Do you remember Phil Cool?

equalsql Frets: 6422
16 Dec, 2024
Time is relentless and aging is a bitch!


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The first stand up show I ever went to. 
Timcito Frets: 1394
16 Dec, 2024
Nice clip!

I remember him and thought he was great.
EricTheWeary Frets: 17041
16 Dec, 2024
Haven't watched the clip but one of my housemates when I was a student knew him. Phil taught him a sort of joke routine on guitar (tortuous to explain) that I have been known to do when struggling to entertain. 
tony99 Frets: 7639
16 Dec, 2024
Yes, and I particularly remember him doing Neil Kinnock advertising a Cadbury's fudge, and Billy Conolly and the stick of celery. 
Philly_Q Frets: 26267
16 Dec, 2024
The first stand up show I ever went to. 
Me too, I think.  Hemel Hempstead Pavilion.  He was good, but I was disappointed that he did a lot of material I'd already seen on TV.
Philly_Q said:
The first stand up show I ever went to. 
Me too, I think.  Hemel Hempstead Pavilion.  He was good, but I was disappointed that he did a lot of material I'd already seen on TV.

I saw him on a TV show quite a few years after his heyday, and it was exactly the same routine I'd seen when I was a kid, even down to the Jack Nicholson/Bugs Bunny A Few Good Men sketch, even though that film was like 20 years old or something.

I've got to admit, I genuinely thought I remembered reading a while back that he'd died, so this thread has been quite a surprise tbh.
Clicked on the link and HOLY SHIT WHERE DID THE TIME GO?
axisus Frets: 28735
17 Dec, 2024
Goodness me! I didn't realise that was him at first!!! In all fairness he's 76 now.

When I was a teen in the 70s he was just the greatest comedian when he burst onto the scene, well, him and Dave Allen. The pair of them were essential viewing.
RobDavies Frets: 3115
17 Dec, 2024
Blimey.  I’d never have guessed that was Phil Cool.  


Roy Jay anyone?

Spook!
RobDavies said:
Blimey.  I’d never have guessed that was Phil Cool.  


Roy Jay anyone?

Spook!

Ah, I think it might have been him that I was thinking of when I thought Phil Cool was dead. I remember him from when I was a kid, literally can only remember the "Spook!" catchphrase, not any of the jokes he told. According to Wikipedia, he had another catchphrase, "slither hither" - don't remember that, either.