In noodling around YouTube the other day - at The Cowboy's prompting - looking for other examples of entertainers who, like Dave Allen, have been fond of the odd drink, I turned up this analysis of the pros & cons of performing drunk. I really don't think Dave did drink on stage - he just pretended to, for a giggle, to wind up the censorious types who'd disapprove of such behaviour. If he did drink, it certainly wasn't to excess: he never appeared to be 'under the influence'.
The same, alas, cannot be said for the people cited in this clip (one or two of whom deserve an 'Unsuitable Role Models' post of their own at some point).
The same, alas, cannot be said for the people cited in this clip (one or two of whom deserve an 'Unsuitable Role Models' post of their own at some point).
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No love for Derek & Clive here, the ultimate drunk performers?
Did they drink during those sessions?
Of course, the original Pete & Dud dialogues on 'Not only but also' always featured them sipping pints of beer.... but it was just a stage prop: they never actually got through very much. Although I do fondly remember Dud once corpsing so hard that he nearly drowned on his.
There is at least one moment when Dudley Moore is so drunk he falls off his stool into the musical instruments piled up against the wall.
You can hear the whisky bottles clink in some recordings.
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