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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2005 9:42:34 GMT 1
Anyone watch it?
I thought it was ok- Prefered "Friday Night Project" though.
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Post by theriverside on May 28, 2005 9:44:57 GMT 1
Tuned in just in time to see him riding a BMX down a ramp and over Ray Winstone onto a crash mat. Bizarre.
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Post by lazyshrew on May 28, 2005 9:57:07 GMT 1
I thought it was a pretty poor, watched it for a few minutes and thought id watch Johnathon Ross instead. Cant beat Friday Night with Johnathon Ross
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2005 10:04:48 GMT 1
Wibble Wobble Woss ;D
Watching him try and get some comedy out of Alan Sugar a few weeks ago was pretty funny.
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Post by wiganshrew2 on May 28, 2005 10:24:14 GMT 1
Being just on the borders of both Wigan and St Helens, I know a bit about Johnny Vegas.
Johnny Vegas is quite typically St Helens, in many ways!
His real name is Michael Pennington. He comes from an area of St Helens called Thatto Heath, which is not exactly rough- but a mixture. A lot of "poor but respectable" sort of people.
I think he was quite bright, although he looks and acts as thick as pig-muck! He went to Art College and did some work as a tutor - teaching pottery, at one point.
He started off in a local "arty" sort of theatre called The Citadel, which hosts local bands, alternative comedians, poets...etc...
I think "Johnny Vegas" was a sort of typical St Helens loser sort of character that he invented. It's got a lot of his own character there, though!
He comes across as a Rugby mad- beer-swilling St Helens thicko- and an absolute loser, who caricatures himself, really. He IS mad on Rugby- a huge St Helens "Saints" fan.
I only watched the programme once. He's been in two things recently, a programme about a druggy character and one about a local newspaper.
He is a loser in real life, really. Got married to a lovely looking girl- but she's left him. Unfortunately, if he tried to lose a BIT of weight and made himself more attractive so he could keep a woman- he probably wouldn't get the work he does. He's sealed his own fate with the character he's created! (Unless he doesn't mind.)
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on May 28, 2005 11:07:00 GMT 1
I saw Johnny Vegas at the glee club in Birmingham about 5 years ago
He came on the stage drunk, then probably drunk another 5 pints during his show, at the end of which his voice was barely understandable and he had to sit on a stool because he couldn't balance standing up
and he wasn't at all funny
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Post by WindsorShrew on May 28, 2005 11:22:47 GMT 1
Not my cup of tea, can't say I find him funny at all. Luckily for me there are far better ones out there at the moment.
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Post by SeanBroseley on May 29, 2005 3:43:14 GMT 1
Sometimes his voice sounds like Kevin Jobling.
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Post by rob on May 29, 2005 11:35:42 GMT 1
There was an article on him in last weeks observer. In which he claimed he had lost serious weight in his late teens earlier 20s yet found the women he was now able to pull highly dissapointing and shallow so gradually put it back on. To lable him a loser is a bit harsh. He has won some perrier (sp?) comedy award from edinbrough i believe, also featured in some high profile adverts, managed to persuade grandstand to get St.Helens to allow him to train and play with the team as well as appearing on other "commedy shows" he has also got channel 4 to invest in him.As well as featuring in a couple of dramas and having prominant roles in one average and one appalling british films. Now for a routine that consists of drinking, looking ill and shouting I'd say he's been pretty damn clever I think he specifically claims "not to be a stand up", and I have to say i found parts of his program quite funny, and other parts really quite bad. Anyone who can make the sort of money he can out of acting a drunken yob is probably highly intelligent, in which he came across in the interview. As for his relationship he claimed it went a bit wrong with his work committments which I'd immagine have been quite hectic over the last few years, yet he is still close with her really. I'm surprised you sight weight as an issue wiggy, I'm sure there are plenty of fat and obease people who hold down relationships. I dont see how weight is an issue.After all she'd have been attracted to him whilst he was still 17/18 stone
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Post by wiganshrew2 on May 29, 2005 16:43:49 GMT 1
No, Rob- I didn't say Johnny Vegas/Michael Pennington IS a loser- anyone who is earning what he must earn now can't really be a loser, let's face it!! His invented "character" certainly was/is a loser. (Whoops! Yes- I did, didn't I?) Weight issue- yes- but there's overweight and terribly obese. I agree a lot of women actually prefer overweight men, our friend in Scotland does- she's always preferred what she calls "cuddly" men even when she was a young girl. There's a guy who goes into our local pub who is about the same size as Johnny- and he's married to a tiny, slim Irish woman! But Johnny Vegas looks like his weight is a serious health problem. Also it sounds as if he's got a serious drink problem! I'm the LAST one to cite weight as an issue, because I've piled weight on since I stopped full-time work and drive instead of walking- and, although I'm hardly enormous- Mr Wiggy doesn't like it!! He doesn't mind that my face was never my fortune, he was quite happy with the way I looked, but he liked me to be slim and dainty like I used to be. He's always on at me to lose weight, and I find it really hard- because he still likes a lot of food, so I'd have to feed him, then munch on a lettuce leaf, while he scoffs!! (I don't think he'd leave me, though!!!!!!!!It's a bit late, now, isn't it?) I don't THINK we'd be having this conversation if it was an overweight WOMAN- you'd probably agree that if she didn't lose weight, she deserved to lose her man!!!
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Post by SeanBroseley on May 29, 2005 22:22:30 GMT 1
I heard him talking about his life quite seriously earlier this year on R4 and it seemsthat he had qute a strange up-bringing. Seemed quite an unhappy and melancholic person.
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