Bill Gravy's Confused Set

Hello again BSGers. I haven't been about for a few weeks and I've been getting confused a bit with modern life.

I took the kids and wife up to London to see that Kismet show but talk about a disappointment. He wasn't even in it. Neither was Miss Piggy come to think of it. So 200 quid down the drain that was. The kids were very upset after I’d got their hopes so high.

That Heather Mills, what about her? She's cracking on that she's a vegan. I bet she has never even seen Star Trek and have you seen her ears? No point...cos she's not a vegan that's why...they're just normal.

What about that thing they said where only kids under twenty could hear that mosquito thing? I've just come back from Africa and I could hear loads of the bloody things. I always thought I was 40 but now I'm confused. How could you lie to me mum?

And talking about hi-tech. What about the new road camera thing that detects blood? We're all fu**ed if the tax man gets hold of that.

And what was all that nonsense in American elections the other week? You were stuck if you didn't like soup weren't you? Why can't they have pancake Tuesday like we do here?

Then the research that said that the increase in gout in Britain was down to too many sugary drinks made me wonder...what's tiling down to?

I went to see that new Johnny Depp movie, Sweeney. But why did they bother to do a remake? The old one was so much better, 'specially when Regan would say "put 'em away darling he's nicked!" and "we're the Sweeney son and we haven't had our dinner!"

Right I've gotta go. You've been Bill Gravy I've been a great audience.

No hang on! You’ve been a great audience and I’ve been Bill Gravy…Sorry I’m confused.

Not bad at all, it'll all be in the delivery. A nice snappy collection, of slightly off key, inoffensive, well formed gags.

Some good ones there but I didn't get the Sweeney thing - oh yes - Todd. Just remembered as I was writing.

But not sure - yes I get most of them as I think about it. I think they'd be much better heard.

Yeah this would all be the delivery. Bill's not a very good stand-up and an even worse performer. He suffers from poor delivery although these are more like proper jokes than his previous efforts were.

It's just he doesen't really know that they are.

Like it but doesn't have the same vagueness of the early sketches. I liked the fact that Bill had no idea of basically what he was supposed to do up there so he just talked. This is more sort of gag based. I still like it, but not as much.

I ditto Roscoff. I really loved the other Bill Gravy pieces. This one was still good, but he just didn't seem to be the same character.

Yeah think you're both right. The material is a bit too funny - for Bill. He's lost his way so I need to get him back to being crap

Quote: Blenkinsop @ February 28, 2008, 7:30 PM

The material is a bit too funny - for Bill. He's lost his way so I need to get him back to being crap

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I agree, and for what it's worth I also didn't think it was random enough.
A lot of the charm for me came from his randomness, if that's even a word.

Yeah think you're right. What I posted was more a straight ahead stand up set

It was very different in that every joke was based on the same premise: verbal confusion; mistaking one word for another. I reckon that in the world of stand-up, too, many of them would sail over the audience's head, e.g. the Super Tuesday/Soup(er) Tuesday reference.
Not that I didn't find it funny.