Mike Yarwood's Royal Variety Show Thames Production 30th September 1986
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2023
- Mike Yarwood's Royal Variety Show Thames Production 30th September 1986 (with Central region adverts) Uploaded as a Tribute to Mike Yarwood who sadly died yesterday 8th September 2023.
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His material on this show (and the concept) is very good - it has aged well with some great lines -
R.I.P. Mike
What a great find. Absoutely loved it and a fitting tribute to the man. RIP.
I am impressed with the high quality of this THAMES production. Some of the impressions were so convincing (particularly visually) that I had to look twice to see they weren’t the real person. Great tribute to Mike and the make-up ladies at THAMES who seem to be top notch. Many people of my generation will be quite sad at yesterday’s news of his death. God bless ya, Mike.
Thank you for the upload. Mike Yarwood was absolutely brilliant in his time - may he rest in peace.
Sobering to think that of the 17 people impersonated here all but 5 of them have subsequently passed.
Prince Charles
Princess Diana rip
Lord Delfont rip
Richard Attenborough rip
Terry Wogan rip
Max Bygraves rip
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
Sammy Davis Junior rip
Frank Sinatra rip
Jimmy Cagney rip
Jimmy Tarbuck
Tommy Steele
Bruce Forsythe rip
Cliff Richard
George Burns rip
Frankie Howerd rip
Lionel Blair rip
Prince Charles is brain dead. RIP
Mike yarwood stole a living I didn’t rate him at all
Great tribute upload, thanks
Just think that he did an entire „Royal Variety Show“ on his own! That is some tour de force. Nobody else attempted that.
A hugely talented man. A fantastic show and a joy to watch.
The fact that you can fast forward through this and just get a second of each impersonation and instantly know who they are speaks to his brilliance.
The best that has ever been or ever will be an that's a fact rip to the legend that is the late truly brilliant mike yarwood
Absolutely 💯 💯 💯 brilliant.
Brill, great find. RIP MY👌🥇👍
Mike yarwood genious
I grew up watching the incomparable Mike Yarwood in the 70s and 80s. He was a naturally warm, funny and unique talent who entertained millions of people for many years but incredibly, was a shy, reserved man at heart. It is an extremely pressurised career at that level, which can and often does take its toll health-wise and it's good to know that after he retired, he was very content. Thank you for all the fun - you will be remembered.
Very good!! I haven't seen this before; excellent!
Thanks. Glad you liked it!
A great show with a very different original style and approach.
THE impersonator par excellence. RIP
Wonderful I miss these shows and times so much 🙂🇬🇧
Great editing for 1986 lol 2:08
is there or is there no a studio audience in this?
im sure its canned laughter and stock footage of an audience
They probably had an audience of plebs who wouldn't mind waiting for the costume and make-up changes, but not the audience we see! And it may have taken a day to two to record the whole thing.
This special was produced in Thames Television's own theatre, and they had an audience, there to watch it, with around 50% of the content pre-recorded and then played into the audience.
At 24:55 - here we see a strength and a weakness of the late Mike Yarwood, here he was doing Jimmy Tarbuck and got the material correct, Tarbuck's comedy was so dated come 1986 it was cringy, and he had the mannerisms too of Tarbuck, the one thing he lacked was the voice. He sounded more Mike Yarwood than Tarbuck here. And sadly being honest, this was his downfall, as in 1987 his Thames series was ended.
do hink Mike Yarwood was more visual than vocal?
I agree that Mike often found the Scouse accent difficult - though his impersonation of Doddy (not featured in this particular video) was superb. Tarby apart, this spoof of the Royal Variety Performance was one of Mike's finest hours.
@johnking5174. Mike was great for his era (1970s). But by 1986, his sketches were too long and pedestrian. People preferred the faster pace of Rory Bremner and Spitting Image.
He was pretty awful to be honest.
Brilliant except Yarwood blacking up as Sammy Davis Junior made me little uncomfortable.
Why? What was the alternative? To ignore him? To do him as a white man? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. He wasn’t mocking him…it was a tribute to a great star.
not all that good or funny he just sounds very nasal in all impression