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Rod Hull and Emu

  • 04-07-2003 12:59am
    #1
    Spacedog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭


    Anyone see the docu' on Channel 4 about the life of Rod Hull, was pretty good, has the lady who played Grotbags and clips from Emu's world and everything. showed the roof he fell off fixing the TV Arial, A pitty they didn't show the clip from Lee and Herring ("I Loooooooove Jelly" lol) who had a nice tribute to him at the end of TMWRAJ.


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  • #2
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Yeah I saw it. He was a pretty pathetic character when you get down to the bottom of it. For example the way in 1996(?) he didn't turn up to an awards ceremony with his emu just because it wasn't explicity mentioned in his invitation showed what petty wallowing man he truely was.

    So people only love you for the emu? So what! Suck it up and get on with it.

    Like the closing narrative said 'he made a 25 year career out of a 10 minute sketch' but tbh only about 10 seconds of that was actually entertaining.

    Even as a kid he gave me the creeps and anyone who saw his 'infamous' Parkinson interview could see there was a genuine nasty streak to the guy and he didn't know where to draw the line when it came having a laugh. Kinda reminds me of Freddy Starr in that respect.


  • #3
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Quite a fascinating program. He didn't come across as that likeable a person TBH - gave me the creeps.


  • #4
    Spacedog
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    Rod Hull was a saint amongst men and a God to some puppets!

    Thought it was dead funny about all the women he had, especially the part about all the mysterious women at his funeral.


  • #5
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I think Rod Hull was an ordinary bloke who simply let the business
    stick him in a box rather than fight it or indeed exploit it better (a few years in the States and he would have been made for life),
    I think the last part of the prog, after the fame, proberly showed his real character ie a decent bloke away from it all.

    Mike.


  • #6
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Originally posted by mike65
    (a few years in the States and he would have been made for life)
    Absolutely. Any replacement for Lambchop would get the guy sainted.


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