The Davina mannerisms
The Fiona Bruce persona
The Ross Kemp catchphrase
The inaneness of The One Show links
The Dom Littlewood voice is probably one of the best as actual impressions go
I started watching the last ep on iplayer last night, and even though some of them are ok, I just cannot abide the bad impressions and terrible jokes, so I had to switch off after about ten minutes and watch Armstrong and Miller instead.
Culshaw does a few people very very well, like Bush (who he is not even doing anymore) and Michael McEntyre but really, he tends to sound just like himself for the most part and is the most overrated impersonator since Les Dennis.
Culshaw is simply too old to play most of the parts he tries...................and worse then that, he neither sounds like or looks like ANY of them !!!!
99% of the british population can do a brucie impression better then the dross I saw tonight.
I feel sorry for Deborah as she is mostly good but the whole show is plain awful.
Bring back Alaistair McGowan and Ronnie Ancona anyday.
This show gets steadily worse each week. The first episode I found genuinely amusing and laughed at most of the sketches (perhaps as I had no expectations), but by the second episode the jokes were already wearing thin, and tonight's was just painful. Particularly the Wayne & Coleen sketch.
I did raise a slight smirk at Brucie's tap dancing, though.
Culshaw is simply too old to play most of the parts he tries...................and worse then that, he neither sounds like or looks like ANY of them !!!!
99% of the british population can do a brucie impression better then the dross I saw tonight.
I feel sorry for Deborah as she is mostly good but the whole show is plain awful.
Bring back Alaistair McGowan and Ronnie Ancona anyday.
You are obviously watching a different programme to me. I was a big fan of Dead Ringers and I think this is a pretty good attempt to bring impressions back to the mainstream.
Debra Stephenson is surprisingly good given that I didnt think she did impressions -her Davina and Anne Robinson are simply brilliant.
Memo to anyone........Les Dennis is the one who couldnt do impressions...............................although I concede his Mavis from Coronation Street is unique-especially with Dustin Gees's Vera!
I worked with Jon Culshaw on hospital radio around 1987. We were both Level 42 fans and I can remember bringing in 'Running in The Family' on vinyl when it first came out and him playing a few tracks on his show. He'd started doing the impressions back then.
He's seems a nice bloke and I'm glad he's done well, although tbh I'm not a fan of most of his TV work but then I'm not a big fan of impression based shows in general.
I've never watched Dead Ringers but I did catch a couple of minutes of it on Dave the other night and I would say that Debra is better at some of the impressions than Jan Ravens. I think her Fiona Bruce is a lot better.
Added to the things I though were good in my previous post I also like the Hugh-FW sketches. Short and sweet, predictable but pretty good.
Deborah is not bad at all; her Davina McCall and Kirstie Allsopp are spot on! John Culshaw is, and always has been, pretty rubbish. He just sounds like himself in nearly all of the impressions, expect Gok Wan, where he sounds like Dale Winton.
Impressions have long since passed on as TV entertainment, its fine in short bursts on topical comedy quiz shows, but not as a standalone 1/2 hour show. Although, I have to say they do a decent job, just not for me over 30 mins.
I've never watched Dead Ringers but I did catch a couple of minutes of it on Dave the other night and I would say that Debra is better at some of the impressions than Jan Ravens. I think her Fiona Bruce is a lot better.
Added to the things I though were good in my previous post I also like the Hugh-FW sketches. Short and sweet, predictable but pretty good.
Not had the pleasure of seeing Miss Stephenson as "The Bruce" yet.
Is she as erotically charged?
"I'm Fiona Bruce, don't turn over, I like you that way".
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The Davina mannerisms
The Fiona Bruce persona
The Ross Kemp catchphrase
The inaneness of The One Show links
The Dom Littlewood voice is probably one of the best as actual impressions go
Culshaw does a few people very very well, like Bush (who he is not even doing anymore) and Michael McEntyre but really, he tends to sound just like himself for the most part and is the most overrated impersonator since Les Dennis.
What's funny about Eamonn Holmes thinking a table is a biscuit? The licensing fee is paying Culshaw for this shite........
The impressions were terrible on the whole and the jokes weren't funny
And I guess you have to be an avid viewer of ITV daytime telly to know who most of these people are
The people who I knew sounded nothing like their impressions.............:eek:
Ant and Dec...........:eek:
Davina.........what was that all about ?...........
Wayne Rooney ?............
I thought the Ray Mears voice was good, but the joke was so predictable
I did laugh once, but I can't remember the joke now
99% of the british population can do a brucie impression better then the dross I saw tonight.
I feel sorry for Deborah as she is mostly good but the whole show is plain awful.
Bring back Alaistair McGowan and Ronnie Ancona anyday.
I did raise a slight smirk at Brucie's tap dancing, though.
How ?
You are obviously watching a different programme to me. I was a big fan of Dead Ringers and I think this is a pretty good attempt to bring impressions back to the mainstream.
Debra Stephenson is surprisingly good given that I didnt think she did impressions -her Davina and Anne Robinson are simply brilliant.
Memo to anyone........Les Dennis is the one who couldnt do impressions...............................although I concede his Mavis from Coronation Street is unique-especially with Dustin Gees's Vera!
OMG - it was awful!!!
At least I didn't sit through all of it. Suppose that is a small mercy.
He's seems a nice bloke and I'm glad he's done well, although tbh I'm not a fan of most of his TV work but then I'm not a big fan of impression based shows in general.
Added to the things I though were good in my previous post I also like the Hugh-FW sketches. Short and sweet, predictable but pretty good.
Not had the pleasure of seeing Miss Stephenson as "The Bruce" yet.
Is she as erotically charged?
"I'm Fiona Bruce, don't turn over, I like you that way".
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that.
Deborah is really good, Her Davina McCall, Kirsty Allsopp, Kirsty Young and Anne Robbinson are genious
John's best is Micheal Mcintyre and Adrian Chiles