‘Take That’ were hyped beyond sense by the BBC before their first single was even out. BBC 90s kids shows emblematic of pushing “people we’re told we like”.
See also NME with Britpop, The Strokes, and Arctic Monkeys. Simon Day's 'Indie Club' sketch on the Fast Show ("everything you know is WRONG") was maybe my all-time favourite Fast Show sketch. Spot on.
I see they tried to jazz it up and modernize in the 90s, but it's still got its feet firmly planted in the light-entertainment horror shows of the 70s and 80s
I made the same mistake too. But John Hasler (T-shirt) was 17-18 or so at this time. I don't know if the Leonard Kirby here was the one born in Havering district in 1978 or the one born in Birmingham district in 1984 because he doesn't seem to be either 14 or 8 here, but somewhere in between.
The only thing worse than extremely posh children is extremely posh precocious children. I always viscerally hated those Young Musician of the Year programmes that always seemed to be on a Sunday evening, which I'd gaze at through a confused, hungover fog, during the days of 4 channels and no internet. "Hark! Here's young Rupert playing the harp with his toes, and next we have Cordelia telepathically playing the cello" etc. Or that young antiques expert who looked like Art Garfunkel. PS the cutaway to Frank Skinner after that Matthew Kelly, erm, 'moment' was absolutely inspired.
Thank goodness you said who that kid is, I'd have been going binoculars trying to work it out otherwise. My brain would've been going "is he t-shirt?" "No" "well, is he t-shirt then?" "No" "ok, how about t-shirt?" "NO" By the way next years was a full on banger festival so expect me to be performatively grumpy if you are rude about it, even though that is literally your job
So far I've been pretty astounded that ol' Jimmy Saville hasn't turned up in any of these considering how well loved he was at the time... maybe Princess Marge didn't want him there for some reason. 0_o
As someone who was a Scout and took part in 2 Scout shows in my local theatre when I was 11-12, I thought this wasn't too bad. But oh yeah this was meant to be a Royal Variety Performance or something.
Thanks for reminding me why I stopped watching these types of show back in the early to mid 80's. It took a while for the producers to catch up, for sure. Matthew Kelly looking like a charity shop Doctor Who, which is ironic seeing as Sylvester McCoy was doing the same a few years earlier. You could tell it was the BBC who orchestrated this by the number of, 'familiar faces', they used from shows that were relevant at the time. It makes you wonder whether they had clauses where they had to do a live performance written into their contracts. They had to have the obligatory, 'pop act', doing their act of trying to sing and an approximation of what passed for a dance routine, back then. At least they had a few time-served professionals to keep the show together. Having Andy Peters doing the big finale with his sidekick, Ed the duck was a bit of a cop out, though.
Haha I think I caught a glimpse of this at the time of broadcast but didn't persist when I saw Kelly doing his 4th Doctor forgets to shave impression. How often has that wall papering sketch been done at a royal variety? There was one in b&w with Bruce Forsyth and Norman Wisdom.
To be so out of touch with the younger generation that the producers of this show thought kids would be interested in Michael Ball singing "somewhere over the rainbow". Who in their right mind gave this the go ahead!
I wonder if the Matthew Kelly coming out in that particular get up had something to do with Dr Who ??? Matthew looks like he is dressed as Tom Bakers Dr. Who. And the fact that Sylvester McCoy was also Dr Who?? And not sure if he was directly after Tom Baker ??? Was this a hint at what was to come ? I have no idea if that would all tally up to when this was recorded ?? But the get up he is wearing is very similar to Tom Baker's Dr. Who. (The only Dr Who I remember watching, for Daleks. Obvs.)
you really think the likes of paul daniels, rod hull and bernie winters would've attached themselves to this shitshow? i'm surprised we haven't seen one of the unholy trinity pop-up yet on one of these; rolf harris, gary glitter or jimmy saville.
I think you mean Rolf Harris MBE, OBE, CBE and Sir Jimmy Savile OBE. Show a bit of respect mate. (Although I think you got Glitter's full title right).
I thought Leonard was John Hasler, who once featured in a show with painted sets and only two guest artists per episode…never liked musicals either, this has reinforced my opinion
After watching this, you can fully understand why Margaret got through so much gin.
Reaching Charlie Brooker levels of scorn and derision at the beginning there!
‘Take That’ were hyped beyond sense by the BBC before their first single was even out. BBC 90s kids shows emblematic of pushing “people we’re told we like”.
kinda episode that always reminds you the cards are against ya...
*Disney:* Write that down, write that down!
BBC Radio 1 was always the same, too.....basically 'you should like this group or that singer and we'll force it down your throat until you do'.
See also NME with Britpop, The Strokes, and Arctic Monkeys. Simon Day's 'Indie Club' sketch on the Fast Show ("everything you know is WRONG") was maybe my all-time favourite Fast Show sketch. Spot on.
The production companies own talent agencies, etc. It's why comedy today is just the same comedians on cycle.
I see they tried to jazz it up and modernize in the 90s, but it's still got its feet firmly planted in the light-entertainment horror shows of the 70s and 80s
I can never fully hate something that features a Sylvester McCoy appearance
I thought that boy was T-Shirt (From the ITV Teabag series ) at first but I guess in 1992 T-Shirt would have been much older.
Like a few commentators here, I thought the same. "At least I get to talk about T-Bag for a bit. Oh..."
Fake T-shirt
I thought that for moment too.
I made the same mistake too. But John Hasler (T-shirt) was 17-18 or so at this time.
I don't know if the Leonard Kirby here was the one born in Havering district in 1978 or the one born in Birmingham district in 1984 because he doesn't seem to be either 14 or 8 here, but somewhere in between.
Not sure at aged 50 I am supposed to have a 'favourite CZcamsr', yet here we are!
That was truly diabolical, you deserve a medal for all the appalling television you must have to watch to make these reviews.
My supposed tolerance for for cringe never survives contact with these shows. Still haven't been able to watch one in one go, even with commentary.
The only thing worse than extremely posh children is extremely posh precocious children. I always viscerally hated those Young Musician of the Year programmes that always seemed to be on a Sunday evening, which I'd gaze at through a confused, hungover fog, during the days of 4 channels and no internet. "Hark! Here's young Rupert playing the harp with his toes, and next we have Cordelia telepathically playing the cello" etc. Or that young antiques expert who looked like Art Garfunkel.
PS the cutaway to Frank Skinner after that Matthew Kelly, erm, 'moment' was absolutely inspired.
12:24 - this has to be the best edit I have ever seen on CZcams.
Nice of them to grab the zeitgeist and give a cameo to the Lyle's Golden Syrup spoons at 13:02
I was at RADA in1992. Every single person on that stage is a million times better than I was at anything. which is very sad.
"That's quite enough of that, Savile" killed me 😂
It's so weird watching them wrestling to an orchestral version of Megatron Must Be Stopped.
lol yeh, was trying to work it out and thought it was 'Escape' but i think you're right
Spat out me vodka at the Saville comment...love this channel
This is an absolute worst nightmare!
3 hours of this
16:33 did raise a genuine chuckle...
Thank goodness you said who that kid is, I'd have been going binoculars trying to work it out otherwise. My brain would've been going "is he t-shirt?" "No" "well, is he t-shirt then?" "No" "ok, how about t-shirt?" "NO"
By the way next years was a full on banger festival so expect me to be performatively grumpy if you are rude about it, even though that is literally your job
No worries there. Next year's is already up on Patreon with the subtitle "The Greatest Show Ever Staged"
@@StuartMillard it might just be, you know
@DemonTomatoDave yeah, I thought it was the t-shirt kid
Haha I actually laughed out loud the way you said “... and not this sh1️⃣t” at the end 😂
I have being watching these for a while, hits the nail on the head, with the commentary. Have a takeaway on me :)
Thanks, Deano! Really appreciate it
I know a few people who had kids in a PQA academy, and I had no idea until now that the PQ stood for Pauline Quirke
Proper money spinner for old Pauline. Amazing how well she’s doing since that documentary they did on her where she cut up a cow in the kitchen sink
@@NecroMorrius What documentary was that?
This was worth it if only for the unexpected nostalgia for Transformers: The Movie
So far I've been pretty astounded that ol' Jimmy Saville hasn't turned up in any of these considering how well loved he was at the time... maybe Princess Marge didn't want him there for some reason. 0_o
Ahhhh…..I was wondering why Matthew Kelly was dressed like Tom Baker
I thought he was Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.
As someone who was a Scout and took part in 2 Scout shows in my local theatre when I was 11-12, I thought this wasn't too bad.
But oh yeah this was meant to be a Royal Variety Performance or something.
Thanks for reminding me why I stopped watching these types of show back in the early to mid 80's. It took a while for the producers to catch up, for sure. Matthew Kelly looking like a charity shop Doctor Who, which is ironic seeing as Sylvester McCoy was doing the same a few years earlier. You could tell it was the BBC who orchestrated this by the number of, 'familiar faces', they used from shows that were relevant at the time. It makes you wonder whether they had clauses where they had to do a live performance written into their contracts. They had to have the obligatory, 'pop act', doing their act of trying to sing and an approximation of what passed for a dance routine, back then. At least they had a few time-served professionals to keep the show together. Having Andy Peters doing the big finale with his sidekick, Ed the duck was a bit of a cop out, though.
I saw Billy do the echo gag at BP club in Hull. No, he didn’t do so well after this gig.
Good use of the transformers movie soundtrack....
Billy Pearce has proven one thing. That there is such a thing as the poor mans Bobby Davro.
Thanks!
15:34 you know who i think could do a good wallpaper gag, matt and Bryan from supermega
Did an actual spit take at ‘her neighbour who absolutely loves a good old f--‘. I’ll send you the cleaning bill, Stuart!
Superb.
Haha I think I caught a glimpse of this at the time of broadcast but didn't persist when I saw Kelly doing his 4th Doctor forgets to shave impression. How often has that wall papering sketch been done at a royal variety? There was one in b&w with Bruce Forsyth and Norman Wisdom.
Loved your use of Larry Grayson, with Willy Thorne and Jimmy White. But not sure, even though I laughed, about this one.
Jesus! Henry Cavill singing at 17:38
To be so out of touch with the younger generation that the producers of this show thought kids would be interested in Michael Ball singing "somewhere over the rainbow". Who in their right mind gave this the go ahead!
18:25 it’s The Renegade!!!
2:18 which actually improves with every read
Fresh Millard! Win! Leeet's do this....
I wonder if the Matthew Kelly coming out in that particular get up had something to do with Dr Who ??? Matthew looks like he is dressed as Tom Bakers Dr. Who. And the fact that Sylvester McCoy was also Dr Who?? And not sure if he was directly after Tom Baker ??? Was this a hint at what was to come ? I have no idea if that would all tally up to when this was recorded ?? But the get up he is wearing is very similar to Tom Baker's Dr. Who. (The only Dr Who I remember watching, for Daleks. Obvs.)
I almost feel bad for thinking "Fritzing out" was a Von Erich reference.
Paul Zenon - pound shop Martin Daniels
Rat boy really looked like Tom Hardy. Can you confirm he isn’t?
To be fair, Brain Conley is a far more polished Hans Christian Andersen than Danny Kaye ever was
This is what happens to Royal Variety under a Major government. Maggie wasn't all bad, see.
Thanks, Spud! Though the mention of Thatch may render the money slightly cursed.
@@StuartMillard I wrung it from a miner's glove.
Bravo
Come for Matthew Kelly, stay for the All Japan Women reference
Can confirm PGL generated stories but not really ones you could repeat in front of royalty.
The similarity between Mathew Kelly and Steve Pemberton is uncanny, anyone else think that?
Rosemarie Ford though, eh? Eh?
WTF there was actually a time when Andy Peters didn’t just talk about competition prizes ?
God that was painful.
Fantasy Street also known as Savile Row?
you really think the likes of paul daniels, rod hull and bernie winters would've attached themselves to this shitshow? i'm surprised we haven't seen one of the unholy trinity pop-up yet on one of these; rolf harris, gary glitter or jimmy saville.
I think you mean Rolf Harris MBE, OBE, CBE and Sir Jimmy Savile OBE. Show a bit of respect mate. (Although I think you got Glitter's full title right).
Rosemary Ford ....... Sigh
Well, that's ruined the Transformers the Movie soundtrack for me.
I thought Leonard was John Hasler, who once featured in a show with painted sets and only two guest artists per episode…never liked musicals either, this has reinforced my opinion
Splendid…. Well not. But love the vlog
Lol its true 😎
This is actually the children's royal variety performance and not the adult one. Most of them followed this format
Love your videos but this was so bad I had to click off - not you, you understand ! 😵😵💫🤪