but get it totally wrong :D
I like that k.d. lang hit the punchline and Bill Bailey ran with it. I find watching comedians who think a non-pro nailed it interesting. An appreciation for good humour no matter where it came from. As they say, "Funny is funny."
"Barbie is buried under the patio" that one nearly killed me :'D
It was an oldie but a goodie
The close-up looked like a recreation of a person based on a skeleton when the police are trying to identify the victim
Lmfao, Jennifer just has this shocked look on her face and says "wow"..
Jennifer Husdon looks like she stumbled into a UK talk show and is just lost at what's going on...
Ren 89 she was a judge on UK “The Voice” for a few seasons.
She seemed to get exactly what was going on to me.
Who?
Thought the same thing!!!!
- "Jesus Use ME!!"
Jesus: No, am good, thanks.
I think Jesus would actually laugh at that 😄
Top right Faith Tone has to be Stephen Fry in drag.
+WalterLiddy Yes and on the left we have the chubby Brendan Fraser. The middle one looks familiar also. Perhaps somebody can point out who he is.
+kumppi Looks like an innumerable version of a Disney Channel actor.
I was thinking Frank Skinner,Matt Lucas and Stephen Fry
You are so right! She looks just like the drag characters Stephen played in "A Bit of Fry and Laurie."
100%.
The last one looks like a group of dinner ladies from the 70’s
Omg you're right. They all had that hair !
@@vmm5163 I now know why the guys were stealing Aqua-Net!
Yeah; TOO MANY fuckin' dinners of the 70's !!
Nope. That's early 60s hair. Beehive and Big Hair was 60s thing until hippies flat long hair. Then thanks to mousse and hair bands - big nasty stupid 80s hair happened - teased and moussed rat's nests - yuk. 🐒
@@cuda426hemi 1964 release. But some women held on to those styles well into the 70s. I remember a teacher with a beehive in the mid-80s, but she was nuts.
I have a copy of GERALDINE AND RICKY, "Trees Talk, Too!" autographed to me. I believe my paternal grandmother is the one who gave it to me.
My friend's mum had an album with a man crouching beside a tomb stone and it was called ''All My Friends Are Dead''. Its online somewhere.
Jon Smith I think there's a follow up album called "I Sold My Rifle Cause I'm Done Now".
😂
@@nicbarrax76 I'm pretty I had to look this up for something else once
Jon Smith, you mean this one?
www.discogs.com/Freddie-Gage-All-My-Friends-Are-Dead/release/4601728
@@nicbarrax76 😂😂😂
@Aaron madazz Morgan It's an album of sermons!
Press Petter Dekker's link to see the cover in its full glory!
😵
"I am your vessel!" Best line ever!
The woman on the right of the Faith Tones album looks like Stephen Fry in drag. 02:26
I noticed that immediately. It has to be a joke album or something. They all three look like men with wigs on. The lighting doesn't quite seem right either. Not to mention the album is called "Jesus Use Me".
holy crap Geraldine and Ricky are terrifying. That is some good old-fashioned nightmare fuel.
I'm not into her style of music but in the 90's K.D. Lang's voice was one of the best.
Geraldine and Ricky would be sure fire RUclips stars in this day and age.
Bill Baily emphasising "USE MEEE!" was hilarious!!
To a bunch of anti-Christian communists
I can't believe that no one mentioned Ricky's hair. It was equally beautiful.
Oh my gosh, I haven't laughed so much in ages. I had tears rolling down my eyes. Brilliant. Thank Heaven for Graham Norton.
Graham Norton, an overpaid, talentless prick and the guests aren’t much better
You don’t get out much by the sounds of it 😂
@@pugmahone9439 A bit harsh 🤭
Is no one going to ask what that blurb in the lower right corner means at 1:38? "Trees Talk Too!"
KD lang just love her
KD Lang and Bill Bailey are funny together
This had me in absolute stitches!
But then (sort of inevitably) I went a-googling and ended up listening to Geraldine and Ricky (although not for long!). Oh heck, don't make the same mistake...
Too late.. My Cochlear have been irretrievably damaged!!
Thanks for the warning. Much appreciated! :)
@@youbringlightin Hehe, it seemed necessary!
@@mikaelabowen5781 Oh no - now I've got a strong urge to google it myself. I must hold strong and resist. :)
@@youbringlightin Resist! Stay strong! You have no idea just how much you'll regret going a-Googling on this one!
*"Jesus use me!"*
I'm dead!! 🙈
That album cover is fake, though the song with that title is real.
The woman on the right of The Faith Tones looks like she might be Steven Fry's mum.
Just as I read that they did the close up of her,
You comment deserves more recognition, it had laughing so hard!
Jennifer Hudson has a look about her like nothing is going on upstairs.
Wait a minute....Geraldine and Ricky came to my church once...she’s really funny!!!
2:25 The Faith Tones: hey, rock and roll!
Ken is beside himself
That's because there are 2 pictures of him side by side.
0:55 Nice to see Keith Lemon had a recording career
😂😂😂😂
I got a Stephen Fry vibe from the Faith Tone on the right.
My thought exactly, when Stephen and High dressed up to do their vox pops. Also a bit of Bill Bailey on the left
2:46 - The one with the glasses is Stephen Fry.
The faith tone in the bottom middle is peter hellier in drag
Want to see another hundred of those!
I AM YOUR VESSEL... lol everytime! xD
Jennifer looked like she didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
I think she found it in poor taste to be making fun of these people.
The only classy person among them
"Jesus Use Me" I can't even think of a comeback line I am giggling so hard!
jesus use me cos no blokes in newcastle will go near us pet :P kinell they are scary
The "Jesus Use Me" album cover looks like three college dudes from the 50s in wigs.
The middle one looks like younger Justin Bieber and the right one with glasses looks like Buddy Holly with a bad wig.
Funny thing is, that some of these LP's can fetch good money by collectors of strange and bizarre LP covers.
I'm pretty sure the left hand Faith Tone is a young Ian McCulloch, later to join Echo and the Bunnymen...
Spare her the cutter! 😁
Thanks for posting.
One in glasses - Stephen Fry + beehive
The last one looked like Stephen Fry in a wig.
Hudson shows her class by being quiet
the one on the right of the faith tones looks like stephen fry
I'm lauging so hard my stomach is aching😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏
Most of these covers look straight out of the 70’s
Lmao!! Funny as feck! David cameron with a wig on
"Saving Grace" one of my favorite movies!!!!! Bill Bailey!!!🚘polka!🎼
I LOV e KD Lang! She looks like Merl Streep there. Her voice is magical! Constant cravings ✌️🙏❤️🇺🇸👍
It's David Mitchell on the left in the last one...and Daragh O'Briain on the right in the glasses
The Faith Tone on the left looks like Brendan Fraser in drag.
Every time I go to an antique store, I look for that Faith Tones album. So far, no luck.
it's David Mitchell, Eddie Izzard and Stephen Fry all in Big Boufant Drag !!! oh man it hurts to laugh this much
It's funny, everyone is laughing, but Jennifer just looks a little creeped out! I can't blame her with some of those albums, though! :D
Young Stephen Fry there with the glasses on the last one
It's actually Griff Rhys Jones playing Stephen Fry playing a Faith Tone.
The one with glasses on The Faith Tones cover looks like Stephen Fry.
She did have a David Cameron vibe!
Polyester clothing.✔ Dynel wigs ✔Cat's eye glasses✔ Yes we are ready to roll.
The Faith Tones. The one on the right looks like Stephen Fry :P
How could they NOT include "Beastillity" by the HANDSOME BEASTS (NWOBHM 1981)? NO list of bad record covers is complete without that!
There are at least three people on that show who don’t have a lot of room, if any at all, to ridicule anyone else’s looks.
I know the girl is Jennifer Hudson but who were the other 2 guys on the couch?
I don't think that a lot of the humour in these 'bizarre' record covers is really about anyone's plain looks, but more about the layouts, tone or extremely dated aesthetic.
I mean the "Use Me Jesus" title is hilarious, and the way the three heads were arranged made them look like they were those wobble headed dashboard ornaments.
And those sixties perm hairdos combined with horn rimmed glasses were a bit confronting even back in the sixties.
Meanwhile the Ken and ventriloquist doll ones just looked creepy.
So it's more a comment on the album cover designers than anything else.
Last one looks like Stephen Fry!
1:10 “..he looks Dutch..” No he doesn’t!!!
What a pisser... Gets me everytime
Graham Norton's stylist has great taste.
Graham has been doing that since 1999! J.Hud needs to crack a smile every now and them haha.
She was probably embarrassed because her cover was just as bad
Jennifer Hudson is taking this far too seriously
It's all down to how the show is edited
@@misstortitude No I've seen her on repeated Nortons and it goes over her head. Not so with KD Lang
Everything gets better with Bill commenting
The pot calling the kettle black !!
"Barbie's under the patio" hahahahahaha!!!
love KD so much
Ken By request only is actually a really good album. Very funky
If you like religion songs 😂
I can't tell whether Hudson was doped out of her mind or just has no sense of humour whatsoever.
If you track the reactions of most pop and movie stars from the USA, you will notice they are rather restraint, maybe both out of consideration for other people, as well as from the intelligence that the rest of that show is sometimes lacking, when it falls into bigger silliness than the one they want to mock.
Apart from the degree of jadedness they may have developed, or else the grooming they may have received to avoid being singled out as offenders to this or that group of people.
It is PC in the US and good breeding to NOT slander or shame people for their looks! If you have nothing nice to say you are expected to keep quiet. You see her shocked face.
This "hilarious" fun making is quite english. Would they have dared to make fun of stupid looking asian or black people?
That is why.
@@johannalange802 and yet your president does it all the time so not really just the English who do it.
pc culture is sad
@@johannalange802 - They're not making fun of their looks but their retro or dated styling and vibe. It is funny - given the chance, Ken would probably laugh at his fashion sense from back then, too. You people honestly take everything far too seriously.
"Use me!"
I wonder if that works as a pickup line?
i've sene the geraldine and ricky one before! still funny!
The one with the glasses has to be Stephen Fry:D
These are pretty mild compared to some of the album covers featured on that website. Some are so bad, they'll make your nose bleed.
I’m gonna have to go on there as OMG, these were awful. 🤣🤣
Bet I recognise some. 😆
"Use me Jesus! No one else will..."
I think the one with the glasses has more of a young Stephen Fry vibe.
The middle one in the faith tones kind off looks like justin bieber
I hope someone is making t shirts of the covers😂
The Faithtone on the far right looks like Stephen Fry.
Love how they can make fun...just look at themselves.
0:46 this guy should be on one of those covers.
Except he'd find it hilarious. 😆
The Faith Tones album should be titled "Beaker Use Me".
David Mitchell on the left
Micheal Van Gerwan 2:41 on the left, when hes not playing darts hes dressing up in the sixties housewifes gear
That's a great spot, well done.!!
@@FACELOWNER Thank you, Word will get out now HE HE HE
Talk about a lack of self awareness 😂, have any of these people actually had a look at themselves in the mirror, it’s not like they have super model looks 😂
Weird trying to imagine a world where it didn't matter what a singer looked like as long as they had a talent to sing.
No make up industry, plastic surgery or semi porn outfits. Just keep laughing everyone that was the world your parents knew you have left your kids a much worse one !
nick agreed
I see what you're saying, and in many ways, I agree. It shouldn't matter what someone looks like, their singing should matter most. But I think there's almost always been a make up industry. I think you might have to go back to Shakespeare before you can find a time when there was no make up industry. Or maybe just go back to before the industrial revolution to when there was make up but it wasn't mass produced.
As to a time when looks weren't as important, that might be when there was radio, but no television. Or even before radio, but they did have records. Or before records when they only had sheet music. They did have Vaudeville stage acts, and I suspect looks were still pretty important there, except in comedy routines.
But the album covers shown here looked to be from the 60s and 70s, and looks were still very important for the most popular singers of that time. I think record producers still took that into consideration.
I can't unsee The Faith Tones. Stuff of nightmares!
The last one in the glasses looks like stephen fry in drag.
Bill bailey love him so funny
Ken is on Speed.
Ken gets a bad rap. That last one had Stephen Fry on the right. I'm certain of it. 😂
I was thinking the one on the right looked like Mr. Rumbold off of Are You Being Served
2:40 Bob Mortimer, Charlie Brooker, Stephen Fry.
The faithtones kinda looked like three guys in drag!sorry I know that those were the hair styles of the 1960s but damn!
The faith tones look like 70s kids in drag trying to buy beer with their mums IDs
Thats the smile they give the cashier
A lot of these are from a book published years back. I have the book.
where is a yt playlist of those gems?
3:07 the guy that should have shaved his head years ago " no self awareness "