"Saturday Stayback is an 80's you don't often see. A grim portrait of the era. The truth behind the romanticised neon and thumping synthwave. Peeling it back to reveal brown wallpaper and brown cardigans under yellow celings." This is the most accurate summary of the 80's I have ever heard. It's absolutely bang on. When I think of the 80's, to this day, I think of amazing music and neon lights and long hot summers and blockbuster movies and all those attendant things. I romanticise. And then I look at family photographs of the time and it's Saturday Stayback.
I think when you picture any era, you picture life for the wealthy. In the 80s that was colour block and neon room decoration and pastel designer suits. Same as in the 20s, it was flapper dresses, cocktail parties and owning a car. The reality was that most people weren’t rich and wore brown a lot and a lot of 80s room decor was left over from the 70s.
@@benjaminthomasholton963 hes trying to get the bleepers into the act ,,,,and failing miserably ,, tony slattery diving about and trying so hard to be funny ,,, i just thought ,,,,,,MEH WITS THIS SHITE!!!
It's so true that shouty rants, yelling and pretending to be psychotic and clinically insane ("I'm MAAAAD, me!") was such an '80s comedy thing and a sure-fire, easy way to get a cheap laugh. My dad once told me he went to a stand-up comedy night in a pub sometime mid-late '80s where the comedian walked on, and in a very posh voice, politely introduced his set by saying "good evening ladies and gentleman! I've just two little words to say to you......" before rolling around on the stage screaming "FUUUCK THATCHER! FUUUUUCK THATCHER! FUUUUCCCCCCKKK THAAAAATCHER!" repeatedly for 5 minutes, until two of his mates would pick him up off the stage and walk him off in a 'men in white coats' style, while the 'comedian' would pretend to be sobbing manically and inconsolably. Nobody laughed. Lovely stuff.
That sounds like one of the few acts that has aged well. If only a young George Osborn had been there to see it while excitedly shouting "Yes please!".
Thankfully, owing to the lock ins at my regular, not only did this dross pass me by, but I was up until now, blissfully unaware of even the term "stayback". As I am now well into the twilight of my life, can I thank you for reminding me that not everything was better when I was young, just most things!
I reckon Carolgees foresaw Spit On That Thang but these were different times so he could only suggest it and called his puppet Spit the Dog……while his hand was up a fictional dog’s rectum….
With the amount of pubs that have closed down in the past few years, the pub used in Stayback is still open for business. It's The Dog, 8 Hagley Rd West, Smethwick B67 5EU - So there!
You can see why they used it. Large carpark away from anything else meaning you could park up the OB trucks and run generators without disturbing anyone and still have room for the talent and punters to park.
How very true. We watched Tom Baker Doctor Who classic season The Key To Time recently, and it was quite startling how sophisticated some of the jokes were.
well done Sir. You've found a show that was apparently on when I was 12 with a portable TV in my bedroom.. that I have honestly never heard of. And seeing Tony Slattery, one of the most chilled and relaxed gay men in entertainment doing skits about t*ts is just bizarre
One thing you have to remember is that, at the time this show went out, there was quite literally nothing else like it on TV. (Which wasn't such a bad thing, in hindsight.) It was based loosely on the literature sections found in mucky magazines of the time, albeit in a very sterilised form, that went as far as it allowed to, again, because it was on telly. Those involved were either on the way, 'up', (although not as far as they'd like), in broadcasting; had found their niche and settled into doing this because the money seemed right, or were already established names who felt this was, probably, the only way they could get their fizzog on the box and appear trendy at the same time. Definitely directed toward the young pubgoers back home from having a skinfull/teenager boys surreptitiously watching it on their portable TVs in their bedrooms with the sound turned right down to avoid unwanted attention, demographic. And all in the titillating hope of getting a, 'flash', that generally never happen. Not that it stops them watching the following week, of course.
Yes I was defo in the second category. [I thought I only ever saw OTT and not this show, but the Chas n Dave left & right 'sketch' brought back long suppressed memories]
Poor Tony Slattery, I reckon he was destined to be a big star but mental health issues destroyed him. When I was about 9 me and some friends saw him filming something on Clapham Common and we chased him down and got him to sign our T-shirts. Nice man.
When Tony Slattery sends his holiday photos to Boots, they always come back with that little sticker saying 'Over Exposed.' And he still can't figure out if they're talking about the photos or his career in the 80's.
Slattery was brilliant on Whose Line, but you can clearly see his decline and by about Series 6 or 7 (94 to 95) he's clearly gained a fair bit of weight and is off his face on something.
@@tombstoneharrystudios584 Robin Askwith had ambitions to be a Skakespearean actor, worked with Pier Paolo Pasolini and Lindsay Anderson, who taught him that 'pantomime is Brechtian' - meaning the Brechtian style of acting is acting in quotation marks. Askwith, in many of his bongo films, gurning at a tit, or an arse, or agog as his car blew a gasket, while the rear view mirrors inexplicably spun while copping a feel, was the 4th wall-breaking everyman of the audience. The man deserves a knighthood.
Spit the dog guy used to be a regular at a country pub i worked at in Cheshire..never came in with Spit unfortunately, He looked weird without his arm shoved up an agressive black dog, but as a child of the 80's it was always a buzz to see Him
Always love it when a new Millard drops, you deserve a knighthood for sitting through this utter rubbish. Early Slattery and Phil Cool, two people who just epitomize the eighties, Hale and Pace might be worth a video in the future, that German country singer became a more polished sketch in their show. Tarrant always just seems like that annoying, over energetic uncle who’d turn up to family do’s crash around like a whirlwind and piss everybody off before leaving thinking everybody loved him, when in fact they were just glad he was gone.
I just looked at his wikipedia page and it confirms your feelings towards him somewhat.. He's one of those faces that seems to have always been around but he's never done much good. I wonder what he knows...
Watched some old episodes of Hale & Pace recently. It's ideal comedy for 14 year old boys ( ironically, I remember it going out at 10pm Sunday night back then ). I have my doubts it's funny if you're any older than that. Some of the songs were well , but it's quite immature stuff from two guys who were nearing 40 at the time.
It's mystifying who this was aimed at. The older pub-goers in the audience would have been mystified by the high-concept alternative stuff while the younger crowd watching at home would doubtless have been horrified at the sight of Manning and his ilk. The whole atmosphere is so dead, it's almost depressing to watch.
Like the hippies before them, the punk/alternative comedy scene had a bit of quality on top (which would probably have been successful in any cultural background), and then a whole ton of 'birds n booze' blokes underneath.
MeeAhoooW! - said Henry's cat, remembering to nip out for a Swiss Roll and some pickled onions. He was a bit puzzled why Tiswas was on the telly at night, as Tiswas was for the morning....
So this was the birth of the 24hr Slattery era, after this point, no matter what channel or show you put on, it felt like he would be there. Never knew this show existed however, I thought it all ended with OTT, so you can learn something new.
It`s always amazed me that Chris had no claims filed against him. He was absolutely terrible with children and often bullied them on set. Stories were sometimes covered in the paper about it. He was very aggressive with me when I was around 7. As I remember, the real reason for finishing Tiswas was for that reason, though I can`t remember what the official line was.
Before latterly seeing clips on RUclips and tv, my main memory of Tiswas was young children often getting upset/crying and the presenters trying to console them.
I've been traveling to the UK off and on since 1984, sometimes for months at a time. I've known some of my British friends for over 30 years. I've seen my fair share of British TV, and not just the stuff they ship over to the US. Not trying to brag, just laying the foundation for this one simple question: what in THE fuck did I just watch?!
I don't remember this at all. THANK GOD! There was a shortlived 'TISWAS' spin-off called 'OTT', but this is something else! I'm not one for judging the past by today's (fairly low) standards, but this is a special occasion. They could've called this NRF: No Redeeming Features! (Disclaimer* If it was supposed to be ironic it was lost on me.)
It's like someone invented a time machine but only used it to pitch the idea of TFI Friday to someone in the 80's. "It's critically important that the host be a self obsessed bellend"
In the middle of all that absolute crap, whatever Tony Slattery is going on about at 12:20 made me laugh out loud. Not sure whether I should be embarrassed to admit that.
Odd, I remember OTT - seemed daring at the time, on reflection probably not, but great performance by Human League on one episode. But I don't recall this incarnation of it at all. TV was in a funny place at the time... they filled the gap after the first series of the Tube with, er, Rick Wakeman's 'Gastank' (hey, you got anything on that one?!)
I have not heard of this series, but I have seen the clip with Phil Lynott, Chas and Bev Bevon, and that was good. I guess even poor series have moments of good.
Nobody says this, though. Much as you'd like us to have shit taste in comedy, Norm MacDonald is probably the most popular comedian on the political right.
Wasn’t there a US show on at around the same time as this that was similar but that sometimes showed women’s knockers. It was called Bazaar or Bizarre or something I think
I enjoyed OTT and Saturday Stayback. They were great fun, and wasn't that Angus Dayton in there? There were also the live band features which you neglect to mention. In the end, all of this is subjective.
Adult stuff smuggled into kid's tv works because it's genuinely subversive and by nature it must be almost so subtle as to be missed by the unattentive viewer. Plausable deniability is its main strength and that's what makes it funny. It's why pantomime is full of sub-rosa filth. "Did you see that?!" If you try to do it for adults you get this.
So glad I was too young to stay up and watch this shite. Bob Carolgees shirtless is just wrong. It also has the ' lets cash in on the alternative comedy vibe' but they would not fork out for Mayall, Elton and Mayer. So they just got some Davidson clones to write it and bunged in the cast of the comedians during the stand up spot. 💩
"Saturday Stayback is an 80's you don't often see. A grim portrait of the era. The truth behind the romanticised neon and thumping synthwave. Peeling it back to reveal brown wallpaper and brown cardigans under yellow celings."
This is the most accurate summary of the 80's I have ever heard. It's absolutely bang on. When I think of the 80's, to this day, I think of amazing music and neon lights and long hot summers and blockbuster movies and all those attendant things. I romanticise. And then I look at family photographs of the time and it's Saturday Stayback.
I think when you picture any era, you picture life for the wealthy. In the 80s that was colour block and neon room decoration and pastel designer suits. Same as in the 20s, it was flapper dresses, cocktail parties and owning a car. The reality was that most people weren’t rich and wore brown a lot and a lot of 80s room decor was left over from the 70s.
That was like watching footage of various war crimes, truly abysmal. Thank you for your courage to share such atrocities.
I was watching a shocking documentary on BBC last week about the Rwanda genocide of 1994. Still cant decide what was more difficult to watch.
@@Return26-p4t😄 I get trauma flashbacks of Tarrant emerging from a lake, a pair of salmon for arms, telling me 'we don't give you that!'
Christ. That was rough. And that angry pajama man's eyes are pure nightmare fuel.
and why is the angry man in pajamas wearing eyeliner? it's an odd choice
Coked up, perhaps?
@@benjaminthomasholton963 hes trying to get the bleepers into the act ,,,,and failing miserably ,, tony slattery diving about and trying so hard to be funny ,,, i just thought ,,,,,,MEH WITS THIS SHITE!!!
I literally had to lean in closer to the screen to see if he'd painted eyes on his eyelids.
The invention of internet pornography was a much needed relief valve for this fine country.
They broke us in gradually by broadcasting Eurotrash first.
Instant hardcore porn is not a good thing in the scheme of things.
@@mikb5587 Beats Chris Tarrant talking about jugs and todgers on telly.
It's so true that shouty rants, yelling and pretending to be psychotic and clinically insane ("I'm MAAAAD, me!") was such an '80s comedy thing and a sure-fire, easy way to get a cheap laugh. My dad once told me he went to a stand-up comedy night in a pub sometime mid-late '80s where the comedian walked on, and in a very posh voice, politely introduced his set by saying "good evening ladies and gentleman! I've just two little words to say to you......" before rolling around on the stage screaming "FUUUCK THATCHER! FUUUUUCK THATCHER! FUUUUCCCCCCKKK THAAAAATCHER!" repeatedly for 5 minutes, until two of his mates would pick him up off the stage and walk him off in a 'men in white coats' style, while the 'comedian' would pretend to be sobbing manically and inconsolably. Nobody laughed. Lovely stuff.
That sounds like one of the few acts that has aged well.
If only a young George Osborn had been there to see it while excitedly shouting "Yes please!".
"HELLO STEVE, IT'S MR ANGRY HERE. I'M SO VERY VERY ANGRY TODAY"
Sounds like Ben Elton was having an off night.......
Really captures the feel of a party that has gone on for too long but no one wants to be the first one to leave.
Thankfully, owing to the lock ins at my regular, not only did this dross pass me by, but I was up until now, blissfully unaware of even the term "stayback". As I am now well into the twilight of my life, can I thank you for reminding me that not everything was better when I was young, just most things!
Spit the dog was the origional Hawk Tuah. That's it, that's my comment.
You reckon he spat on bobs thang?
Highly astute.
and after that it was Jamie Carragher
I reckon Carolgees foresaw Spit On That Thang but these were different times so he could only suggest it and called his puppet Spit the Dog……while his hand was up a fictional dog’s rectum….
@@CitizenInWonderland after Spit and before Carragher it was Jeanna Fine and Flower Tucci.
If you don't know who they are, don't look them up.
"Television's most insincere man, Chris Tarrant"
I'm offended on Noel Edmonds behalf.
🤣
Brilliant comment and funnier than that whole show
Fair play, Edmonds has moved to New Zealand now, so maybe he doesn't count anymore?
@@medievalist everyone here hates him too, don't think any kiwi is going out on a limb to claim Edmonds
@@_Piers_ you've never seen adverts or leaflets featuring Tarrant pulling a startling and emotionless rictus
With the amount of pubs that have closed down in the past few years, the pub used in Stayback is still open for business. It's The Dog, 8 Hagley Rd West, Smethwick B67 5EU - So there!
That's a travesty
@@retrorambles517 hahahaha
You can see why they used it. Large carpark away from anything else meaning you could park up the OB trucks and run generators without disturbing anyone and still have room for the talent and punters to park.
@@chinnyvisionLMFAO ‘talent’
@@flyc3 You leave Bob Carolgees alone you awful beast!
Bob carolgees looks like rollerball Rocco
At the beginning I was surprised that I’d never seen this but by the end I was relieved
Thanks for sitting through this for us. Christ, it looks awful.
Laughed so hard, I peed me plonker.
It’s hard to believe that, in an era of alternative comedy, this show was still doing the old Reginald D Tallywacker jokes from a decade before!
No wonder Tony Slattery got so depressed, he probably started remembering he did this.
This is probably where he became an alcoholic, judging by the amount of drinking being done here.
That was a slog, I'm glad i was just old enough to watch Tiswas and nowhere near old enough to watch this shite 😂😂😂
TFI Friday is basically this.
As I like to point out, the best TV is made for clever children, and the worst is made for dim adults.
This ☝️
How very true. We watched Tom Baker Doctor Who classic season The Key To Time recently, and it was quite startling how sophisticated some of the jokes were.
@@medievalist But Doctor Who is made for dim adults?
Your editing skills are absolutely spot on . Scary to think that all that shit was going on but most of it makes perfect sense now 😂
well done Sir. You've found a show that was apparently on when I was 12 with a portable TV in my bedroom.. that I have honestly never heard of. And seeing Tony Slattery, one of the most chilled and relaxed gay men in entertainment doing skits about t*ts is just bizarre
Wow. Just wow. No memory of this programme. Thankfully. 😅
Thank goodness I had a life in 1983 wasn’t home for this either 😊
17:28 Amazing juxtaposition between Phil Cool in full-on "scrunge" mode in the foreground, and the young woman in the back just doing her job...
'Television's most insincere man' is the perfect summation of Chris Tarrant.
Think Evans runs close 2nd. How did he get away with copying fomat 15 years later with TFI
Huw Edwards is the new frontrunner for that one.
One thing you have to remember is that, at the time this show went out, there was quite literally nothing else like it on TV. (Which wasn't such a bad thing, in hindsight.) It was based loosely on the literature sections found in mucky magazines of the time, albeit in a very sterilised form, that went as far as it allowed to, again, because it was on telly. Those involved were either on the way, 'up', (although not as far as they'd like), in broadcasting; had found their niche and settled into doing this because the money seemed right, or were already established names who felt this was, probably, the only way they could get their fizzog on the box and appear trendy at the same time.
Definitely directed toward the young pubgoers back home from having a skinfull/teenager boys surreptitiously watching it on their portable TVs in their bedrooms with the sound turned right down to avoid unwanted attention, demographic. And all in the titillating hope of getting a, 'flash', that generally never happen. Not that it stops them watching the following week, of course.
Yes I was defo in the second category. [I thought I only ever saw OTT and not this show, but the Chas n Dave left & right 'sketch' brought back long suppressed memories]
had to wait a whole decade after this for better entertainmen such as The Word or Eurotrash
That’s what this guy is missing, it was the era and not to be taken to seriously
Poor Tony Slattery, I reckon he was destined to be a big star but mental health issues destroyed him. When I was about 9 me and some friends saw him filming something on Clapham Common and we chased him down and got him to sign our T-shirts. Nice man.
Tony Slattery/Phil Cool = Jim Carrey
When Tony Slattery sends his holiday photos to Boots, they always come back with that little sticker saying 'Over Exposed.' And he still can't figure out if they're talking about the photos or his career in the 80's.
It's so sad, he was wonderful fun on "Whose Line Is It Anyway".
Slattery was brilliant on Whose Line, but you can clearly see his decline and by about Series 6 or 7 (94 to 95) he's clearly gained a fair bit of weight and is off his face on something.
@@goodiesguy Yes indeed, it's so sad.
It’s like confessions of a window cleaner, without the script 😂
It makes Robin Asquith look like a Shakespearean actor 😂
@@tombstoneharrystudios584 Robin Askwith had ambitions to be a Skakespearean actor, worked with Pier Paolo Pasolini and Lindsay Anderson, who taught him that 'pantomime is Brechtian' - meaning the Brechtian style of acting is acting in quotation marks. Askwith, in many of his bongo films, gurning at a tit, or an arse, or agog as his car blew a gasket, while the rear view mirrors inexplicably spun while copping a feel, was the 4th wall-breaking everyman of the audience. The man deserves a knighthood.
remember when Channel 5 used to show them all (and other smutty films) regularly lol
“I’m tired….so tired.”
Your final summary is genius sir. This is the past in all its (often bollocks) finery.
Full credit for sitting through these Stuart. It’s desperate stuff & seems more 90’s than 80’s in the bants, lads & boobs stuff.
Spit the dog guy used to be a regular at a country pub i worked at in Cheshire..never came in with Spit unfortunately, He looked weird without his arm shoved up an agressive black dog, but as a child of the 80's it was always a buzz to see Him
Oh dear, I dont remember this series at all. I was 20 in 1983. I had a lucky escape!
Thanks for uploading anyway(I think)
Always love it when a new Millard drops, you deserve a knighthood for sitting through this utter rubbish. Early Slattery and Phil Cool, two people who just epitomize the eighties, Hale and Pace might be worth a video in the future, that German country singer became a more polished sketch in their show. Tarrant always just seems like that annoying, over energetic uncle who’d turn up to family do’s crash around like a whirlwind and piss everybody off before leaving thinking everybody loved him, when in fact they were just glad he was gone.
I just looked at his wikipedia page and it confirms your feelings towards him somewhat.. He's one of those faces that seems to have always been around but he's never done much good. I wonder what he knows...
Watched some old episodes of Hale & Pace recently. It's ideal comedy for 14 year old boys ( ironically, I remember it going out at 10pm Sunday night back then ). I have my doubts it's funny if you're any older than that. Some of the songs were well , but it's quite immature stuff from two guys who were nearing 40 at the time.
I love how Tarrant talks to Chaz and Dave like people talk to builders.. Anyway, I'm off to pull me pudding. Have a good week!
Dont you mean your plonker?
I feel Tony Slattery deserves a whole episode.
never knew he was around for this long i assumed late 80s with "Whose Line..." was his start
It’s amazing looking at these shows and seeing Chris Tarrant, and thinking yourself “years from now this man would host who wants to be a millionaire”
Glad we left this behind
It's mystifying who this was aimed at. The older pub-goers in the audience would have been mystified by the high-concept alternative stuff while the younger crowd watching at home would doubtless have been horrified at the sight of Manning and his ilk. The whole atmosphere is so dead, it's almost depressing to watch.
Even as a thirteen year old boy I thought it was shit.
Wow, Hunter and Docherty? Mr. Don & Mr. George was one of my favourite 90s comedies. I suppose everyone's got to start somewhere.
Like the hippies before them, the punk/alternative comedy scene had a bit of quality on top (which would probably have been successful in any cultural background), and then a whole ton of 'birds n booze' blokes underneath.
Another wonderful video sir. 😊
Slattery was too good for this. Never heard of it before now, it's fascinating, thank you. All the best.
Stuart Millard has the energy of a grown up Henry's Cat..
MeeAhoooW! - said Henry's cat, remembering to nip out for a Swiss Roll and some pickled onions. He was a bit puzzled why Tiswas was on the telly at night, as Tiswas was for the morning....
@@Daniel-zy8rz Henry’s Cat is the dictionary definition of genial humour, lovely, kind and genuinely funny
Love Henry's Cat, he's a childhood favourite. Stuart's fast becoming an adulthood favourite in the same vein.
So this was the birth of the 24hr Slattery era, after this point, no matter what channel or show you put on, it felt like he would be there.
Never knew this show existed however, I thought it all ended with OTT, so you can learn something new.
Wasn't familiar with much of this, thanks. Cool and Hale doing material that they'd still be doing on their own show several years later...
Willytappers and Shaggers Social Club.
It`s always amazed me that Chris had no claims filed against him. He was absolutely terrible with children and often bullied them on set. Stories were sometimes covered in the paper about it. He was very aggressive with me when I was around 7. As I remember, the real reason for finishing Tiswas was for that reason, though I can`t remember what the official line was.
His stepson accused him in the press of hitting him, so that's not surprising.
@@mAiSiEbOOOO I didn`t know that but I suspect it`s the tip of the iceberg.
Before latterly seeing clips on RUclips and tv, my main memory of Tiswas was young children often getting upset/crying and the presenters trying to console them.
Nice one Stu. I could crush a grape !
I could go tut foot of our stairs
I have a hunch Suzi Quatro voiced Suzy in the Trio adverts, with Derek Griffiths
Probably the craziest live TV programme ever allowed
I remember this. Not by choice.
God grief It's literally Depression if it was a TV Show.
I remember this, I thought the angry guy in the pajamas was pretty funny, easily the best act of the show.
I hate Tarrant, when I moved to the Midlands in the 90s Central Tonight and Midlands Today seemed to take it in turns to fawn over him.
I've been traveling to the UK off and on since 1984, sometimes for months at a time. I've known some of my British friends for over 30 years. I've seen my fair share of British TV, and not just the stuff they ship over to the US. Not trying to brag, just laying the foundation for this one simple question: what in THE fuck did I just watch?!
I hope you enjoyed Eurotrash when the 90s came around
@@JamesC1981 I lived in France in the 90s so I saw real Eurotrash every day, lol.
Well done, a welcome return to form after the one that was just Mad Lizzy trumping. You want to talk to someone about that, btw...
This is a struggle
There's a reason my wife, born in the early 70s, was almost called Sally.
The show was as funny as treading in dog shit on a cold night in a dark field!!!
I forgot all about this!😆
12:52 Ah, look at that. Had no idea that's where Jacob Rees-Mogg got his start. Makes sense.
I don't remember this at all. THANK GOD! There was a shortlived 'TISWAS' spin-off called 'OTT', but this is something else! I'm not one for judging the past by today's (fairly low) standards, but this is a special occasion. They could've called this NRF: No Redeeming Features! (Disclaimer* If it was supposed to be ironic it was lost on me.)
You seem to have glossed over Alexie Sayle being part of the OTT ensemble, until he realised how shit it was and left.
Now he interviews random people on trains for Radio 4, the twat.
another guy who was almost in everything and totally disappeared
Alexei Sayle was shit to begin with, so he fit right in!
Carolgees without Spit the Dog is like he's naked
If the Guardian was a sentient being, this would be the result.
Aye, nothing screams Guardian like tits and cock jokes, Chris Tarrant, Bob Carolgees, Bernard Manning and Jim Bowen
Hale and Pace were both Teachers at Abbey Wood Comprehensive. As was the Scottish comedian Gordon Kennedy.
Have you seen Chas & Dave's Christmas Knees Up? Well worth a watch and very much a product of it's time
No doubt will be on Channel 5 again this year
Unlucky for us, 13 episodes.
Brilliant
Great times.....
I felt the same about Magpie 😂 👍🏻
It's like someone invented a time machine but only used it to pitch the idea of TFI Friday to someone in the 80's.
"It's critically important that the host be a self obsessed bellend"
In the middle of all that absolute crap, whatever Tony Slattery is going on about at 12:20 made me laugh out loud. Not sure whether I should be embarrassed to admit that.
And even that's nicked off a Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch with Rowan Atkinson.
@@lewiscuthbert2790 Oh is it? Interesting; I might have to seek that one out…. 😂
Odd, I remember OTT - seemed daring at the time, on reflection probably not, but great performance by Human League on one episode. But I don't recall this incarnation of it at all. TV was in a funny place at the time... they filled the gap after the first series of the Tube with, er, Rick Wakeman's 'Gastank' (hey, you got anything on that one?!)
I have not heard of this series, but I have seen the clip with Phil Lynott, Chas and Bev Bevon, and that was good. I guess even poor series have moments of good.
It was at this point Chris Tarrant realised he definitely was a one off in the producer sense.
An era where they discovered late night post pub TV, but yet to understand how much they could get away with.
‘Comedy from when we were allowed to laugh at each other before woke took over’…..
You know someone’s going to post that comment eventually
Nobody says this, though. Much as you'd like us to have shit taste in comedy, Norm MacDonald is probably the most popular comedian on the political right.
@@Man-From-Another-Place they say it on almost every video Stuart posts
@@culfycavy Ah, OK - I'd not noticed. I assumed that everyone who watches these videos thinks the stuff being reviewed is rubbish.
Loads of people say this all over RUclips. And most often referencing "comedy" that was dreadful even when considered in the time it was made.
@@rachel.mcgowan True, but I'm not talking about the whole of RUclips: I'm talking about Stuart Millard videos where people are in on the joke.
Wasn’t there a US show on at around the same time as this that was similar but that sometimes showed women’s knockers. It was called Bazaar or Bizarre or something I think
Painful. At least there was no Lenny twatting Henry.
OTT! That was the adult Tiswas.
But shit.
Post-coital Bob Carolgees to you too!
Just about remember OTT but this was like "All we had back then" before THE WORD or Eurotrash came along
I was just the right age to appreciate this... 13.
Watching absolute shyte TV so we don't have to..
I enjoyed OTT and Saturday Stayback.
They were great fun, and wasn't that Angus Dayton in there?
There were also the live band features which you neglect to mention.
In the end, all of this is subjective.
Adult stuff smuggled into kid's tv works because it's genuinely subversive and by nature it must be almost so subtle as to be missed by the unattentive viewer. Plausable deniability is its main strength and that's what makes it funny. It's why pantomime is full of sub-rosa filth. "Did you see that?!" If you try to do it for adults you get this.
8:41 Paul Jones of Manfred Mann? How the fuck did he end up here? He's also in the goddawful 'Boom Boom Out Go The Lights' alternative comedy special.
Lol you legend love your critisisome of crap TV
Was but a boy but i remember it. My dad liked it.
Was that fred dineage dressed as a knight near the start
Was it Phil's Sanderling?
Why was 80s TV so obsessed with "The (2nd world) war" and "Zee Jermanz?" (mind you, same can be asked of noughties/2010s Clarksonite culture).
It was kind of recent then. Come to Liverpool and see how often Thatcher gets mentioned...
The horror the horror
16:00 Sounds more racist than wordy, wouldn't you say?
He preempted September 11th by almost twenty years.
so how does he get it bigger
6:54 Is Mucky Blighters the spinoff of Peaky Blinders?
Them woz the daze 🥴
0:15 What's _Private Eye_ magazine's Dr. Phil Hammond (aka M.D.) doing on _L&K?_
How about review of "Now Get Out Of That" similar to Egg Race...
So glad I was too young to stay up and watch this shite. Bob Carolgees shirtless is just wrong. It also has the ' lets cash in on the alternative comedy vibe' but they would not fork out for Mayall, Elton and Mayer. So they just got some Davidson clones to write it and bunged in the cast of the comedians during the stand up spot. 💩