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No. He became John Shuttleworth. Or Graham Fellowes nicked his act.

Well done for confusing Radiator Head Child ,by the way. Shall we talk about Max Miller and Little Tich next? Whatever happened to George Robey?

I don't think TC and JS are really comparable. They're an almost totally oppostie kind of act. Unless it's the fact that they're both from the north that makes them the same.
I was on the same bill as TC at the Reading festival in around 91. Both Stewart and I had liked him indepently (though I'd only heard a record)
He was ahead of his time and I would have thought an influence on at least Reeves and M as well as us. And the last thing I heard he'd gone back to being a lorry driver. Stew might have a better idea.
I still love his piss take of "I feel like Buddy Holly" (though no-one would remember the original song.
"I feel like Paul Mccartney when he got up to say "You Know that can't be bad""
Genius

>I still love his piss take of "I feel like Buddy Holly" (though no-one would remember the original song.
>"I feel like Paul Mccartney when he got up to say "You Know that can't be bad""
>Genius

Wasn't the original by Alvin Stardust in about 1984? (I'm old, I remember these things.) It was written by Mike Batt, who clearly just decided, stumped for lyrical material, to listen to a pile of old pop songs and borrow just enough of the words and themes to not launch a whole cluster of lawsuits.

Ted Chippington did have a minor hit in his own right when "Rockin' With Rita" which he recorded with Fuzzbox, went into the charts in 1986. Didn't make the top 40 though. And I seem to remember he covered "She Loves You" in his winning deadpan way.

I loved that excerpt of TC that L&H had in their "Talking Comedy" (R2) selection. I agree with Stew, he does win.

>I don't think TC and JS are really comparable. They're an almost totally oppostie kind of act. Unless it's the fact that they're both from the north that makes them the same.
>I was on the same bill as TC at the Reading festival in around 91. Both Stewart and I had liked him indepently (though I'd only heard a record)
>He was ahead of his time and I would have thought an influence on at least Reeves and M as well as us. And the last thing I heard he'd gone back to being a lorry driver. Stew might have a better idea.
>I still love his piss take of "I feel like Buddy Holly" (though no-one would remember the original song.
>"I feel like Paul Mccartney when he got up to say "You Know that can't be bad""
>Genius

unlike you, you smug fat posh talentless Oxbridge twat. In the toilets at the Pleasence last year, a graffiti read "Richard Herring is 65% turnip by mass". It should have said that you're 99% cunt. Die die die.

What brought that on?

And what's the other 1%?

Turnip, one would presume.

no, no you've really lost me this time.

Poor RHC. The three day week and Watney's Red Barrel are as dim and distant as the Wars of The Roses in her shiny modern world.
(Sucks pipe. Pats grandchild affectionately on head.)

If you offer me a worther's original I'll hit you

>unlike you, you smug fat posh talentless Oxbridge twat. In the toilets at the Pleasence last year, a graffiti read "Richard Herring is 65% turnip by mass". It should have said that you're 99% cunt. Die die die.
>

Oooooooh, what an erudite argument. Yoakum would be proud.

If you ask me, Richard Herring should be proad that he has garnered such graffiti. If I were him I'ld have a t-shirt printed that reads:

65% turnip,
99% cunt.

>unlike you, you smug fat posh talentless Oxbridge twat. In the toilets at the Pleasence last year, a graffiti read "Richard Herring is 65% turnip by mass". It should have said that you're 99% cunt. Die die die.

a graffitus surely?

was it true that at the pleasance toilets someone had put 'richard herring is a cunt' to which he'd put 'no i'm not, i'm actually quite a nice bloke,why don't you come up and have a chat some time'....???
nice response i thought

If it was in Edinburgh it ought to have read "65% neeps by mass"

>a graffitus surely?

No. A graffito

I am not actually posh. I am middle class. My parents were both teachers.
I went to Oxford as a result of good A level results (my school was a good comprehensive, ut didn't have the facilities to teach me for the Oxford entrance exam). I had a good time at University, but it was over a decade ago and I don't think you can define me by something from so long ago that has proved irrelevant to the rest of my life. Being at Oxford helped me hone my comedy skills (and i met Stew there) but I genuinely don't think it has been that helpful in getting me work in comedy in the real world.
I am fat.
I don't think I'm smug, but that's harder to quantify.
I'm largely made of water.
I'm sorry you're not a fan of my work, but live and let die die die as they say

>I am not actually posh. I am middle class. My parents were both teachers.

Oh Richard, that's more than enough ammo for some people on this forum. To Julie Burchill this statement would be tantamount to saying "I am a good for nothing member of the bourgeoisie sucking the life blood out of the exploited masses."

Still - it could be worse. I *am* a teacher. (Think halfway between Mr Kennedy and Mr Harris and you're probably there.)

Getting back (please) to Ted Chippington, the only other thing I remember about him was that his version of The Wanderer, after being frequently played by John Peel (and Janice Long, before R1 fired her for being pregnant), was also once played by Steve Wright.

Which, particularly for the time, must be some kind of record. In both senses of the word.

"Still - it could be worse. I *am* a teacher. (Think halfway between Mr Kennedy and Mr Harris and you're probably there.)"

Having met Al, I would say he is more like the Jo Unwin character.

I'm middle class, but I wish I was posh. So ner.