To her dying day, my mum always referred to Thorne as "My Mate Willie." Purely on the back of meeting him while she was working on a very definitely legitimate charity snooker circuit.
@@StuartMillard She loved a minor celeb, did my mum. As soon as she met one, they became "my mate." She was like Mean Gene Okerlund. She went on Bargain Hunt once, and never ever stopped talking about David Dickinson ever again.
2:39 Gary involuntarily kicking along a bit of rubbish his best mate Willie dropped. Bit disappointed @StuartMillard didn't mention it. He probably kicked it all the way to the Crucible changing room.
Willie in this is a year younger than I am now. God I feel old, but at least I don't look 52 like Willie does, and I'm not so far gone than I put my shoes on before my trousers.
Mum and me nearly got run over by Willie Thorne back in the 90's,He came sweeping round a corner in a massive Mercedes as we were crossing the road to visit my Grandma and just missed us!
I remembering seeing the John McCririck lottery video for sale at Virgin Megastore. Best thing about it was the following disclaimer on the case: "Neither Labyrinth Video nor Flick Pictures represent that this video will in any way guarantee success in the National Lottery".
Video shops really were the Netflix of the '80s and '90s. Once you get past the blockbuster movies and classic TV shows, you're wading through crap that makes you think "who thought this was worth making?"
@@StuartMillard I was in a charity shop today (quite a scruffy one) that still sells VHS tapes, if there is anything that you would like I'll keep an eye out for you and send it on. I love weird and wonderful obscure stuff! :-))
3 VHS videos in 1 RUclips video. It's a compilation of a compilation. If this RUclips video is ever included in a compilation I think my head will implode.
I unapologetically and unironically love that Lineker/Thorne documentary. It’s honest, pure and sweet. I just wish there was a similar show with Maradona and Castro.
@@theflyintheointment Don't forget Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle! They released a single together in 1987. Not sure if they were bezzie mates or if they simply got paired together because their last names rhymed...🤔
@@katewolfspirit6722Counterintuitively, the most ridiculous thing about Hoddle & Waddle’s pop career is they insisted on their artist name being ‘Glenn & Chris’.
Quite strong stalker vibes from 'Michael' (hmmm, his name is almost Michaela too), buying up old Michaela Strachan vids in 2014 and bemoaning her lack of screen time.
You can definitely tell those kids on the Michaela Strachan video were all from stage schools, by the way they persistently look at the camera with, 'happy smiles', in the vain hope some talent agent might see them and think they're more, 'special', that they already think they are.
They won't be smiling like that when they are invited onto the casting couch...yikes. Run for your lives! I cannot understand parents who push their kids into the theatre, it's full of predators.
Thank you as always Mr M, always enjoy these - for 80’s stars how about a video on impressionist Phil Cool? Or a video compilation on all those videos that were huge hits in the ‘80s and ‘90s but just died with the invention of the internet - videos like footballs greatest gaffes or those compilation videos of (largely American) car crashes? Video stores were full of them and they were essential stocking fillers for a short period.
I feel like the issue with Phil Cool is that his television appearances are just unremarkable, not bigoted or unpleasant, just a bit dated and naff. The other option is his live stuff, but that's actually fairly decent outside of being dated. It's more impressive seeing him do the different characters on stage without the editing or crap costumes and he has actual jokes in between the impressions that don't rely on pop culture references. There's a somewhat more recent interview I saw where he demonstrates one of his live bits and uses a tape recorder to play John Lennon and Paul McCartney harmonising with each other that's legitimately really well executed and creative. It's not really something that I would expect to be fodder for this channel because the worst of his stuff isn't remarkably bad by comparison to the rest of the comedians featured and the good bits demonstrate that he has actual craft behind his material beyond doing the same impressions that everyone else does. Even then, a lot of his ideas are more esoteric and surreal than you'd get from the other acts from the period and in his live shows the impressions are integrated into actual routines that would have been serviceable without them. It's like peering into an alternative universe where Lee Evans wasn't a complete hack.
I see the Lineker/Thorne video was narrated by Tony Francis, who also narrated Vinny Jones’s ‘Soccer Hardmen’ video, also profiled by Stuart. Obviously Tony was the go-to guy for these early ‘90s, high end VHS releases.
What a great feel good video the Gary lineker and Willie thorn one Just remember when you're at your lowest ebb and you have a noose around your neck there you aren't Willie thorn
Great, thanks for this. Despite having a lifelong phobia of cockroaches, I actually felt sorry for the poor painted fekkers. And also, I nearly cried at the idea of a 9 year old child getting Michaela's video instead of a party, because she had no friends. Didn't think there was anything sadder than Willy Thorne gambling away his family, but there we go. In the great scheme of things, all events that have ever occurred were contained and decided in a chain of causality created the first instants of the big bang, time itself merely an illusion created by consciousness. We are all simultaneously living, unborn and long since expired. I think this video does a very good job of communicating this essential truth as an emotion, without necessarily getting into the details.
John McCririck disappearing at the end like some spectre in an M.R. James adaptation was peak film making.
6:36 the guy behind the old dear looks absolutely raging and i only watched this in the vain hope if a flash of Michaelas hinge😢
Im so glad that they got married to each other in the end
Michaela Strachan in her birthday suit, showing us her birthday box? I'm in.
It might not look like much, but inside is a whole world of fun and excitement.
@@Ceej_MM @12:46 Michaela's got a magic hoofer-doofer 🤣but we already knew that!
I’m sure she’s got a lovely wee doot. Michaela.
Poor Willie Thorne, his hair's all gorn and his mates all take the rise.
To her dying day, my mum always referred to Thorne as "My Mate Willie." Purely on the back of meeting him while she was working on a very definitely legitimate charity snooker circuit.
Gary's gonna be fuming when he reads this
@@StuartMillard She loved a minor celeb, did my mum. As soon as she met one, they became "my mate." She was like Mean Gene Okerlund.
She went on Bargain Hunt once, and never ever stopped talking about David Dickinson ever again.
My mum was the same seeing Emmet from Keeping Up Appearances using the photocopier at the local library
@@StuartMillardwhich library? 😅
2:39 Gary involuntarily kicking along a bit of rubbish his best mate Willie dropped. Bit disappointed @StuartMillard didn't mention it. He probably kicked it all the way to the Crucible changing room.
In another startling example of how old people looked in the 20th century, Thorne was only 38 in this.
Jeez-oh. I'm 44 and I look younger than he did.
@@jackdubz4247 Yes, I'm 45 and I just about look like I could be his daughter.
I thought his mum was his wife until I read the caption.
@@tonycowin Me, too! He looked old enough to pass for Lineker's Dad.
Jesus,
No one gonna talk about how Willy Thorne puts his shoes on before his trousers?
Willie in this is a year younger than I am now. God I feel old, but at least I don't look 52 like Willie does, and I'm not so far gone than I put my shoes on before my trousers.
Mum and me nearly got run over by Willie Thorne back in the 90's,He came sweeping round a corner in a massive Mercedes as we were crossing the road to visit my Grandma and just missed us!
I remembering seeing the John McCririck lottery video for sale at Virgin Megastore. Best thing about it was the following disclaimer on the case: "Neither Labyrinth Video nor Flick Pictures represent that this video will in any way guarantee success in the National Lottery".
Video shops really were the Netflix of the '80s and '90s. Once you get past the blockbuster movies and classic TV shows, you're wading through crap that makes you think "who thought this was worth making?"
24:20 when you get shrunk driving on Rainbow Road.
11:14 "are your mates coming over for your party? No? Shall I just pop the vhs on then?" - mum really made sure I'd enjoy my 32nd
"music by Fierce Noise". not usually a jazz fan but this is class
Yeah they were a bunch of nutters on tour apparently. Aphex Twin named them as an early influence
Hey Stuart, that's one of my Amiga tunes playing in the background 😁 I love your channel and videos!
The producers of the 90s Mario movie missed a trick here. Hoskins and Leguizamo? Nah mate, Thorne and Lineker.
Better than being bald anyway.
10:08 Pre merger AMG S class Mercedes. Willie had great taste in motors.
Someone buying a VHS off Amazon in 2014 is baffling to me.
I would genuinely love to meet someone who bought, watched and RE watched this.
The first video is an absolute gift for this channel, expertly exploited by Stuart.
According to Wikipedia, Roberta Flack was born on the 10th of Feb, not the 2nd!
Hey, I've got a great idea for a Christmas video - 'two boring blokes and a snooker table'.
This time next year Rodney, we'll be millionaires!
Thanks for the shout-out @11:00!
Thanks for the brilliant/terrible recommendation
@@StuartMillard I was in a charity shop today (quite a scruffy one) that still sells VHS tapes, if there is anything that you would like I'll keep an eye out for you and send it on. I love weird and wonderful obscure stuff! :-))
I am so here for trackingcore
3 VHS videos in 1 RUclips video. It's a compilation of a compilation. If this RUclips video is ever included in a compilation I think my head will implode.
"Bad press is foreign to Lineker"...The 80s was a long time ago wasn't it.
All my friends are chomping at the bit to watch a video about Lineker and Thorne.
16:08 I remember the golfer writing in to Chris Morris' radio show about this
I unapologetically and unironically love that Lineker/Thorne documentary. It’s honest, pure and sweet. I just wish there was a similar show with Maradona and Castro.
Graeme Souness and Dale Winton. What a missed opportunity now that Winton is no longer with us.
Just remembered that QPR’s Kevin Gallen and Morrissey genuinely became pals for a while. Might still be for all I know.
@@theflyintheointment Don't forget Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle! They released a single together in 1987. Not sure if they were bezzie mates or if they simply got paired together because their last names rhymed...🤔
@@katewolfspirit6722Counterintuitively, the most ridiculous thing about Hoddle & Waddle’s pop career is they insisted on their artist name being ‘Glenn & Chris’.
@@kisbie How odd...
the strange thing is that those numbers displayed by Mccrick came up in a 2002 draw
Did Millard invent the Tracking Core genre?
Quite strong stalker vibes from 'Michael' (hmmm, his name is almost Michaela too), buying up old Michaela Strachan vids in 2014 and bemoaning her lack of screen time.
Yes i thought that
Excellent as usual.
Michaela is a legend.
David Carradine as 'Barry Lineker'
You can definitely tell those kids on the Michaela Strachan video were all from stage schools, by the way they persistently look at the camera with, 'happy smiles', in the vain hope some talent agent might see them and think they're more, 'special', that they already think they are.
They won't be smiling like that when they are invited onto the casting couch...yikes. Run for your lives! I cannot understand parents who push their kids into the theatre, it's full of predators.
Imagine being the kid looking up your birthday star on the list and it being Peter Sutcliffe, what an inclusion to a kids birthday video
I had that National Lottery video as a kid. I have no clue why. I can confirm, its tips didn't work.
This video is better than being bald.
Two guys are friends, let's make a video!
10:15 ensure to pause before saying what it's a kettle
of
Instantly reminded me of Vic and Bob doing their Cox and Evans service post sketch, and Bob saying “for opening your tins of luncheon meat……with”
Big Willie was def the Top in the lineker/Thorne gae thing. He would famously "bend Gary up like a pretzel" according to friends.
"Darkwing Duck's grandad" 😂
18:30 Jane turns up looking like an extra from _Cats._
Thank you as always Mr M, always enjoy these - for 80’s stars how about a video on impressionist Phil Cool? Or a video compilation on all those videos that were huge hits in the ‘80s and ‘90s but just died with the invention of the internet - videos like footballs greatest gaffes or those compilation videos of (largely American) car crashes? Video stores were full of them and they were essential stocking fillers for a short period.
If Stuart did a video on Sheriff John Bunnell and World’s Wildest Police Videos I would die a happy man.
Like Lineker & Thorne, David Icke is also from Leicester. He must have made a few VHS (and DVD) WTFs in his time.
YES! I was gonna ask if anyone remembered Phil Cool in the comments on the Davro video.
I feel like the issue with Phil Cool is that his television appearances are just unremarkable, not bigoted or unpleasant, just a bit dated and naff.
The other option is his live stuff, but that's actually fairly decent outside of being dated. It's more impressive seeing him do the different characters on stage without the editing or crap costumes and he has actual jokes in between the impressions that don't rely on pop culture references.
There's a somewhat more recent interview I saw where he demonstrates one of his live bits and uses a tape recorder to play John Lennon and Paul McCartney harmonising with each other that's legitimately really well executed and creative.
It's not really something that I would expect to be fodder for this channel because the worst of his stuff isn't remarkably bad by comparison to the rest of the comedians featured and the good bits demonstrate that he has actual craft behind his material beyond doing the same impressions that everyone else does. Even then, a lot of his ideas are more esoteric and surreal than you'd get from the other acts from the period and in his live shows the impressions are integrated into actual routines that would have been serviceable without them.
It's like peering into an alternative universe where Lee Evans wasn't a complete hack.
3.08 it’s Gary Stevens who scored the equaliser in 1983 cup final…I so wish Gordon Smith had sneaked in the winner for Brighton too
"Not a pet, in fact it's nothing human". Is Michela keeping human pets?
this video did illicit a snorting sound from my nose on occasion, so, go on then. have a sub and a like
Looks like Willie was sat behind Wim Jansen at that spurs game
Yeah TrackingCore is one of my favourite genres atm .
Did you use my upload for this? I do still have the poster somewhere, if you're interested?
Erm, why does Willie Thorne put his shoes on before his trousers?
I was thinking the same! Most bizarre! 😂
Crikey. How thin are Willie Thorne’s socks?!
As thin as his hair on top
I’d rather have grey hair.
Great to see Ohhhh Eric Morley have his birthday remembered. How has that not been declared a national holiday yet?
Well if Willie Thorne pulls out you'll be up slack alley...
You just reminded me that John McCririck existed
I see the Lineker/Thorne video was narrated by Tony Francis, who also narrated Vinny Jones’s ‘Soccer Hardmen’ video, also profiled by Stuart. Obviously Tony was the go-to guy for these early ‘90s, high end VHS releases.
7 years age difference wouldn't have been my guess.
The birthday list, I had to pause it I was laughing so much.
I was in tears, Russel Grant and Russel Grant.
How has this only got 9k views?!
sorry to hear the well bad knob ache is still playing up.
Michaela was a real hotty. She never turned up to my birthdays though 😢
Oh, Michaela...
Geoff Keegan! F**king hell. That's just ended me!
Is that Theo Huxtable turning up on that Michaela Strachan video?
I found myself around 4 mins in laughing almost uncontrolably and saying aloud what the fuck is this? hahah
Mate Ur absolute genius
25.08 is that peter sutcliffe the bad man from yorkshire who liked hammers.
Please do a full year long video of birthday dates
Please do a Paul Daniels vid
Yeah, Wizbit was so effed up. Nightmare fuel.
why so much footage of gary playing snooker with willie? Why not willie playing footy? Or gary just playing with willie?
Poor Gary, losing his best friend in 2020. Or had they already fallen out?
Where did you even find that John McCririck video? There’s barely anything on google about it 👀
Sniffing out dreadful old telly is my one skill
British Library, I’m guessing. The nation’s preserved copy.
Lol well that was messed up.
8:56 he looks like he's in a star trek uniform lol
Pipe to pipe bushman
I knew what this was from the thumbnail 😂
19:04 blew my mind LMAO
11:15 finally a gender reveal I’d actually want to see 😂
Thumbnail of Willy Thorne's forehead you say? I'll give it a go.
What a great feel good video the Gary lineker and Willie thorn one
Just remember when you're at your lowest ebb and you have a noose around your neck there you aren't Willie thorn
2:44 7!?
BIOpic ('biographical picture'), not biOPic. 'The woman at the opticians says I'm a bit biopic.'
I'll go.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gary ‘ I got bullied at school for being black’ Linekar
I’m proud to say I’ve always despised Gary Lineker.
Let me guess, you're more of a LeTissier fan.
It's pronounced biopic - not bi-opic. Get it right, Stu!
Putting the first two videos together, I'm struck by the fact Michaela Strachan looks like Gary Lineker in a wig.
How very DARE YOU! Michaela was my very first crush as a kid. It was Wack Off Every Day to my young hormone addled brain!!!
Great, thanks for this.
Despite having a lifelong phobia of cockroaches, I actually felt sorry for the poor painted fekkers. And also, I nearly cried at the idea of a 9 year old child getting Michaela's video instead of a party, because she had no friends. Didn't think there was anything sadder than Willy Thorne gambling away his family, but there we go. In the great scheme of things, all events that have ever occurred were contained and decided in a chain of causality created the first instants of the big bang, time itself merely an illusion created by consciousness. We are all simultaneously living, unborn and long since expired. I think this video does a very good job of communicating this essential truth as an emotion, without necessarily getting into the details.