tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123012889801407186.post4182053105357737104..comments2024-02-21T08:20:58.468+00:00Comments on Previously On Ben Baker: 75 Pints, 1 Song, No Laughter: People Who Died On Their Arse For Comic ReliefBenBakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04380884408057334086noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123012889801407186.post-54955684695144857072017-03-25T16:51:20.401+00:002017-03-25T16:51:20.401+00:00Yeah, it was definitely his staple go to party pie...Yeah, it was definitely his staple go to party piece. It appears in part on his very first album from 1974. He performed at 1981's The Secret Policeman's Other Ball too as its on the sell-through LP. BenBakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04380884408057334086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123012889801407186.post-26916252877942684762017-03-25T16:46:45.861+00:002017-03-25T16:46:45.861+00:00Cor, that's fascinating. I can imagine its a p...Cor, that's fascinating. I can imagine its a pretty thankless task getting up in front of a mainstream audience when you're a fairly cult property. Fair play to them this year for scheduling Partridge, R&M and Toast before 9pm though, even if the sound in the O2 buggered up most of the latter two sketches. The empty response some of the acts got, both last night and in the last few years, shows that the BBC really need to schedule much more comedy in prime time so that by next Comic Relief, people might actually of heard of some of them. Thank you for commenting. BenBakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04380884408057334086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123012889801407186.post-8434732400599099372017-03-24T22:27:18.724+00:002017-03-24T22:27:18.724+00:00While it might not quite fit the remit of the piec...While it might not quite fit the remit of the piece, Jasper Carrott's turn in the marvellously shambolic 1988 Red Nose Day is worth recalling. While a big draw at the time, the audience mood plummeted on Jasp's announcement he was coming on tonight to read out motor insurance claim forms. Following more than a little goading from Len and Griff, Carrott managed to turn around those expectations and get a pretty warm reaction by the end, mainly because it was a solid bit, despite being the kind of list that would routinely get passed around office photocopiers in the pre-email age. That said, the 1988 vintage 'Relief was probably the high watermark for the entire thing, what with 73 Of A Kind, Blackadder:The Cavalier Years, The New Statesman et al.Mark Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08568170388731350030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123012889801407186.post-12167580167063203862017-03-24T17:54:58.788+00:002017-03-24T17:54:58.788+00:00I was by the side of the stage when vic & bob ...I was by the side of the stage when vic & bob attempted to drink 75 pints. they honestly thought they could do it, maybe they could if they hadn't been so delayed and gone on so late. it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Bob actually threw up at one point. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00600537087846466729noreply@blogger.com