Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

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0:00:02 > 0:00:03Hello. Keith, here,

0:00:03 > 0:00:06and welcome to a film-ette that's in a glass of its own. Yes.

0:00:06 > 0:00:07It's based on a true story,

0:00:07 > 0:00:10though some sceney-poos have been scrungled.

0:00:10 > 0:00:14It also contains naughty bits.

0:00:14 > 0:00:22THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE

0:00:25 > 0:00:30MUSIC: "Love Is The Drug" by Roxy Music

0:00:44 > 0:00:47# It ain't no big thing

0:00:47 > 0:00:52# To wait for the bell to ring

0:00:52 > 0:00:54# It ain't no big thing

0:00:54 > 0:00:58# The toll of the bell

0:00:58 > 0:01:00PHONE RINGS

0:01:00 > 0:01:03# Aggravated, spare for days

0:01:03 > 0:01:05# I troll downtown

0:01:05 > 0:01:07# The red light place

0:01:07 > 0:01:09# Jump up, bubble up

0:01:09 > 0:01:11# What's in store?

0:01:11 > 0:01:15# Love is the drug and I need to score... #

0:01:18 > 0:01:20Ev?

0:01:20 > 0:01:22Ev?

0:01:22 > 0:01:24Ev?

0:01:24 > 0:01:28- I've been a silly boy. - Why? What have you done now?

0:01:28 > 0:01:32Might have gone a teensy bit too far, this time.

0:01:32 > 0:01:35What do you mean? Ev, are you there?

0:01:35 > 0:01:38Ev, what are you talking about? What do you mean?

0:01:40 > 0:01:41MUSIC: "Radio Ga Ga" by Queen

0:01:41 > 0:01:42Hi, kids!

0:01:42 > 0:01:45And a super-mungous Cuddly Ken welcomette

0:01:45 > 0:01:48to tonight's nerve-noggling, brain-bending,

0:01:48 > 0:01:52spleen-venting fantast-a-rama of...

0:01:52 > 0:01:53Revealing information...

0:01:53 > 0:01:56Meaningful education...

0:01:56 > 0:01:58And outrageous entertainment!

0:01:58 > 0:02:00Oh, sexy Hot Gossip, what a show!

0:02:00 > 0:02:03And how could it not be? When the central character,

0:02:03 > 0:02:06the leading man, the star of the show just happens to be...

0:02:06 > 0:02:08Me!

0:02:09 > 0:02:11Let's take our seats

0:02:11 > 0:02:15and boldly perambulate where no Kenny has perambulated before.

0:02:15 > 0:02:17Gasp in admiration,

0:02:17 > 0:02:21as we witness a puny little kid from suburban Liverpool

0:02:21 > 0:02:25transform himself into the "Scouse that roared".

0:02:25 > 0:02:27And marvel as we watch darling Kenny

0:02:27 > 0:02:30yanking himself off on a journey up the showbiz ladder

0:02:30 > 0:02:32from the bottomest rung to the very toppest!

0:02:32 > 0:02:37And yet, what if none of us ever really know who we are?

0:02:38 > 0:02:41# Aa-a-ah-ha

0:02:41 > 0:02:44# We are Children Of The World... #

0:02:44 > 0:02:47And tonight, he fully intends to penetrate

0:02:47 > 0:02:50the biggest, butchest issues like...

0:02:50 > 0:02:54How national trinket could go from this...

0:02:57 > 0:02:59..to this...

0:02:59 > 0:03:02Two husbands are so much better than one.

0:03:02 > 0:03:06..via this...

0:03:08 > 0:03:11Let's bomb Russia!

0:03:11 > 0:03:14But I'm telling you the plot, trust me,

0:03:14 > 0:03:18it's all done in the best possible taste!

0:03:18 > 0:03:22The Best Possible Taste!

0:03:26 > 0:03:29ECHOING MURMURS

0:03:45 > 0:03:49So, you can get a cuppa in heaven.

0:03:49 > 0:03:52This is the Royal Free Hampstead.

0:03:52 > 0:03:54And you are very lucky.

0:03:54 > 0:03:56To still be here?

0:03:58 > 0:04:01Not to have caused lasting brain damage.

0:04:01 > 0:04:03Who'd have noticed?

0:04:10 > 0:04:15MUSIC: "Sleepy Lagoon" by Eric Coates

0:04:34 > 0:04:35What are you doin' here, Cole?

0:04:35 > 0:04:37Nothing.

0:04:37 > 0:04:40Shouldn't you be practising for the school skipping competition?

0:04:40 > 0:04:43Or pickin' out a new dress for the Gang Show?

0:04:43 > 0:04:44Let's play a game.

0:04:44 > 0:04:46I don't like games.

0:04:46 > 0:04:49Not since they used me as a cricket stump.

0:04:49 > 0:04:52No, no this one's a belter - "Let's mash the weed."

0:04:52 > 0:04:55- And I'm the masher.- Can't I be?

0:04:55 > 0:04:56You couldn't mash a bowl of peas!

0:04:59 > 0:05:02- How did I get to this?- You're gay.

0:05:02 > 0:05:05You know, I hate that word.

0:05:05 > 0:05:06Well...

0:05:08 > 0:05:10..it's better than the ones you grew up with.

0:05:10 > 0:05:17"Gay" applies to paper doilies and Juliet balconies.

0:05:17 > 0:05:18And Kenny Everett.

0:05:18 > 0:05:20Do you know?

0:05:20 > 0:05:22You worry the whole world's going to tumble your big secret

0:05:22 > 0:05:24and you can't even come to terms with it, yourself.

0:05:24 > 0:05:26MUSIC: "At The End Of The Day"

0:05:26 > 0:05:29# At the end of the day

0:05:30 > 0:05:34# Just kneel and say... #

0:05:34 > 0:05:37RADIO STATIC

0:05:37 > 0:05:40HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

0:05:40 > 0:05:43Well, I can see the gas lamps flickering in Portland Place,

0:05:43 > 0:05:46signalling that it's time for us to part company for the evening.

0:05:46 > 0:05:50And we do so with a simply spiffing platter -

0:05:50 > 0:05:52Freddie And The Dreamers.

0:05:52 > 0:05:54CUES "I'm telling you now" by Freddie And The Dreamers

0:05:54 > 0:05:55And I'm telling you

0:05:55 > 0:05:59that this request goes out to Tom and Lily Cole

0:05:59 > 0:06:01of 14, Hereford Road, Seaforth,

0:06:01 > 0:06:03from your super son Maurice

0:06:03 > 0:06:06who promises to mow the lawn with nail-scissors

0:06:06 > 0:06:08if you'd bung him five English nicker

0:06:08 > 0:06:11towards a new tape recorder.

0:06:11 > 0:06:14Oh, and he also says, "Ta very much."

0:06:14 > 0:06:16It's now eight o'clock.

0:06:16 > 0:06:19CLOCK CHIMES

0:06:19 > 0:06:21"Ta very much"?

0:06:21 > 0:06:24"Five English nicker"?

0:06:25 > 0:06:27That sounds like...

0:06:27 > 0:06:28Where's our clock?

0:06:28 > 0:06:32MUSIC: "Louie, Louie" by The Kingsmen

0:06:37 > 0:06:40Unbeknownst to the evil Treens,

0:06:40 > 0:06:44Dan Dare silently hatches his brilliant escape plan.

0:06:46 > 0:06:48Piercing the darkness,

0:06:48 > 0:06:52shattering the cosmopolis like a sonic laser beam,

0:06:52 > 0:06:54young Captain Cole beams though deep space

0:06:54 > 0:06:57to the far-flung reaches of the galaxy

0:06:57 > 0:06:59in search of new adventures.

0:07:20 > 0:07:22Calm down, Lily. It's only a telegram!

0:07:22 > 0:07:23Yeah, and we all know what telegrams mean.

0:07:23 > 0:07:25It's addressed to our Maurice.

0:07:25 > 0:07:27He doesn't know anyone who could die!

0:07:27 > 0:07:29It's actually from someone called "Death"!

0:07:29 > 0:07:32De'Ath. Wilfred De'Ath.

0:07:32 > 0:07:33I got his name from Practical Wireless

0:07:33 > 0:07:35and sent in one of my shows!

0:07:35 > 0:07:37- Sent in?- Sent in where?

0:07:39 > 0:07:41The B-B-bloody-C.

0:07:41 > 0:07:48Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, B-B-C!

0:07:48 > 0:07:53He says, "Tape good. Come to London for an interview"!

0:07:53 > 0:07:55Maurice!

0:07:55 > 0:08:00Mate! That's amazing, son.

0:08:00 > 0:08:02- I can't believe it!- Fantastic!

0:08:02 > 0:08:07MUSIC: "Hallelujah Chorus" by Handel

0:08:13 > 0:08:14The Land Of June Whitfield!

0:08:19 > 0:08:20This way, sir.

0:08:20 > 0:08:23Remember, ladies and germs, three out of seven doctors recommend

0:08:23 > 0:08:25you flush out the ear wax

0:08:25 > 0:08:27with "The Maurice Cole Quarter Of An Hour" -

0:08:27 > 0:08:33a sight for sore ears, and nowhere near as pricey as Anadin!

0:08:33 > 0:08:39- And you really glued all this together in your bedroom?- Yeah.

0:08:39 > 0:08:40Something skew-whiff, old boy?

0:08:40 > 0:08:44Your carpets actually stretch from one wall to the other.

0:08:44 > 0:08:46Is that bad?

0:08:46 > 0:08:47Back home, it's illegal!

0:08:49 > 0:08:52You are a find. Snifter?

0:08:53 > 0:08:56Rule One -

0:08:56 > 0:09:01everyone drinks G&Ts at the BBC. The seat of our vitality.

0:09:01 > 0:09:02Ice and a slice?

0:09:05 > 0:09:06I will say your name.

0:09:06 > 0:09:09A carefully selected gramophone record will begin to play.

0:09:09 > 0:09:12'Oh, I've brought my own records, actually - Lulu,'

0:09:12 > 0:09:13The Rolling Stones, and I think...

0:09:13 > 0:09:16A light of shimmering emerald will be your signal

0:09:16 > 0:09:20to read the script in front of you.

0:09:20 > 0:09:24Couldn't I not just make it up, you know, as I pootle along?

0:09:24 > 0:09:28We do not "pootle" on the Home Service.

0:09:30 > 0:09:32Absolute still and quiet, please.

0:09:32 > 0:09:35We are rolling.

0:09:35 > 0:09:37Maurice Cole audition.

0:09:37 > 0:09:39Standing by...

0:09:39 > 0:09:41and...

0:09:41 > 0:09:45HE CUES "The Happy Wanderer"

0:09:47 > 0:09:51Waving their hats to all they meet,

0:09:51 > 0:09:59the Ober...Ob...Obernkir...chen Children's Choir...

0:09:59 > 0:10:02with "The Happy Wanderer" -

0:10:02 > 0:10:05a peppy performance on the Parlophone label

0:10:05 > 0:10:08that hitchhiked its jolly way

0:10:08 > 0:10:13to the penultimate position in the Pop's Parade ten years ago.

0:10:13 > 0:10:15This is terrible.

0:10:15 > 0:10:16Stop tape!

0:10:18 > 0:10:20Young man, once your light goes green,

0:10:20 > 0:10:23you will proceed unless instructed otherwise.

0:10:24 > 0:10:28It's just that... "Pop's Parade".

0:10:28 > 0:10:31Who writes this rubbish?

0:10:32 > 0:10:34I did.

0:10:38 > 0:10:42It's good. I like the...

0:10:42 > 0:10:45Mam could find me a job in a sweet shop.

0:10:47 > 0:10:53Dad could always teach me how to drive his tug, I suppose.

0:10:53 > 0:10:57Me dad drives a tugboat up and down the Mersey.

0:11:01 > 0:11:02Of course, that's it?

0:11:02 > 0:11:03That's what?

0:11:03 > 0:11:06The way forward, Tugboat.

0:11:06 > 0:11:08FOG HORN BLOWS

0:11:08 > 0:11:10# It's smooth sailing

0:11:10 > 0:11:14# With the highly successful sound

0:11:14 > 0:11:19# Of wonderful Radio London

0:11:19 > 0:11:23"Dead Rat And Diesel" by Yardley. Top note of Seaweed.

0:11:24 > 0:11:27Lovely shade of rust.

0:11:27 > 0:11:31Well, it was a minesweeper, love, not the fucking Queen Mary.

0:11:31 > 0:11:32Studio One.

0:11:35 > 0:11:41And before you ask, there is no Studio Two.

0:11:41 > 0:11:44It's so poky.

0:11:44 > 0:11:47Just you and ten million listeners.

0:11:47 > 0:11:48Is this legal?

0:11:48 > 0:11:52Nothing is, twelve miles off-shore, according to the Postmaster General.

0:11:52 > 0:11:54But...I won't tell him if you won't.

0:11:59 > 0:12:01'Look - the transparent cooking wrap

0:12:01 > 0:12:05'that let's you see when the meat's been overcooked.'

0:12:16 > 0:12:19- Ears burning?- Not any more.

0:12:19 > 0:12:22Been chatting with the other jocks.

0:12:22 > 0:12:25And we all think you look like a Kenny.

0:12:25 > 0:12:27Can't I look like a Maurice?

0:12:27 > 0:12:30If you want Wedgie-Benn to find you and have you boiled in oil.

0:12:30 > 0:12:32I used to be lowly Anthony Withers.

0:12:32 > 0:12:35Tony Windsor be my pirate name, now, Jim lad'.

0:12:35 > 0:12:37Ooh!

0:12:37 > 0:12:40So, Kenny "what"?

0:12:40 > 0:12:42And you have to make up your mind by Christmas Eve.

0:12:54 > 0:12:59"Drink-drive fatalities soar over the festive season"?

0:12:59 > 0:13:01HQ wants us to start with it.

0:13:01 > 0:13:03Hello. It's the Kenny Everett Show.

0:13:03 > 0:13:06We here at Wonderful Radio London

0:13:06 > 0:13:09have a very serious Yuletide announcement to make.

0:13:12 > 0:13:17Tonight, before you drive home from that Christmas party,

0:13:17 > 0:13:18I want you to get drunk.

0:13:18 > 0:13:23Yes, forget about all this "don't drink and drive" stuff.

0:13:23 > 0:13:26I want you to get very, very drunk. So drunk, in fact,

0:13:26 > 0:13:30that you'll be completely incapable of even finding the keys to your car!

0:13:30 > 0:13:36# So Christmas time is here again The snow is deep outside

0:13:36 > 0:13:42# Enjoy your turkey scraps and pud But please don't drink and drive. #

0:13:42 > 0:13:44A star is born.

0:13:44 > 0:13:50On the one hand, Everett - shy and retiring, and on the other...

0:13:50 > 0:13:54Radio London's "Big Noise of '65"!

0:13:54 > 0:13:56All right, creeps?

0:13:56 > 0:14:00Now that is not music to cuddly Ken's lugholes.

0:14:00 > 0:14:04I mean, just as he's plain sailing, he launches his own torpedo.

0:14:04 > 0:14:09So, I did want to have a, erm, quiet word.

0:14:11 > 0:14:12How quiet?

0:14:12 > 0:14:16There's a new spot. Head Office want you to feature.

0:14:18 > 0:14:23You're our new star. This is a fifty grand contract.

0:14:23 > 0:14:24It's a perfect fit.

0:14:26 > 0:14:28"The Worldwide Church Of God"?

0:14:28 > 0:14:30I already gave.

0:14:30 > 0:14:33Three years in a seminary, even more as a choirboy.

0:14:33 > 0:14:36We need their dosh to stay afloat.

0:14:36 > 0:14:40My listeners need Stevie Wonder, not VD or the Venerable Bede.

0:14:40 > 0:14:43Just spin the tapes, go have a lie-down,

0:14:43 > 0:14:45pop back later.

0:14:45 > 0:14:47Play the fucking "Ring Cycle" for all I care.

0:14:47 > 0:14:52'And now, "The Plain Truth About The World Tomorrow",

0:14:52 > 0:14:56'with me, your host, Garner Ted Armstrong.'

0:14:56 > 0:15:00Here she comes, not looking a day over 72

0:15:00 > 0:15:04in a fetching ivory gown and paste tiara.

0:15:04 > 0:15:07'Assassinations, war, nuclear annihilation.'

0:15:07 > 0:15:08CUES EXPLOSION

0:15:08 > 0:15:10Eh, turned out nice again, Vicar.

0:15:13 > 0:15:16'Something rumbles deep inside young sinners

0:15:16 > 0:15:19'and they grow desperate for relief.'

0:15:19 > 0:15:20He's not wrong.

0:15:20 > 0:15:21Altogether now...

0:15:21 > 0:15:23CUES FALLING SCREAM AND PASSING WIND

0:15:23 > 0:15:26'There. You all feel better? Lord knows, I know I do.'

0:15:26 > 0:15:28I do, too!

0:15:28 > 0:15:30'Well, looks like this pirate's about to walk the plank...

0:15:30 > 0:15:33- 'That's all, folks.'- Kenny!

0:15:40 > 0:15:43# Woke up this mornin' feelin' fine

0:15:43 > 0:15:46# There's somethin' special on my mind

0:15:46 > 0:15:49# Last night I met a new boy

0:15:49 > 0:15:51# In the neighbourhood

0:15:54 > 0:15:58# Something tells me I'm in for something good

0:15:58 > 0:16:01# Something tells me I'm in for something good

0:16:01 > 0:16:04# He's the kinda guy he's not too shy

0:16:04 > 0:16:08# In fact, I'm sure he's my kinda guy

0:16:08 > 0:16:13# He danced very slow down to me like I hoped he would

0:16:15 > 0:16:21# Somethin' tells me I'm in for something good... #

0:16:25 > 0:16:29If I'm that bad, how come Decca signed me?

0:16:29 > 0:16:32I don't see the point.

0:16:32 > 0:16:33What, in my singing?

0:16:33 > 0:16:37In anything. I'm an outcast.

0:16:37 > 0:16:39All right, well, in that case,

0:16:39 > 0:16:41could I cast you out into my garden, please?

0:16:41 > 0:16:44- Unto the wilderness, once again! - Yeah.

0:16:44 > 0:16:46This rug cost me a mint, mate,

0:16:46 > 0:16:49and I don't want it ruined by some vomiting stick insect.

0:16:49 > 0:16:52Bad vibes.

0:16:52 > 0:16:54Bad acid.

0:16:55 > 0:16:58Fine DJ!

0:16:58 > 0:17:01You scramble your brains -

0:17:01 > 0:17:04I'm going to scramble some eggs for me and Lulu.

0:17:09 > 0:17:14# It's all too beautiful... #

0:17:18 > 0:17:20MUSIC: "Colours" by Donovan

0:17:29 > 0:17:33# Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair

0:17:33 > 0:17:38# In the morning when we rise

0:17:38 > 0:17:42# In the morning when we rise

0:17:42 > 0:17:47# That's the time, that's the time

0:17:47 > 0:17:49# I love her best... #

0:17:49 > 0:17:51You and I need to talk.

0:17:51 > 0:17:53Er, do we?

0:17:54 > 0:17:57The results came back from the clinic.

0:17:57 > 0:17:58We should both attend.

0:18:02 > 0:18:05He had to go. That cologne!

0:18:05 > 0:18:06You have absolutely no right.

0:18:06 > 0:18:08And the eyebrows...

0:18:08 > 0:18:13- Only after one thing.- Yeah. And I would've helped him find it!

0:18:17 > 0:18:18Great.

0:18:18 > 0:18:21- So sorry.- You're so rude!

0:18:21 > 0:18:23I'm only really good in one-to-ones.

0:18:24 > 0:18:26OK!

0:18:26 > 0:18:29Prove it.

0:18:36 > 0:18:41- Oh, er, um, sh...- So, do you just wreck everything that you come near?

0:18:41 > 0:18:43You ought to be arrested!

0:18:43 > 0:18:45Copper pulls me over the other day and he says,

0:18:45 > 0:18:48"Where were you between four and six?" And I said, "Primary School!"

0:18:51 > 0:18:55Unless there's a real Kenny Everett, you're wasting my time and yours.

0:18:57 > 0:19:01Maurice James Christopher Cole.

0:19:01 > 0:19:06I'll swap you for the real Lady Lee Dexter.

0:19:06 > 0:19:10Audrey Valentine Middleton.

0:19:10 > 0:19:14- Valentine?- Born February 14th.

0:19:14 > 0:19:19December 25th. Middle initials JC.

0:19:21 > 0:19:25Right, let's get you cleaned up.

0:19:25 > 0:19:27Cupid's arrow hits.

0:19:27 > 0:19:31But my radar detects issues regarding...

0:19:33 > 0:19:36..intimacy.

0:19:36 > 0:19:38So, Alan the footballer

0:19:38 > 0:19:42went to Germany on his National Service, never to return.

0:19:42 > 0:19:44And Billy the pop star?

0:19:44 > 0:19:46"Mr Fury" having a girlfriend?

0:19:46 > 0:19:50Oh, simply not done, never mind marrying her!

0:19:50 > 0:19:54Oh, if only our hearts had brains, eh?

0:19:56 > 0:19:59Anyway...

0:20:01 > 0:20:04What about you?

0:20:04 > 0:20:06Haven't had time.

0:20:08 > 0:20:12Too busy being unemployed?

0:20:12 > 0:20:14So, what are you going to do about it?

0:20:14 > 0:20:17My love life?

0:20:17 > 0:20:20Finding a new job.

0:20:20 > 0:20:22Erm...

0:20:22 > 0:20:25I guess I could try this new station over at the Beeb

0:20:25 > 0:20:27that everyone's talking about

0:20:27 > 0:20:29Oh, yeah, go for it!

0:20:29 > 0:20:31Lennon reckons that's going to be the next big thing.

0:20:31 > 0:20:32Yeah? Well, George reckons

0:20:32 > 0:20:35they'll nick all their best ideas off the pirates.

0:20:35 > 0:20:37Well, that's perfect for you.

0:20:39 > 0:20:43Yes. No room on deck for a loose cannon, methinks.

0:20:44 > 0:20:49Now that would depend on the size of his balls, wouldn't you say?

0:20:56 > 0:21:02Hello, I'm looking for a Mr Kenny Everett, two T's.

0:21:03 > 0:21:05- ON SPEAKER SYSTEM: - 'Mr Kenny Everett

0:21:05 > 0:21:06'to main reception.'

0:21:08 > 0:21:12All this post has arrived for him but I can't find an extension.

0:21:12 > 0:21:16Hush-hush. All tied up with this naughty new station of ours.

0:21:16 > 0:21:19Radio 1. It's going to be huge.

0:21:19 > 0:21:21I could take it down to him.

0:21:21 > 0:21:23I mean, I'm sure I can track down "His Highness" somewhere.

0:21:23 > 0:21:27- So long as it's no bother. - Oh, not at all.

0:21:27 > 0:21:30- Studio's this way? - Along the corridor, down one level.

0:21:30 > 0:21:32Why, thank you.

0:21:32 > 0:21:34Charming man.

0:21:34 > 0:21:37Yeah. Who is he?

0:21:37 > 0:21:40MUSIC: Donovan

0:21:44 > 0:21:47# Superman or Green Lantern ain't got

0:21:47 > 0:21:50# A nothin' on me... #

0:21:51 > 0:21:53JINGLE PLAYS

0:21:53 > 0:21:56# 247 on your radio

0:21:56 > 0:21:58# Music on your wireless

0:21:58 > 0:21:59# Wherever you go

0:21:59 > 0:22:01# Listen in the garden

0:22:01 > 0:22:03# Listen on the move

0:22:03 > 0:22:04# Lovely 247

0:22:04 > 0:22:08# Always keeps you in the groove. #

0:22:08 > 0:22:14Your unauthorised use of BBC facilities to make illegal jingles

0:22:14 > 0:22:16raises three very serious issues.

0:22:18 > 0:22:21One - I shall have to remind them

0:22:21 > 0:22:24that you left Radio London with an audience of fifteen million,

0:22:24 > 0:22:29two - suggest they broadcast these illegal jingles of yours

0:22:29 > 0:22:31to publicise our new station,

0:22:31 > 0:22:36and three - have Contracts draw up terms between us immediately.

0:22:36 > 0:22:38Snifter?

0:22:38 > 0:22:43Amen Corner on 247, scrumptious Radio One!

0:22:43 > 0:22:45And that's going out to the luscious Lady Lee

0:22:45 > 0:22:46in freakishly fashionable Fulham.

0:22:46 > 0:22:49Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me.

0:22:49 > 0:22:51So, stick the kettle on, love,

0:22:51 > 0:22:55and I'll be round in twenty minutes! Byeeeee!

0:22:55 > 0:22:58Kenny Everett,

0:22:58 > 0:23:02"Radio One's Golden Boy, has landed the plum Saturday morning spot

0:23:02 > 0:23:05"and The Beatles are leading the in-crowd

0:23:05 > 0:23:07"of pop people praising him."

0:23:07 > 0:23:11Oooooh, impressive.

0:23:11 > 0:23:14Impressive? You want "impressive"?

0:23:14 > 0:23:15Always.

0:23:15 > 0:23:18I'll show you impressive...

0:23:18 > 0:23:21Open your hands and shut yer eyeballs!

0:23:26 > 0:23:28HE IMITATES FANFARE

0:23:28 > 0:23:30Oh, hello!

0:23:30 > 0:23:33A little thank you for sprouting up from the latrine of my life.

0:23:33 > 0:23:36Let's take him on romantic weekends in Venice,

0:23:36 > 0:23:39shelter him from horrors and let him do whatever

0:23:39 > 0:23:41his flowery heart so desires.

0:23:41 > 0:23:44Are we talking about Mr Sunflower, here, or Mr Everett?

0:23:49 > 0:23:52Hello? What was that for?

0:23:54 > 0:23:55You're nice.

0:23:55 > 0:23:57Oh, good.

0:23:57 > 0:24:00You like me too, yeah?

0:24:00 > 0:24:04Yeah, of course I do.

0:24:04 > 0:24:06I'm just...

0:24:06 > 0:24:08I'm a bit confused.

0:24:10 > 0:24:11Why?

0:24:11 > 0:24:12Fellas.

0:24:12 > 0:24:14You prefer fellas.

0:24:17 > 0:24:19I'm not normal.

0:24:19 > 0:24:23Well, then most of my friends are "not normal".

0:24:24 > 0:24:26You don't seem that bothered.

0:24:26 > 0:24:28I'm not.

0:24:28 > 0:24:30Men aren't built for men.

0:24:30 > 0:24:32- It's a mortal sin.- Is it?

0:24:33 > 0:24:35In the eyes of the universe.

0:24:35 > 0:24:39Well, then we must construct our own universe.

0:24:39 > 0:24:42We have to, us aliens, or face being wiped out. Come on.

0:24:44 > 0:24:48MUSIC: "Afterglow Of Your Love" by the Small Faces

0:24:48 > 0:24:54# Love is all around me everywhere

0:24:54 > 0:24:59# Love has come to touch my soul

0:24:59 > 0:25:04# With someone who really cares

0:25:06 > 0:25:08# No-one can deny us

0:25:10 > 0:25:12# People who once passed me by

0:25:12 > 0:25:15# Will turn their heads round

0:25:15 > 0:25:20# I'm happy just to be with you

0:25:20 > 0:25:24# And loving you the way I do... #

0:25:24 > 0:25:26MUSIC: "Albatross" by Fleetwood Mac

0:25:26 > 0:25:29- So, that's that, then.- What?

0:25:36 > 0:25:38Marriage?!

0:25:38 > 0:25:40You horse, me carriage.

0:25:40 > 0:25:44If that's a joke, it isn't very funny.

0:25:44 > 0:25:47I've never been more serious in my life.

0:25:47 > 0:25:50Come on, let's rivet ourselves together against the normals,

0:25:50 > 0:25:53conquering everything the fickle finger of fate pokes our way.

0:25:53 > 0:25:56Oh, Ev. Where would we even start?

0:25:56 > 0:25:59Piddly stuff. Knitting.

0:25:59 > 0:26:01There are slightly bigger issues here

0:26:01 > 0:26:05than perfecting your Inverness Diamond.

0:26:05 > 0:26:07You've inhabited me.

0:26:07 > 0:26:11Beside me, there's this pulsating lump like a polar bear

0:26:11 > 0:26:14trying to chomp its way out.

0:26:14 > 0:26:18Before you, I wouldn't have let anyone get even close.

0:26:18 > 0:26:22I never saw myself as anything more significant than a pea,

0:26:22 > 0:26:26trying to take up as little space as possible,

0:26:26 > 0:26:29I loofah'd away another layer of skin

0:26:29 > 0:26:32or clipped my fingernails really close,

0:26:32 > 0:26:33plucked another eyebrow.

0:26:33 > 0:26:37Then there'd be even less of me to give away.

0:26:37 > 0:26:41But now I want to be more for you,

0:26:41 > 0:26:44- I want to give you more. - But marriage!

0:26:44 > 0:26:46It's such a massive step.

0:26:46 > 0:26:48So, let's be massive.

0:26:48 > 0:26:51You know, swinging nuptials, the grooviest love nest.

0:26:51 > 0:26:53A line of baby Everetts.

0:26:53 > 0:26:55- Ev... - Don't stop me. I'm on a roll.

0:26:55 > 0:26:57No, come on, now.

0:26:57 > 0:26:59Is marrying a woman what you really want?

0:26:59 > 0:27:04You worried that I might not be man enough for you?

0:27:04 > 0:27:08I'm worried I might not be "woman enough" for you, actually.

0:27:10 > 0:27:13I lost a baby a couple of years ago.

0:27:14 > 0:27:16I can't have any "baby Everetts".

0:27:20 > 0:27:23Another thing to add to the list of my failures.

0:27:23 > 0:27:26- Well, that's that, then.- What?

0:27:28 > 0:27:32You'll just have to have me, instead.

0:27:36 > 0:27:40I do solemnly declare that I know of no lawful impediment why I...

0:27:43 > 0:27:45There's speed in the punch.

0:27:45 > 0:27:48Oh, for... Do you mind, folks?

0:27:48 > 0:27:52I'm trying to turn this bloke into an upright citizen!

0:27:52 > 0:27:54Carry on, dear.

0:27:54 > 0:27:57I know of no lawful impediment why I, Kenny Everett...

0:27:57 > 0:27:59I do!

0:27:59 > 0:28:03It's not legal! My son's name is Maurice Cole!

0:28:03 > 0:28:05I changed it by deed poll!

0:28:05 > 0:28:07I can't believe you didn't tell her.

0:28:07 > 0:28:11I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride.

0:28:19 > 0:28:20CHEERING

0:28:26 > 0:28:28MOANING

0:28:36 > 0:28:38What, am I not doing it right?

0:28:38 > 0:28:39No.

0:28:39 > 0:28:44Am I being too fumbly? Not handling things correctly?

0:28:44 > 0:28:50No! Yeah, you are. It's just the stubble.

0:28:50 > 0:28:53I can shave, if you want.

0:28:54 > 0:28:57I don't want.

0:28:57 > 0:29:00- You like it?- Yeah. I love it.

0:29:03 > 0:29:05HE ROARS

0:29:06 > 0:29:10"He that hath a beard is more than youth,

0:29:10 > 0:29:13"but he that hath no beard is less than a man."

0:29:13 > 0:29:15That's William Shakespeare, that is.

0:29:15 > 0:29:20One fact remains - Everett's razor, much like his beard,

0:29:20 > 0:29:22shall never leave its mug again.

0:29:25 > 0:29:28Right. I was going to spin you Zager and Evans, then.

0:29:28 > 0:29:31In fact, here it is...

0:29:31 > 0:29:35However, due to some crummy arrangement

0:29:35 > 0:29:38with our crusty old pals at the Musicians' Union,

0:29:38 > 0:29:41apparently a third of my show

0:29:41 > 0:29:44must consist of songs recorded specifically for it.

0:29:44 > 0:29:48So, unless I want to spend the night in Wormwood Scrubs,

0:29:48 > 0:29:54here is In The Year 2525 played by...

0:29:54 > 0:29:57The Northern Dance Orchestra.

0:29:57 > 0:29:59Oh, God! They sound abysmal.

0:29:59 > 0:30:02Worse - they sound like the Northern Dance Orchestra!

0:30:02 > 0:30:07CUES string arrangement for "In The Year 2525."

0:30:10 > 0:30:15I'm sorry, I can't do it. You're just too valuable, kind listeners.

0:30:15 > 0:30:18Just don't tell anyone, OK?

0:30:20 > 0:30:23CUES Original version of "In The Year 2525" by Zager And Evans

0:30:23 > 0:30:27# In the year 2525... #

0:30:27 > 0:30:31Imaginative, daring, inventive.

0:30:31 > 0:30:35And yet, unremittingly disrespectful towards authority.

0:30:35 > 0:30:38Nice one, Ken. I like it.

0:30:38 > 0:30:40Ooh! A written warning.

0:30:40 > 0:30:44I'll frame it and stick it in my smallest room.

0:30:44 > 0:30:48Maurice... Ken, if you don't start toeing the line,

0:30:48 > 0:30:51they'll be forced to pre-record your shows.

0:30:51 > 0:30:53- They wouldn't dare. - It's a point of contract.

0:30:53 > 0:30:54Expurgation!

0:30:54 > 0:30:57Editorial guidelines.

0:30:57 > 0:30:59You should know them!

0:30:59 > 0:31:01- "Shit"?- Er...fifteenth.

0:31:01 > 0:31:06Correct. "Cocksucker"?

0:31:06 > 0:31:10Top ten, I'd say. Eighth?

0:31:10 > 0:31:14Ninth. 22% consider it "very severe".

0:31:14 > 0:31:16I thought you never used any of these words!

0:31:16 > 0:31:18And I never would.

0:31:18 > 0:31:21Wow! Have you seen what's last?

0:31:21 > 0:31:22"God".

0:31:22 > 0:31:24Yeah.

0:31:24 > 0:31:2740% think he's a profanity.

0:31:27 > 0:31:29"Off-colour material must be avoided

0:31:29 > 0:31:32"and humorous items always presented

0:31:32 > 0:31:34"in the best possible taste."

0:31:34 > 0:31:38Gosh! They're like some old maiden aunt, waiting to rap your knuckles.

0:31:38 > 0:31:41Well, if you will goad Auntie.

0:31:41 > 0:31:42She started it!

0:31:42 > 0:31:44Bollocks.

0:31:46 > 0:31:48Quite.

0:31:48 > 0:31:51'And, finally, Mrs Mary Peyton, wife of the Transport Minister,

0:31:51 > 0:31:53'has passed her advanced driving test first time.

0:31:53 > 0:31:55'She'd been driving for more than 30 years

0:31:55 > 0:31:57'but said she was spurred on to take the test

0:31:57 > 0:31:59'following her husband's appointment.'

0:31:59 > 0:32:02She only passed cos she crammed a fiver in the examiner's hand.

0:32:02 > 0:32:06I know these people.

0:32:06 > 0:32:10# Lovely 247 always keeps you in the groove. #

0:32:10 > 0:32:15Right, here's a tune especially for you, Mrs P!

0:32:15 > 0:32:17CUES "Gimme Dat Ding" by the Pipkins

0:32:17 > 0:32:19# That's right, I'm sad and blue

0:32:19 > 0:32:20# Cos I can't do the Boogaloo

0:32:20 > 0:32:23# I'm lost, I'm lost Can't do my thing... #

0:32:23 > 0:32:27How does it feel to get sacked for offending the Transport Minister?

0:32:27 > 0:32:29Oh, you know! You can't imagine!

0:32:29 > 0:32:31Have you spoken to Tony Blackburn?

0:32:31 > 0:32:33I never speak to Tony Blackburn!

0:32:33 > 0:32:35THEY LAUGH

0:32:35 > 0:32:38I think you like getting the sack, don't you?

0:32:38 > 0:32:41I mean, you knew what was going to happen, didn't you?

0:32:42 > 0:32:46Most of us would kill for the chance like what you've been given.

0:32:49 > 0:32:51Let's have some bubbles!

0:32:51 > 0:32:54You can't run away from yourself, though, eh, Maurice?

0:32:57 > 0:32:59I just can't help myself.

0:32:59 > 0:33:02Yeah, why do you think that is?

0:33:04 > 0:33:09Once, when I was a kid on the dunes,

0:33:11 > 0:33:14I spent hours building this sandcastle -

0:33:14 > 0:33:19turrets and a moat, lolly-stick flagpoles.

0:33:19 > 0:33:26And then as soon as me Aunt Sadie came over oohing and aahing over it,

0:33:26 > 0:33:32I felt this delicious, overpowering urge just rip through me.

0:33:34 > 0:33:36And I kicked it down!

0:33:37 > 0:33:39Control?

0:33:39 > 0:33:44If I can't be allowed to do what I want - nay - what I NEED to do -

0:33:44 > 0:33:46then I'm off!

0:33:46 > 0:33:49Good! Can we come too?

0:34:01 > 0:34:03Welcome to Wales.

0:34:04 > 0:34:06I fetched up the rest of the stuff on the tractor.

0:34:06 > 0:34:09Stick it in the barn thingy.

0:34:09 > 0:34:11Oh, no, there's a bloody great Hereford in there.

0:34:11 > 0:34:13Climb a ladder, can he?

0:34:13 > 0:34:15What he's trying to say is, would you put it in the hayloft,

0:34:15 > 0:34:17please, Iolo.

0:34:17 > 0:34:18Anything for you, darling.

0:34:18 > 0:34:21It's for me, actually.

0:34:21 > 0:34:24What's in it all, anyway? Weighs a bloody ton.

0:34:24 > 0:34:26You haven't seen the half of it yet.

0:34:28 > 0:34:32Chuck another dog on, love, I'm freezing.

0:34:46 > 0:34:50Insanity rules at Croydon's premier carpet superstore!

0:34:50 > 0:34:52Yes, folks, a wacky 20% week.

0:34:52 > 0:34:54COW MOOS

0:34:54 > 0:34:56HE SIGHS

0:34:56 > 0:34:58Next time you listen to the wireless,

0:34:58 > 0:35:00you'll appreciate how much work goes into it.

0:35:00 > 0:35:05That ain't the radio, though, is it? Being played in a shop...

0:35:05 > 0:35:08A superstore, branches all throughout the Southeast.

0:35:08 > 0:35:10Can't you get on the telly?

0:35:10 > 0:35:13It's a miracle I can get on anywhere.

0:35:13 > 0:35:16Since getting the push, you mean?

0:35:16 > 0:35:18Well, you sure say it like it is, don't ya?

0:35:18 > 0:35:21No bullshit, that's your lot!

0:35:21 > 0:35:25I would have kept my head down. Played the game.

0:35:25 > 0:35:28Yes, I've never been very good at being pushed around.

0:35:28 > 0:35:33Every time it happens, I just push back harder.

0:35:33 > 0:35:36And now,

0:35:36 > 0:35:39I'd better get back to pushing axminsters.

0:35:44 > 0:35:48Yes, folks, a wacky 20% off wool-blend weaves plus loony...

0:35:48 > 0:35:50Fuuuuuuck!

0:35:50 > 0:35:53Time to start cleaning up our act, eh, Boozie?

0:36:47 > 0:36:50What do you and Iolo chat about?

0:36:50 > 0:36:53Mucking out, mainly.

0:36:53 > 0:36:56Whilst dancing the Nutcracker?

0:36:56 > 0:36:59I gave him my last tab.

0:36:59 > 0:37:01Oh, Ev.

0:37:01 > 0:37:04He was curious.

0:37:05 > 0:37:08He wouldn't be curious about anything else, would he?

0:37:08 > 0:37:10Wales' straightest man?!

0:37:19 > 0:37:22Coming here had to be better than sitting about stoned

0:37:22 > 0:37:24or waiting for the phone to ring, didn't it?

0:37:27 > 0:37:32But, you know, if it's not enough,

0:37:32 > 0:37:35if there are things you want outside that window,

0:37:35 > 0:37:41even if you think they are going to pull you away from me, you just say.

0:37:41 > 0:37:42Yeah?

0:37:45 > 0:37:49I'm Sheffield Steel, remember?

0:38:01 > 0:38:02And before you can say

0:38:02 > 0:38:06"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndro bwllllantysiliogogogoch",

0:38:06 > 0:38:08two years in the love factory

0:38:08 > 0:38:10on Planet Cow-dung have simply whizzed by!

0:38:21 > 0:38:25Ev! Ev! What are you doing?

0:38:27 > 0:38:29You running away again?

0:38:29 > 0:38:32Running towards.

0:38:32 > 0:38:34I've had an epiphany.

0:38:34 > 0:38:36And a phone call from London.

0:38:36 > 0:38:39Oh, no...

0:38:39 > 0:38:42Some bloke called Attleborough. Dead posh, he was.

0:38:42 > 0:38:44We don't belong here anymore.

0:38:44 > 0:38:45"We"?

0:38:45 > 0:38:48Me! You're right, OK? I've grown too comfortable.

0:38:48 > 0:38:51I can't give my best, unless I'm going out live.

0:38:51 > 0:38:54I miss the edge, the buzz of knowing that I am talking to someone

0:38:54 > 0:38:56right on the other side of that microphone.

0:38:56 > 0:38:59Someone sharing that moment with me.

0:39:00 > 0:39:03And what about me? And this place?

0:39:03 > 0:39:06I'll buy you another.

0:39:06 > 0:39:08Well, I like it here.

0:39:08 > 0:39:11I love it here. The peace...

0:39:11 > 0:39:14Is that what your manual teaches you, is it?

0:39:14 > 0:39:17Bringing up 18 horses and turning your back on civilisation?

0:39:17 > 0:39:19It is twaddle.

0:39:19 > 0:39:22Off we go, then.

0:39:22 > 0:39:25- You reckon? - Show me one thing it's good for.

0:39:28 > 0:39:29All right.

0:39:34 > 0:39:37I can't do this without you.

0:39:42 > 0:39:47I was worried our scouts might not be able to track you down,

0:39:47 > 0:39:48Kenny, darling.

0:39:48 > 0:39:51Oh, sorry, Dickie, darling, but I had make sure

0:39:51 > 0:39:53"The Ministry of Saying No" couldn't catch up with me.

0:39:53 > 0:39:57"Yes" tends to work better at Capital Radio,

0:39:57 > 0:40:03my darling - to the original, to sticking our necks on the blocks.

0:40:03 > 0:40:08Its Chairman beseeches you - Kenny, darling,

0:40:08 > 0:40:12come and join us, talk to the city,

0:40:12 > 0:40:13play the best records.

0:40:13 > 0:40:16- As well as the worst?- Why not?

0:40:16 > 0:40:21Cook us up some jingles, write your own scripts,

0:40:21 > 0:40:24or - better still - don't write any!

0:40:24 > 0:40:27And you'd trust me to go out live?

0:40:27 > 0:40:30No censorship, my darling.

0:40:30 > 0:40:32No "pinstripe princes".

0:40:32 > 0:40:33No bleepy-poos?

0:40:33 > 0:40:35- Not a single- BLEEP- ...ing one!

0:40:35 > 0:40:36Could I say "bum"?

0:40:36 > 0:40:38Imagine it in stereo.

0:40:39 > 0:40:41# Bum, bum, bum, bum. #

0:40:41 > 0:40:45You could even have the company gaff in St John's Wood.

0:40:45 > 0:40:47Lee'd like that.

0:40:47 > 0:40:50Well, it all sounds too divine.

0:40:50 > 0:40:52What would I have to rebel against?

0:40:52 > 0:40:55Advancing mediocrity.

0:40:57 > 0:40:59And you wouldn't give me the elbow?

0:40:59 > 0:41:01Even if I was a little bit naughty?

0:41:01 > 0:41:04Sadly not, no.

0:41:05 > 0:41:09Dickie, darling, I've never been so insulted in my life!

0:41:09 > 0:41:11Good.

0:41:13 > 0:41:15Start on Monday?

0:41:15 > 0:41:17ALARM CLOCK GOES OFF

0:41:20 > 0:41:23MUSIC: "Virginia Plain" by Roxy Music

0:41:23 > 0:41:24# ..and make it straight

0:41:24 > 0:41:26# All signed and sealed

0:41:26 > 0:41:27# I'll take it

0:41:27 > 0:41:30# To Robert E Lee.. #

0:41:30 > 0:41:32# Capital's the place to be

0:41:32 > 0:41:35# The only radio station for me

0:41:35 > 0:41:38# So twiddle your dial

0:41:38 > 0:41:39# And come and join us now. #

0:41:39 > 0:41:42I'd give my right arm to be able to harmonise like you.

0:41:42 > 0:41:46Many a mis-spent moon warbling,

0:41:46 > 0:41:48# Panis Angelicus. #

0:41:48 > 0:41:52You know, I've never met a choirboy that can rewire a mixing-desk.

0:41:52 > 0:41:54A legacy of one's fiddling years.

0:41:54 > 0:41:58I don't really do anything now that I didn't do in my bedroom back home.

0:41:58 > 0:42:00I'm just a kid that got old.

0:42:00 > 0:42:01I can vouch for that.

0:42:01 > 0:42:03Someone promised me lunch.

0:42:05 > 0:42:07I'm on a double vodka.

0:42:07 > 0:42:09I'm on a double yellow.

0:42:11 > 0:42:15See you in the morning, Kenny.

0:42:15 > 0:42:17Bright-tailed and bushy-eyed.

0:42:20 > 0:42:23MUSIC: "20th Century Boy" by T Rex

0:42:23 > 0:42:25# Friends say it's fine

0:42:25 > 0:42:27# Friends say it's good

0:42:27 > 0:42:29# Everybody says

0:42:29 > 0:42:30# It's just like rock'n'roll... #

0:42:34 > 0:42:39'And now, it's the nutty man the BBC tried to gag.

0:42:41 > 0:42:44'It's the Kenny Everett show.'

0:42:44 > 0:42:49Hello, you, this is me, and here's them, the nyungy 10cc.

0:42:49 > 0:42:53Using you like spring lambs towards your grilled kippers.

0:42:53 > 0:42:55CUES "I'm not in love" by 10cc

0:42:55 > 0:42:58# I'm not in love

0:42:58 > 0:43:00# So don't forget it

0:43:02 > 0:43:07# It's just a silly phase I'm going through

0:43:09 > 0:43:12# And just because

0:43:12 > 0:43:15# I call you up

0:43:15 > 0:43:18# Don't get me wrong

0:43:18 > 0:43:21# Don't think you've got it made

0:43:23 > 0:43:28# I'm not in love, no-no

0:43:28 > 0:43:36# It's because

0:43:38 > 0:43:41# I like to see you

0:43:41 > 0:43:43# But then again

0:43:44 > 0:43:49# That doesn't mean you mean that much to me... #

0:43:50 > 0:43:53We're more like sisters, now, than husband and wife.

0:43:55 > 0:43:58You're a chick and so am I.

0:43:59 > 0:44:04# Don't tell your friends about the two of us

0:44:07 > 0:44:10# I'm not in love, no-no

0:44:12 > 0:44:16# It's because... #

0:44:16 > 0:44:23I love you, but I fancy Burt Reynolds.

0:44:42 > 0:44:46New breakfast jingle recording, take one.

0:44:58 > 0:45:02# Oh, Lord on high please hear my prayer

0:45:02 > 0:45:06# Watch over me whilst I'm on air

0:45:06 > 0:45:09# Protecteth me from daft mistakes

0:45:09 > 0:45:12# And keep me schtum in advert breaks. #

0:45:14 > 0:45:16Ev.

0:45:16 > 0:45:19Join the party, come in, come in, come in...

0:45:21 > 0:45:25I am the man.

0:45:26 > 0:45:29Do you ever sleep?

0:45:29 > 0:45:31No, no. Busy, busy.

0:45:31 > 0:45:35Pluggers to bribe, jingles to crochet.

0:45:35 > 0:45:37The show is in six hours!

0:45:37 > 0:45:41Which is why those lovely angels send down

0:45:41 > 0:45:44"Sleepy-Bye-Bye Pills".

0:45:44 > 0:45:46Will your wife not be worried?

0:45:46 > 0:45:49No, she's all tucked up, early start in the morning.

0:45:49 > 0:45:51She going away?

0:45:51 > 0:45:53Chercher-ing "le country pile".

0:45:53 > 0:45:57I get the "big smoke",

0:45:57 > 0:46:03she gets to disappear up the A40 in search of goats and milk churns.

0:46:05 > 0:46:07When is she back?

0:46:15 > 0:46:19Course, this is what cuddly Ken wanted to happen but instead...

0:46:19 > 0:46:22he now comes up with a whopping great porky pie.

0:46:22 > 0:46:25At which we should have a butcher's.

0:46:27 > 0:46:30..goats and milk churns.

0:46:32 > 0:46:40You know, when we first met, she surrounded me until I caved in.

0:46:42 > 0:46:45She's always trying to change me.

0:46:45 > 0:46:49Sticking me up some Welsh mountain.

0:46:49 > 0:46:53Forced me to churn out garbage, when I should have been here,

0:46:53 > 0:46:55back in the saddle and now as soon as I am...

0:46:55 > 0:47:00whoosh, she abandons me.

0:47:00 > 0:47:02Leaves me all alone,

0:47:02 > 0:47:07she disappears off in search of all this mumbo-jumbo.

0:47:08 > 0:47:11The only thing I care about

0:47:11 > 0:47:15is keeping you and I as far away from her as possible.

0:47:15 > 0:47:21Ev...Ev...what are you doing?

0:47:21 > 0:47:23Can't you see?

0:47:23 > 0:47:27The signals.

0:47:27 > 0:47:29It's you I love now.

0:47:32 > 0:47:35What the fuck are you doing? What do you take me for?

0:47:53 > 0:47:57You seem to have forgotten it was you who came after me!

0:47:57 > 0:48:00And I don't need to be a medium to know that "mumbo-jumbo"

0:48:00 > 0:48:03is going to be part of my life a lot longer than you will!

0:48:03 > 0:48:06- Lee, I'm...- Do you know what it feels like being betrayed?

0:48:06 > 0:48:10And I mean by someone who you thought really loved you.

0:48:13 > 0:48:15You swung an axe into me, Ev.

0:48:22 > 0:48:24Right.

0:48:24 > 0:48:28Well, I've gone along with this pantomime as long as I can.

0:48:30 > 0:48:34But I won't be cast as the Wicked Witch.

0:48:35 > 0:48:37Lee...

0:48:37 > 0:48:39Lee!

0:48:48 > 0:48:53MUSIC: "Speak to me" and "Breath" by Pink Floyd

0:49:08 > 0:49:12I always knew you'd end up in a place like this.

0:49:12 > 0:49:14Is it all right if I smoke in here?

0:49:14 > 0:49:17Oh, God, you're such a downer!

0:49:17 > 0:49:19Where's that doctor? he was cute.

0:49:20 > 0:49:23I just want to be happy and jolly.

0:49:23 > 0:49:27And you will be, once you stop chasing after straight men.

0:49:27 > 0:49:30Take me with you to the Cotswolds.

0:49:32 > 0:49:33No.

0:49:33 > 0:49:36No, you'll be bored within five minutes.

0:49:36 > 0:49:37Please!

0:49:42 > 0:49:45HITS TUNING FORK

0:49:48 > 0:49:50Sh! Sh!

0:49:50 > 0:49:52HE SNORES

0:49:52 > 0:49:55- Ev!- Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

0:49:59 > 0:50:03Sorry. This music's just making me want to wee!

0:50:03 > 0:50:07I'm having a whale of a time.

0:50:07 > 0:50:08Oh, don't, you'll get me blubbering.

0:50:08 > 0:50:09SHE LAUGHS

0:50:09 > 0:50:13Oh, no, shh, I like this bit. It's my favourite bit.

0:50:13 > 0:50:16Oooooh!

0:50:16 > 0:50:19Concentrate, concentrate!

0:50:38 > 0:50:40Everything all right?

0:50:40 > 0:50:43Yeah. Do you like your room?

0:50:43 > 0:50:45Yeah, it's nice.

0:50:45 > 0:50:47Are you sure you don't mind the single bed?

0:50:47 > 0:50:49No.

0:50:49 > 0:50:51Cos it's all right, you know,

0:50:51 > 0:50:56if you ever feel the need... to come in here with me.

0:50:57 > 0:50:59Just let me get better.

0:51:01 > 0:51:04Yeah. Here you are.

0:51:07 > 0:51:09Night.

0:51:09 > 0:51:11Night.

0:51:15 > 0:51:16I grabbed my putrid stench ray.

0:51:16 > 0:51:19The stench was putrid but Ray didn't mind.

0:51:19 > 0:51:23He grabbed his. It was a stand-off.

0:51:23 > 0:51:26- Kill! Kill!- You having fun?

0:51:30 > 0:51:34My new space-serial, "Captain Kremmen of the Star Corps"!

0:51:34 > 0:51:38An intergalactic superhero - tall, rugged, good with weaponry...

0:51:38 > 0:51:42Everything I wished I could have been for you, basically.

0:51:42 > 0:51:45Erm, that's my hairdryer.

0:51:45 > 0:51:49Your Putron Stench Ray, actually.

0:51:49 > 0:51:51Oh. And that's not our whisk, then?

0:51:51 > 0:51:55Brain marmaliser. Works a treat on aliens.

0:51:55 > 0:51:59You've got a funny way of convalescing, Ev.

0:51:59 > 0:52:01I'm fine if I'm working.

0:52:01 > 0:52:02The doctor said that you need

0:52:02 > 0:52:06to try and find happiness elsewhere, though, didn't he?

0:52:06 > 0:52:10I am happy. With you, I can take on the world.

0:52:13 > 0:52:17I'd better get on with saving the universe.

0:52:20 > 0:52:22Thanks for the tea.

0:52:24 > 0:52:26Still behaving yourself?

0:52:26 > 0:52:28- Ssh. Don't tell anyone. - Sleeping better?

0:52:28 > 0:52:30Look, no pills!

0:52:30 > 0:52:33Flushed down the khazi with all the rest of the sewage.

0:52:33 > 0:52:36We're all so happy to have you back, Ken.

0:52:36 > 0:52:38Thanks for keeping my chair warm for me.

0:52:38 > 0:52:41Now, listen to me, darling.

0:52:41 > 0:52:45London, and Lee,

0:52:45 > 0:52:47needs Kenny at his cuddly best!

0:52:47 > 0:52:50No more overdoing things,

0:52:50 > 0:52:54and lots of early nights, all right?

0:52:56 > 0:52:57Lee! Lee!

0:52:57 > 0:53:00Ah, you're awake...

0:53:00 > 0:53:04Yeah, why wouldn't I be at three in the morning?

0:53:04 > 0:53:07- Where have you been? - Witnessing history.

0:53:07 > 0:53:09You'll be history if you don't unplug!

0:53:09 > 0:53:11You know me and running around.

0:53:11 > 0:53:14You're supposed to be finding inner peace, Ev.

0:53:14 > 0:53:17You're going to flip when you hear what I've found.

0:53:17 > 0:53:19A pressie from the band, on pain of death

0:53:19 > 0:53:21I wouldn't play it on air.

0:53:21 > 0:53:24Five minutes, 56 seconds?

0:53:24 > 0:53:28- Fred asked me if I thought it was too long.- Who's Fred?

0:53:28 > 0:53:30The lead singer.

0:53:30 > 0:53:33Told him it could be half an hour long.

0:53:33 > 0:53:35It's going to be number one for yonkerettes.

0:53:35 > 0:53:37MUSIC: "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen

0:53:37 > 0:53:38# And leave me to die

0:53:38 > 0:53:42# Oh, baby

0:53:42 > 0:53:45# Can't do this to me, baby

0:53:45 > 0:53:47# Just got to get out

0:53:47 > 0:53:50# Just got to get right out of here... #

0:53:50 > 0:53:52That's the 14th time I've played this

0:53:52 > 0:53:55and the phone is still trilling off the hook, you insatiable fiends!

0:53:55 > 0:53:59What do you say we kidnap Lord EMI and scrungle his sticky-outy bits

0:53:59 > 0:54:03until he agrees to release Bohemian Rhapsody as a single.

0:54:03 > 0:54:07You, me, Queen know it makes sense!

0:54:07 > 0:54:12# Ooh, ooh

0:54:12 > 0:54:16# Ooh, yeah Ooh, yeah

0:54:24 > 0:54:28# Nothing really matters

0:54:28 > 0:54:31# Anyone can see

0:54:31 > 0:54:35# Nothing really matters

0:54:35 > 0:54:42# Nothing really matters to me... #

0:54:54 > 0:54:58Hello and welcome to tonight's Kenny Everett...

0:54:58 > 0:55:00Sorry, Kenny, not quite there.

0:55:00 > 0:55:02What wasn't?

0:55:02 > 0:55:05- You wandered out of shot again. - I didn't, did I?

0:55:05 > 0:55:07Come back, Hughie Green, all is forgiven.

0:55:07 > 0:55:10Pick it up, Kenny.

0:55:10 > 0:55:13WHISPERS: Hello.

0:55:15 > 0:55:19Hello, and welcome to tonight's Kenny Everett Video Show,

0:55:19 > 0:55:21starring Kenny Everett as himself!

0:55:21 > 0:55:22Tonight, we will be...

0:55:22 > 0:55:25Hold it! Ken, you're not quite hitting your mark.

0:55:25 > 0:55:27My what?

0:55:27 > 0:55:29If you come too far forward, you'll go soft.

0:55:29 > 0:55:32I bet you say that to all the boys!

0:55:32 > 0:55:36OK, we're still rolling. And in your own time...

0:55:45 > 0:55:50Look, the powers-that-be did give me a script. In fact, here it is.

0:55:50 > 0:55:54But I'm rubbish at learning lines, so...

0:55:56 > 0:55:57You're not meant to see this bit,

0:55:57 > 0:56:01but I'm supposed to stand here like a little garden gnome.

0:56:01 > 0:56:06Yes, folks - the actual gaffer tape used by Benny Hill just last week!

0:56:06 > 0:56:11These are the production values, the levels of professionalism

0:56:11 > 0:56:13and creative thinking behind the shambles replacing

0:56:13 > 0:56:16Opportunity Knocks every Monday night!

0:56:16 > 0:56:17I can only apologise

0:56:17 > 0:56:21to Mrs Mary Hinge from Sutton Coldfield,

0:56:21 > 0:56:26and here to assuage your disenchantment, dear lady,

0:56:26 > 0:56:27may I present to you...

0:56:27 > 0:56:32the Boomtown Rats!

0:56:33 > 0:56:36I thought we were supposed to be recording a music show?

0:56:36 > 0:56:39That was brilliant. Right! Moving on, everyone...

0:56:39 > 0:56:43A most unlikely TV star is created.

0:56:43 > 0:56:48Everett's televisual potpourri goes on to triumph in 20 countries.

0:56:48 > 0:56:52And attracting millions more adoring aficionados.

0:56:52 > 0:56:55Monday nights will never be the same again.

0:56:55 > 0:56:58I bet you don't eve know what "medium" means.

0:56:58 > 0:57:00Somewhere between "small" and "large"?

0:57:00 > 0:57:03Wrong. It means "antenna".

0:57:03 > 0:57:07Who'd have thunked it? The two of us in broadcasting!

0:57:07 > 0:57:10You're not too far wide of the mark, there, actually.

0:57:10 > 0:57:13Except you transmit and I am a receiver.

0:57:13 > 0:57:17Picking up signals from the spirit!

0:57:17 > 0:57:20Very good. You are learning.

0:57:20 > 0:57:23Yep, they've told me it's going to take a couple of years

0:57:23 > 0:57:27but I'm determined to develop this gift that they've told me I've got,

0:57:27 > 0:57:30and then share it with anyone who needs it.

0:57:30 > 0:57:34- Like a professional? - Like a natural.

0:57:34 > 0:57:38- I'm so proud of you. - Now he tells me!

0:57:38 > 0:57:41So, what about you? Come on, Mr Big TV Star.

0:57:41 > 0:57:43Ridiculous, given these legs!

0:57:43 > 0:57:46- Oh, give over.- I don't like looking at myself in a mirror.

0:57:46 > 0:57:49It's a miracle the viewers don't feel the same.

0:57:51 > 0:57:53Erm, she's the Virgin Mary.

0:57:53 > 0:57:56And he's the one with the face for radio.

0:57:57 > 0:57:59Thank you.

0:58:03 > 0:58:05To you!

0:58:07 > 0:58:09No, to you.

0:58:09 > 0:58:14Hello, you friends of Dorothy out there.

0:58:14 > 0:58:17Sidney Aloysius Snot, 'ere.

0:58:17 > 0:58:19Introducing to you a very special day

0:58:19 > 0:58:23in the social calendar of this great nation of ours.

0:58:23 > 0:58:29As you know, upcoming is the British Eurovision Violence Contest

0:58:29 > 0:58:33and 'ere, Ladies and Gentleman, allow me to introduce to you

0:58:33 > 0:58:36the British contender in said contest,

0:58:36 > 0:58:39Freddie - Good start - Mercury!

0:58:39 > 0:58:42Ladies and Gentlemen.

0:58:42 > 0:58:44Do your stuff, Fred!

0:58:48 > 0:58:51The Kenny Everett Video Show!

0:58:51 > 0:58:53From now on, Treasure,

0:58:53 > 0:58:56you'll require endless primping.

0:58:56 > 0:58:59The finest nosh and plonk... Thank you.

0:58:59 > 0:59:02..shits and giggles, frequent nibbling,

0:59:02 > 0:59:03constant draining,

0:59:03 > 0:59:05and it still won't be enough.

0:59:05 > 0:59:08If only our acolytes shared our pain.

0:59:11 > 0:59:13Ev? Would you like us to leave?

0:59:13 > 0:59:14Me and Freddie.

0:59:14 > 0:59:18So you and your friend can be on your own?

0:59:21 > 0:59:22He was just being attentive.

0:59:22 > 0:59:24You don't say!

0:59:25 > 0:59:28- Bloody good service, I thought. - Please! I'm gagging on my risotto.

0:59:28 > 0:59:32Courage, mon brave. At least this one's a poof.

0:59:32 > 0:59:35One small step for Everett...

0:59:35 > 0:59:39And how would Lady Lee feel about a giant leap?

0:59:41 > 0:59:44If you love someone, set them free.

0:59:45 > 0:59:47Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

0:59:47 > 0:59:51I gave Mary a copy when we started dating.

0:59:51 > 0:59:54You've never told me how...Mary...

0:59:54 > 0:59:56How? She cottoned on?

0:59:56 > 0:59:59Well, we'd been together for six years.

0:59:59 > 1:00:02I told her that I thought I might have been bisexual.

1:00:02 > 1:00:05But she assured me I was gay.

1:00:09 > 1:00:12Lee won't stop loving you, Kenny.

1:00:12 > 1:00:15Excuse me, waiter? Sorry!

1:00:15 > 1:00:16Sorry.

1:00:16 > 1:00:19My husband has a question for you.

1:00:22 > 1:00:24Could I see the dessert trolley?

1:00:24 > 1:00:26Could he buy you a drink?

1:00:26 > 1:00:29We're all going dancing.

1:00:29 > 1:00:30Bring your sequined slippers.

1:00:30 > 1:00:33Sure, why not?

1:00:33 > 1:00:35That'd be nice.

1:00:37 > 1:00:40Congratulations, Kenny.

1:00:40 > 1:00:42Your wife just pulled your first boyfriend.

1:00:42 > 1:00:44MUSIC: "Good Times" by Chic.

1:00:44 > 1:00:47# These are the good times

1:00:49 > 1:00:52# Leave your cares behind

1:00:54 > 1:00:56# These are the good times

1:00:59 > 1:01:01# Good times

1:01:02 > 1:01:05# These are the good times

1:01:06 > 1:01:09# Our new state of mind

1:01:10 > 1:01:14# These are the good times... #

1:01:17 > 1:01:18GLASS SMASHES

1:01:18 > 1:01:20All right, all right!

1:01:20 > 1:01:24I met him at a party. And we've had a few drinks since.

1:01:24 > 1:01:25- How many drinks?- Just one or two.

1:01:25 > 1:01:28He's going through a very, very painful divorce.

1:01:28 > 1:01:29That old conker!

1:01:29 > 1:01:31Well, at least he's honest.

1:01:32 > 1:01:36An actor?! Not even that - an extra from Z-Cars!

1:01:36 > 1:01:40It's The Sweeney, actually. And John is a main character!

1:01:40 > 1:01:41"John is a main..."

1:01:41 > 1:01:44You just hate the fact that I feel other people's pain

1:01:44 > 1:01:46and I want to help them find a way out from it.

1:01:46 > 1:01:49- Not the point. - Well, then, what is the point?

1:01:49 > 1:01:50He's a bloke!

1:01:54 > 1:01:55Isn't yours?

1:01:58 > 1:01:59It's not the same.

1:02:04 > 1:02:07So, you can meet new men,

1:02:07 > 1:02:09but I can't?

1:02:09 > 1:02:11Is that what you're saying to me?

1:02:20 > 1:02:23You know what? You can clean up your own mess.

1:02:35 > 1:02:39So, what can I get you?

1:02:40 > 1:02:41Ooh!

1:02:43 > 1:02:47CLICKS TONGUE

1:02:50 > 1:02:53Ah! Dom Perignon.

1:02:53 > 1:02:54Ev!

1:02:54 > 1:02:56No, he's right.

1:02:56 > 1:03:00This is a cause for celebration.

1:03:00 > 1:03:02Me rescuing you from him.

1:03:02 > 1:03:04Worth a bottle of DP in anyone's book,

1:03:04 > 1:03:06don't you reckon? Be right back.

1:03:06 > 1:03:09Dying to experience the priceless Everett wit

1:03:09 > 1:03:10I've heard so much about.

1:03:10 > 1:03:12Have an olive.

1:03:19 > 1:03:21Well, I was going to ask him his prospects.

1:03:23 > 1:03:25Trying not to punch you in the nose!

1:03:29 > 1:03:32Well, I'm sure I can help him with that.

1:03:38 > 1:03:41- Five minutes, Kenny.- Thanks.

1:03:41 > 1:03:44Ecoutez et repetez -

1:03:44 > 1:03:48Lee and Kenny are over.

1:03:48 > 1:03:51Lee and Kenny are over.

1:03:51 > 1:03:54And Kenny must move on.

1:03:57 > 1:03:58Even though she found me my new flat?

1:03:58 > 1:04:00And I still pay her to cook my dinners?

1:04:00 > 1:04:02She grants me unlimited access to her Indesit Automatic!

1:04:02 > 1:04:04And helps me fend off the press...

1:04:04 > 1:04:06Sh!

1:04:06 > 1:04:09She and John reckon I'll only find a true happiness

1:04:09 > 1:04:12until I've spilt the beans.

1:04:12 > 1:04:15Those of us in regal circles prefer "coming out", my dear.

1:04:15 > 1:04:17Oh! The very thought!

1:04:17 > 1:04:19OK.

1:04:19 > 1:04:21Start with your family.

1:04:23 > 1:04:26Like I said - stop hiding.

1:04:26 > 1:04:28Ooh!

1:04:28 > 1:04:30You bloody poof!

1:04:30 > 1:04:32How many?

1:04:33 > 1:04:3515 million, at the last count.

1:04:35 > 1:04:39Imagine that, Tom. 15 million people watching our Maurice.

1:04:40 > 1:04:43And we got a complaint from Mary Whitehouse.

1:04:43 > 1:04:44How fantastic is that?

1:04:48 > 1:04:50Things couldn't be going any better.

1:04:55 > 1:04:58So, how did you two become friends?

1:05:01 > 1:05:04Lee introduced us.

1:05:04 > 1:05:07- Where is Lee? - Isn't she joining us?

1:05:08 > 1:05:10How should I know?

1:05:10 > 1:05:13She's your wife.

1:05:16 > 1:05:19Not any more.

1:05:27 > 1:05:29A married man?

1:05:29 > 1:05:31My nan will be gutted.

1:05:32 > 1:05:36And him sharing his birthday with the baby Jesus!

1:05:36 > 1:05:38If it makes him happy, why not?

1:05:41 > 1:05:44Meals on heels!

1:05:44 > 1:05:50Right. Chilli con carne, Lobster bisque, Lancashire hotpot...

1:05:50 > 1:05:51Big night ahead?

1:05:51 > 1:05:53Catching "Deer Hunter".

1:05:53 > 1:05:55Yeah, and then din-dins at Peppermint Park.

1:05:55 > 1:06:00- How much?- Ten quid, plus an extra fiver for the lobster.

1:06:00 > 1:06:01I meant for the Yeti.

1:06:01 > 1:06:03None of your bloody business.

1:06:03 > 1:06:06Twelve hundred?

1:06:06 > 1:06:07Sixteen.

1:06:07 > 1:06:09And her - the animal-lover!

1:06:10 > 1:06:12Don't get sanctimonious on me!

1:06:12 > 1:06:14Sixteen hundred would vanish up your nose in a week!

1:06:14 > 1:06:18This'll still be keeping me warm in thirty years.

1:06:18 > 1:06:21Well, I hope you'll both be very happy together.

1:06:21 > 1:06:24You cannot bear the idea of me making it on my own, can you?

1:06:24 > 1:06:29That my little world can revolve without you at its centre.

1:06:29 > 1:06:32Well, it did, it can, and it bloody well does!

1:06:36 > 1:06:37Ev?

1:06:41 > 1:06:43What is up with you, Ev?

1:06:45 > 1:06:47Philip and I don't laugh like you and I used to.

1:06:47 > 1:06:49Oh, for crying out loud.

1:06:49 > 1:06:51I feel straighter now than I was before!

1:06:51 > 1:06:52You're doing it again -

1:06:52 > 1:06:55you're kyboshing things once they start going well for you.

1:06:55 > 1:06:59I just feels like I've gained a nice, sensible boyfriend

1:06:59 > 1:07:01and I've lost...

1:07:01 > 1:07:03A what? Mother?

1:07:03 > 1:07:06Sister? Psychiatric nurse? Addiction counsellor?

1:07:06 > 1:07:10- Press officer? Nod when you think I've hit the nail on the head.- You.

1:07:13 > 1:07:19There are so many wonderful things happening for me - John,

1:07:19 > 1:07:21my counselling work and...

1:07:21 > 1:07:23I want to share all that with you, but I...

1:07:25 > 1:07:27..I can't be a life-line to you any more.

1:07:29 > 1:07:30If we're going to remain friends,

1:07:30 > 1:07:34I think we need to cut it - officially.

1:07:35 > 1:07:38We're soul mates.

1:07:39 > 1:07:42Just got our sexes wrong, eh?

1:07:58 > 1:08:00So, I told my boyfriend last night

1:08:00 > 1:08:03that I could count the number of guys I'd dated on one hand.

1:08:03 > 1:08:07And he says, "Cupid, put down that calculator!"

1:08:08 > 1:08:11I tell him he's got to be more communicative.

1:08:11 > 1:08:13He points to his crotch replying,

1:08:13 > 1:08:15"Honey, I do all my talkin' with this".

1:08:15 > 1:08:18Well, I take one look and I tell him,

1:08:18 > 1:08:21"You really don't have much to say, do you, Cowboy?"

1:08:21 > 1:08:24What the hey! Men are like sticks of gum.

1:08:24 > 1:08:26Spit one out, and start chewing on another.

1:08:26 > 1:08:28Not that I'm a floosie, or nothing.

1:08:28 > 1:08:31I'm Cupid Stunt, major Hollywood B-movie starlet

1:08:31 > 1:08:34doing everything she can to get given her head.

1:08:34 > 1:08:36And I'm telling you, Michael,

1:08:36 > 1:08:39everything I do is always done in the best possible taste!

1:08:42 > 1:08:47So, have we thought any more about our little chat?

1:08:47 > 1:08:50The right moment never seems to come.

1:08:50 > 1:08:52Trust me, it will.

1:08:52 > 1:08:54When?

1:08:54 > 1:08:58Well, once you find the appropriate platform.

1:08:58 > 1:09:00Yours?

1:09:00 > 1:09:04The NME. Told them I was "as gay as a daffodil".

1:09:04 > 1:09:08A month later, Queen had their first top-ten hit.

1:09:08 > 1:09:13Actually, there might be something coming up.

1:09:13 > 1:09:16Michael Winner's asked me to play Wembley.

1:09:20 > 1:09:24ON PA: "Rule Brittania"

1:09:24 > 1:09:28Ken, Ken, Ken. Look, there's nothing to worry about.

1:09:28 > 1:09:30I'm having second thoughts.

1:09:30 > 1:09:34Have you seen that podium? Monkhouse, Tarby, Ted Rogers...

1:09:34 > 1:09:36Talk about raising your game!

1:09:36 > 1:09:38I think I'm gong to raise my lunch!

1:09:38 > 1:09:40We're all delighted you've agreed to help us out.

1:09:40 > 1:09:44It's a shrewd career move.

1:09:44 > 1:09:47As I tell every great star I direct -

1:09:47 > 1:09:52"We've got a script. Let's stick to it!"

1:09:52 > 1:09:54Sing out, Louise!

1:10:01 > 1:10:04Just rattle through your night and try not to bump into Norman Tebbit.

1:10:09 > 1:10:10Good afternoon.

1:10:10 > 1:10:13It's a great pleasure, Ladies and Gentlemen,

1:10:13 > 1:10:17to present one of this country's great political thinkers,

1:10:17 > 1:10:19Mr Kenny Everett!

1:10:19 > 1:10:24APPLAUSE

1:10:31 > 1:10:33I'm not sure I am a Conservative.

1:10:33 > 1:10:35THEY BOO

1:10:35 > 1:10:39Sure, I was browned off with Labour when they scuppered the pirate ships,

1:10:39 > 1:10:42detest Arthur Scargill and love having coppers in my piggy bank,

1:10:42 > 1:10:48but if it's all right with you, I think I'll keep my options open.

1:10:48 > 1:10:55However, there is one thing that I am absolutely certain of,

1:10:55 > 1:10:58and I would love to share that with you today...

1:10:58 > 1:11:00I...

1:11:00 > 1:11:02am...

1:11:02 > 1:11:04GAY!

1:11:04 > 1:11:08Ah, don't you just love the smell of a fertile imagination?

1:11:08 > 1:11:12Two words, darling, Kenny - "If" and "only".

1:11:15 > 1:11:18Let's Bomb Russia!

1:11:18 > 1:11:20THEY CHEER

1:11:20 > 1:11:22Let's kick Michael Foot's stick away!

1:11:22 > 1:11:24LOUDER CHEER

1:11:26 > 1:11:29You know, I was chatting to Maggie the other day.

1:11:29 > 1:11:32We were having one of our little teas, and I said to her, I said,

1:11:32 > 1:11:35"Maggie, you're rolling that joint all wrong!"

1:11:35 > 1:11:40I so wanted to use their "Nuremburg Rally" to come out.

1:11:40 > 1:11:42You did. As a Tory.

1:11:42 > 1:11:47It was a showbiz favour, not a Party Political Broadcast!

1:11:47 > 1:11:49'Can I come over?'

1:11:50 > 1:11:53Well, erm...

1:11:53 > 1:11:56actually, John and I have got plans.

1:11:56 > 1:11:57Quiet night in?

1:11:57 > 1:12:01If you must know, it's supper with Elton and Renata.

1:12:01 > 1:12:03Love's young dream?

1:12:03 > 1:12:05Come on, snap yourself out of it!

1:12:07 > 1:12:10Your right!

1:12:10 > 1:12:14It's time Cuddly Ken pulled himself up by the bootstraps -

1:12:14 > 1:12:16whatever they may be.

1:12:16 > 1:12:20- It's time he took action! - And what might that be?

1:12:20 > 1:12:24To begin with, more gin!

1:12:24 > 1:12:26- Lagoons of it!- Then what?

1:12:26 > 1:12:29To be continued...

1:12:29 > 1:12:31Those Hacienda heart-throbs, New Order there,

1:12:31 > 1:12:36rounding us up like an old sheepdog and pointing us in the direction

1:12:36 > 1:12:40of Cuddly Ken's thought-ette of the day.

1:12:40 > 1:12:43When England was a kingdom we had a king,

1:12:43 > 1:12:47when we were an empire we had an emperor.

1:12:47 > 1:12:52Now we're a country we have... Margaret Thatcher!

1:12:55 > 1:12:58# Relax, don't do it

1:12:58 > 1:13:00# When you want to, go do it

1:13:00 > 1:13:02# Relax, don't do it

1:13:02 > 1:13:04# When you want to come

1:13:04 > 1:13:06# Relax, don't do it

1:13:06 > 1:13:08# When you want to suck, do it

1:13:08 > 1:13:12# Relax, don't do it

1:13:12 > 1:13:13# When you want to come

1:13:16 > 1:13:18# When you want to come

1:13:21 > 1:13:23# Relax, don't do it... #

1:13:27 > 1:13:29Come on, then, a toast.

1:13:29 > 1:13:31Bottoms up...

1:13:31 > 1:13:34FALSETTO: Tingle, tingle, tingle.

1:13:35 > 1:13:37I'm so happy for you both.

1:13:37 > 1:13:39Cheers.

1:13:39 > 1:13:41And you will come, won't you?

1:13:41 > 1:13:44If I can find a hat big enough.

1:13:44 > 1:13:47So, when is the "royal wedding"?

1:13:49 > 1:13:50Valentine's Day.

1:13:50 > 1:13:53We wanted you to be the first to know.

1:13:53 > 1:13:56We also thought the timing might help things.

1:13:56 > 1:13:57"Things"?

1:13:57 > 1:14:00Come on, now, Ev. When me and John get wed,

1:14:00 > 1:14:03the press are going to make your life a misery.

1:14:03 > 1:14:06- So, what else is new? - Hit them with a pre-emptive strike.

1:14:06 > 1:14:08Yeah. How do you think your fans would feel if one of your mates

1:14:08 > 1:14:12shopped you first and made himself a fortune in the bargain?

1:14:12 > 1:14:15- They wouldn't. - How can you be so sure?

1:14:15 > 1:14:18Because they're all my lovely friends!

1:14:18 > 1:14:21Kenny, querido, everyone is asking for you. "Hi."

1:14:21 > 1:14:22Hi.

1:14:22 > 1:14:25They're playing our song, OK? Come dance.

1:14:26 > 1:14:29Pepe. A friend of Nikolai's.

1:14:29 > 1:14:33Oh, yeah, your Soviet soldier.

1:14:33 > 1:14:36You're getting a new husband. Why can't I?

1:14:36 > 1:14:39You can! That's what I want that for you, you know it is.

1:14:39 > 1:14:42We just think there are better places to find one

1:14:42 > 1:14:43than in a dark room.

1:14:48 > 1:14:51Well, the mirror ball is calling, I better go and strut my stuff.

1:14:51 > 1:14:54It's a dangerous game, Ev.

1:14:54 > 1:14:57What? Dancing?

1:14:57 > 1:14:59Russian Roulette.

1:15:02 > 1:15:04Thanks for the bubbles, John!

1:15:04 > 1:15:06MUSIC: "Freedom" (Acoustic Cover version) by Wham

1:15:14 > 1:15:19# Every day I hear a different story

1:15:20 > 1:15:25# People saying that you're no good for me

1:15:25 > 1:15:29# Saw your lover with another

1:15:29 > 1:15:33# And she's making a fool of you

1:15:36 > 1:15:41# If you loved me, baby you'd deny it

1:15:41 > 1:15:46# But you just laugh and tell me I should try it

1:15:46 > 1:15:50# Tell me I'm a baby

1:15:50 > 1:15:54# And I don't understand

1:15:56 > 1:16:02# But you know that I'll forgive you

1:16:02 > 1:16:06# Just once, or twice, for ever

1:16:08 > 1:16:12# Cos, you could take me to hell and back

1:16:12 > 1:16:17# Just as long as we're together

1:16:17 > 1:16:20# And you do

1:16:24 > 1:16:29# I don't want your freedom

1:16:29 > 1:16:34# I don't want to play around

1:16:34 > 1:16:40# I don't want nobodies, baby

1:16:40 > 1:16:45# Part-time love just brings me down

1:16:45 > 1:16:51# I don't want your freedom

1:16:53 > 1:16:57# Girl, all I want right now is you

1:17:17 > 1:17:23# I'm like a prisoner who's got his own key

1:17:23 > 1:17:28# But I can't escape until you love me

1:17:28 > 1:17:31# I just go from day to day

1:17:31 > 1:17:34# Knowing all about the other boys

1:17:38 > 1:17:43# You take my hand and tell me I'm a fool

1:17:43 > 1:17:47# To give you all that I do

1:17:48 > 1:17:56# I bet you, some day, baby, someone says the same to you

1:17:58 > 1:18:04# But you know that I'll forgive you

1:18:04 > 1:18:08# Just once, or twice, for ever... #

1:18:08 > 1:18:11All right, you lot, I've asked you here in order to quash any rumours,

1:18:11 > 1:18:14and there's nowt wrong with a good quashing.

1:18:14 > 1:18:15So who's first?

1:18:15 > 1:18:17Are you and your ex-wife still friends since your divorce?

1:18:17 > 1:18:19Absolutely, yes.

1:18:19 > 1:18:20Did you not consider it strange

1:18:20 > 1:18:23- being the Best Man to your ex-wife's new husband?- Nope. Next.

1:18:23 > 1:18:25Are you a homosexual?

1:18:27 > 1:18:29The word is you're sharing your flat with a man.

1:18:32 > 1:18:35How absolutely dare you!

1:18:35 > 1:18:37I'm sharing my flat with two men!

1:18:37 > 1:18:40And here they are...

1:18:40 > 1:18:43Say "pree-vyet" to Nikolai...

1:18:43 > 1:18:45Kenny's own little stab at glasnost!

1:18:45 > 1:18:47And "hola" to Pepe...

1:18:47 > 1:18:49Spain's greatest undiscovered sculptor!

1:18:49 > 1:18:51Aren't they dreamy? And they're all mine!

1:18:51 > 1:18:54Take Cuddly Ken's word for it, darlings,

1:18:54 > 1:18:56two husbands are so much better than one!

1:18:59 > 1:19:01All right, that's all, folks!

1:19:01 > 1:19:03Oh, Kenny! Kenny, come on!

1:19:03 > 1:19:04Just a few more questions.

1:19:04 > 1:19:07Kenny, just a few more minutes.

1:19:08 > 1:19:10HE SIGHS

1:19:15 > 1:19:17Para nuestro soldado valiente.

1:19:19 > 1:19:21You are the hero now.

1:19:24 > 1:19:27MUSIC: "How soon is now" by The Smiths

1:19:56 > 1:20:00It ain't beyond the realms of possibility that my mate,

1:20:00 > 1:20:03Kelly Enema, and not those tag nuts having a pop at him,

1:20:03 > 1:20:06might be the one who has the last laugh.

1:20:06 > 1:20:09I bleeding well hope so.

1:20:09 > 1:20:11Was that an insane thing to do?

1:20:11 > 1:20:13You? Insane?

1:20:13 > 1:20:14I did it, Lee.

1:20:16 > 1:20:18I actually did it!

1:20:18 > 1:20:23And so spectacularly. You came out of that closet on a trapeze!

1:20:23 > 1:20:25And are you glad?

1:20:25 > 1:20:31I'm everything. I'm...confused, relieved, blissful, terrified...

1:20:31 > 1:20:33And now I've realised there's more to life

1:20:33 > 1:20:37than shocking the Great British public or dropping

1:20:37 > 1:20:38a needle on Madonna.

1:20:38 > 1:20:40YES!

1:20:40 > 1:20:42And don't say, "I told you so".

1:20:42 > 1:20:44As if I would say that...

1:20:44 > 1:20:46Now listen to me.

1:20:46 > 1:20:49It's going be touch and go with the press for the next couple of days.

1:20:49 > 1:20:51You'd better get your arse down here.

1:20:51 > 1:20:53- To hide?- Don't be a nelly!

1:20:53 > 1:20:57We're throwing you a coming out party!

1:20:59 > 1:21:01Conquering his own irrational fears,

1:21:01 > 1:21:04Cuddly Ken proves himself even cuddlier

1:21:04 > 1:21:08in the hearts and minds of 20 million viewers.

1:21:08 > 1:21:11And yet, what of his art, one might ask?..

1:21:11 > 1:21:13Fuck art, let's dance!

1:21:13 > 1:21:15MUSIC: "You Spin Me Round" by Dead Or Alive

1:21:15 > 1:21:18# ..right round Like a record, baby,

1:21:18 > 1:21:19# Right round, round, round

1:21:19 > 1:21:23# You spin me right round, baby, right round

1:21:23 > 1:21:24# Like a record, baby,

1:21:24 > 1:21:26# Right round, round, round... #

1:21:26 > 1:21:28APPLAUSE

1:21:54 > 1:21:55Best bash of my life.

1:21:55 > 1:21:59Should be, took 40 years to organise.

1:21:59 > 1:22:01I owe you one.

1:22:01 > 1:22:02One?!

1:22:14 > 1:22:20This erm...this arrangement with Nikolai and Pepe.

1:22:20 > 1:22:22No, should I be worried?

1:22:22 > 1:22:24About what?

1:22:24 > 1:22:26No-one wants to stop you having fun

1:22:26 > 1:22:29but I really need to know that you're looking after yourself.

1:22:29 > 1:22:33You've cleared yourself a way to be happy for the rest of your life.

1:22:33 > 1:22:35If only I looked that far ahead.

1:22:35 > 1:22:38No-one's Peter Pan, Ev. Not even you.

1:22:47 > 1:22:50The tongues will start wagging if we don't get back inside.

1:22:53 > 1:22:57Looks like your old tulip tree.

1:22:57 > 1:22:59Yeah, cos it is.

1:23:00 > 1:23:04The one that got us into all this trouble?

1:23:04 > 1:23:07Every time I move, I take a cutting and re-grow it.

1:23:10 > 1:23:12Eternal life.

1:23:14 > 1:23:16Hope so.

1:23:25 > 1:23:28MUSIC: "Sleepy Lagoon" by Eric Coates

1:23:28 > 1:23:32'If I ever do die,

1:23:32 > 1:23:36'I think that as I'm hoiked aloft

1:23:36 > 1:23:40'in a ray of God's lovely sunbeam.

1:23:40 > 1:23:43'I think I'd like this to be on the gramophone as I go.'

1:23:43 > 1:23:48MUSIC: "Preludio Sinfornico" by Puccini

1:23:48 > 1:23:50'It's just beautiful.

1:23:50 > 1:23:56'It's a beauty. It's just liquid loveliness.

1:23:56 > 1:23:59'Puccini is God.

1:23:59 > 1:24:02'God with knobs on.'

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