Channel 5 seem to think so:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43907917
The Chuckle Brothers: Time for a reappraisal?
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I saw them in a pantomime once. I admit I laughed. I’ve also laughed at Rigid’s picture.
Shit Light entertainment. Time for a reappraisal? Shouldn’t this be in the “comedy horror” thread?
In a previous life, I ran a hotel in Crawley and the CBs (as we all know them) stayed there along with DLT while they did panto.
They were genuinely nice guys. DLT was a prick the whole stay. That is all
I’d imagine it was creepy Crawley, given what we know about DLT’s panto activities (during the court case of which the Chuckles were called as witnesses).
DLT has form as a notorious knob, it is alleged.
I am now singing “Notorious Knob” to the tune of “Mysterious Girl”. Mrs M. says thanks a bunch!
I had a conversation once, with a man who was once DLT’s producer. He was cackling with glee at the great man’s downfall, on the grounds that “He was the worst cunt I have ever worked with in my fucking life. The absolute worst. This couldn’t have happened to a nicer man.”
I had a mate who worked on his show at the Beeb and he entirely endorsed this view.
I wonder when he was being investigated did the fuzz give him new words for his acronym: Don’t Leave Town. 🙂
On another thread we reappraised Rentaghost yesterday. Turns out it was crap.
But what are we meant to do if our mansion house is haunted…?
Move!
There’s a Channel 5 programme for that.
I saw the CB’s once doing a show based (loosely) on Star Wars. I went with my son who was 6 at the time. They were excellent. Cheerful and funny. I like ‘em.
I think it helps if you have small children with you.
I daresay it does. I’m open to persuasion having almost never seen their TV show and certainly not their stage show.
Well, they have two necks and there’s a lot of grinning. Is this selling it to you?
Not really, no.
I have it on very good authority that Paul Chuckle has one fat leg and has to have special trousers made to accommodate this fact. The same source confirms that both Chuckles are lovely men.
Is “one fat leg” a euphemism? Does he, er, have special cause to chuckle?
The last bit, at least, is nice to know!
I much prefer their early stuff.
Isn’t that the same as their later stuff? I wasn’t aware their act had changed.
The very few glimpses I ever had of the six-million-run Chucklevision, which lasted from the fall of the Roman Empire till a few years back, it seemed to be exactly the same show every time!
Back when they used to dress in massive dog costumes – as the Chucklehounds no less.
I’ve seen 3 of their shows with the kids and really enjoyed them. Just silly fun. They always stay behind after their shows to sign autographs and pose for photos. Had a chat with Barry about football whilst they were having a photo with my kids, as he’s a big Rotherham fan and I follow Barnsley. They seemed like nice blokes. They usually have their older brothers, known as the Patton Brothers (their actual family name) with them, one playing the villain, the other the Chuckle Brothers’ boss. To finish their celebrity family, their sister was married to Percy Sugden off Corrie!
However, the last time we saw them I made the stupid mistake of booking seats on the front row. They did this bit where they were throwing ‘food’ at the audience and it ended with a big custard (shaving foam!) pie. Paul came down the stairs and made a beeline for my wife. I was laughing, thinking there’s no way he’s going to shove that in my wife’s face. And he didn’t. But at least he came over at the end of the scene (the interval) and gave me a towel to wipe it all off my face! For days I had kids coming up to me me in the playground at drop off time to tell me they saw me getting a pie in the face from a Chuckle Brother!
Fantastic story, Wadster!
There’s a potential thread right there.
Vanessa Feltz spilt my pint.
I recall a friend telling me that his brother was once punched by one of the Chuckle Bros. Will check.
“To me? To you, you c***!”
Good story!
Are you sure their real name is Patton though?!?! I always assumed they really were called ‘Chuckle’
Wiki says it’s Elliott…
Sorry, you’re right. Patton was their father’s stage name.
It was funny watching the four of them all doing a song together, as they must have been the only group with a combined age greater than the Rolling Stones!
Edit: And I’ve just read that last year the oldest Patton Brother, aged 85, married his 26 year old girlfriend. So I think the Rolling Stones comparison was spot on!
I wanted this to be true so that the resulting biopic could be called The Pattons: Lust For Glory.
From their TV show…
“We’ll have to go on the run”
“But we’ll be easily found….everybody reads the papers”
“Not in Fulham ”
The episode where they had to get a rhinoceros out of their room without the landlady finding out was comedy gold……well, I thought so.
To me, to you etc.
Their show was scripted by Eugene Ionesco? Class!