All in the best posible taste

Last night on BBC4 I caught 'All in the best possible taste', a bio about Kenny Everett

I guess it's been broadcast before but well worth a watch, Fred has a big part in it... well a chap playing Fred, the resemblance was pretty good but the voice no so much...

Try to catch it if you can, worth a laugh or two. The chap playing Everett was excellent

Thanks for the heads up, watching it now on iplayer.

I watched it last night too. Quite enjoyed it but would I guess there was a lot of 'artistic licence' where Freddie was involved. I thought the guy who played Kenny was superb though

^ Yeah, artistic license indeed: silly wee things like Freddie having a moustache during the Sid Snot sketch (when he didn't in the real one) and smoking like a chimney during the 1978 segments (I think he started smoking in 1979....).

Not that it *really* matters, of course, but since the guy playing Kenny had everything down to a T, they might have researched this a little better :)

i have it on my computer if you want to view it, yeah but i don't like what they did with kenny and freddies performance because there like my two favourite people like kenny (favourite comedian) and Freddie (favourite singer).

[QUOTE] [b]Thistleboy1980 wrote:[/b]

^ Yeah, artistic license indeed: silly wee things like Freddie having a moustache during the Sid Snot sketch (when he didn't in the real one) and smoking like a chimney during the 1978 segments (I think he started smoking in 1979....).

Not that it *really* matters, of course, but since the guy playing Kenny had everything down to a T, they might have researched this a little better :)[/QUOTE]


Incidentally enough, the latest fan club magazine has a copy of Freddie's handwritten letter to fans from Spring 81 in which he says he's just taken up smoking!

i can not watch it online? because i am from out the uk.

can i watch it somewhere else online?

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[b]DEMON wrote: [/b] i can not watch it online? because i am from out the uk.

can i watch it somewhere else online?[/QUOTE]

I am also not in the UK so I use this [url=http://www.expatshield.com]http://www.expatshield.com[/url]/
Download, install, run = British IP anywhere in the world, watch iplayer then turn it off again to regain normal network IP. Totally free and virus clean.

Allright! I will check it. Thank u very much.

Great show, great by the guy who played Kenny. Terrible writing/acting by Freddie. They gave him a moustache in 79...you can look at that clip on the internet and see he hasn't got a moustache. However, that's more of a nitpick, my main complaint is that he doesn't sound or act anything like Freddie. It's almost like, stick a moustache on anybody, talk posh and there you go, Freddie Mercury!

All in all I thought it was a great show. The important thing to remember is it was all about Kenny Everett and not Freddie, Freddie's character was only on screen about 6 minutes out of a total 90. Sure, the guy playing him could have been better, but it was a minor role in the story. I must say the chap playing Kenny was absolutely top notch in every aspect. It cannot be easy to do a Kenny, he was quite brilliant and unique. I thought it really was him in some scenes. Great acting, great script and great directing.