BBC to celebrate Kenny Everett:The Best Possible Taste (Coming soon on BBC4 )

[Amethyst_Isle]

Looking forward to this one.

The Best Possible Taste takes its name from the catchphrase of Everett's American chatshow host, Cupid Stunt, one of the performer's most famous comic creations alongside Sid Snot. Both characters feature in BBC4's film about Everett, who died in 1995 of an Aids-related illness.
Everett is played by newcomer Oliver Lansley, while former Coronation Street actor Katherine Kelly plays Middleton. The script is by Tim Whitnall, best known for writing the stage play Morecambe, about comedian Eric.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-rad...erett-comedian

[Arfur Teacake]

I hope its not the usual 'smile behind the maniac and the depression' BBC biography ?

[Amethyst_Isle]

Told with the help of some of his most famous comic characters including Cupid Stunt and Quentin Pose, the story of pioneering radio DJ and television star Kenny Everett's against-the-odds struggle to achieve both personal and professional fulfilment, as seen through the decade-and-a-half prism of his marriage to Lee Middleton.

Plus there are some classic moments from the five tv series which Kenny Everett made for the BBC (although I preferred the ITV series which were much better and funnier imo ) entitled 'Best of' stand by for laughs from unforgettable characters such as Cupid Stunt, Sid Snot, Gizzard Puke and others.


20:00 – 20:30
Top of the Pops 11/10/73

With ELO, Elton John, Michael Ward, Status Quo, Engelbert Humperdinck and Slade. (R)

20:30 – 21:00
The Best of Kenny Everett's Television Shows Episode 1

1/2 Classic moments from the five series which Kenny Everett made for the BBC. (R)
21:00 – 22:30
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

Dramatisation of Kenny Everett's struggle to achieve personal and professional fulfilment.

22:30 – 22:40
Meet Kenny Everett: 1973

In a piece of archive from 1973, Kenny Everett gives a tour of the Top of the Pops studio. (R)

22:40 – 23:10
The Best of Kenny Everett's Television Shows Episode 2

2/2 Classic moments brought to the screen by Kenny Everett's stable of wacky characters.
The Best of Kenny Everett's Television Shows Episode 1

All the above are repeated later.

1/2 Classic moments from the five series which Kenny Everett made for the BBC. (R)
01:40 – 03:05

Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

Dramatisation of Kenny Everett's struggle to achieve personal and professional fulfilment. (R)

03:05 – 03:35
The Best of Kenny Everett's Television Shows Episode 2

2/2 Classic moments brought to the screen by Kenny Everett's stable of wacky characters.

[Moor Larkin]

I hope its not the usual 'smile behind the maniac and the depression' BBC biography ?

An old associate was discussing this on the wireless the other week, and she gave the impression that the show ends as he "comes out". I can't recall if she was his wife..... or just talked about her.

[Amethyst_Isle]

The 1973 version of TotP is so different from the usual set with Kenny Everett as host......it has "New Release" & "Tip for the Top" sections.

Times have changed.

[christoph404]

I loathed the Kenny Everett show, I never found him funny at all. Sorry folks, I know he has a following,I just found him crass and overrated, he was fine doing Top of The Pops but a whole half an hour of his silly unfunny muggings was too much for me. One for me to miss I think..........

[Moor Larkin]

I loathed the Kenny Everett show, I never found him funny at all. Sorry folks, I know he has a following,I just found him crass and overrated, he was fine doing Top of The Pops but a whole half an hour of his silly unfunny muggings was too much for me. One for me to miss I think..........

His TV show was okay for the first season or so, but I was no big fan later. Sometime prior to the beeb sacking him for making a joke about the wife of the Transport Minister, his radio show was "ESSENTIAL LISTENING" for boys of a certain age. I can recall camping out in the living room on Saturday for an hour or two, next to the radiogram, listening avidly to his stream of consciousness and his playing of some decent music on Radio One for a change.

[Windthrop]

Funny only in small doses. His ITV stuff in the late 70s was funnier than his BBC TV work.

[Amethyst_Isle]

His ITV stuff in the late 70s was funnier than his BBC TV work.

Indeed it was.

[regen70]

I think that like Terry Wogan and Jonathan Ross, he was better heard and not seen; i.e the radio was his natural home, not TV.

[Steve Crook]

They book-ended the bio-pic with what they called The Best of The Kenny Everett Television Shows. But they didn't include his Instant Bee Gees sketch. I always though that was one of his best.

But apart from that omission, a pretty good EVening of Ev

Steve

[penfold]

I think The Instant BeeGee sketch was from the Kenny Everett Video Show.....ITV.

[Steve Crook]

I think The Instant BeeGee sketch was from the Kenny Everett Video Show.....ITV.

Aha, that would explain why they didn't include it with the clips from the BBC shows. It was referenced a few times in the bio-pic. They showed Ev as the 3 Bee Gees but didn't show any details

Steve

[icetorch]

The actor playing Everett seemed to veer into a Kenneth Williams' type comic voice at times. Or was Everett's style influenced or inspired by Williams to some degree, do you think?

[Steve Crook]

The actor playing Everett seemed to veer into a Kenneth Williams' type comic voice at times. Or was Everett's style influenced or inspired by Williams to some degree, do you think?

That was Lansley doing Everett doing Williams

Steve

[icetorch]

Aha, I get it now. DUH...

[Amethyst_Isle]

Aha, that would explain why they didn't include it with the clips from the BBC shows. It was referenced a few times in the bio-pic. They showed Ev as the 3 Bee Gees but didn't show any details

Steve

In 1978 he was the best,the ITV series was far more funnier than the BBC series,The series ran for four seasons on ITV.

In March 2010 the BBC confirmed it was producing a 90-minute TV biopic (not the one shown tonight ) called Number One in Heaven, to be written by Tim Whitnall and focusing on Everett's unhappiness at secondary school,which at the mo it never materialised.

[cabman]

I agree His ITV shows were much better than the years spent at the BBC.
However,My sides are still aching when last Night I saw the classic flying Rabbi sketch,"Up Up and Oy Vey"

[Windthrop]

I liked the drama - Simon Callow's turn as 'Darling Dickie' was a hoot.

[Windthrop]

In 1978 he was the best,the ITV series was far more funnier than the BBC series,The series ran for four seasons on ITV.

In March 2010 the BBC confirmed it was producing a 90-minute TV biopic (not the one shown tonight ) called Number One in Heaven, to be written by Tim Whitnall and focusing on Everett's unhappiness at secondary school,which at the mo it never materialised.

There as to have been a biopic on Benny Hill but that never materialised either.