Sir Bruce Forsyth: TV legend dies aged 89
As a game show host he was brilliant, as a song and dance man he left me cold.
Our Brucie RIP
Bruce Forsyth
Bruce Forsyth
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth
Bruce Forsyth
Bruce was a true entertainer. I'm not really into dance or tap dance but I could appreciate the hard learned skill. But as you say Bruv, it would be very difficult to find anybody who was such a skillful and entertaining game show host. It was obvious that he loved working on game shows and that is why he always commanded high audience ratings. Bruce, thank you for such splendid entertainment - you will be sadly missed by millions ! R.I.P.
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Bruce Forsyth
I've often tried to puzzle out this curious category of camp performer. One thing I've never successfully discovered is whether there is such a thing in the USA or not. It's not a simple matter of sexual orientation as Bruce Forsyth himself showed. Nobody could have mistaken Mr Forsyth for gay but he was totally camp. As was, for example, Cilla. Americans perhaps just think camp equates to British.
As a category I have spent a lifetime admiring its practitioners, from Round the Horne through Up Pompeii - I'm not sure of a current example, now I think about it. Is Grayson Perry camp? I don't think he is. David Walliams can be when the fit takes him and there are few performers I admire more. The wonderful Eddie Izzard can be but mostly avoids it. But there's a modern-day crop who quite frankly repel me like Alan Carr or Graham Norton.
Anyway, no, Brucie as a performer did nothing for me though I admire his persistence and I'm pleased he pleasured so many generations of television viewers ever since the medium was invented.
As a category I have spent a lifetime admiring its practitioners, from Round the Horne through Up Pompeii - I'm not sure of a current example, now I think about it. Is Grayson Perry camp? I don't think he is. David Walliams can be when the fit takes him and there are few performers I admire more. The wonderful Eddie Izzard can be but mostly avoids it. But there's a modern-day crop who quite frankly repel me like Alan Carr or Graham Norton.
Anyway, no, Brucie as a performer did nothing for me though I admire his persistence and I'm pleased he pleasured so many generations of television viewers ever since the medium was invented.
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Bruce Forsyth
Bruv;1511786 wrote: Sir Bruce Forsyth: TV legend dies aged 89
As a game show host he was brilliant, as a song and dance man he left me cold.
Our Brucie RIP
Who?
As a game show host he was brilliant, as a song and dance man he left me cold.
Our Brucie RIP
Who?
Bruce Forsyth
xfrodobagginsx;1512733 wrote: Who?
You are on an international forum.
You are on an international forum.
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth
Bruce Forsyth
xfrodobagginsx;1512733 wrote: Who?
Jesus with talent.
Jesus with talent.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
Bruce Forsyth
spot;1512738 wrote: Jesus with talent.
Or.........Trump with humility ?
Or.........Trump with humility ?
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth
Bruce Forsyth
Bruv;1512739 wrote: Or.........Trump with humility ?
Or Fred Astaire without the speech impediment.
Or Fred Astaire without the speech impediment.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
Bruce Forsyth
Bruv;1512739 wrote: Or.........Trump with humility ?
Similar hair-do - Stuck on.
Similar hair-do - Stuck on.