One of my favourite lines was Johnny Vaughn saying that Richard Bacon has a "nose for trouble" just after Bacon got kicked off Blue Peter for his coke use
There was a fantastic moment where Bacon, now reporting for TBB, tried to walk into TV Centre and do an impromptu interview with someone. As the security guards dragged him out he shouted "I can't believe you're throwing me out again!". It wasn't a particularly funny gag in itself, but it was the fact that he was willing to lean into the joke that impressed me. Most media types would have just tried to pretend it never happened but he knew it was what he was most famous for and he went with it. Ironically, he's now had a much, much longer and more prominant TV/radio career than just about any other BP presenter of the last 30 years.
@@DustyCustard he didn't keep that a secret. There was one episode in which he and Liza Tarbuck interviewed each other and she bought it up. Instead of laughing it off he actually went into a surprising amount of detail about what happened and how prison affected him.
@@craigcharlesworth1538Yeah, only because the other media types are high on coke themselves. The stench of hypocrisy after they threw him off BP is overwhelming.
I never saw a single episode of TBB, despite being bang in the target demographic. Breakfast TV was never a thing in my house. However, once, in 1994 they apparently gave away a house, a replica of the house they filmed in, and the day before I delivered a portable toilet to it. Thats it. That’s my story. I’m available for after dinner speeches and works team bonding days.
Same, we lived a 10 minutes walk from school so it was pretty much over by the time we were getting ready I think, plus I remember my mum had radio 2 on usually. Just enough time to eat corn flakes and toast (Christ how nonsensical our diets were) and out the door.
I was once on the big breakfast singing a song about rhubarb. Johnny and Denise had good chemistry. It was good at the time. I was late for school most mornings just so i could watch nonsense segments such as 'more tea vicar' 😊
When I think of Kelly Brooke on the show I for some reason always think of her standing up to Wayne Hemmingway who was being rude about travellers. It came across as very brave considering how young she was and how established and authoritative he was
This programme is the reason I got kicked out of high school. I just couldn’t leave the house till it finished so they got fed up of me arriving late every morning.
I can see it wouldn’t be everyone’s cuppa, but I used to absolutely bloody love the Johnny and Denise era. Listening to him going through that pile of morning papers, peppered with Pat Butcher impressions from Denise, just made me that bit more cheery, heading off for college or work or whatever I was doing back then.
Two twats on cocaine, making subtle ["WE'RE ON COCAINE!"] jokes every 15 seconds, and their "mates" in the floor staff dutifully guffawing along. Honestly, if Hell exists, that's where they'll send me.
I remember Keith's "Wake up you beggars. It's Cheggars!" Keith for comedy purposes doing his knock on doors routine under a daily topic of "Nosy neighbours". Goes to an older lady's house, asks her: "Are you a nosy neighbour?" "Yes I am" "What have you seen?" "Somebody's having a affair!" Keith got a bit flustered about that one. 🤣
Zig and Zags segments were my absolute favourite part of Big Breakfast. There was an episode with them both meeting Robin Williams that I always remember as being utterly chaotic and some of the funniest TV I'd ever seen.
I am both ashamed and proud to say I adored JV and DvO’s initial run (as well as JV and Liza Tarbuck’s later team up) - it was part of my morning routine, I knew all the injokes. Even the mention here of Carpet Monster made me grin Yet, you are so right - it’s the very epitome of late 90s lad culture. Throw in a copy of FHM (with a Jo Guest cover of course), and you’ve got the period captured in amber
Thanks for listening and doing Big Breakfast. Seriously dude, you're my Vergil in my journeys through UK TV Hell. I love you, Millard! Keep it up. Cheers
As a presenter Chris Evans was slick (although he could have been a bit more professional) but one classic was when he was showing an 'indestructible' watch and somebody suggested hitting it with a hammer. He did and the watch smashed. He had about two hours left to go and he was relying on the watches' strength to keep it holding out until 9am. He was completely lost for words and he had to bluff his way up to the commercials in order to get his head together and have a quick emergency backroom discussion about how to fill the remaining time.
This is one of the best videos I've ever watched on RUclips and really scratched my nostalgia itch. Plus I loved reading some of the comments too. Got yourself a subscriber!
I used to watch TBB when I was in school, but once we got Sky it was replaced by watching DJ Kat and Power Rangers. I do remember catching the odd episode with Johnny & Denise, and a few with Kelly Brook and lovely Jasmine Lowson reading the news. Those halcyon days.
I loved the big breakfast with Evans and Roslin. Even as an annoying prick 16 year old Vaughn got on my tits. A random memory for me is they used to interview people with obscure collections; like a person who collected traffic cones. They would always ask for your 'first, worst and favourite three' of the collection. I still do this whenever I see peoples collections.
I remember not long after he had a talk show.I don’t think it made it past 1 series but I just remember seeing an episode and remember he would tell a joke then quickly explain his joke when it got no laughs.As much as it’s possible it just wasn’t funny the fact he spoke so quick like he couldn’t wait to get any thought in his head out wouldn’t have helped either
God, I'd long forgotten about the creepy national obsession with Anna Kournikova. It was around the same time as the inexplicable national obsession with Charlie Dimmock on Ground Force and all those endless 'CHARLIE'S DIMMOCKS' tabloid headlines - the late '90s/early '00s really was a cultural nadir
Love this video Stuart…them were the days , with snail mail address and telephone number to contact the show. Thought I’d let you know, I saw the guy who played Interceptor on an episode of Grange Hill playing a refuse collector. Circa 1990, so would’ve been after his fish eagling and point blank zapping
Bret Hart once described Johnny Vaughan on his website blog as 'the English Adam Sandler'. I think Bret meant that as a compliment. If the Hitman puts you over...
Did like Vaughan back in the day as a presenter but his ‘comedy styling’ was just a very simple trick of emphasising random words. Like Trump’s Twitter.
From searching, some of the Christmas and New Years episodes are available in full on RUclips, like one that aired on Christmas Day 1997 and a Millennium special that aired for 8 hours from half past Midnight through to 9 am on New Years Day 2000.
This is already one of my favourite channels- the footage and content is everything great about the telly I watched growing up- sort of daft and cringey and brilliant in equal measure. Love the sarcastic, irreverent tone of the narration too. Please do a video about Games World on Sky One! I cherished that bloody show as a kid
Always remember Zig & Zags finest moment when Chris Evans seemed to have temporarily slipped character and was doing a lost pet segment. He showed a photo of a viewers missing cat and one of Zig & Zag morosely mumbled ‘it’s probably dead’.
Fabulous work as ever. One thing that came out at the time, has been forgotten but feels like a fascinating alternate reality is despite the entire FHM cover star list being sounded out Johnny Vaughan's reputed first choice as Denise's replacement was Lauren Laverne, who'd barely done any TV presenting by then but apparently did an excellent pilot with him before deciding she didn't want to commit to early mornings and wanted to still be involved in music (although she and him later worked together on his BBC Three shows)
Lauren Laverne is genuinely witty, so I could see her being an excellent co-presenter alongside JV. Possibly even better than DvO, who always seemed (to me) to just be following JV's lead.
Big Breakfast reminds me of my college days of sitting in the TV room before going to lesson. This was a time when Channel 4 had off the wall TV programs. It was cheesy in places, presenters and guests never knew what was going on and most of us were half asleep, but I liked the wakey humour and banter.
Stuart, such a niche but brilliant channel. I'm so glad to have stumbled on it. The nostalgia is so strong, and sits nicely alongside witty and deft analysis. I was 12 when Big Breakfast aired in '94, and while I have some recollection of Chris Evans presenting, Johnny Vaughn/Denise Van Outen/Lisa Tarbuck is more cosily familiar. It was a bit of a surrealist masterpiece. Where else to see Macho Man Randy Savage* and John Major or Johnny Depp and the Dalai Lama... 2 million viewers is incredible, really. Pre-internet TV could capture an audience in ways that simply won't happen now because of an endless choice of content for individuals to pick and curate. We got what we were given back in '97...and sometimes we were all better for it. Watching BB was an automatic and vital part of the morning routine for myself and my circle of friends. It was an addendum to the era (Britpop, Spice Girls, Johnny Depp, Ryan Giggs, WWF, supermodels, Playstation, Schinder's List and Euro '96, Premier Leauge, Jurrasic Park, Michael's Barrymore and Jackson, Pat Sharp, lads mags, Oasis v Blur etc) and by being that, Big Breakfast became a part of the cultural conversation. The mad energy can't be overlooked either; it was a great pick-me-up, especially when contrasted with the stodgy and lifeless "competition" on other channels that would inevitably send viewers back to sleep... Anyway... Keep the content coming, Stuart, hope your videos find the audience they deserve. *I wish Jim Hellwig could have appeared on BB in character. That really would have been an insane surrealist masterpiece
I was going to enthuse about the half second glimpse of Lisa Rogers but worried I’d be transported back to 1997 by some kind of wa-hey humour Time Machine so I shan’t comment on it!
Its weird to think that the house was turned into the TBB building, and has now reverted to a house with no clues as to the famous people and craziness that happened within 😂
I worked for a Company that worked for/with the Production Co., all i can say is it was just after 'the Acid House' days...and they had all moved on to 'Alkaloids' from Latin America , the 'lock' House was busy 24/7 .... as you can Imagine
@leejones8582 oddly enough no. It was how Peter Kaye was lovely and fun and Melanie Sykes was miserable and didn't want to utter a word that wasn't scripted - that may also come as no surprise 🤣
I was waiting for the end where you revealed that you Google / Facebook searched the couple in question and told us in what happened to them in the 25 years following their TV wedding.
Finally an origin story to Russell Tovey's character in Him 'n' Her pulling "Have a nice one" from deep in his subconscious. (This whole video is terrific)
I have a fond memory of being late for school because Vaughn reading a story about a french pensioner trying to squash a cyclist whilst chanting "murderer" was making me piss myself laughing.
Nice retrospective, I never warmed to this back at the time. Far too noisy in the early morning for me. Chris Evans also irritated me more than it's easy to describe adequately... could have mentioned Zig and Zag a bit more, they were by far the best thing in my opinion.
Big breakfast was one of my fond memories used to do a paper round and used to start at 5am and made sure I was home for it by 7 and watched it till I left for school at 8:30ish I preferred the chris Evans era.As usual and excellent video mate love all your stuff always gives me a laugh.
@@multirevelator yeah. I didn't think he was particularly well known enough to be on a UK show at that time. I know he'd done a few movies but I didn't think he'd quite had a big breakout role yet. He definitely would have been on a ton of shows after The Crow had that tragedy not happened. But yeah, just had no idea he was even on this show. Is cool. :)
@@carn9507 yeh this would obviously had to be before the crow which was 1994, if BB first aired in 1992 it couldn't of been long after this interview he tragically met his fete
In hindsight, TBB's forced laddish jollity is far preferable to all the rage-bait of today's breakfast/early morning TV. I'd much rather wake up wanting to laugh than be woken by the latest two-hour-hate against woke gay tradeunionist refugees (or whomever Radio 5 live/Talksport/GMTV need me to hate today). What did folk make of the recent attempt to revive TBB with AJ Odudu? Don't phone. It's just for fun.
The revival was fine, except what they hell was it doing on Saturdays instead of weekdays? It was a show for geeing you up and giving you some energy before work/school. It just doesn't work as a weekend show.
Wahey! I didn't realise the audience for "The Big Breakfast"'s predecessor was such a select crowd. I remember that show for Mark Lawson, the cartoon "Dennis" and every slot on that show being repeated every half hour. Anyway, this video took me right back to my A-level days and needing to be out the door no later than 8.07 to catch the 8.20 bus. I thought Lily Savage replaced Paula Yates (must have blanked Vanessa Feltz from my memory). I . quite liked Gaby Roslin and both Marks Lamar and Little. Never could stand Johnny "hey gang!" Vaughn and Dick Bacon. I struggle to find profanity sufficient enough to express my disdain for Chris Evans. Johnny "hey gang!" Vaughn has never ever said/done anything funny on camera but gives a constant "well that just happened" running commentary that'd make today's worst live streamers blush.
Anybody remember a lord mayor exposing himself accidentally during a egg and spoon race i think it was on new years day 2000 i used to tape every program I didn't think I would need these for RUclips of course now sadly in land fill😢
There's part of me that wonders if and that hopes that they're still happily married. There's also part of me that knows I'll be distracted by something else shortly but then will wake up in the early hours of the morning tomorrow with an urgent need to Google myself down a rabbit hole about whether they're still together.
Does anyone else remember Chris Evans' 'Gaby for Grease' campaign? Grease the musical was due to open in the West End and they were casting, so Chris was campaigning for Gaby to be cast in the show.
STUART! SORRY FOR BARGING INTO THE COMMENTS OF AN UNRELATED VIDEO, BUT NIGEL FARAGE IS FIGHTING WITH THE PRODDY VICAR FROM BREAD! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, WE NEED YOUR BREAD TAKE!
They tried either last year or the year before and just couldn't get the atmosphere right if I remember. It might have just been a one-off, but I seem to recall it tanked.
@@jazzygeofferzThey had AJ (the woman who would have been in a Strictly final had she not injured herself after the semi final) and some black guy as the other presenter. It probably failed because C4 is quite PC these days, whereas in the '90s it was quite rebellious, and Big Breakfast was an anarchic show that fitted in with that attitude. I'm sure AJ is a great presenter, but for a show like BB to work it needs a lead presenter who's high-energy and witty - I don't think it's a coincidence that its two most successful periods were when Chris Evans and Johnny Vaughan were the lead presenters, with a co-presenter (Gaby Roslin and Denise van Outen respectively) who was slick enough to keep up with them and still stay reasonably professional.
I found myself watching The Big Breakfast recently (on RUclips, obvs) and while it's dated, I still found myself enjoying it. The chemistry and energy between Johnny and Denise can't and will not be replicated. It just ain't possible... Now, Channel 4's replacement breakfast show, RI:SE on the other hand was a real turgid slog.
I was working on a building site when Johnny and Denise were hosting it. Every morning I'd get picked up in the van and we'd all talk about how hot Denise was that morning. We all agreed that the nun outfit was disturbingly hot.
That Woman’s Own headline regarding Vanessa Feltz is quite something.
‘FRIENDS FEAR SHE’S DRINKING CUSTARD AGAIN’
Big bird back on the Birds, big time.
Brilliant
She's a custard gannet
Ambrosia of life.
I miss the 90s
I am nostalgic for the summer 6 week holidays when you could watch the big breakfast all the way til the end! 😂
Heh, yep that was a treat.
It can never be overstated the impact The Big Breakfast made on British television.
this is giving me PTSD watching this, all the "hurry up, your going to be late" shouting is flooding back....🙃
One of my favourite lines was Johnny Vaughn saying that Richard Bacon has a "nose for trouble" just after Bacon got kicked off Blue Peter for his coke use
There was a fantastic moment where Bacon, now reporting for TBB, tried to walk into TV Centre and do an impromptu interview with someone. As the security guards dragged him out he shouted "I can't believe you're throwing me out again!".
It wasn't a particularly funny gag in itself, but it was the fact that he was willing to lean into the joke that impressed me. Most media types would have just tried to pretend it never happened but he knew it was what he was most famous for and he went with it. Ironically, he's now had a much, much longer and more prominant TV/radio career than just about any other BP presenter of the last 30 years.
That's very noble of Johnny Vaughan given he was jailed for 4 years for dealing cocaine (prior to becoming famous).
@@DustyCustard he didn't keep that a secret. There was one episode in which he and Liza Tarbuck interviewed each other and she bought it up. Instead of laughing it off he actually went into a surprising amount of detail about what happened and how prison affected him.
@@craigcharlesworth1538Yeah, only because the other media types are high on coke themselves. The stench of hypocrisy after they threw him off BP is overwhelming.
@@DustyCustard Game knows game
I never saw a single episode of TBB, despite being bang in the target demographic. Breakfast TV was never a thing in my house. However, once, in 1994 they apparently gave away a house, a replica of the house they filmed in, and the day before I delivered a portable toilet to it. Thats it. That’s my story. I’m available for after dinner speeches and works team bonding days.
Neither did I. Chris evans was an annoying twat
Lol brilliant mate
Same, we lived a 10 minutes walk from school so it was pretty much over by the time we were getting ready I think, plus I remember my mum had radio 2 on usually. Just enough time to eat corn flakes and toast (Christ how nonsensical our diets were) and out the door.
I miss the Big Breakfast and the 90s
The best Breakfast show ever, used to send me to school so happy
I was once on the big breakfast singing a song about rhubarb. Johnny and Denise had good chemistry. It was good at the time. I was late for school most mornings just so i could watch nonsense segments such as 'more tea vicar' 😊
Give us a song then
10:44 God I remember that Honey Monster doing RUN DMC advert. To think its been its been in the deepest recesses of my memory for 25 years.
I cringed watching it
That’s coz ya getting old like the rest of us watching this
@@justanotherbod3378 very true lol
The 90s were brilliant,I’d go back in a heartbeat if I could
Things were fun for a while.
When i worked night shifts i'd get home just in time for TBB. I'd always stay up until 9am to watch.
When I think of Kelly Brooke on the show I for some reason always think of her standing up to Wayne Hemmingway who was being rude about travellers. It came across as very brave considering how young she was and how established and authoritative he was
A mere 2500 VHS tapes that never made it to landfill. I'm in stitches!
This programme is the reason I got kicked out of high school. I just couldn’t leave the house till it finished so they got fed up of me arriving late every morning.
Whenever i have to fill in a random postcode in an online form i still use E3 2NN to this day.
I hated having to leave for school halfway through this show
I can see it wouldn’t be everyone’s cuppa, but I used to absolutely bloody love the Johnny and Denise era. Listening to him going through that pile of morning papers, peppered with Pat Butcher impressions from Denise, just made me that bit more cheery, heading off for college or work or whatever I was doing back then.
Two twats on cocaine, making subtle ["WE'RE ON COCAINE!"] jokes every 15 seconds, and their "mates" in the floor staff dutifully guffawing along. Honestly, if Hell exists, that's where they'll send me.
“Babe, babe, babe, babe pass the sauce Pat” ruclips.net/video/EyxjfZjO0P4/видео.htmlsi=srVq7HnzFt4ar-sw
I was on this show with a band, singing on July 4th 2000 Johnny and Lisa, such an ace experience.
Mark Lamarr left in 1993, that Wikipedia article is wrong. Cheggars then filled the OB spot.
That's for the info dusty custard
I remember Keith's "Wake up you beggars. It's Cheggars!"
Keith for comedy purposes doing his knock on doors routine under a daily topic of "Nosy neighbours". Goes to an older lady's house, asks her:
"Are you a nosy neighbour?"
"Yes I am"
"What have you seen?"
"Somebody's having a affair!"
Keith got a bit flustered about that one. 🤣
I'm sure I remember Cheggars being in it at the same time as Chris and Gabby.
i was born 1980 this vid means a lot to me. cheers
Phil Gayle was legend. Should've been the blue print for all news programmes post TBB
Zig and Zags segments were my absolute favourite part of Big Breakfast. There was an episode with them both meeting Robin Williams that I always remember as being utterly chaotic and some of the funniest TV I'd ever seen.
Johnny Vaughn and Lisa Tarbuck had incredible chemistry
Oh I remember watching this getting ready every morning for morning Parade in the Army. Zig and Zag were hilarious.
Used to love this
Reminded me of Saturday morning TV every day
I know I’m gonna love this before I even watch it. Fantastic commentary on a favourite of mine growing up. Mad show.
My uncle lived about 10 mins from the BB house.
I’d spend most summers outside the BB house it was great fun seeing all the celebrities!!
I am both ashamed and proud to say I adored JV and DvO’s initial run (as well as JV and Liza Tarbuck’s later team up) - it was part of my morning routine, I knew all the injokes. Even the mention here of Carpet Monster made me grin
Yet, you are so right - it’s the very epitome of late 90s lad culture. Throw in a copy of FHM (with a Jo Guest cover of course), and you’ve got the period captured in amber
Carpet monster turned out to be a peado … true story
@@leopoldstotch3524 and this is why we can’t have nice things. But I guess that’s part of for the course on this channel
Thanks for listening and doing Big Breakfast. Seriously dude, you're my Vergil in my journeys through UK TV Hell. I love you, Millard! Keep it up. Cheers
As a presenter Chris Evans was slick (although he could have been a bit more professional) but one classic was when he was showing an 'indestructible' watch and somebody suggested hitting it with a hammer.
He did and the watch smashed. He had about two hours left to go and he was relying on the watches' strength to keep it holding out until 9am.
He was completely lost for words and he had to bluff his way up to the commercials in order to get his head together and have a quick emergency backroom discussion about how to fill the remaining time.
This is one of the best videos I've ever watched on RUclips and really scratched my nostalgia itch. Plus I loved reading some of the comments too. Got yourself a subscriber!
They didn't hire Kelly for her natural wit thats for sure
Not for her wits but it does rhyme with it 😄
@@HuxleyWasRightlmao
@@HuxleyWasRightDid she have nice mitts?
First one of these Milards' Ive caught that's not 2 years old :) Hooray!
God! That footage of Nick Owen at the start must surely have been the blueprint for Allan Partridge!
I used to watch TBB when I was in school, but once we got Sky it was replaced by watching DJ Kat and Power Rangers. I do remember catching the odd episode with Johnny & Denise, and a few with Kelly Brook and lovely Jasmine Lowson reading the news. Those halcyon days.
I loved the big breakfast with Evans and Roslin. Even as an annoying prick 16 year old Vaughn got on my tits. A random memory for me is they used to interview people with obscure collections; like a person who collected traffic cones. They would always ask for your 'first, worst and favourite three' of the collection. I still do this whenever I see peoples collections.
Did anyone like Vaughn?
He just wouldn't shut up for even a second
I remember not long after he had a talk show.I don’t think it made it past 1 series but I just remember seeing an episode and remember he would tell a joke then quickly explain his joke when it got no laughs.As much as it’s possible it just wasn’t funny the fact he spoke so quick like he couldn’t wait to get any thought in his head out wouldn’t have helped either
God, I'd long forgotten about the creepy national obsession with Anna Kournikova. It was around the same time as the inexplicable national obsession with Charlie Dimmock on Ground Force and all those endless 'CHARLIE'S DIMMOCKS' tabloid headlines - the late '90s/early '00s really was a cultural nadir
Love this video Stuart…them were the days , with snail mail address and telephone number to contact the show. Thought I’d let you know, I saw the guy who played Interceptor on an episode of Grange Hill playing a refuse collector. Circa 1990, so would’ve been after his fish eagling and point blank zapping
At least I won the mums..... Thank you for the Geoff Tipps reference. There's not enough out there...
So funny
That creased me 😂 TLOG bleeding into Channel 4
bummers are deaf
Absolutely loved it. Johnny and Denise were the dream couple. Enjoyed Chris and Gabby too though. Perfect age for it, my teenage years.
Bret Hart once described Johnny Vaughan on his website blog as 'the English Adam Sandler'. I think Bret meant that as a compliment. If the Hitman puts you over...
Did like Vaughan back in the day as a presenter but his ‘comedy styling’ was just a very simple trick of emphasising random words. Like Trump’s Twitter.
From searching, some of the Christmas and New Years episodes are available in full on RUclips, like one that aired on Christmas Day 1997 and a Millennium special that aired for 8 hours from half past Midnight through to 9 am on New Years Day 2000.
as a child I enjoyed watching this
and by "this" i meant Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog
This is already one of my favourite channels- the footage and content is everything great about the telly I watched growing up- sort of daft and cringey and brilliant in equal measure.
Love the sarcastic, irreverent tone of the narration too. Please do a video about Games World on Sky One! I cherished that bloody show as a kid
Always remember Zig & Zags finest moment when Chris Evans seemed to have temporarily slipped character and was doing a lost pet segment. He showed a photo of a viewers missing cat and one of Zig & Zag morosely mumbled ‘it’s probably dead’.
after my nightshift, spliff and thoroughly enjoy 2 hours of that show. it was soooo good
A hat trick of “ child admirers “ .
Ahh man I missed getting up for my paper round and watching TBB when I got back. Life was so funny and optimistic
Fabulous work as ever. One thing that came out at the time, has been forgotten but feels like a fascinating alternate reality is despite the entire FHM cover star list being sounded out Johnny Vaughan's reputed first choice as Denise's replacement was Lauren Laverne, who'd barely done any TV presenting by then but apparently did an excellent pilot with him before deciding she didn't want to commit to early mornings and wanted to still be involved in music (although she and him later worked together on his BBC Three shows)
Lauren Laverne is genuinely witty, so I could see her being an excellent co-presenter alongside JV. Possibly even better than DvO, who always seemed (to me) to just be following JV's lead.
Big Breakfast reminds me of my college days of sitting in the TV room before going to lesson. This was a time when Channel 4 had off the wall TV programs. It was cheesy in places, presenters and guests never knew what was going on and most of us were half asleep, but I liked the wakey humour and banter.
Stuart, such a niche but brilliant channel. I'm so glad to have stumbled on it. The nostalgia is so strong, and sits nicely alongside witty and deft analysis.
I was 12 when Big Breakfast aired in '94, and while I have some recollection of Chris Evans presenting, Johnny Vaughn/Denise Van Outen/Lisa Tarbuck is more cosily familiar. It was a bit of a surrealist masterpiece. Where else to see Macho Man Randy Savage* and John Major or Johnny Depp and the Dalai Lama...
2 million viewers is incredible, really. Pre-internet TV could capture an audience in ways that simply won't happen now because of an endless choice of content for individuals to pick and curate. We got what we were given back in '97...and sometimes we were all better for it. Watching BB was an automatic and vital part of the morning routine for myself and my circle of friends. It was an addendum to the era (Britpop, Spice Girls, Johnny Depp, Ryan Giggs, WWF, supermodels, Playstation, Schinder's List and Euro '96, Premier Leauge, Jurrasic Park, Michael's Barrymore and Jackson, Pat Sharp, lads mags, Oasis v Blur etc) and by being that, Big Breakfast became a part of the cultural conversation.
The mad energy can't be overlooked either; it was a great pick-me-up, especially when contrasted with the stodgy and lifeless "competition" on other channels that would inevitably send viewers back to sleep...
Anyway...
Keep the content coming, Stuart, hope your videos find the audience they deserve.
*I wish Jim Hellwig could have appeared on BB in character. That really would have been an insane surrealist masterpiece
I was going to enthuse about the half second glimpse of Lisa Rogers but worried I’d be transported back to 1997 by some kind of wa-hey humour Time Machine so I shan’t comment on it!
Its weird to think that the house was turned into the TBB building, and has now reverted to a house with no clues as to the famous people and craziness that happened within 😂
I still regularly sing “guess whose guess whose coming to breakfast to-day” and no one know what I’m referencing
I worked for a Company that worked for/with the Production Co., all i can say is it was just after 'the Acid House' days...and they had all moved on to 'Alkaloids' from Latin America , the 'lock' House was busy 24/7 .... as you can Imagine
I was once on the big breakfast for two HOURS, without make up or hair. It was quite upsetting tbh.
The mark lamarr and Keith chegwin bit?
@leejones8582 oddly enough no. It was how Peter Kaye was lovely and fun and Melanie Sykes was miserable and didn't want to utter a word that wasn't scripted - that may also come as no surprise 🤣
Another video! Awesome
God dam i had the address memorised of the Big Breakfast house! Good times
I skipped regular mornings at school just to watch this whole show. Still don’t regret it.
Vaughan and Van Outen were the best pairing in the show's history.
Van Outen was the best pairing in the show's history.
The Big Breakfast made mornings fun I miss that show.
Instant like.
Love this blast from the past mockery.
Forgot how bad it was.
I lived through this car crash TV
The Big Breakfast and TFI Friday were the bread that made the working-week sandwich all the more tolerable
I was waiting for the end where you revealed that you Google / Facebook searched the couple in question and told us in what happened to them in the 25 years following their TV wedding.
I had my picture shown during the You Beauties segment that Johhny Vaugn did after a friend at school sent it in. Nearly choked on my cornflakes.
Scots a good workmate loved getting married on the tele ,always goes on about it 😂
19:14 I watched all of Strange New Worlds so far and never did I think of The Black Adder any time I saw Ortegas. I will now though. :P
Finally an origin story to Russell Tovey's character in Him 'n' Her pulling "Have a nice one" from deep in his subconscious.
(This whole video is terrific)
“In a weekly segment featuring pushy parents, they’ve got a real character” 😂 i love that delivery!
I think it was fun at the time but I do love your videos and deadpan delivery too. How about doing one on the other big 90s one The Word?
My old History teacher was on family of the week at some point in the 90s - his name escapes me though
For a morning show, live, this was unheard of and wonderful. To have that at 8 in the morning, it’ll never happen again. Sadly.
I've found a British nostaglia channel yay
Sturdy Girl🔥
I have a fond memory of being late for school because Vaughn reading a story about a french pensioner trying to squash a cyclist whilst chanting "murderer" was making me piss myself laughing.
Nice retrospective, I never warmed to this back at the time. Far too noisy in the early morning for me. Chris Evans also irritated me more than it's easy to describe adequately... could have mentioned Zig and Zag a bit more, they were by far the best thing in my opinion.
Adored this show... before tablets and social media
Just love your content so much
I used to love watching this before school. Would always miss the last bit of it tho. I was a teen when Brook was on so i quite enjoyed that 😅😂
Big breakfast was one of my fond memories used to do a paper round and used to start at 5am and made sure I was home for it by 7 and watched it till I left for school at 8:30ish I preferred the chris Evans era.As usual and excellent video mate love all your stuff always gives me a laugh.
6:45 is that Brandon Lee? :O
yeh crazy eh!
@@multirevelator yeah. I didn't think he was particularly well known enough to be on a UK show at that time. I know he'd done a few movies but I didn't think he'd quite had a big breakout role yet. He definitely would have been on a ton of shows after The Crow had that tragedy not happened. But yeah, just had no idea he was even on this show. Is cool. :)
@@carn9507 yeh this would obviously had to be before the crow which was 1994, if BB first aired in 1992 it couldn't of been long after this interview he tragically met his fete
God damn, this is some more amazing content from the Millard
"I love an aisle. It's why I got married three times" - stock pot man.
In hindsight, TBB's forced laddish jollity is far preferable to all the rage-bait of today's breakfast/early morning TV. I'd much rather wake up wanting to laugh than be woken by the latest two-hour-hate against woke gay tradeunionist refugees (or whomever Radio 5 live/Talksport/GMTV need me to hate today). What did folk make of the recent attempt to revive TBB with AJ Odudu? Don't phone. It's just for fun.
The revival was fine, except what they hell was it doing on Saturdays instead of weekdays? It was a show for geeing you up and giving you some energy before work/school. It just doesn't work as a weekend show.
Most people are mindless fools who are happiest when they're listening to angertainment.
What alternate reality are you living in? Creepy. Really creepy.
@@curoi555 Actual reality.
@@dinogoldie9716 You're a creep. Or a bot.
Need more of these episodes out there 🤣
One of those shows that makes eternity in Hell seem the better option?
From 16:15 - "ahaha ha, ahahaha, ahahaha, ahahaha ha....haha....ha......ha..........NEWS"
Alan’s deep bath!
Wahey! I didn't realise the audience for "The Big Breakfast"'s predecessor was such a select crowd. I remember that show for Mark Lawson, the cartoon "Dennis" and every slot on that show being repeated every half hour. Anyway, this video took me right back to my A-level days and needing to be out the door no later than 8.07 to catch the 8.20 bus. I thought Lily Savage replaced Paula Yates (must have blanked Vanessa Feltz from my memory). I . quite liked Gaby Roslin and both Marks Lamar and Little. Never could stand Johnny "hey gang!" Vaughn and Dick Bacon. I struggle to find profanity sufficient enough to express my disdain for Chris Evans. Johnny "hey gang!" Vaughn has never ever said/done anything funny on camera but gives a constant "well that just happened" running commentary that'd make today's worst live streamers blush.
Wow, I didn’t realise I watched this for so long. Can’t believe it went on into the 2000s.
Man, this takes me back.
Anybody remember a lord mayor exposing himself accidentally during a egg and spoon race i think it was on new years day 2000 i used to tape every program I didn't think I would need these for RUclips of course now sadly in land fill😢
There's part of me that wonders if and that hopes that they're still happily married. There's also part of me that knows I'll be distracted by something else shortly but then will wake up in the early hours of the morning tomorrow with an urgent need to Google myself down a rabbit hole about whether they're still together.
Does anyone else remember Chris Evans' 'Gaby for Grease' campaign? Grease the musical was due to open in the West End and they were casting, so Chris was campaigning for Gaby to be cast in the show.
The big breakfast radicalized me. Johnny Vaughn made me hate posh boys pretending to be working class lads.
PRECISELY. This was LadBaby TV. Fuck it.
STUART! SORRY FOR BARGING INTO THE COMMENTS OF AN UNRELATED VIDEO, BUT NIGEL FARAGE IS FIGHTING WITH THE PRODDY VICAR FROM BREAD! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, WE NEED YOUR BREAD TAKE!
This show needs to make a proper full time comeback! It’d be much better than the copy paste news shit the BBC and ITV give us now!
They tried either last year or the year before and just couldn't get the atmosphere right if I remember. It might have just been a one-off, but I seem to recall it tanked.
@@jazzygeofferzThey had AJ (the woman who would have been in a Strictly final had she not injured herself after the semi final) and some black guy as the other presenter. It probably failed because C4 is quite PC these days, whereas in the '90s it was quite rebellious, and Big Breakfast was an anarchic show that fitted in with that attitude.
I'm sure AJ is a great presenter, but for a show like BB to work it needs a lead presenter who's high-energy and witty - I don't think it's a coincidence that its two most successful periods were when Chris Evans and Johnny Vaughan were the lead presenters, with a co-presenter (Gaby Roslin and Denise van Outen respectively) who was slick enough to keep up with them and still stay reasonably professional.
I found myself watching The Big Breakfast recently (on RUclips, obvs) and while it's dated, I still found myself enjoying it. The chemistry and energy between Johnny and Denise can't and will not be replicated. It just ain't possible...
Now, Channel 4's replacement breakfast show, RI:SE on the other hand was a real turgid slog.
I was working on a building site when Johnny and Denise were hosting it. Every morning I'd get picked up in the van and we'd all talk about how hot Denise was that morning. We all agreed that the nun outfit was disturbingly hot.