The Saturday Night Show: April 13th 2013 9.35pm

Skid X

One of the few Actresses to star in both Eastenders and Coronation Street Michelle Collins is on the couch. She got into a Twitter row during the week when she accused Eastenders Actress Kierston Wareing of having had a 'ridiculous lip job'

Panto Star and former King of The Jungle Christopher Biggins drops by to 'talk about his feelings on Thatcher and to tell us about the highs and lows of his showbiz life.' according to the Press Release (Surely it's Baroness Thatcher or at least Mrs Thatcher?) I remember Biggins from when he was presented 'On Safari' on ITV with Gillian Taylforth in 1983 :eek: He hasn't changed much since then, more than I can say for myself

Some Irish Athletes from The Special Olympics talk to Brendan about how their involvement in the Games has changed their Lives

RTE shameless plug guest is comedian Kevin McAleer who has a programme about the Ulster Scots dialect on RTE1 next week. No idea what that is like, but the title reminds me of the 90s BBC2 Series 'Our Friends in the North', which is a terrific drama and is well worth checking out.

Music from Josephine. The name sounds a bit Country and Irish, but don't be fooled, here she is on Jools Holland a while back

Sin a bhfuil, see you here at 9.35pm.

cofy

All I can say is bring on Biggins, I am probably going to have a challenging day ahead of me tomorrow, so Biggins bring me a million miles away from my world laughing.

Special Olympics will probably give me hope for Sunday.

But Kevin McAleer is more than likely someone I will quote in the future (no matter what it brings).

Welsh Megaman

Biggins = Twink in disguise?

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Biggins = Tw**k in disguise?

:eek: Little bit harsh there, WM.

Biggins has done lots of good stuff. He is, of course, best known for 'On Safari' (in my head) but he was in Porridge and Rentaghost among other TV roles. He also appeared in lots of Reality Shows and pretty much every Musical Theatre and Panto going. And he was in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, both the filum and on Stage.

He's in this video, Be careful you don't do yourself an injury with them Pelvic Thrusts

Lisha

Looking forward to biggins

I feel asleep on couch at start of LLS last night. One minute tubs was making smarmy gibes about a couple in the cold , next thing I know some craZy man was being mean to his wife. (some film on about one-ish)

So hopefully sns will be a better laugh later

RayM

Kevin McAleer is great. He's probably a bit avant-garde for the Saturday Night Show audience though. The last time he was on the Late Late, the response from the audience was one of mild bemusement. The average Irish television audience doesn't really 'get' comedy - unless they're being spoon-fed ancient 'gags' by someone like Brendan Grace or June Rodgers.

Lisha

Yes, i agree RayM, Kevin is funny. It is a very dry funny though that can be hard to tune into . A bit marmite I suppose. Remember reading his columns in farmers journal (I think) years ago . Also read them in his voice very funny.

grey_so_what

Skid X wrote: »

:eek: Little bit harsh there, WM.

Biggins has done lots of good stuff. He is, of course, best known for 'On Safari' (in my head) but he was in Porridge and Rentaghost among other TV roles. He also appeared in lots of Reality Shows and pretty much every Musical Theatre and Panto going. And he was in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, both the filum and on Stage.

He's in this video, Be careful you don't do yourself an injury with them Pelvic Thrusts

I'll be worn out tonight, those pelvic thrusts are hard work...........;)

***Mental Note***..must practice more.......

And we got to three posts before the mad dog (Brendan's words not mine....:eek:) was mentioned...........:pac::pac::pac:

internet_user

I was watching "gaybo laughs back" there earlier and i remembered seeing this programe before and seeing this northern irish comedian and thinking he was funny so i google his name and it was Kevin McAleer. Wierd that i open this thread and seen he will be on tonight!...Bit of a random story there for ye :P

Skid X

Ah, Kevin McAleer.

Years ago, there we were sitting in watching Nighthawks on the telly.

And who'd come on only this fella called Kevin. Aye. Kevin Mc - Aleer.

Now Kevin would be there talking away. Oh God he used to be fierce funny, so he was.

He'd been there talking away in his own way, telling a story about nothing. Aye. Ah, no one told a story like Kevin.

Haven't heard him in years, wonder if he still sounds the same?

grey_so_what

Will he be wearing the same checked shirt I wonder?????

JonathanAnon

Just watching Graham Norton with Michael Bublé, Amanda Holden and Jack Dee... fkn hell now that's a talk show... Not the usual social welfare interview we get on the LLS..

dee_mc

hey someone robbed B O'C's waistcoat!!

efb

Checking in

grey_so_what

efb wrote: »

Checking in

Have you made it home and did you go to the off License???:D:D:D

Dreamertime

I won't be here much tonight because of the Masters but I saw Brendan's promo there a minute ago and he doesn't look well at all. He's lost loads of weight. I hope I'm wrong.

Dreamertime

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Just watching Graham Norton with Michael Bublé, Amanda Holden and Jack Dee... fkn hell now that's a talk show... Not the usual social welfare interview we get on the LLS..

Jack Dee and Holden would make me run a mile, personally.

efb

Came home, picked up a litre bottle of Jameson for €23

Skid X

Sack the writer,
Sack the writer,
Sack the writer,

Sack the writer.

efb

His delivery is awful.

grey_so_what

efb wrote: »

His delivery is awful.

His jokes are worse........:eek:

JonathanAnon

Ah fek, just turned back over.. thought it was starting at 10pm... Missed the jokes :-(

efb

grey_so_what wrote: »

His jokes are worse........:eek:

`his delivery is so bad we should call him "An Post"

Skid X

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Ah fek, just turned back over.. thought it was starting at 10pm... Missed the jokes :-(

You lucky fecker

RayM

Dreamertime wrote: »

I won't be here much tonight because of the Masters but I saw Brendan's promo there a minute ago and he doesn't look well at all. He's lost loads of weight. I hope I'm wrong.

Probably just a side-effect of losing a lot of weight very quickly. I remember Stephen Fry became similarly gaunt-looking a few years back. Although the spiritual healer/charlatan/fraudster Helen Parry-Jones diagnosed him with an unspecified serious illness when he interviewed her a few months ago.

Skid X

I hope they get better Weather for their Collection Day than the Irish Cancer Society did (on Daffodil Day)

naughty1205

I think BOC looks ill. Hoping too it's just weight loss but it doesn't suit him! He doesn't look well?

dee_mc

efb wrote: »

Came home, picked up a litre bottle of Jameson for €23

where please?

grey_so_what

Fair play to the lads, they are great Ambassadors for the Special Olympics, It is daunting enough in a studio.

Lovely personalities and I'm loving the honesty of their reply's!!

Brendan is handling the interviews with a lot of style.

efb

dee_mc wrote: »

where please?

Duty Free BCN

Hitchens

naughty1205 wrote: »

I think BOC looks ill. Hoping too it's just weight loss but it doesn't suit him! He doesn't look well?

ah I'd say he's just on a slim down program

Atlantic Dawn

efb wrote: »

Duty Free BCN

Barcelona for non pilots...

JonathanAnon

Yer man at the end reminds me of Martin Clunes..

Atlantic Dawn

Hitchens wrote: »

ah I'd say he's just on a slim down program

Probably did it old school, eat less do more, lose weight, none of your fancy sheite.

JonathanAnon

"Showbiz royalty" ..


Deadly, Twink....

Edit:

Atlantic Dawn

Reminds me of that lad who did Horoscopes on tv if the hair was gone.

Hitchens

fair play to Benny, he did that interview with aplomb and humour, without patronising............I say again, give him the LLS!

efb

Watching Norton

grey_so_what

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Probably did it old school, eat less do more, lose weight, none of your fancy sheite.

People pay good money for that advice AD.........;)

cofy

Biggins seems to have lost a lot of weight too.

Skid X

Hitchens wrote: »

fair play to Benny, he did that interview with aplomb and humour, without patronising............I say again, give him the LLS!

He did say something like "I doubt if this show will be still going in 2015".

You never know, maybe there are rumblings in RTE.

efb

Biggins is such a luvvie

grey_so_what

I'd forgotten about Poldark!....

Atlantic Dawn

grey_so_what wrote: »

People pay good money for that advice AD.........;)

And it works, you end up though getting agression from the "how did you do that" brigade who think it needs to be some new fancy diet.

efb

Name dropper

Skid X

He was married to a Woman for a while. That was never going to last.

Atlantic Dawn

Loved Jeremy Irons in Die Hard, proper evil chap.

Lapin

Shin head.

Lisha

Skid X wrote: »

He was married to a Woman for a while. That was never going to last.

Indeed not !

efb

lol :yawn:

grey_so_what

Lapin wrote: »

Shin head.

Are you back from Sally's Gap already??:eek:

:D:D