Who would you like to see go back to their stand-up roots?
Who should go back to stand-up?
Steven Hawking.
Nicely placed Hawking.
Go to any Open Mike night and you're bound to see a Hawkings impersonation. zzzzzzzzzzz!
I'd go for Steve Martin and Rodney Dangerfield.
Rodney's dead, isn't he?
Sorry didn't realise it had to be people that were alive.... I'll say Russell Brand then. Loved his stand-up and radio shows, but the movies leave a lot to be desired.
I would love to see Russell Brand go back to stand up - stand up next to the pole where he avoided the firing squad!
Jasper Carrott
Alexei Sayle
No, Carrott sucks, since he did that goldenballs thing, and his sitcom was dire beyond words, he's had enough bail outs, imo.
But with you on the fat Scouse Jew who became part of the Bloomsbury set and got all prickly about his roots. Come on Alexei, you know you'd love to get up there.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ April 1 2010, 9:13 AM BSTNo, Carrott sucks, since he did that goldenballs thing, and his sitcom was dire beyond words, he's had enough bail outs, imo.
Bail outs? In what sense? Me no understand.
Agreed, bails outs is wrong term, don't know what I was thinking...erm, golden leg ups to get his languishing career back on track, then...?
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ April 1 2010, 10:02 AM BSTAgreed, bails outs is wrong term, don't know what I was thinking...erm, golden leg ups to get his languishing career back on track, then...?
He wouldn't need any kind of leg up. Just get back gigging/touring. He'd be fine!
Used to love Jasper's stand up back in the day. Haven't seen any for many years now so maybe I wouldn't like so much now. Would love to see Alexei Sayle's stuff, will check YouTube.
But would people really want to see him that much, don't know? To me he was of his day and he's had his day - when he did his BBC stand up show in the late 80s it seemed to me like he was struggling then, so what would he be like now? I see him as a sort of male Victoria Wood, a natural but with an act belonging to a bygone age.
But Sayle was an innovator, so he could just innovate again.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ April 1 2010, 10:38 AM BSTBut would people really want to see him that much, don't know? To me he was of his day and he's had his day - when he did his BBC stand up show in the late 80s it seemed to me like he was struggling then, so what would he be like now? I see him as a sort of male Victoria Wood, a natural but with an act belonging to a bygone age.
But Sayle was an innovator, so he could just innovate again.
That kind of makes sense. He really made me laugh as a kid so maybe I should just remember him that way.