I completely forgot to watch the most recent episode of Kirstie Allsopp’s Homemade Britain programme so I thought I’d watch it on the Channel 4 playback thingy. Then it wouldn’t work so I wandered off elsewhere in the internet and somehow, don’t ask me how, I ended up on classic Scottish TV where I found a bit of a Dorothy Paul show which we went to see when she took it to the provinces about 20 years ago or so.
Dorothy Paul is a Scottish comedienne who is really talented and deserves to be better known than she is. Anyway, here she is playing the part of a cleaner in the Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow, it’s one of those things which has Scottish ‘celebrities’ in the audience. I find it quite annoying that they feel the need to show the audience laughing all the time.
This is just a small part of the show and she’s really just getting warmed up here but it’s funny all the same – if you can understand what she’s saying!
I did eventually get to see the latest episode of Handmade Britain and then discovered that it was being repeated today anyway.
I remember that one! Yes, She’s a funny woman alright! At the end of the clip it was great to see clips of a lot of the old greats available to watch! Francie and Josie, Rev. I M Jolly, Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter….. Yes, I know Dave Allen was Irish, but he was good!
Have you seen Mrs Brown’s Boys? Hilarious Irish, but for Scots, for me, you can’t beat Billy Connolly – bad language and all! He makes me cry with laughter! He’s a good straight actor too!
By the way, did Kirsty Allsop really think she’d be placed in thon flower arranging competitions? More fool her if she did!
Evee,
She did win the sewing thing the week before though, it can’t possibly be anonymous as she says it is! I think she really does expect to win everything.
Evee,
I do enjoy Mrs Brown’s Boys too but you’re right about BC. We saw Ricky Fulton at the Adam Smith Theatre when he translated a play by Moliere into Scots – Let Wives Tak Tent – I thought I might die laughing that night!
Ricky Fulton was excellent too. I saw him as Catriona’s father in a version of Kidnapped years ago in Edinburgh. A brilliant actor as well as very funny man. By the way that same production also had a Tom Conti in the cast. He went on to do pretty well for himself!
Evee,
I sort of went off Conti when I he said in an interview that he would never come back to Scotland to live! He could’ve been more diplomatic about it – he sounded appalled at the thought!