Comedy to die for
THE Seven Ages Of Elvis (SkyArts). Psychedelic Britannia (BBC Four). Untamed Americas (NatGeo). Rupert Everett, Quacks. Heather Small, The Chase Celeb special. Dipstick Paul Danan claiming Jemma Lucy was “goating” him on CBB – butt out, chump. ANNE Robinson on Tinder? A terrifying prospect. Although I understand she did get an awful lot of right swipes in Westworld. KIRSTY Gallacher was charged with being over the limit at 11.30am. It’s one way to get noticed by Celeb Big Brother bookers… JUST as well no-one asked “Where’s Leconte?” on Celebrity MasterChef. Odds are someone would’ve replied “Up there with John Torode like normal.” JULIA Somerville’s fish pie was “very tasty”. John told Gregg: “You and I would have dived into it.”Thank god Vic Reeves never had the next line. I’M Dying Up Here revolves around LA comedy club Goldie’s, which in 1973 was the gateway to the careerlaunching Tonight Show.
For Clay Appuzzo, getting summoned to Johnny Carson’s TV couch is the stand-up comic’s equivalent of climbing Everest. He storms it, but what next?
After watching his triumphant appearance, Clay walks in front of a bus, leaving his ex-lover and fellow comic Cassie in bits.
Most of the stand-ups are “as stable as a Middle East ceasefire”.
Their banter and bitching feels as authentic as their bad hair and big collars.
Genuine stars graduated from Goldie’s, including exec producer Jim Carrey, Richard Pryor, Robin Williams and Letterman. Here, even the unknowns sparkle. The show opens as abortions are legalised. Backstreet abortionists will be fuming, muses one wag.
“Six months of veterinary school down the drain…” SELF-loathing BBC twerps blaming Britain for India’s violent partition rather than the Indian politicians who demanded it. People who pronounce aitch as “haitch”. Child Genius confusing memory with intelligence. Gemma’s midriff on Corrie – cover it up, luv. MY Family, Partition & Me claimed Britain “stood well back” as the poisonous stew of Indian independence exploded. In fact, our troops were not deployed as Nehru and Congress objected.