by Durhamfootman » Sat Sep 09, 2023 3:11 pm
still holds the record for biggest Christmas day viewing figures, seemingly. 21.4 million in 1977
the world shifted in the eighties with the rise of the comedic equivalent of 'new wave' and he rather got left behind. It won't have helped that many of his 'go to' characters also left the stage in the late seventies and early eighties.
He appeared as a guest on that last Bob Monkhouse show in the very early noughties (the one shortly before BM's death where he invited all the up and coming comedians who hadn't quite made it yet). Yarwood was there as a chat show guest, but he initially started off rehashing old impressions, which wan't what BM was after. I seem to recall that once he started being Mike Yarwood instead of Harold Wilson the interview offered quite an insightful view of MY's post fame life
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