Kenny Everett Night BBC4 - Wednesday

mike65

starting at 8 pm and evening devoted to the genius of BBC radio and then "new wave" era TV comedy. The kids will probably wonder what the fuss was about but the rest of us should get a blast out of this!.

Kenny Everett: Top of the Pops 1973
An edition of the show first broadcast on 11 October 1973, presented by Kenny Everett. Featuring music by Electric Light Orchestra, Elton John, Michael Ward, Status Quo, Engelbert Humperdinck, Slade, and Limmie & the Family Cooking

followed by

The Best of Kenny Everett's Television Shows - Part 1
Part one of two. Highlights from the five series of the comedian's 1980s BBC comedy-sketch programme The Kenny Everett Television Show, featuring characters including Cupid Stunt, Sid Snot and Gizzard Puke

followed by

Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Oliver Lansley stars as the maverick DJ and comedian in a dramatisation of his life, focusing on the entertainer's struggle to achieve personal and professional fulfilment. The programme explores Everett's relationship with wife Lee and features some of his most famous comic characters, including Cupid Stunt and Quentin Pose. With Simon Callow, James Floyd and Adam Garcia

and finally

The Best of Kenny Everett's Television Shows - Part 2
Part two of two. Further highlights from the five series of the comedian's 1980s BBC comedy-sketch programme The Kenny Everett Television Show. Featuring characters including Cupid Stunt, Sid Snot and Gizzard Puke and guest stars Billy Connolly, Joanna Lumley and Janet Street-Porter

A pity they didn't try to get anything from Everetts Thames TV "Video Show" period as that was where it all began small screen wise and broke through the 4th wall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQwBG0O6tH4

Dozen Wicked Words

Never found him funny tbh, maybe I was a bit young. Also he was a big supporter of Thatcher and the Tories so maybe that clouded my judgement of him.

ejmaztec

He was okay in very small doses.

Wee Willy Harris

Yes.. and that 'new wave' in general was a most productive, pioneering time after which there could only have been a general recession forever thereafter tbh. and Kenny revelled in it

Maybe he just liked thatcher as the first woman in power as very liberating for a gay man to see I'd have thought. and inspired by that wave of truly creative youth there was no holdng him back

How I'd trade derek mooney off for him... That 'eccentric gay' mooney seems not far removed from every other bland bloke of a broadcaster today is telling.

/but to clean up, a shining example of when being gay is truly beneficial. and he seemed to slowly gradually die with the best of youth culture, much as he paved the way and gave it a platform as it did him. I will tune in

grey_so_what

I loved KE's show and his musical slot.....he generally had Thin Lizzy, Kim Wilde, the cool dudes etc. and anyone who was on the Top 20.....and typically it was in the "best possible taste".........happy days on the telly!.......:)

RIP Kenny.

Yamanoto

Oliver Lansley stars as the maverick DJ and comedian in a dramatisation of his life, focusing on the entertainer's struggle to achieve personal and professional fulfilment.

I think the Beeb should lay off the dramatisations for a while - perhaps inevitably, they all seem to follow a template - Overbearing Mother, absent or distant Father, neurosis, drugs & alcohol, illicit sexual shenanigans, career rise & fall followed by a sad and forlorn demise.

It's no coincidence of course that many performers emerged out of remarkably similar social and family backgrounds, but we've now had Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd, Steptoe & Son, Tony Hancock, Eric & Ernie and now Kenny Everett. Just feels a bit stale to me.

Wee Willy Harris

And they're just the comedians. the Boy George story was the same!

yes another comedian, in a sense but maybe in beeb eyes these are the criteria of hardship that merit a biopic!!


Wee willy will get his ;-

mike65

bump for retro giggles.

Technocentral

Yamanoto wrote: »

I think the Beeb should lay off the dramatisations for a while - perhaps inevitably, they all seem to follow a template - Overbearing Mother, absent or distant Father, neurosis, drugs & alcohol, illicit sexual shenanigans, career rise & fall followed by a sad and forlorn demise.

It's no coincidence of course that many performers emerged out of remarkably similar social and family backgrounds, but we've now had Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd, Steptoe & Son, Tony Hancock, Eric & Ernie and now Kenny Everett. Just feels a bit stale to me.

You hit the nail on the head, all worthy subjects for great documentaries, but the beeb could have spent the large budgets elsewhere to more effect, the Hancock one was about the best, the line at his first wife's, parent's dinner table when the mother said "you should get Sid back in your show" and he said "what would you know you provincial cu*nt?" was hilariously unexpected!

Technocentral

dooferoaks wrote: »

Never found him funny tbh, maybe I was a bit young. Also he was a big supporter of Thatcher and the Tories so maybe that clouded my judgement of him.

Cleo Rocos was the only reason I watched it as a young lad! In general, even then, I found him purile and unfunny, lots of that Radio 1 stupid voices type shiite that some people found funny in the 70s/early 80s.

Wee Willy Harris

Let the japes commence!!

Wee Willy Harris

The drama was great; thought I was watching himself bravo