Firstly, I must defend Rob, he's only the webmaster, he doesn't actually write the stuff.
I do find John Shuttleworth very amusing. 'Pigeons in Flight' should have been a Eurovision song, it beats the pants off the rest of the shite that gets entered. The song about his y-reg car was brilliant too.
Dont worry about what some cheeky monkey says on this site about your favourites.If you like John Shuttleworth then shout it from the rooftops,but watch your self on that ladder as it looks as if one of the rungs is a bit dicey,a bit wobbley like.
Shuttleworth is great, and so is Fellows' latest incarnation, Bryan Appleton. Heard him interviewed on GLR (in character) last year, and he was wonderfully droll. Now, Fellows splits his act into two, and does Appleton in the first half, and Shuttleworth in the second. Can't wait to see him...
Is 500 Bus Stops still being repeated on UK Play? I want another reason to get cable.
Corpses like John Shuttleworth. I have it in writing.
Wasn't he also Jilted John of Gordon is a Moron fame?
I preferred his earlier, funnier work - ie Jilted John.
The song "Jilted John" (which is _not_ called "Gordon is a Moron", musical pedantry fans) was good, but the B-side is great too. My dad has it on his jukebox, but I forget the title. Has anyone heard the album or albums he recorded, which apparently exist and are real?
Yep, heard 'em, and they're mostly of considerable amusingness. If I remember rightly, there is some kind of CD compilation either recently released or just about to be released...
Ah, Amazon lists an album called True Love Stories by JJ, published 13 Sept. No samples though.
The CD release is very nice, with notes by Fellows and both sides of the Gordon off-shoot single.
Rubbish album, mind.
John Shuttleworth is great, but he's hardly well known. I think that's what the Corpses are getting at.
The b side was called 'going steady'.
Why hasn't anyone tried to argue with my attack on the corpses elitist views? Maybe it's because they know i'm right.
About a month after Jilted Johns hit ,a pair of chancers calling themselves Gordon and Julie released a single as a reply to the aforementioned song.Im sure they were interviewed on Tiswas about it.I asked Fellowes if he knew them,but he could only vaguely recollect them.Six years ago I saw him do JShutlleworth with Ronnie Rex headlining(he fronts a band who do comedy songs and "reggae versions" of Dads Army theme etc) My mate was also on the bill that night and he said that during the interval in the dressing room, Rex was pleading for Fellowes to do Jilted John for the finale, as the band had learnt it especially,but he catergorically refused.Fair enough,but I was gutted when I heard.
"Going Steady", of course! It was on the tip of my tongue, honest.
A bit of pointless info here: Fellows once appeared on Coronation Street (post Jilted John). He played a guy who'd been stood up outside a cinema. No type-casting there then.
I listened to the shuttleworth's series 1 (the first radio 4 series) last night. It reminded me just how funny it is. Ken saying he's got 'a poorly neck' always makes me laugh out loud. John shuttleworth is one of the few bits of comedy that makes me actually physically laugh. I think the radio four series 1 and 3 are the best. Has anyone else got any favourite shuttleworths' moments or phrases that they wish to share? If so let us all know.
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"most people would have struggled to locate the gap, but you seem to do it almost instinctively" Shuttleworth Diplomacy.
Wireless wanderings has surely got to be one of the top shows (originally broadcast in 2 15 minute segments) with it's unusual surreal ramblings of John interacting with different radio shows, ending up on a desert island (Ken tries to get off with the desert island discs lady) via Charlotte Green's long wave shipping forecast.
Was John on drugs? I hope he was just dreaming, I can't imagine John condoning drugs. He's had his say several times about "the love drug 'E'"
"The two men worked on in silence"
>Why hasn't anyone tried to argue with my attack on the corpses elitist views? Maybe it's because they know i'm right.
What did your attack consist of? I don't remember it, to be honest.
>Corpses like John Shuttleworth. I have it in writing.
Do you hear that, dear? Take the John Shuttleworth tapes off the fire, it's okay. They've given it the all clear.
My point exactly.
Ooph! Ken! That's what you don't do!
Nobody told me that, john. No-one told me...