Pamela Stephenson terrorises Bob Monkhouse (1986)
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Brilliant bit of Pamela Stephenson as a guest on The Bob Monkhouse Show (BBC1 07/06/86) - here chosen as one of the clips during Stephenson's appearance on 'Plunder' (BBC2 27/03/91).
Oh my God, I worked on this show! Sadly the bit where the midgets broke through the set in a tank at the end is missing - I kid you not!
classic and pure quality. you gotta love bob monkhouse...
You're very naïve if you believe Bob Monkhouse was clueless about this. Bob was the consummate professional - nothing happened on his shows that he didn't plan in advance. He'd have know the precise position of every pyrotechnic, and the sequence of the explosions, off by heart. He was a very good actor!
He didn't know. On one occasion the guest was the comedian Pamela Stephenson, who, after prior arrangement with the show's producer, appeared in a series of fake plaster casts, apparently the result of accidents whilst at home. During the interview she produced a handgun and fired it on several occasions, destroying a plant pot on the set and a series of lights in the studio roof. She then presented a rocket launcher which she promptly "fired", destroying a camera. The gun, launcher and camera were props. None of this was known to Monkhouse, who appeared genuinely frightened (although the production crew were aware).
@@artisticskillz01 I'm aware that was the official line, but as a former TV producer who has worked with Bob Monkhouse I don't buy it. He was too much of a perfectionist (and control freak!) for anything to have happened on his show he hadn't agreed to three months before the recording!
@@glamdolly30 I bet they wouldn't even think of doing anything like this on a TV set these days, even if it was all planned out before.
@@glamdolly30 Probably all the more reason why they could've decided to shake him up this once by pranking him.....surely it's feasible!
@@anthonybailey1966 In my long experience of working in television - and dealing with stars of the calibre of Bob Monkhouse - it's highly infeasible!
It's marvellous - I did have this recorded from the original for ages, but mislaid the tape,
such a grate prank on Bob by Pamela Stephenson
I'm sure he was greatful
One of them combined brilliance with perfect courtesy and professionalism. The other was the exact opposite. Not difficult to guess which is which is it ?
A very cruel trick to play on the man in my book.
I love Bob Monkhouse - I've worked with him, trust me there were no surprises here for him, he was in control of every detail of his shows. A consummate professional.
I've heard about this episode but never seen it. Thanks for posting it. Anyone got the full version?
Yah, I need to get back to work ... brilliant.
This was 1986, things like that didn't matter then.
What things?
@@ajs41 The comment was from 8 years ago. I really can't remember what I replied to.
Bob Monkhouse was incredibly intelligent. If he didn't know about it he figured it out almost immediately.
where is the ful version i use to have it on video
hahahahaahah "Put it down.. put it down"
She's so cute giggling on her prank. heheh
Did Bob genuinely have no idea this was going to happen? I've not heard of this nor seen it before. He looked really scared at the start. Obviously by the time the rocket launcher comes out he realises this is all a big joke. If he did know it was some pretty good acting.
Bob Monkhouse was the consummate professional - he knew the exact placement of every pyrotechnic, and the order in which they'd be detonated. He was also a good actor!
@@glamdolly30According to Pamela, Bob and pretty much everyone else involved he did not know. Pamela had arranged the whole thing with the producer without Bob’s knowledge, although by the time the bazooka came out I’d be surprised if he hadn’t cottoned on and decided to play along. I also suspect he must have known the bandages were fake - they weren’t that realistic.
@@GrilloTheFlightless Please cite your source - thanks.
@@GrilloTheFlightless Please cite your source - thanks.
Regardless of what Bob Monkhouse was, or was not told by his producer/production team beforehand, he was not stupid! Pamela Stephenson was very obviously acting/performing throughout this sketch, and he was gamely playing along, like the pro he was.
Don't underestimate the late, great Bob Monkhouse - of course he knew this was a prank. Stephenson's obviously scripted gag @ 0:30 about the gun being one of a 6-pack she bought at Safeways in LA was a clue - as was the rest of her clearly acted performance, plus the multiple 'bloody' bandages and leg cast she wore, courtesy of BBC make up! He wasn't taken in for a nanosecond.
And yes, Monkhouse was a very good actor, as evidenced by the acclaimed serious acting roles he did in his long and distinguished career. I've always felt it's a shame he didn't do more dramatic roles - he'd have made a terrific baddie! He was a supremely talented human being and a man of many parts (he was a great artist/cartoonist too).
Stephenson was a famous - and famously outrageous - comedian, primarily known for her starring role on the subversive hit BBC sketch comedy show 'Not the Nine 'O Clock News'. Bob Monkhouse was a comedy connoisseur who always had his finger on the pulse of the next big thing in humour. Only someone unfamiliar with her work (or slow on the uptake), could possibly have taken this at face value.
Crazy but love it
I remember at the end Bob pretends to fight back with the ornament (I think).
No names no pat-drill but a guy said to me years ago that what frightened him about the lady the most, was not only was she sex but very intelligent and had an uncanny knowledge within moments of ones most weakest spots.
goolies heheh it must be the eighties lol
I disagree. The expression on his face says he knows nothing - unless he's an exceptional actor, which there's no evidence of.
Jamie - Actually there IS ample evidence of Bob's great acting skill if you just look for it, for example his wonderful appearance in Jonathan Creek.
The producer knew
He was actually a great actor and there's plenty of evidence of it you utter prat!
She swears on a piece of PVC.
Well, that's it folks, I'm sold...
Duh.
Never found her remotely amusing. Seems her hosts thought the same way.
@Fenrir Moon Jessica Stephenson?!!!
This is my dream woman
Whose a naughty girl eh?? For a nice young lady, Pamela certainly knows how to turn the tables on Bob eh??
was this her attempt at kaufmanesque humour?
No, just to get noticed. She kept trying until Billy. The least funny act ever.
After not the 9oc news ms stephens failed miserably...her later life with billy and her psychology clinic and journalism seem to be de rigeur...have you read her biography of billy.. hmmmmm
I take it that it's how she saved his life. With her Mickey Mouse psychotherapy.
@@stephenreeds3672 Read her "biography" on her husband....she saved his life?
Must have taken ages to rig up the pyrotechnics but it felt more uncomfortable than funny. Pamela tried far too hard to get laughs after NTNON. Real shame as she was amazing with her impressions as well as being incredibly attractive.
That's all she was....attractive. This was pathetic like everything that she does.