After the first episode of the Graham Norton fronted talent show “When Will I be Famous” I promised to stick with it in the hope of seeing an act as tacky as the one-legged Elvis impersonator featured in Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights (that act was a spoof BTW) And last night my patience was rewarded.
The first act to come on was “Rubber Boy.” He started by passing his entire being through the hole in a toilet seat. Now we all feel as if we have done that the morning after a dodgy curry, but this guy did actually put the bog seat over his head, dislocated his shoulders and wriggled through. I wondered had he been Ewan McGregor’s stunt double in Trainspotting.
The rest of the act was pretty run of the mill contortionist stuff until he climaxed (oops, pardon!) by kissing his own arse.
It proved a bit too much to swallow for the largely suburban audience and he did not win. He also killed his sex life stone dead, I mean who is ever going to kiss him on the gob now.
After that the show went downhill, a kids chorus, a duet of drummers, another contortionist, a man who sat in a bath of water and hung himself from straps and a bloke who hit himself on the head with a tin tray. No one - legged Elvis impersonator .... although ......
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there was a unicycling Chuck Berry impersonator.