Haha I really enjoyed that! Rowan Atkinson who was also in Not The Nine O Clock News did a hilarious duet with Kate Bush for I think Red Nose Day. It’s such comedy gold 😂
Thanks for this unexpected Kate Bush connected reaction IO. Very entertaining as always. I'm old enough to remember both of these performances quite clearly. At that time KB was seen as unusual and not understood by the popular media she was labelled as weird and crazy by the press. For comedy programs at the time she was rich in material because she was so different. Pamela Stephenson was and is a very intelligent person and was in a lot of TV at the time. She was most famous for Not The Nine O'clock News of course which was a very popular show at the time. Faith Brown was also popular but far more mainstream with the more obvious comedy references. For Kate, imitation is the most common form of flattery of course.
Thank you for the background I was wondering what fans hought about them when they came out. I wasn’t sure what to expect and I was hoping they weren’t going to be mean. But they were so obviously made by people who enjoy Kate,. Especially the Leotard one there are so many Kate Bush Easter eggs. It felt like a fan made it.. Interesting to hear that Faith Brow was more mainstream. That makes sense, I am a fan of both these ladies now!
@@popcornphilosopher there is a really good BBC documentary about Kate Bush on RUclips. It will help you understand more about her and how she was perceived at the time. A must for all fans. You will absolutely love this, I promise. ruclips.net/video/c4sLwt8mhZs/видео.htmlsi=efdRaTBJKv2cPKf2
Faith Brown was one of a few famous female impressionists often seen on the TV in the UK back in the day. She was very good. By the way, Janet Brown (no relation) was another impressionist - best known for playing Margaret Thatcher, if I recall correctly.
Yeah, I want to know more about her, but there wasn’t a whole lot that I found. I think she’s hilarious! I’d like to see more impressions by her. Did you do any more Kate Bush on tv? And I read she toured doing Kate but I couldn’t find if she did more tv of her
I can't add anything particular to the detailed comments below except just say it's lovely to see you back on the KB trail. Already looking forward to your Violin reaction when it comes along! :)
No I’m just glad to hear from you! Violin was supposed to come out first but my mic went out for part of it! Waiting for a a new mic so I can refilm the end!
As I'm getting used to, your passion and attention to detail is fantastic PP. It's interesting to hear Pamela and 'Not The Nine O'Clock News' being discussed. This was very much part of my awakening as a much younger person. She is indeed an intriguing person. The Not The Nine O'Clock team was very highly regarded as trailblazers- I even have one of their annuals to this very day! Even though Pamela is a New Zealander, the NTNN output was very uniquely British. I love that she's been married to Glasgow's legendary Billy Connelly since the late 80s. He appeared in some sketches on the NTNN show (he was already very well known)...and it was clear there was chemistry between him and Pamela.
Wow. Pamela Stephenson did an amazing job. So many parodies that are made by weekly comedy shows (I guess this one is "Not The Nine O'clock News" ) are highly topical and don't stand the test of time. But the jokes in this one (if you are a fan) combined with the on point performance are still hilarious. Great to see you laughing!
Hi Io. Glad you were able to find these; for some reason RUclips wouldn't let me post any kind of description to them. Glad you enjoyed them too. When Kate broke through there were a couple of narratives that parallel to each other about her and her music. One was very approving of her music and what she was trying to do. The other (often from men) was one that couched her terms of being too much the hippie out of time, with too many ideas, trying too hard to appear intelligent, while behaving in this weird wild, cookie, even slightly crazy manner, all coming from someone who was too middle class and from too privileged a background to ever be really authentic - you can't make art if you haven't suffered for it and so on, rock and roll has to be born on the wrong side of the tracks and so on. These parodies capture a lot of what was going on from both sides and yet still show that in the middle of all of this there is this still fairly young girl doing things that were outrageous in terms of music, chord progressions, performance etc. Pamela Stephenson has had a long and greatly varied career Dr, author, comedian(ienne?), actor, etc. Married to the great (and I never use that word lightly) Billy Connolly (check out his 'wildebeest' 'incontinence pants' 'dwarf on a bus' 'old woman on a bus' 'drinking the water in ibiza' 'attack at glasgow airport' 'ghosts' routines among many others). Pamela's interview with Janet Street Port sketch is worth watching - you don't need to know anything about JSP other than that she was a well known, 'toothy' TV personality with a very distinct accent. I personally think that the latex lyric is a reference to a particular, photograph of Kate wearing a leotard that was very popular, in her early career (to put it delicately, the girls stood very high and very proudly to attention), it became ubiquitous at the time so that she (and they) stared down at you from just about every advertising hoarding. Kate didn't like it and didn't like the way she was being objectified and sexualized. As others have pointed out that was actually Faith Brown doing Dame Edna (at the risk of offending absolutely everybody on the Internet Dame Edna never looked that feminine!). For me, by far the best Kate Bush parody song, is as others have noted her duet with Mr Bean's alter ego - Rowan Atkinson 'Do bears.....' the implied but never actually completed title is, of course, 'Do bears sh*t in the Woods' The other notable parody "song" is the 'Alan Partridge' medley. Creator of Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan is, famously a long standing KB fan. He once said of her: "Byron once said about Keats, 'Keats writes about what he imagines; I write about what I live.' And most Rock & Roll people write about their lives in some way. Kate Bush is more like Keats in that she writes about what she imagines." Years later, Darren Hayes (Savage Garden etc) picked that up and said of her song 'A Coral Room: "In 100 years’ time someone will study that song and say: “She’s Keats, she’s incredible.” Glad you enjoyed. I very much enjoyed your video, I had seen them before, but laughed a lot at you laughing at the videos!
I am really glad to have all this background on Kate back then. The attitude towards her. You explained it very well others have tried, but now I feel like I fully understand why oh england my leotard was made. It’s interesting, because I think these attitudes towards an artist fade with time and all your left with is the music so when someone like me comes along, just hears the music. We’re really free from all of the hoopla. But hearing it afterwards brings a lot of context I wanna rewatch OEML knowing this. I’m also going to check out some of those clips you talked about. Maybe I’ll do it Billy Connolly, video. Since I haven’t really heard of his work. Although RUclips algo doesn’t like it when I deviate. I’ll definitely be doing the.Do bears one. There is a lot in the 70s/early 80’s for me to get to! Lovely quote about Kate from Steve Coogan. Btw I said the same thing about Dame Edna more or less. I hope I didn’t offend anybody lol
The Pamela Stevenson parody was on Not the Nine O'clock News, a sort of comedy troupe sketch show that was thought at the time as a new Monty Python. Rowan Atkinson began his TV career on that as well. There was usually a musical skit. I remember one with Billy Connolly as Ayatollah Khomeini. Faith Brown was a more mainstream/ variety act, mainly famous for her impression of Margaret Thatcher. I don't remember her having her own show, so it probably didn't run for long. She mainly guested on other shows. By the way that wasn't Dame Edna (Barry Humphreys), but Faith impersonating her. The Alan Partridge medley is very funny. He performed it on his stage show and Kate went to see it. In an interview, Steve Coogan said she came backstage after and said how nice it was to hear the old songs again. So sweet. That was from the 2014 BBC documentary that is on RUclips. The Noel Fielding one is just him dancing to wuthering heights for a celebrity dance show. After the performance the presenter read out a message they had received from Kate praising him and he was clearly moved as they hadn't previously met. Later he appeared in her music video for Deeper Understanding so they must have become acquainted. Kate was a big comedy fan and made several appearances at comedy charity events, singing a duet with Rowan Atkinson at one. She also acted in a Comic Strip presents... TV one off called Les Dogs. That's also on RUclips. Nice idea for a reaction, by the way!
That is so funny that it wasn’t Dame Edna! I was thinking wow she looks so much more attractive back thenLol. Thanks for the background because I was really hoping I could hear more about both. I couldn’t find a lot. I’m deathly going to check out more 6 o’clock news because I love Monty Python. My mom had flying Circus DVDs and I was obsessed with them when I was a kid. I am so excited for the Allan Partridge one. I’m definitely doing a part two and I’m glad to hear. Kate enjoyed it too. I just knew she would be the type of person to enjoy a send up of herself and would find the humor in life. You can really see it even in her lyrics. Especially like the wedding gig and my next reaction for violin. Someone else mentioned deeper understanding. I’m glad you let me know It’s a song I was wondering.
Loved Pamela's video because she picked up on all the tiny nuances in Kate's performance. I recommend "Do Bears...?" which is Kate herself with Rowan Atkinson. Kate reportedly has a great sense of humor. This is a very playful tune. 😊
You definitely have to look into Alan Partridge. He is actually a spoof media character (popular on TV for a few decades now with a movie as well) played by Steve Coogan. Noel Fielding also did a lovely Kate Bush tribute - in the Wuthering Heights red dress. Noel can be seen in the closing portion of Kate's Deeper Understanding video. He is the man being attacked by Robbie Coltrane.
I’m so excited to see those. I’m definitely going to do a part two. Is deeper understanding a song? That makes sense you can tell Kate is the kind of person who has a sense of humor about herself!.
@@popcornphilosopher Deeper Understanding is a song about people turning to computers etc. for emotional relationship instead of real people. Originally from the album The Sensual World it was reworked later (for her collection of alternative takes named Director's Cut). Her Deeper Understanding video is of the newer version - and was the single from the Director's Cut album. The video (as most of her videos are) is really good and stars the late great Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid).
. That’s why I did the video! Someone even told me she likes one so much that she did some kind of charity thing with them! I look forward to seeing that
Loved this. I've seen a few of those Pamela Stephenson interviews (she has one with Joan Rivers aswel) never put together that she did the Leotard song! I don't think that was the real Dame Edna btw. Edna first became popular I think in the mid 70's though she had been created I think in the late 50s! Maybe a rabbit hole deep dive on her one day?
Really??? I am so excited. I hope I can find the Joan Rivers one. I love her so much and miss her. I had no idea dame Edna had been around that long. Although I was more shipped out how young and attractive she looked lol. I’d love to do a deep dive on Dame Edna!
I miss Joan too! Little known fact about Barry Humphries (Edna), he has a rare role as a male charater in Shock Treatment (1981) the Rocky Horror sequel. (Very underseen film). He also was a comedic genious, much like dear departed Joan.
Oh england My leotard as far as I can tell was Them Heavy people then at the end she goes Leooo Tard Leoo Tard Leo Tarddd! Which sounded like Violin And then as you pointed out she did the actual of england my leotard lyric
The lyrics to Leotard are excellent. They spoof Kate’s original lyrics while juxtaposing 3 different takes on who Kate really is: 1) vegetarian hippy dippy flower child 2) raucous sex symbol and 3) intellectual. The humour in the song is in the tension between the 3. NTNON (as it was known) was always the talk of the playground at school the night after it was on. The Faith Brown parody was simpler physical humour but no less effective. Kate write directly to Faith afterwards to say how much she enjoyed it. I suspect you’d enjoy Kate disco dancing to Them Heavy People in Japan, and her performance of The Wedding List in front of prince Charles, where her top flew off and she ended up singing arms crossed to protect her modesty…
@@MikeWadeUK21 that makes sense. I always say people have so many dichotomies. And even the simplest person is super complicated, so I’m sure Kate Bush even more so I was told about the wedding list Incident when I covered the song. The reaction is definitely coming for that! I love that she has a sense of humor about herself
Back in the late 70's and 80's it wasn't a thing. Although if you see her Hammersmith Concert Video you will see dozens and dozens of men up to their Middle Age showering the stage with flowers at the conclusion of the show. Given she was still in her late teens. And to confess being a man if there was no pictures or videos of her her voice is enough to sent chills up and down a man's spine as it is so feminine. Think - the US Airforce used a taped woman's voice to alert pilots to conditions of their aircraft as it was found out that men listen to a woman's voice more intensely than a man's or a synthesized voice so they would react faster. This was used on the late 50's Hustler Nuclear Super Sonic Bomber where fast reactions were needed. Psychology.
@@popcornphilosopher Probably. I was like 12 in the UK as an American kid and she was only like 5 or 6 years older than me. She, Toyah, and Hazel O'Connor were very "formative" in my younger years in who I am attracted to now as a grown up.
@@popcornphilosopher And self parody... ruclips.net/video/LswKizinfJY/видео.htmlsi=hf1O7EeVBzZyeoE8 ruclips.net/video/gF8ep4JIg98/видео.htmlsi=V6asSG_i-PpNQx0V And of course Pammy sending up another female singer. ruclips.net/video/csZjIcGy8tU/видео.htmlsi=reWEXlAZJUzgaDxV And one not so good... ruclips.net/video/1SRoRy8ypvk/видео.html There is also a really nasty interview from an American out there that is horrible where you can tell the reporter is jealous as hell of Kate's appearance.
First one was too much for me, spent the whole time trying figure out last bit and missed the next one. Don't want to analyze my comedy to get it. Second hit better as could focus on the physical comedy she was doing and appreciate it. The flying bit reminded my of when Chris Farley did it on SNL.
I think I appreciated the first one more than I laughed out loud and was intrigued to find out more. The second time I saw the second one I really appreciated all the inflections as well as the physical comedy!
Pamela Stephenson was hot but this particular parody was terrible IMO. The song was bad, they lyrics half assed and Pamela didn't have any of the guile of Kate and the voice was too grating.
Really? I thought the lyrics were pretty clever, but there really were too Many lyrics and ideas. , so I never actually laughed. I respected it more than I thought it was funny. I actually laughed at the faith brown one.
@@popcornphilosopher Each tot heir own of course. I just thought the Faith Brown worked much better as a piece of comedy. I just didn't find the lyrics clever or funny in the Pamela Stephenson skit and we couldn't hear what she was singing anyway so comedy lyrics that need subtitles are an auto fail for me. Not the Nine O'clock news was very hit & miss in its skits, some were great, others not so much.
@@Muckylittleme I actually kind of agree with you. That’s why I had the lyric video if I had no idea what she was saying and really i shouldn’t need it.
First regarding Pamela Stephenson , the sketch comedy show on which she appeared was called "Not The Nine O'clock News" broadcast on BBC 2 at the same time as the actual Nine O'clock News on BBC 1, as a comedy alternative, hence the name. The format of show did include parody songs of popular artists or making a point by employing popular musical styles at the time, so the brilliant Kate Bush parody by Pamela Stephenson wasn't a one off. The show was also the lauching off point for the comedians Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Rowan Atkinson (who might be more familiar to you as playing the character Mr Bean). BTW Kate did sing with Rowan in duet at the Comic Relief charity show in singing a song called "Do Bears" The soundtrack album, which features the Kate Bush parody is called "Hedgehog Sandwich" which I have got on CD somewhere. BTW, on the Faith Bown Show extract that wasn't Dame Edna it was a Faith Brown impression of her. I did watch "Not The Nine O'clock News" regularly, the Faith Bown Show not so often, but I certainly do remember seeing her Kate Bush impression. Yes you shoild also look at Noel Fieldings performance and the Kate Bush medley by the comedian Steve Coogan as the character Alan Partridge, both highly recommended.
Sorry for the late response I was up all night finishing this video. Only time I can edit! I’m intrigued by song called hedgehog sandwich lol. I am really familiar with Rowan Atkinson. However, I didn’t know this is where he started off. That’s so cool. I’m excited to see you there comic relief show. I hope I can find it. I find it so funny I thought that was an actual dame, Edna lol. OK so the show must not have actually been taped in front of an audience? Since she was playing against herself. Both her and Pamela Stephenson are funny. But I found Pamela’s life so fascinating. also she’s kind of in the tradition of smart women who got called on to play “dumb blondes” and did it brilliantly, but were so much more. Thanks for all the background I was hoping I would!
Haha I really enjoyed that! Rowan Atkinson who was also in Not The Nine O Clock News did a hilarious duet with Kate Bush for I think Red Nose Day.
It’s such comedy gold 😂
I am definitely gonna check that video out and for sure will be doing reaction . I really need to watch more Rowan Atkinson in general..
I can't believe you are reacting to this! I clicked so fast! I adore the O englan my leotard parody and I never saw the Faith brown one Thank yuo
I’m glad I could oblige haha. Thank you!
Thanks for this unexpected Kate Bush connected reaction IO. Very entertaining as always.
I'm old enough to remember both of these performances quite clearly. At that time KB was seen as unusual and not understood by the popular media she was labelled as weird and crazy by the press. For comedy programs at the time she was rich in material because she was so different.
Pamela Stephenson was and is a very intelligent person and was in a lot of TV at the time. She was most famous for Not The Nine O'clock News of course which was a very popular show at the time.
Faith Brown was also popular but far more mainstream with the more obvious comedy references.
For Kate, imitation is the most common form of flattery of course.
Thank you for the background I was wondering what fans hought about them when they came out. I wasn’t sure what to expect and I was hoping they weren’t going to be mean. But they were so obviously made by people who enjoy Kate,. Especially the Leotard one there are so many Kate Bush Easter eggs. It felt like a fan made it.. Interesting to hear that Faith Brow was more mainstream. That makes sense, I am a fan of both these ladies now!
@@popcornphilosopher there is a really good BBC documentary about Kate Bush on RUclips. It will help you understand more about her and how she was perceived at the time. A must for all fans. You will absolutely love this, I promise.
ruclips.net/video/c4sLwt8mhZs/видео.htmlsi=efdRaTBJKv2cPKf2
Faith Brown was one of a few famous female impressionists often seen on the TV in the UK back in the day. She was very good. By the way, Janet Brown (no relation) was another impressionist - best known for playing Margaret Thatcher, if I recall correctly.
Yeah, I want to know more about her, but there wasn’t a whole lot that I found. I think she’s hilarious! I’d like to see more impressions by her. Did you do any more Kate Bush on tv? And I read she toured doing Kate but I couldn’t find if she did more tv of her
I can't add anything particular to the detailed comments below except just say it's lovely to see you back on the KB trail. Already looking forward to your Violin reaction when it comes along! :)
No I’m just glad to hear from you! Violin was supposed to come out first but my mic went out for part of it! Waiting for a a new mic so I can refilm the end!
As I'm getting used to, your passion and attention to detail is fantastic PP. It's interesting to hear Pamela and 'Not The Nine O'Clock News' being discussed. This was very much part of my awakening as a much younger person. She is indeed an intriguing person. The Not The Nine O'Clock team was very highly regarded as trailblazers- I even have one of their annuals to this very day! Even though Pamela is a New Zealander, the NTNN output was very uniquely British. I love that she's been married to Glasgow's legendary Billy Connelly since the late 80s. He appeared in some sketches on the NTNN show (he was already very well known)...and it was clear there was chemistry between him and Pamela.
Wow.
Pamela Stephenson did an amazing job. So many parodies that are made by weekly comedy shows (I guess this one is "Not The Nine O'clock News" ) are highly topical and don't stand the test of time.
But the jokes in this one (if you are a fan) combined with the on point performance are still hilarious.
Great to see you laughing!
Love your research. I have never seen these clips. Very entertaining and now I know both these very talented women also.
I know right, I have 2 new obsessions now Thank you so much I’m so glad you liked it!
Hi Io. Glad you were able to find these; for some reason RUclips wouldn't let me post any kind of description to them. Glad you enjoyed them too. When Kate broke through there were a couple of narratives that parallel to each other about her and her music. One was very approving of her music and what she was trying to do. The other (often from men) was one that couched her terms of being too much the hippie out of time, with too many ideas, trying too hard to appear intelligent, while behaving in this weird wild, cookie, even slightly crazy manner, all coming from someone who was too middle class and from too privileged a background to ever be really authentic - you can't make art if you haven't suffered for it and so on, rock and roll has to be born on the wrong side of the tracks and so on.
These parodies capture a lot of what was going on from both sides and yet still show that in the middle of all of this there is this still fairly young girl doing things that were outrageous in terms of music, chord progressions, performance etc.
Pamela Stephenson has had a long and greatly varied career Dr, author, comedian(ienne?), actor, etc. Married to the great (and I never use that word lightly) Billy Connolly (check out his 'wildebeest' 'incontinence pants' 'dwarf on a bus' 'old woman on a bus' 'drinking the water in ibiza' 'attack at glasgow airport' 'ghosts' routines among many others). Pamela's interview with Janet Street Port sketch is worth watching - you don't need to know anything about JSP other than that she was a well known, 'toothy' TV personality with a very distinct accent.
I personally think that the latex lyric is a reference to a particular, photograph of Kate wearing a leotard that was very popular, in her early career (to put it delicately, the girls stood very high and very proudly to attention), it became ubiquitous at the time so that she (and they) stared down at you from just about every advertising hoarding. Kate didn't like it and didn't like the way she was being objectified and sexualized.
As others have pointed out that was actually Faith Brown doing Dame Edna (at the risk of offending absolutely everybody on the Internet Dame Edna never looked that feminine!).
For me, by far the best Kate Bush parody song, is as others have noted her duet with Mr Bean's alter ego - Rowan Atkinson 'Do bears.....' the implied but never actually completed title is, of course, 'Do bears sh*t in the Woods'
The other notable parody "song" is the 'Alan Partridge' medley. Creator of Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan is, famously a long standing KB fan. He once said of her:
"Byron once said about Keats, 'Keats writes about what he imagines; I write about what I live.' And most Rock & Roll people write about their lives in some way. Kate Bush is more like Keats in that she writes about what she imagines."
Years later, Darren Hayes (Savage Garden etc) picked that up and said of her song 'A Coral Room:
"In 100 years’ time someone will study that song and say: “She’s Keats, she’s incredible.”
Glad you enjoyed. I very much enjoyed your video, I had seen them before, but laughed a lot at you laughing at the videos!
I am really glad to have all this background on Kate back then. The attitude towards her. You explained it very well others have tried, but now I feel like I fully understand why oh england my leotard was made. It’s interesting, because I think these attitudes towards an artist fade with time and all your left with is the music so when someone like me comes along, just hears the music. We’re really free from all of the hoopla. But hearing it afterwards brings a lot of context I wanna rewatch OEML knowing this. I’m also going to check out some of those clips you talked about. Maybe I’ll do it Billy Connolly, video. Since I haven’t really heard of his work. Although RUclips algo doesn’t like it when I deviate. I’ll definitely be doing the.Do bears one. There is a lot in the 70s/early 80’s for me to get to! Lovely quote about Kate from Steve Coogan. Btw I said the same thing about Dame Edna more or less. I hope I didn’t offend anybody lol
This is really interesting!
The Pamela Stevenson parody was on Not the Nine O'clock News, a sort of comedy troupe sketch show that was thought at the time as a new Monty Python. Rowan Atkinson began his TV career on that as well. There was usually a musical skit. I remember one with Billy Connolly as Ayatollah Khomeini.
Faith Brown was a more mainstream/ variety act, mainly famous for her impression of Margaret Thatcher. I don't remember her having her own show, so it probably didn't run for long. She mainly guested on other shows. By the way that wasn't Dame Edna (Barry Humphreys), but Faith impersonating her.
The Alan Partridge medley is very funny. He performed it on his stage show and Kate went to see it. In an interview, Steve Coogan said she came backstage after and said how nice it was to hear the old songs again. So sweet. That was from the 2014 BBC documentary that is on RUclips.
The Noel Fielding one is just him dancing to wuthering heights for a celebrity dance show. After the performance the presenter read out a message they had received from Kate praising him and he was clearly moved as they hadn't previously met. Later he appeared in her music video for Deeper Understanding so they must have become acquainted.
Kate was a big comedy fan and made several appearances at comedy charity events, singing a duet with Rowan Atkinson at one. She also acted in a Comic Strip presents... TV one off called Les Dogs. That's also on RUclips.
Nice idea for a reaction, by the way!
Also Kate wrote and performed the song Ken, for the comic strip presents episode "GLC - The Carnage Continues"
That's true. I should have remembered that as well because I have the single!
That is so funny that it wasn’t Dame Edna! I was thinking wow she looks so much more attractive back thenLol. Thanks for the background because I was really hoping I could hear more about both. I couldn’t find a lot. I’m deathly going to check out more 6 o’clock news because I love Monty Python. My mom had flying Circus DVDs and I was obsessed with them when I was a kid. I am so excited for the Allan Partridge one. I’m definitely doing a part two and I’m glad to hear. Kate enjoyed it too. I just knew she would be the type of person to enjoy a send up of herself and would find the humor in life. You can really see it even in her lyrics. Especially like the wedding gig and my next reaction for violin. Someone else mentioned deeper understanding. I’m glad you let me know It’s a song I was wondering.
@@leslieturner8276 oh, interesting I will definitely check that out as well if I can find it!
The Alan Partridge medley is Kate's & mine favorite.
I’m so excited to see it! I just knew Kate had a sense of humor about herself. That’s my favorite kind of person!
I really liked them both never seen this before on Kate Bush was good makes sense they happened in .England
I ‘m glad some one told me about the leotard one. Found the other one by accident. Yes, I can’t really see these airing in the US for example!
Loved Pamela's video because she picked up on all the tiny nuances in Kate's performance. I recommend "Do Bears...?" which is Kate herself with Rowan Atkinson. Kate reportedly has a great sense of humor. This is a very playful tune. 😊
Yeah I was surprised at how there were lots of Kate Easter eggs. OOOOh I’ll definitely check Kate and Rowan Atkinson vid out. I’d like to do a part 2!
You definitely have to look into Alan Partridge. He is actually a spoof media character (popular on TV for a few decades now with a movie as well) played by Steve Coogan. Noel Fielding also did a lovely Kate Bush tribute - in the Wuthering Heights red dress. Noel can be seen in the closing portion of Kate's Deeper Understanding video. He is the man being attacked by Robbie Coltrane.
I’m so excited to see those. I’m definitely going to do a part two. Is deeper understanding a song? That makes sense you can tell Kate is the kind of person who has a sense of humor about herself!.
@@popcornphilosopher Deeper Understanding is a song about people turning to computers etc. for emotional relationship instead of real people. Originally from the album The Sensual World it was reworked later (for her collection of alternative takes named Director's Cut). Her Deeper Understanding video is of the newer version - and was the single from the Director's Cut album. The video (as most of her videos are) is really good and stars the late great Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid).
@@popcornphilosopher Noel Fielding does his Kate Bush dance on a Comic Relief segment from 2011.
Pamela Stephenson was a brilliant comedienne and impersonator, who appeared in a comedy series called 'Not the 9 o'clock News.
I thought it was not the 6 o’clock news lol. I think I even said that in the video. Whoops
So agree!
Not the 9 oclock news was a really good show.
Really good. Dated because of how topical it was, but so many great sketches.
Kate Bush is a highly intelligent individual who, I'm sure... like many, found this highly amusing and hilarious.
. That’s why I did the video! Someone even told me she likes one so much that she did some kind of charity thing with them! I look forward to seeing that
Loved this. I've seen a few of those Pamela Stephenson interviews (she has one with Joan Rivers aswel) never put together that she did the Leotard song! I don't think that was the real Dame Edna btw. Edna first became popular I think in the mid 70's though she had been created I think in the late 50s! Maybe a rabbit hole deep dive on her one day?
Really??? I am so excited. I hope I can find the Joan Rivers one. I love her so much and miss her. I had no idea dame Edna had been around that long. Although I was more shipped out how young and attractive she looked lol. I’d love to do a deep dive on Dame Edna!
I miss Joan too! Little known fact about Barry Humphries (Edna), he has a rare role as a male charater in Shock Treatment (1981)
the Rocky Horror sequel. (Very underseen film). He also was a comedic genious, much like dear departed Joan.
'It's a nice leotard.' Haha.
I think that was Faith Brown doing Dame Edna
That is hilarious. I was thinking wow Dame Edna was so attractive back then!
@@popcornphilosopher Fooled me too!
I know right!
Oh england My leotard as far as I can tell was Them Heavy people then at the end she goes
Leooo Tard Leoo Tard Leo Tarddd! Which sounded like Violin
And then as you pointed out she did the actual of england my leotard lyric
Oh, I didn’t catch that part about violin! Good catch!
Look out for the Jessica Martin parody of Kate too - it’s spot on
No one told me about that one! That’s awesome thank you now I have four more to react to!
Thats Faith Brown as Edna
But you can watch Edna introduce kates performance of december will be magic again
Oh wow interesting. thank you …I’m definitely going to check that out!
@popcornphilosopher1923 it was in 1979 so around the same time as the Wow parody
@@popcornphilosopher You do know Dame Edna was a drag act too?
you can check out Noel Fielding does Wuthering Hights ;-) I mostly liked the Faith Brown parody. That one made me laugh. Impression is flathering 😁👌
Yeah, I’ve got quite a parody list now to checkout, I didn’t realize there were quite a few, including one from Kate herself haha.
Loved Robin Williams when he did mark and Mindy
Absolutely love mork & Mindy!
Cool yo
Thanks certified. Did you change your name?
@@popcornphilosopher no why ? Do you see me as certified quality?;but I can sometimes see everyone's names added with part of the email
@@popcornphilosopher example you have 1923 after your channel name
The lyrics to Leotard are excellent. They spoof Kate’s original lyrics while juxtaposing 3 different takes on who Kate really is: 1) vegetarian hippy dippy flower child 2) raucous sex symbol and 3) intellectual. The humour in the song is in the tension between the 3. NTNON (as it was known) was always the talk of the playground at school the night after it was on.
The Faith Brown parody was simpler physical humour but no less effective. Kate write directly to Faith afterwards to say how much she enjoyed it.
I suspect you’d enjoy Kate disco dancing to Them Heavy People in Japan, and her performance of The Wedding List in front of prince Charles, where her top flew off and she ended up singing arms crossed to protect her modesty…
@@MikeWadeUK21 that makes sense. I always say people have so many dichotomies. And even the simplest person is super complicated, so I’m sure Kate Bush even more so I was told about the wedding list Incident when I covered the song. The reaction is definitely coming for that! I love that she has a sense of humor about herself
Back in the late 70's and 80's it wasn't a thing. Although if you see her Hammersmith Concert Video you will see dozens and dozens of men up to their Middle Age showering the stage with flowers at the conclusion of the show. Given she was still in her late teens.
And to confess being a man if there was no pictures or videos of her her voice is enough to sent chills up and down a man's spine as it is so feminine.
Think - the US Airforce used a taped woman's voice to alert pilots to conditions of their aircraft as it was found out that men listen to a woman's voice more intensely than a man's or a synthesized voice so they would react faster. This was used on the late 50's Hustler Nuclear Super Sonic Bomber where fast reactions were needed. Psychology.
That’s really interesting… is it somehow related to the parodies?
@@popcornphilosopher Probably. I was like 12 in the UK as an American kid and she was only like 5 or 6 years older than me. She, Toyah, and Hazel O'Connor were very "formative" in my younger years in who I am attracted to now as a grown up.
@@popcornphilosopher And self parody...
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And of course Pammy sending up another female singer.
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And one not so good...
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There is also a really nasty interview from an American out there that is horrible where you can tell the reporter is jealous as hell of Kate's appearance.
First one was too much for me, spent the whole time trying figure out last bit and missed the next one. Don't want to analyze my comedy to get it. Second hit better as could focus on the physical comedy she was doing and appreciate it. The flying bit reminded my of when Chris Farley did it on SNL.
I think I appreciated the first one more than I laughed out loud and was intrigued to find out more. The second time I saw the second one I really appreciated all the inflections as well as the physical comedy!
Oh and I forgot about that Chris Farley bit!
Pamela Stephenson was hot but this particular parody was terrible IMO.
The song was bad, they lyrics half assed and Pamela didn't have any of the guile of Kate and the voice was too grating.
Really? I thought the lyrics were pretty clever, but there really were too Many lyrics and ideas. , so I never actually laughed. I respected it more than I thought it was funny. I actually laughed at the faith brown one.
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Each tot heir own of course.
I just thought the Faith Brown worked much better as a piece of comedy.
I just didn't find the lyrics clever or funny in the Pamela Stephenson skit and we couldn't hear what she was singing anyway so comedy lyrics that need subtitles are an auto fail for me.
Not the Nine O'clock news was very hit & miss in its skits, some were great, others not so much.
@@Muckylittleme I actually kind of agree with you. That’s why I had the lyric video if I had no idea what she was saying and really i shouldn’t need it.
First regarding Pamela Stephenson , the sketch comedy show on which she appeared was called "Not The Nine O'clock News" broadcast on BBC 2 at the same time as the actual Nine O'clock News on BBC 1, as a comedy alternative, hence the name.
The format of show did include parody songs of popular artists or making a point by employing popular musical styles at the time, so the brilliant Kate Bush parody by Pamela Stephenson wasn't a one off.
The show was also the lauching off point for the comedians Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Rowan Atkinson (who might be more familiar to you as playing the character Mr Bean).
BTW Kate did sing with Rowan in duet at the Comic Relief charity show in singing a song called "Do Bears"
The soundtrack album, which features the Kate Bush parody is called "Hedgehog Sandwich" which I have got on CD somewhere.
BTW, on the Faith Bown Show extract that wasn't Dame Edna it was a Faith Brown impression of her.
I did watch "Not The Nine O'clock News" regularly, the Faith Bown Show not so often, but I certainly do remember seeing her Kate Bush impression.
Yes you shoild also look at Noel Fieldings performance and the Kate Bush medley by the comedian Steve Coogan as the character Alan Partridge, both highly recommended.
Great minds think alike
Sorry for the late response I was up all night finishing this video. Only time I can edit! I’m intrigued by song called hedgehog sandwich lol. I am really familiar with Rowan Atkinson. However, I didn’t know this is where he started off. That’s so cool. I’m excited to see you there comic relief show. I hope I can find it. I find it so funny I thought that was an actual dame, Edna lol. OK so the show must not have actually been taped in front of an audience? Since she was playing against herself. Both her and Pamela Stephenson are funny. But I found Pamela’s life so fascinating. also she’s kind of in the tradition of smart women who got called on to play “dumb blondes” and did it brilliantly, but were so much more. Thanks for all the background I was hoping I would!
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