#michael mcintyre

[javelinbk]

If John Lennon was still watching Saturday night television…

#yes my jokes are terrible #but I’m doing the zest I can #that joke doesn’t even make sense javelin #anyway yes I say this to myself every saturday night #not the wheel #john lennon #michael mcintyre

[weaversweek]

How poor production on Going Live led to The Wheel

Five Star rose from nowhere to become the biggest band in Britain, and then they fell away as quickly as they'd arrived. By 1 April 1989, the group was really unpopular, and they appeared on Going Live. The Sunday Mirror reported what happened next:

A youngster stunned a children's BBC TV programme with a stream of four-letter abuse at pop group Five Star. The band were answering phone-in questions on Going Live when Elliot (sic) Fletcher blurted out, "I would like to ask Five Star why are they such f---ing c---." As presenter Sarah Greene sat in shocked silence, he added, "They are f---ing p---" before being faded out.

Five Star were a family group. Lorraine, Doris, Denise, Steadman, and Delroy were the children of Buster Pearson, who was also their manager, and who styled them in the mode of the Jackson Five. Signed to Tent Records (prop: B. Pearson), the group made vocal pop with synth stylings. It was the way of the mid-80s. After a couple of small-release singles, "All fall down" very gently grew its way up the charts during late spring 1985, and follow-up single "Let me be the one" gave them a chance to get into the TOTP studio.

"System Addict" propelled them into the top five at the start of 1986, and began a proper Imperial Phase; for a couple of years, we couldn't avoid Five Star, and didn't really want to. Second album Silk and Steel yielded five top ten hits, ranging from sweet love song "Rain or shine" to the yearning horniness of "Can't wait another minute" and "If I say yes". A massive stadium tour was sponsored by Crunchie chocolate bars, and the group won the BPI Award for Best Band. Better than Genesis! Even more fun than Mike + the Mechanics!

Third album Between the Lines was harsher, harder, more aggressive. Five Star gave up the chocolate sponsorship, replaced by toothpaste. But even that wouldn't clean their image from the deliberate dirt and grunge. "Strong as steel" and "Somewhere somebody" were the worst sort of single release - reminding us only of how good Five Star used to be. When the bubble burst, it collapsed quickly. 1988's album Rock the World was even worse.

By early 1989, the group are promoting a forthcoming Greatest Hits album, and new song "With every heartbeat". Reviews were not pleasant reading.

Carol Decker from T'Pau summarised the problems. "Her voice doesn't sound as distinctive as it used to. Now she just sounds like Gloria Estefan. They used to be very good but this is disappointing." Bandmate Ronnie Rogers also reviewed the single for Smash Hits "It's a groove with no tune. As soon as they changed their image every one of their singles has been dead boring." Record Mirror had dismissed the single: "Listening to a 5 Star record is like drowning in a bubble bath."

The hostility continued through the interview on Going Live!. The segment began with a profile put together using clips of the band talking about themselves, which rather over-stated how popular they were now. Sarah Greene, the show's presenter, pointed out how prolific and busy the band had been. "Are you ever tempted to sit back, rest on your laurels for a bit?" No, they're very busy people and have been working on their next album. "Next album? You only put one out last August! Many others take two years to make an album." Was there a lack of quality control at Five Star HQ? Apparently, they're feeling very creative, including a new book which gets a quick plug.

To the phones, and Barbara asks "Why Five Star have changed their image?" No, we've not changed our image, we've changed to reflect our new music, it changes gradually through fashion and our age. Barbara thinks they're more rock 'n' roll, harder, more leather and less of the spacebot matching jumpsuits.

In the studio, Tony asks what it felt like to have a number one hit. "That's a nice question!" says one of the band. Ooh, is someone feeling got at from a viewer asking a difficult question?! They never had a number 1 single in any market, though album Silk and Steel did make its way to number one.

Back to the lions' den, Eliot from Langley - and his dog Tammy, who barks down the phone.

"Thanks very much Eliot, nice to hear from you!" breezed Sarah. "Tammy would have made a lot more sense." There's general sniggering and laughter in the studio audience, carefully kept out of the microphone. Let's move on to the next phone call "I heard that! Did you hear that? Crap!" said the confused caller.

Charlotte in the studio asks if the band get fed up with each other and argue a lot. Of course they do, but they're family and they get along really. Of course they do.

Oh dear. This segment is falling apart. With the producer making the wise decision to drop the phone callers, and two minutes to fill, Sarah asks the studio audience for any questions. Young lad sitting next to Charlotte?

"How many countries have you released records in?" asks the flop-haired youth, after a little false start. Good question. Lots of them. "So there's nowhere left for you to go?" he cheekily asks. Watch that lad, he's going to be trouble for somebody.

Sarah builds on the discussion - have Five Star forgotten what it's like to be anonymous? Not really.

And if they have, it won't be long before they're completely anonymous. Five Star never had another hit album, and had to sell their swank-pad in Sunningdale when the royalties ran out.

The star of the piece was unplanned audience questionner, stand up comedian, and general loudmouth Michael McIntyre. This early brush with stardom doesn't merit inclusion in his autobiography, which begins in 2005.

And we wonder, if Michael hadn't had those twenty seconds of fame in 1989, would he have become such a hugely famous person? Would he have got his own primetime feelgood tv show? With a soundtrack deserving five stars?

#five star #sarah greene #going live #foul language #naughtiness #michael mcintyre #the wheel #game show #how to launch a career

[99fandomsandmarvelisone]

Ricky Wilson being the unsuspecting musical guest on Michael McIntyres Big Show was brilliant. He immediately started singing without hesitation. Also wearing a Trans Rights are Human Rights shirt

#ricky wilson #kaiser chiefs #michael mcintyre #Michael McIntyres Big Show #trans rights

[clivechip]

Friday Funnies 4

With all the dreadful things we see in the news every day I think it might be time for some light relief. Cue the next episode of Friday Funnies. In previous posts for this and its predecessor Saturday Smiles I have shared several clips from chat shows, and in particular from the BBC’s Graham Norton Show. I saw recently that he has been doing this for 30 series, which means there is a lot of…

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#comedy #Billy Connolly #chat shows #Cyndi Lauper #Friday Funnies #Graham Norton Show #Lewis Capaldi #Matt Damon #Michael McIntyre #Michael Parkinson #Seth Macfarlane

[badkruka]

Michael McIntyre's account on his first appearance on HIGNFY in 2007

A Funny Life - Michael McIntyre (2021)

#hignfy #michael mcintyre #i like finding these things

[tennis-out-of-context]

#michael mcintyre #andy murray #beds #peppa pig #daddy pig #sitting #mascots #mics #tennis

[hislopchino]

HIGNFY’s Guest Webterview: Michael McIntyre

Use your computer mouse and the scroll bar on the right hand side of your browser to move up and down the interview.

Q1. You’ve been on the show before. What advice do you have for yourself this time round?

I’m just really looking forward to being on the show. It was very daunting the first time and a bit surreal having watched and enjoyed the show for so long. Ian and Paul are charming and funny and not terrifying and funny which was my fear. I feel as if I’ve been invited to a dinner party with very interesting entertaining people, with tap water in a carafe on the menu and an odd seating arrangement.

Q2. You are very clean cut. What do you think of people who resort to smut to get a laugh?

F*** them.

Q3. Your father Ray Cameron wrote for Kenny Everett, if you could write gags for any comedian ever, who would it be and why?

I genuinely wouldn’t want to write for anyone else. To write really well for someone else you have to get inside their head and try to think like them. I have enough trouble inside my own head without trying to get in to someone else’s. Also I couldn’t cope with other people getting credit for my work, I would probably run on set with a big sign saying ‘I wrote that. He’s nothing. It’s all me’

Q4. The telegraph described you as catching the ‘impotent indignation of middle England today’. Are you comfortable with this tag?

As long as people are laughing I’m comfortable with any tag.

Q5. You were on the bill the night fellow comedian Jim Jefferies got punched in the face. Who would you like to punch on tonight’s show?

What an outrageous question. I have never punched anyone in my life (although I did box at school, I was just very inaccurate). I’m hoping that tonight show contains no violence.

Q6. You’re very smartly dressed. How do you think your own sense of sense of style measures up to Paul and Ian’s?

Ian and I have a similar low-risk dress sense. Whereas Paul is more of a gambling man when it comes to his wardrobe and the nature of gambling is that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Statistically Paul is due several wins in a row.

Q7. If you could ask yourself any question right here, right now, what would it be?

You’ve obviously run out of questions. I’m not going to do your job for you.

#HIGNFY #Text #Interview #Michael McIntyre

[forensicated]

Bradley on Michael McIntyre's Big Show - 07x02

I'm saying nothing ;)

#bradley walsh #michael mcintyre #anne heggerty #barney walsh #gladiators #the hotel is like a 6 minute drive from my brothers house #ahem #(thankfully for Bradley it's further than it was from his old house ;) It's like 2/3 streets behind that!) #... this makes me sound really bad

[7yearsofdele]

Excuse me? Did I hear that right?

THE Eric Cantona is going to sing on Michael McIntyre’s Big Show?

#michael mcintyre #eric cantona

[theprestigegirly]

zara larsson absolute daylight robbery with her song ‘you love who you love’ because it is IDENTICAL to the eurovision fire saga song ‘double trouble’

#i am not making this shit up likeeeee #gasping at her michael mcintyre performance #she’s such a thief 😭😭 love her though #fire saga #michael mcintyre #uk #zara larsson #Youtube

[nocontextysac]

Michael McIntyre (2021)

#funny meme #funny post #funny #funny memes #funny pics #memesdaily #humor #no context for this #youtube #relatable memes #michael mcintyre

[rickchung]

The Late Late Show with James Corden x “Haley Lu Richardson Meets Her Childhood Crush Nick Jonas on FaceTime”.

Richardson shares how she’s been a lifelong Jonas Brothers fan and how she once met them at a meet-and-greet but wasn’t allowed to give them a gift she had made for them. [...] James surprises Haley by calling Nick Jonas on FaceTime, which is basically the best moment of her life.

#haley lu richardson #nick jonas #jonas brothers #corden #james corden #the late late show #the late late show with james corden #video #talk show #interview #facetime #tv #television #comedy #white lotus #the white lotus #late night #superfan #jonas #michael mcintyre #comedian #celeb #celebs #celebrity

[thejohnfleming]

Is comedy dead or dying?... What I gibbered about on GBNews last night

Is comedy dead or dying?… What I gibbered about on GBNews last night

A couple of days ago, I was asked to appear on GBNews’ today to give my opinion on the future of comedy.  And, sure enough, last night I appeared briefly on the Mark Dolan Tonight show. That will teach them never to invite me on a TV show again!  I can be quite fluent verbally – in writing – but I am in no way vocally fluent. I’m not a fluent speaker. I gibber. Anyway, I was one of three comedy…

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#Brexit #Christopher Biggins #comedy #Drew Allen #Fawlty Towers #GB News #Leo Kearse #Little Britain #Malcolm hardee #Mark Dolan #Michael McIntyre #PC #politics #Surprise Surprise #television #Up The Creek #Woke

[books-movies-anime-shows-games]

Comedy night once again! It's Michael time 😝

#my stuff #michael mcintyre #stand up comedy #sisters night out

[mrawkweird]

Drew always got time to hear people talking shit.

#WWE #Raw #Drew McIntyre #Pat McAfee #Michael Cole