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  • Опубликовано: 12 апр 2025
  • Ricky Grovers superb character 'Bulla', in a rare fleeting bit of 90s TV footage from the sketch(y) series 'Comedy Nation', which I used to watch out of boredom. Glad I did, as I caught this priceless set of sketches.
    Parkinson is superb and plays it as if for real.
    At the end is an early telly appearance on the same show from Mitchell & Webb, who, as we all know, got considerably better.
    I don't own the copyright, blah, blah....

Комментарии • 102

  • @imranh5395
    @imranh5395 5 лет назад +9

    It sure is a gem. Ricky Grover is such an under-rated comedian! Thanks for sharing 😂

  • @paulharrion3398
    @paulharrion3398 2 года назад +13

    "I always remember something that my old Grandad used to say to Ronnie and Reggie - 'ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!" 😂

  • @BigSeany1979
    @BigSeany1979 6 лет назад +41

    This character was and is genius. Wish someone had taken a proper chance on Grover as I love him to bits.

    • @patlynch9969
      @patlynch9969 5 лет назад +1

      BigSeany1979 he’s just been on radio London. Trying to find his new RUclips Bulla channel.

    • @danielheffernan6916
      @danielheffernan6916 4 года назад +3

      Big fat gypsy Gangster

    • @kelvinsmith6854
      @kelvinsmith6854 4 года назад

      I watch this at least once a week, great character, a lovely guy too.

    • @Paddy.C
      @Paddy.C 2 года назад +3

      Johnny Vaughan did, when he became the Uk's highest paid TV star, and attempted to break into sitcoms.
      Even when the critics savaged ''Orrible', they praised Grover for his performance, and berated Vaughan even more, for wasting his talents.

    • @jackbrown4120
      @jackbrown4120 Год назад +1

      @@Paddy.C I think orrible is fuckin brilliant... it must be ok Cos I don't usually watch shit.

  • @garrybynon6080
    @garrybynon6080 3 года назад +7

    parkinson held on like a pro, that bit where he said he clumped someone with an ashtray fucking killed me, bulla/ricky grover is quality

  • @pjhayler
    @pjhayler Месяц назад +1

    Thanks for this John, different gear.

  • @petetalbot9699
    @petetalbot9699 3 года назад +9

    love you ricky, so so underated

  • @stefangrant1989
    @stefangrant1989 2 года назад +7

    “There is times in life where you have to bat and bowl” - classic response 😂😂😂😂

  • @GPatrick-fb3ff
    @GPatrick-fb3ff 2 года назад +4

    Your putting it on me! I fcking loved that. Michael didn't know when he was being serious or having a giggle. Proper bulla

  • @JackBlack-gh5yf
    @JackBlack-gh5yf 2 года назад +6

    Ricky Grover is brilliant! :D

  • @LANCSKID
    @LANCSKID 2 года назад +5

    He could have been another here today, gone tomorrow stand-up but he created and developed the Bulla character to make it truly his own. “I’m a lovely guy …”

  • @adzkelly3894
    @adzkelly3894 4 года назад +3

    I've still got this and all the comedy nations on vhs ,Love it

  • @edi7264
    @edi7264 10 месяцев назад +2

    Absolute Gold...

  • @declancostello5842
    @declancostello5842 5 лет назад +5

    Just brilliant

  • @simonwilton3546
    @simonwilton3546 2 года назад +2

    That Mitchell and Webb bit was so like Fry and Laurie that it must have been a tribute.

  • @tommyl6775
    @tommyl6775 2 года назад +9

    Bring Back Buller And Make Britain Great Again!

  • @heavyshift1
    @heavyshift1 4 месяца назад +2

    Comedy gold!!! 🎉😂

  • @johnoneill5884
    @johnoneill5884  5 лет назад +7

    I met him about ten years ago (I was playing in Bad Manners would you believe?😆) and he turned up to a gig to interview Buster about obesity, he was filming for a section of Trevor McDonalds programme, forget the name. One of those probing report things. Mentioned that I had a small group of friends who are obsessed with this footage, we usually tell each other to 'go back to the sand' if one of us requires a put down. He was really chuffed, such a sweet fella.

    • @channel8t8archive
      @channel8t8archive 4 года назад +1

      Hi John, I was wondering if you could possibly send me an email on -
      channel8t8@gmail.com I'd love to talk to you about the footage from the episode of Comedy Nation of Bulla & Parky. We just uploaded an episode on our channel too.

    • @johnoneill5884
      @johnoneill5884  4 года назад +1

      @@channel8t8archive hello! So sorry just seen this, have emailed you, speak soon

  • @kelvinsmith6854
    @kelvinsmith6854 4 года назад +5

    Ricky is a true star

  • @Neil-pv8pw
    @Neil-pv8pw 2 года назад +1

    i used to gig around london and i met loads of these characters

  • @markwestwood9730
    @markwestwood9730 7 месяцев назад +2

    When the camera was on Ricky, you could hear MP sniggering and laughing.

  • @mickyeverton
    @mickyeverton 2 года назад +6

    Ricky is a TOPMAN!!! 🙏🙏🙏

    • @mikipiediaelburro7588
      @mikipiediaelburro7588 2 года назад +3

      Canning Town's finest...he knew all the faces..Bill the Bomb etc

    • @James-m3o5x
      @James-m3o5x 2 месяца назад +1

      He had a bulldog called Bronson

  • @Justdocuments
    @Justdocuments 4 года назад +4

    Brilliant man. Love and peace ✌🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✌🙏

  • @jimmymorrison8314
    @jimmymorrison8314 Год назад +4

    Pair of diamonds.

  • @lewisdowsett8390
    @lewisdowsett8390 Год назад +2

    Saying that's me and love ya all the time is spot on with these supposed hard nuts

  • @simonrusk3338
    @simonrusk3338 10 месяцев назад +2

    There’s only one Bulla!!! 😮.. if your wise.. you won’t mess with him..he’ll help an old lady cross the road.. he’s kind to his mum..😊… but when he loses it..Zoom Zoom.. a left and a right.. and it’s good night!!!..Hell have a whisper in your ear!! Kenny!!!!! 😮..😂😂😂😂 we need Bulla Back.. he’s a lovely guy!!!!!

    • @James-m3o5x
      @James-m3o5x 2 месяца назад

      He would swim the channel with a barge on his back just to buy an old dear a big of cheese 🧀 think about that for a minute 🙂

  • @petetalbot9699
    @petetalbot9699 3 года назад +5

    I remember sadam when he used to be a mini cab driver on the old Kent road

  • @paulbirkbeck1790
    @paulbirkbeck1790 3 года назад +11

    He reminds me of Ray winstone in nil by mouth

  • @Psionikman
    @Psionikman 5 лет назад +8

    He's a nice guy, but very, very naughty.

    • @johnoneill5884
      @johnoneill5884  5 лет назад +1

      Psionikman 😆👍 'I need this! I said no screws'

    • @johnoneill5884
      @johnoneill5884  4 года назад

      I say, to me, send Lionel Blair over there!

  • @georgesullivan4473
    @georgesullivan4473 Месяц назад

    To be honest initially I took this at face value as I wasn't aware it was a skit. Lol 😂

  • @ashgan84
    @ashgan84 6 лет назад +7

    AAAAARGH!!!

  • @CycolacFan
    @CycolacFan 4 года назад +4

    Look up the story of him giving Josh Widdicombe a lift home from a gig. I won’t repeat it here because obviously it’s so much funnier when Josh tells it.

    • @JohnDoe-dx7bu
      @JohnDoe-dx7bu 4 года назад

      Can't find one :/ you got a link?

    • @CycolacFan
      @CycolacFan 4 года назад +2

      @@JohnDoe-dx7bu it was on the television show that Alan Davies did called ‘As Yet Untitled’ where Josh was a guest. Haven’t found a link yet but I’ll post one if I do.

    • @JohnDoe-dx7bu
      @JohnDoe-dx7bu 4 года назад +2

      @@CycolacFan thanks for a decent reply, usually you get "find it yourself". Genuinely is nice to receive a decent reply. Thanks

    • @CycolacFan
      @CycolacFan 4 года назад

      @@JohnDoe-dx7bu thank you. I’m now even more determined to find it 😄

  • @longlegs31
    @longlegs31 5 лет назад +5

    So funny.

  • @aleccap5946
    @aleccap5946 6 лет назад +5

    He was over Cheshunt Park walking his black Russian terrier, didn't know who the bloke was, but he seemed like a nice enough bloke, but he has made his money now and moved somewhere better

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 2 года назад

      Barking mad …

    • @aleccap5946
      @aleccap5946 2 года назад

      @@LANCSKID Nice bloke, wow 3 years ago eh, I bet a Little Chef waitress moves faster then you. Is that even possible ?

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 2 года назад

      @@aleccap5946 Barking mad refers to a TV advert Ricky did a while back with a dog tucked under his arm, but then … you knew that. Are there any Little Chef waitresses left? I had an affair once with one … her honey and mustard relish was really quite something …🥸

    • @aleccap5946
      @aleccap5946 2 года назад

      @@LANCSKID 3 years refers to the ridiculous slow time it took yoy to respond 🙄

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 2 года назад +2

      @@aleccap5946 Only just come to the Bulla content on YT. There are two versions of the Parkinson interview time length wise. Yoy?

  • @getheroutofthetruck
    @getheroutofthetruck 2 года назад +5

    'Saddam, go back to the sand.'

    • @thecookreporting
      @thecookreporting Год назад

      You know it was just a random guy who looked like him

  • @steviejify
    @steviejify 5 лет назад +5

    Why do random scenes from another program keep cutting in?

    • @adzkelly3894
      @adzkelly3894 4 года назад +2

      Because it was a bbc 2 sketch show and the whole bulla interview was chopped up into 1.5 or 2 minute section over a 30 min episode

    • @johnoneill5884
      @johnoneill5884  4 года назад +3

      Hi Steven, sorry it’s just lazy editing, I did it on my dvd recorded I think, straight off the vhs then copied it on my laptop using MPEG Squareclip, could have been a bit smoother but couldn’t be bothered, I’m not a professional AV technician, just a sax player! 😅

    • @johnoneill5884
      @johnoneill5884  4 года назад +1

      And as Adz mentions, those bits are from the same show. I’d like to think the whole programme was dedicated to Bulla sketches but alas they aren’t.

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 2 года назад

      @@johnoneill5884 Do you know who the girl with the tight curly hair is? And what was the sketch show?

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 2 года назад

      I’ll answer my own question … it is Tracy Ann Oberman and the show is Comedy Nation.

  • @lovelybitofbugle219
    @lovelybitofbugle219 5 лет назад +3

    Nice video mate, I've never seen that before...that was a young Michell and Webb.

  • @derekedge1382
    @derekedge1382 3 года назад +2

    Knew Ricky from the Tom Allen days.

  • @Justdocuments
    @Justdocuments 4 года назад +1

    He was saying that. 😄🤭😅

  • @davidgormley7990
    @davidgormley7990 4 года назад +4

    KENNY!!!!

  • @markwestwood9730
    @markwestwood9730 7 месяцев назад

    This interview, I'm sure most of it was ad-libbed, it could have been alot longer too. Ricky and MP could have got a good 30 mins from this. Shame it didn't pan out this way.😢

  • @petetalbot9699
    @petetalbot9699 3 года назад +4

    sadam's a lovely fella but he can get a bit saucy

  • @brianbrian1769
    @brianbrian1769 2 года назад +1

    The truth about Rod Hull at last.

  • @FlammableHector
    @FlammableHector Год назад

    He sounds the double of ronnie kray 😂

  • @paulfahy9101
    @paulfahy9101 6 лет назад +8

    Zoom

  • @badmantonrd
    @badmantonrd 6 месяцев назад +5

    I love Ricky Grover but that Mitchell and Webb bit in this was so shite lol

  • @michaeljordan-wz2hs
    @michaeljordan-wz2hs Год назад +3

    Bulla should have been bigger

  • @davidb6681
    @davidb6681 2 года назад +1

    Redcoat 😁

  • @timnolan4407
    @timnolan4407 Год назад +1

    KENNY.

  • @Justdocuments
    @Justdocuments 4 года назад +2

    🤭😄🤪

    • @cbkgeneral
      @cbkgeneral 2 года назад

      Your name deserves a like. That is funny 😂

  • @grassyknoll9647
    @grassyknoll9647 2 года назад +1

    “Understand what I’m saying?” Nope

    • @johnoneill5884
      @johnoneill5884  2 года назад

      😂😂😂 exactly, vague violence 😂😂😂

  • @101brydon
    @101brydon 2 месяца назад

    Dya understand worram seyin

  • @paulholmes458
    @paulholmes458 Год назад +1

    I was going to share this and for a laugh say it was my favourite Parkinson interview. But then for some reason it has these stupid interruptions in it of clips not remotely connected to it???

    • @johnoneill5884
      @johnoneill5884  9 месяцев назад +1

      Hello.
      I’m the person who posted this video, so I might offer an explanation if I may?
      These clips are edited down from an episode of a show called ‘Comedy Nation’ which wasn’t great, despite featuring some great actors such as Ricky, Tracy Ann Oberman, etc. I didn’t bother trimming the clips preceding or after the Bulla segments to make sure I definitely didn’t lose any of Ricky’s work. Plus it serves as a reminder of the superiority of his sketches over the rest of the show, including the very early example of Mitchell & Webb at the end, who, as I’m sure we all know, upped their game after this to become amongst the countries top comedy writer/performer teams. I’m not here to entertain, this is pure documentation of a piece of very underrated work.

    • @garethtaylor1470
      @garethtaylor1470 11 дней назад

      @@johnoneill5884
      Thank you for the explanation John AND for uploading it!
      I was wondering the exact same thing and I thought the uploader must be a nut job who’s having a laugh because it is so bizarre.
      Thanks again🙏

  • @mad-pit3832
    @mad-pit3832 Год назад +2

    Tv back then would never be aloud today.

    • @allvalley
      @allvalley Год назад

      i guess you have never watched 'It's always sunny'

    • @seanbear69
      @seanbear69 Год назад

      it was always noisy

    • @lewisdowsett8390
      @lewisdowsett8390 Год назад

      1st sentence saying pansy....banned

  • @dmgsoultogetherness6667
    @dmgsoultogetherness6667 2 года назад +2

    didnt quite hit the mark imo..banter wasnt sharp enough

    • @stevenharrison1213
      @stevenharrison1213 Год назад

      Needed canned laughter.

    • @adiands850
      @adiands850 Год назад

      exactly, Ricky fluffed his opening bit and didn't seem well prepared. Still a few good moments though!

    • @James-m3o5x
      @James-m3o5x 2 месяца назад

      @@adiands850Do yourself a 🍋

    • @James-m3o5x
      @James-m3o5x 2 месяца назад

      @@adiands850you sound like a slimemong

    • @James-m3o5x
      @James-m3o5x 2 месяца назад +1

      You must be joking