Now this is how you do violence. No running about like a fanny, arms flailing, kicking wildly at anything that moves.
Just get the guy turned then knee the fucker in the back before decking his fat pal.
This is the wonderful, heartwarming story of two two aggro merchants in a busy town centre getting the pasting of their lives from a pair of dragged up cage fighters.
It should really happen more often than it does.......
The Weekenders - An uncommissioned pilot for Channel 4, made some time in the early nineties.
Look out for a special guest appearance by Phil Oakey of The Human League, playing the part of a speciality meats salesman in a field.
You have no idea how hard it is to find any Frankie Howerd stand up clips on Youtube. Instead, you'll just have to make do with a few scenes from 'Up Pompeii'. Single entendre's galore, with the 'Smut-O-Meter' well into the red.
One of the very best and a joy to watch.
A clip of Chic Murray, rarer than hens teeth these are............This is from a Variety performance in Aberdeen, sometime in the eighties. A great wee biog of the man can be found here and his best one liners are here
They didn't come more 'off the wall' than Chic. Little language tricks, feints of logic and, in character at least, the demeanour of a man soberly facing down the absurdity of his situations like they were just minor inconveniences.
There are bits of this performance that don't seem to quite come off. As he nears the end of his allotted time, he sacrifices a couple of gags, almost relegating them to the narrative, simply so he can get to the punchline before he 'runs over'. As stated in the short piece about him linked above, Chic was at his best when he had no constraints. Had he lived just a bit longer, I think he would have benefited from a few 'specials', shows in which he could stretch his legs and move through his material at will.
Comedian Doug Healy does a pretty good run through of Chic Murray material in this clip. If you can suspend disbelief for a minute or two, it's actually not too far off target.
