I have never been ashamed of something someone else has done but that Fawlty Towers comedy routine made me want to confess all my sins and then just die in a ditch somewhere
I cannot stop watching this channel. What is wrong with me? Guaranteed whenever someone has the exact same sense of humour as myself... Theyre always ... A wrestling fan who lived through Cartoon era, Nitro and Attitude. Love this guy. Great talent and reminds me massively of Marc Haynes of WrestleMe. Sorry for the massive amount of utter randomness kf this comment
5:00 Caller: 'Whats it like working with your brother?' The bit after that has been edited off. It's where Philip Schofield says 'I never did and you can't prove anything'.
Going Live is something which I feel like I remember very well, yet I never actually watched. Really, it's just a patchwork of vague flashbulb memories of Schofield with black hair, the Gopher squeeking, Bros looking bored and holding cordless phones. Just the odd passing moment where I'd catch a bit, maybe in the background on a telly in a mate's house or in a TV rental shop window. And this is really the curious thing about our collective nostalgia for these Saturday morning shows. Some remember this happening, some remember that happening, but few of us really individually have anything close to the full picture of what they were like, week after week, minute after minute. Even those who think they do, have likely forgotten lots of the bland and boring stuff from the void between the highlights such as Trev & Simon and Double Dare. So when you see those kind of I Love the 80's type shows, you only get repeated brief memory-jogging soundbites of the good stuff. So it begs the question, were most of these Saturday morning shows as good as we think they were? It's hard to really know. I watched one of the extremely rare surviving full episodes of Tiswas on here, some time ago. Peak era Tiswas. I'm slightly too young to remember it, but all my life it has been sold to me as being one relentless massive laugh of legendary anarchy filled mayhem. Yet when you watch a typical show in full, it's absolute garbage. I know I'm on thin ice here, but it really was just dull and poorly produced reading of competition winners, links to breaks, cartoons, music videos. And all only marginally rescued by the sporadic burst of forced enthusiasm from Tarrant, occassionally cobbing a bucket of water at someone.
Binging your videos since I found this channel, can't get enough of it. It's like getting a really funny guided tour through a box of old tapes recorded off the telly. I'm an old fart now and remember it all fondly, and some not so fondly! Excellent channel mate, long may it continue.
"I might die. Could I die of this?" really made me laugh. Jeez, that Paul Miller guy was excruciating. I was on life support and if that act had gone on another minute my life support would have been turned off. Out of pity, more than anything. And then that Thunderbirds 'impression' with Green and Schofield roaring with laughter. What the actual fuck?
Time to play "Spot The BBC wringing the last penny from their Quantel Painbox" again! Don't play it as a drinking game, there's been enough harm done already.
Trevor and Simon were brilliant and moon monkey is still my favourite as it was just bonkers and quite adult humour over the head of us kids at the time
No wonder us Gen-Xers have rock hard attention spans, the Sarah Green call in segment would have had today's youngsters dying of anxiety and flipped the channel within a few seconds!
Nice to see Lauren Harries singing in the young entertainer of the year section. The "young" entertainer doing the fawlty towers routine was at least 35
God I remember that year without Trev and Simon. Waiting for comedy and just getting nothing. Almost traumatic thinking about it. Also. The Racoons was awful, but had a banging end theme tune.
I've been really enjoying your videos. Your Hauntology one was absolute gold. I remember a "classic" episode of Going Live where they had Sting on as a guest and he took part in the "We don't do duvets" sketch with Trevor and Simon. Sting played some overly aggressive customer and he started roughing up Simon when he couldn't get his coat back. I remember this moment being so popular that the producers replayed the sketch a few times towards the end of Going Live's run.
Going Live was a staple for my Sister and I in the late 80s / early 90s. I remember when Scofield got hit in the head with a giant conker. It was a preview of his future, I guess. lol I even remember watching the Jukebox Jury episode at the time, when they very awkwardly brought the guy on. (my parents would let me stay up quite late at times. Around 1988, Dad bought me a B&W TV from Argos, so I stayed up half the night watching all sorts of weird crap like Eurotrash.)
The quality of the recording on this vid is very good, btw. The sound is a bit muffled, though, so probably not recorded on a HiFi Stereo VCR. The small black or white "dropout" speckles in the image look like it might have been recorded off Sky TV instead of terrestrial, but it could just be the dropouts from the VCR itself. I've wasted my life.
Omg. You found the creepy Dr. What is etched on my memory was when there was a letter regarding not knowing how to kiss. He asked Sara if her husband was around so he could demonstrate and leaned in. I am NOT making this up. She was so creeped out and of course it never happened.
I've been devouring your video essays playlist ever since finding your channel through the Bad Influence video. Unfortunately this video has put me into a guilty stupor as I remember recording a full episode of Going Live (over two tapes) for my friend who was going away for the weekend. I never did give him the tapes and when I moved out I ended up chucking them. This was before RU-vid became a huge thing. Had I known what a retro goldmine it was I would've kept it all. Loving the channel, keep it up!
I remember the speculation about who would end up in the Comic Relief gunk tank, more a gunk dunk a la Get Your Own Back. In 1988 it was Andy Crane with Phil a close second. Then in 1989 it was Phil’s turn. Dunno what they used for the gunk but it looked suitably revolting, then Phil ordered Little & Large to send a laughing Andy down the chute to join him too. They were both just in t shirts and Comic Relief boxers, so it seemed a bit kinda homoerotic! They each got nominated for the gunge tank on NHP too.
Here’s the thing, I was 8 when Saturday Superstore was replaced by Going Live and I never liked this show much, Saturday Superstore was a better program in every way bar Trevor and Simon. I thought that when I was 8 and all these years later whenever I see clips of either I still believe it.
22:12 Bit of a red flag that he says about being a criminal master mind “there aren’t very many of US”. I’m now curious to know what skeletons he has hidden.
Remember Phil taking the piss out of a no expense spared giant conker the crew were swinging around like a wrecking ball, before he got whacked right in the face with it 🌰. Wasn’t there a lad on the phone game ☎️ who was less than impressed with Sarah’s offer of an autographed photo from a selection of celebs as a prize and asked for someone else 😂
That conker clip must've been the most repeated bit of Going Live, the amount of times it (quite rightly; it was hilarious) showed up on blooper shows.
They were offering autographs from all the game show hosts who were contracted to the Beeb at the time, quite a long list too I think, but the kid wanted the autograph of a different game show host who worked on the 'other channel' I think, if I recall correctly.
Pipes glory hole 😂 god I remember that awful ghost programme..even as a kid I was laughing at how bad it was . Going Live can't beat the five star episode 😂
Trev and Simon were brilliant. Going Live was the kind of TV that always seemed to be on, but because most of it was tosh people only ever recorded those bits that had people they were interested in on. Visionaries ruled. Reynolds Girls didn't rule, but the song was catchy. The only Saturday Show I remember actively getting up for was 'On the Waterfront', which, in hindsight, was a poor replacement for Going Live...
Tiswas unknowingly created a whole generation of young adults for whom 'sploshing' became the only way they could, umm, ya know..pop their cork 😳 It's a strange world indeed.
Going live was unwise but not illegal. Luckily sarah greene got out of the ghostwatch glory hole Edit: you said it just as i typed it. Was that the animal hospital theme too? That aged equally badly.
Pablo Escobar had the same sweater as Andy Crane was wearing.Also Edwina has a lot more to feel guilty about than bad mouthing eggs….oh and that Doctor is Harvey Keitel , surely?…..also can anyone explain the reason why there is a portrait of Napoleon behind the Pop Panel? Also Glen Madeiros is definitely sideyeing Bob Mortimer there, I think he wanted a scrap hence Jools’s rush to move him out. These are my thoughts, thank you very much,God bless, see you all soon …GOODBYE
Not entirely sure of the relevance of mentioning the same jumper was worn by a man who brought misery to millions and terrified his entire nation and Pablo Escobar is…..
