not seen much of the gap toothed wonder from liverpool for years is he still alive ?

Christ I hope not!:(

Give someone a scouse accent and they MUST be funny......not!!

last time i saw him was on the ads for farmfoods maybe hes stuck in a freezer :D talking of farmfoods which ex coronation street star did a ad for them:loopy:

http://www.primeperformers.co.uk/phppages/fullProd.php/Jimmy_Tarbuck/107

I'm assuming from this that he's still with us...

Primeperformers?

Now there's a misnomer!!:suspect:

His daughter was on a chat show last Autumn and was asked what her dad was up to nowadays, she said that he's still very active and plays golf a lot and still treats her as though she were a little girl. Long may he live but please don't give him any more television air time.

Originally posted by saxon51
Primeperformers?

Now there's a misnomer!!:suspect:

Yeah and from the site he seems to charge £10k - though you can get Jim Bowen for half that!

Originally posted by threecolours
Yeah and from the site he seems to charge £10k - though you can get Jim Bowen for half that!

jim bowen is class just wish id not taped over my old bullseye tapes top show:) :) :) :)

Bullseye is repeated quite often on one of the Sky channels.

Originally posted by panda79
not seen much of the gap toothed wonder from liverpool for years is he still alive ?

Looks like his television days are behind him. I remember he used to host that show live from the Paladdium on Sunday nights many years ago.

Originally posted by saxon51
Christ I hope not!:(

Give someone a scouse accent and they MUST be funny......not!!

Interesting logic: being an unfunny scouser means we can wish death on the poor chap?

That's a bit extreme, isn't it?

I think the achingly-unfunny Tarbuck now concentrates on after -dinner speeches. He is about as popular as typhoid in Liverpool, and deeply unfashionable elsewhere. I often feel sorry for his daughter, Lisa; she can be genuinely funny, and perceptive, and must know that most people regard her father as cheesy to say the least.

Jimmy Tarbuck was the after dinner speaker at a conference I attended up at Gleneagles towards the end of last year and maybe it was the company, fine wines and gorgeous dinner but we all found him really funny. Quite risqué too as there were no kiddies about. So what if it's not cutting edge, his comedy is comfortably funny. And I guess that's why he's so popular as an after-dinner speaker.

Also, I bet he doesn't miss telly work when he can play at Gleneagles, enjoy a free meal and drinks afterwards and still earn thousands for doing a little turn.

Fair comment, Lottie. If he can make a killing in that field, good luck to him. Personally, I never found him funny, but millions certainly did in his 60s heydey. Perhaps in twenty years time, people will be incredulous at the appeal of Reeves and Mortimer, Little Britain, Ricky Gervais, League of Gentlemen, Peter Kay etc? Comedy seems to go through 'fashions'. Much of the 'alternative' material of Ben Elton, Young Ones etc now seems dated and insufferably 'right on' to me.

I remember when Max Wall had a mini comeback in the early 80s, amongst the student audience. "Why am I suddenly so funny?", asked the old performer, "I wasn't funny last year". In other words, comedy, like so many things, is essentially cyclical.