The jokes were dated and non-PC,the delivery perfectly timed: for one night only, the showbiz survivors teamed up to create a piece of theatre historyWith the two performers having a combined age of 158 – and the aggregate age of some rows of theatregoers potentially running into the thousands – there was some unease in advance about whether everyone involved would bag through Des O’Connor & Jimmy Tarbuck: Together for the Very First Time at the London Palladium on Sunday night.
But the biggest health risk, and as it turned out,might bear been to any current BBC or Channel 4 comedy commissioners or recent Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy award winners in the audience. Surtitled “Sunday Night at the London Palladium”, in honour of a show final seen regularly on TV in the 70s, or the acts included gags about how long it takes “ladies” to bag dressed,the accents of the Japanese when speaking English, and at least two Tarbuck punchlines referring to a woman as a “bitch”.
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Source: theguardian.com