Monday, June 25, 2007

"Gordon is a moron!"

No, not a reference to the about-to-be-PM of Britain, but rather to the fantastic song 'Jilted John.' A perennial favourite on the show, and a one-hit wonder from 1978 in which actor Graham Fellows adopted an embittered alter-ego for this punk ditty about a feeble young lad whose girlfriend chucks him for a good looking bloke called Gordon. An outstanding work.



And whatever happened to Fellows? Well, he resurfaced years later, unrecognizeable in a completely different persona: that of mild-mannered Yamaha keyboard troubadour John Shuttleworth. Shuttleworth's scratchy Sheffield accent and earnest easy-listening compositions are utterly unmistakeable. Here's a fine example -- the tragic story of a man who starts his dessert only to find that, had he waited, he could have finished off the rest of his daughter's unwanted dinner. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "I Can't Go Back to Savoury Now."

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