Gong-show vehicle for the man with the plastic cigar, running from 1998.
Often unremarkable (and spoilt by heavy editing), this offers the potential for something surprising, but even Sadowitz itself concedes that it’s a pointless venture. Best bits feature Sadowitz visibly coming out of character and ranting sans jokes. The fact that he has turned up for all 24 recordings of the show (and their respective tech runs) fails to support the mythology that he is mad and psychotic; however, it does support the fact that he is a professional comedian doing his job. Hello please!
1.
Channel 5 seemed innocently unsure about whether they should bleep ‘cunt’. As a result, some editions of the first series went out with said profanity intact, others didn’t. For the second series, the word was always bleeped.
2.
In January 1999, Channel 5 broadcast an out-takes collection called Unseen C**ts. This featured footage from an edition where a robot played the ‘bouncer’, although this edition had never been broadcast in its own right.
[NOTE: Three editions of the second series featured Malcolm Hardee as the bouncer. He is wearing the same suit on all three occasions, so we can assume that they were all recorded on the same night. (Having said that, the idea that Malcolm Hardee only owns one suit is equally convincing.) The first show ended with Hardee doing his outrageous party trick: that of being a middle-aged man with his cock out. We can assume that this was the third session, since even Malcolm Hardee would have trouble topping this performance.]
Put it away, Malcolm…
