Tony Cowards
Tuesday 16th July 2013 12:22pm
Wiltshire
1,762 posts
Could generally take or leave the radio show, always thought it relied too much on the malapropisms but have to say that I really enjoyed the first episode of the TV show, it made me chuckle away at a fairly consistent rate throughout the 28 minutes.
Quote: Tokyo Nambu @ July 9 2013, 9:04 AM BST
The larger premise, that he was an actual variety performer, makes little sense. In the radio show, you were shown Strong's delusions, and it was left open whether he had ever been a performer at all, or was just a fantasist who'd never performed to a crowd larger than his own front room. Here he's the former partner of a clearly well-respected comedian, so portraying him as a hopeless loser doesn't add up.
Still, at least Barry Cryer had a good cameo.
It made plenty of sense to me, Count Arthur Strong was the partner of a comedian who's career only took off once he'd ditched Arthur, until then, I assume, they'd bumbled around the "circuit" for a few years, doing okay but never quite getting the breaks, mainly due to Arthur's crackpot ideas.
I could point you in the direction of plenty of real life cases of this.