RIP Jim Bowen - Nothing for two in a bed

Road-Hog · 14-03-2018 10:56PM

anewme wrote: »

You seem to have a grudge.

weird posts.

Did your great grandad and granny appear on the show and get BFH.?

No grudge but amazed at how Jim Bowen is being eulogized for his bulls eye show when If you took the time to research his other abilities such as ‘stand-up’ which he performed well into the 2000’s you would see a different side of his persona.....foul mouthed racist sexist jokes a milder version of Roy chubby brown or even Bernard manning

Can confirm that nobody in my family ever appeared on the show.

Mysterypunter · 15-03-2018 02:22AM

Road-Hog wrote: »

No grudge but amazed at how Jim Bowen is being eulogized for his bulls eye show when If you took the time to research his other abilities such as ‘stand-up’ which he performed well into the 2000’s you would see a different side of his persona.....foul mouthed racist sexist jokes a milder version of Roy chubby brown or even Bernard manning

Can confirm that nobody in my family ever appeared on the show.

Bernard Manning was very funny, the racism was a stage act, Liam Neeson doesn't go around shooting people, only in the movie's

Grid. · 15-03-2018 02:29AM

R.I.P Jim......thanks for the entertainment on a Sunday afternoon.

dd972 · 15-03-2018 03:00AM

minikin wrote: »

Super, smashing, lovely... they should bury him in a motorboat shaped coffin.

Uncannily enough, people who won the motorboat usually lived somewhere like Northampton or Derby, so almost a waste of time! :pac:

Doctors room ghost · 15-03-2018 08:39AM

dd972 wrote: »

Uncannily enough, people who won the motorboat usually lived somewhere like Northampton or Derby, so almost a waste of time! :pac:

You didn’t have to take the boat though or any of the other prizes you won if you didn’t want them. The show would give you cash value instead.id say it was the same boat for years as most people would want the cash

Danny Donut · 15-03-2018 08:59AM

Great character.

RIP Jim

The J Stands for Jay · 15-03-2018 09:03AM

Mysterypunter wrote: »

Bernard Manning was very funny, the racism was a stage act, Liam Neeson doesn't go around shooting people, only in the movie's

I've seen interviews with Bernard Manning; the racism wasn't an act.

Hotblack Desiato · 15-03-2018 09:06AM

There's always some cùnt hopping onto an RIP thread just to have a wind up.

fleet_admiral · 15-03-2018 09:08AM

I'm going to reply, but it will take me 2 minutes

RIP

Badly Drunk Boy · 15-03-2018 09:14AM

Mysterypunter wrote: »

Bernard Manning was very funny, the racism was a stage act, Liam Neeson doesn't go around shooting people, only in the movie's

McGaggs wrote: »

I've seen interviews with Bernard Manning; the racism wasn't an act.

I've seen Liam Neeson; the 'going around shooting people' wasn't an act.

barney shamrock · 15-03-2018 09:16AM

RIP Ken Dodd and Jim Bowen.
(Non-dart player went first)

Welsh Megaman · 15-03-2018 11:41AM

Jim’s voiceover in this is brilliant! RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aloNixbli6g

Road-Hog · 15-03-2018 11:48AM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Jim’s voiceover in this is brilliant! RIP

What is so brilliant about reading a scripted piece about a prize....are you suggesting it’s an off the cuff commentary or something....?

tayto lover · 15-03-2018 11:51AM

Still love the show. A show for the workingman who gets up early in the morning .....
With rubbish prizes.
RIP JIm

wandatowell · 15-03-2018 11:52AM

I'm sure they chose the prizes from down the local CO-OP.

rick_shaw · 15-03-2018 01:13PM

you know what was very funny about the show ( well one of the things )

you had two in each team where one person answered questions while his team mate threw darts but at the end the person who partook in the quiz aspect of the show would also be called to throw darts for the big prizes

it was hilarious , the guy or girl who up until then only answered questions , was without fail always always the worst dart thrower to ever walk the earth , i mean tony green ( at the ockey ) was almost in danger of being hit himself , they would barely ever manage to score ten from three darts as two of the darts would not hit the board at all

like they insisted that the person answering questions was only as good a dart player as you granny who was dead for thirty years

rick_shaw · 15-03-2018 01:15PM

" take a look at what you could have won "

anewme · 15-03-2018 01:20PM

rick_shaw wrote: »

you know what was very funny about the show ( well one of the things )

you had two in each team where one person answered questions while his team mate threw darts but at the end the person who partook in the quiz aspect of the show would also be called to throw darts for the big prizes

it was hilarious , the guy or girl who up until then only answered questions , was without fail always always the worst dart thrower to ever walk the earth , i mean tony green ( at the ockey ) was almost in danger of being hit himself , they would barely ever manage to score ten from three darts as two of the darts would not hit the board at all

like they insisted that the person answering questions was only as good a dart player as you granny who was dead for thirty years

The person named as the Darts playing one was more often than not terrible as well.

rick_shaw · 15-03-2018 01:22PM

anewme wrote: »

The person named as the Darts playing one was more often than not terrible as well.

some were decent and some were quite good but there partner was always beyond hopeless

Larbre34 · 15-03-2018 01:22PM

Stephen Hawking and Jim eh? The non-darts player always goes first...

selwyn froggitt · 15-03-2018 01:22PM

Name me one other show where could you gamble a his and hers matching bathrobe, a nest of tables or crappy toaster for a Car/Caravan/Holiday/Speedboat.

I loved that show and it's host.

Jim: "And what do you do for a living?"

Contestant: "I've been unemployed for six months."

Jim: "Lovely, smashing".

Petyr Baelish · 15-03-2018 01:23PM

Let's check that with Bully. That's D - E - C - E - A - S - E - D, Deceased. Well done, that's 15 pounds!

R.I.P. Jim

the purple tin · 15-03-2018 02:34PM

You can't beat a bit of Bully. The new shows with Dave Spikey just didn't cut it. Jim was a much better presenter.
This Peter Kay bit sums it up nicely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6RdlpCXHk

Doctors room ghost · 15-03-2018 02:41PM

There was a non darts player on it one night and he was an English darts league champion.stitched poor old Jim and Tony up like a couple of kippers.checked out on the star prize on his own.you will find it on Google.also if you fancy a laugh watch the bully clips on you tube and have a read of the comments.some of them are gold.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 15-03-2018 05:30PM

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

You didn’t have to take the boat though or any of the other prizes you won if you didn’t want them. The show would give you cash value instead.id say it was the same boat for years as most people would want the cash

Yeah there's a good interview with him talking about Bullseye behind the scenes.

He said there was a cap on the amount of money they could give away through prizes on the show. This was imposed on them by some regulatory body and all quiz shows of the time on British tv were subject to it

Most of the time though people would just take the cash equivalent for everything they won on the prize board or even star prize. Because how do you share a car or a speedboat.

Graces7 · 16-03-2018 08:18AM

Nothing makes a person feel old like this constant flow of our childhood and beyond TV stars dying. Seems every week another goes.

Andy From Sligo · 18-03-2018 10:55PM

still watching re-runs on challenge regularly (and millionaire).

Jim had a (comedic) ongoing thing with couples who moved in together before getting married LOL really ribbed them and then said something like "lets move on"

good entertainer Jim was (well on Bullseye anyway and 'the comedians' ) - never seen any of his bawdy uncut shows so cannot comment on that.

Andy From Sligo · 18-03-2018 11:04PM

one of them men who's looks improved when he got older (or improved with age)

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Road-Hog · 19-03-2018 01:31PM

Here is some non bulls eye classic stuff from Jim.....think around 2003/4

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=olHCAdirrbw

Very nice indeed.

RIP Jim Bowen - Nothing for two in a bed

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