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The British, Irish and American Comedy Thread (formerly The Shirley Ghostman Thread)
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Note: Thread retitled and expanded on 8th June 2024.
The subject of this thread is something of a long-shot in nature, but here goes anyway as I'd really like to see the TV show in question again some time. :)
Does anyone here recall a TV programme that was either a one-off sketch or show or part of a series where there was a parody of the late Colin Fry-type of TV psychic medium that was very popular at this time and afterwards. To be more specific the sort of thing I'm referring to here is just the sort of audience that a psychic medium like Colin Fry stands before and says he's getting a dead person that someone in the audience will know coming through with messages for them.
In this spoof I recall the psychic had long hair down past his shoulders, was wearing a suit and kept getting details about the dead person wrong with the relative or friend arguing with them that they were wrong. He then comically tried to correct them to show he was right. It was really very funny indeed and I'd love to know what the show/programme was called so I could possibly find a copy of it. I've looked online to no avail but this US TV sketch showing a parody of the late TV psychic medium Sylvia Brown gives a bit of an idea of what this UK show was like:
The subject of this thread is something of a long-shot in nature, but here goes anyway as I'd really like to see the TV show in question again some time. :)
Does anyone here recall a TV programme that was either a one-off sketch or show or part of a series where there was a parody of the late Colin Fry-type of TV psychic medium that was very popular at this time and afterwards. To be more specific the sort of thing I'm referring to here is just the sort of audience that a psychic medium like Colin Fry stands before and says he's getting a dead person that someone in the audience will know coming through with messages for them.
In this spoof I recall the psychic had long hair down past his shoulders, was wearing a suit and kept getting details about the dead person wrong with the relative or friend arguing with them that they were wrong. He then comically tried to correct them to show he was right. It was really very funny indeed and I'd love to know what the show/programme was called so I could possibly find a copy of it. I've looked online to no avail but this US TV sketch showing a parody of the late TV psychic medium Sylvia Brown gives a bit of an idea of what this UK show was like:
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ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4464175.stm
this might be the character ?
one from Phoenix nights. :D
Thanks for those little extras, TP.
I'm delighted to see this series is available on DVD on Amazon. I'll be ordering it tomorrow! :)
Also, I see there is this DVD release too:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Land-DVD-Marc-Wootton/dp/B003H4QV5E/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1463506754&sr=8-2&keywords=SHIRLEY+ghostman
Yes, I saw that one episode I was referring to then too and I thought it was hilarious. Looking forward to seeing it again. :)
:))
Said he was on a radio phone in with a psychic, who with one caller
Got everything wrong, not one right answer, but wasn't phased by it
Simply telling the caller " When you put the phone down and think about it
You'll see I'm right !" :))
So Ghostman is not so outlandish a character.
Very funny, especially as this is exactly the sort of cold reading technique used by the late Colin Fry that this show parodied to within an inch of its life! :))
And Lady Diana:
:))
This show made me laugh so much! :))
Yes, it was great! I love the way the camera focuses into his face so close as if they're taking it really seriously and then he lets rip! :))
Who was your favourite spoof character? Mine has to be the Bear! Although Mel B is a very close second! :))
Mel B was brilliant, especially when she was trying to promote her "new book"! That's hard as there were so many good ones. I have the whole series on DVD. Always good for a laugh. I think my favourite spoof characters would have to be Richard and Judy though they weren't in it an awful lot unfortunately. The dynamic between them with Richard being so patronising and bombastic always made me laugh:
Other characters I liked were Trisha and Kelly Osbourne, especially when her accent changed from American to English when she got angry!
=)) Priceless!!!!
It was a truly mental show. The characters often looked and sounded nothing like the celebrities they were spoofing but I think that's what made it so hilarious. They all wore the same big googly NHS style glasses too, though I gather that was to cover where the top and the bottom parts of the latex masks met!
https://www.nme.com/news/tv/leigh-francis-filmed-bo-selecta-reboot-pilot-3369763
In a similar vein to Shirley Ghostman here's Clinton Baptiste, the psychic from Phoenix Nights:
Haha great, never seen this, I'll have to watch it proper. So funny he cracks me up
Yes, I love psychic medium spoofs. Such a worthy thing to parody. I see Clinton Baptiste's on a comedy tour currently.
On a side note, I want one of these insurances for my father-in-law.