Elvis cameo in British TV comedy show ?
It appears , according to an exchange on a Costello fan forum , that Elvis may have had a brief appearance on Dead Ringers , a BBC comedy made up of sketches featuring look-a-likes of famous people. I`m not sure if it was Elvis himself or someone who looked like him. I suppose the only way to find out for sure is to tune in next Wednesday(Jan.7th) for the repeat.
Emotional Ricochet writes on the fan forum
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:45 pm
Did anyone just see Elvis on Dead Ringers New Year Special. They were doing a scene in a chemist shop with an impressionist doing Ozzy Osborne. Unsuspecting members of the public came in and were on film then Elvis suddenly appeared. It didn't seem to be a celebrity appearance, it just seemed like he was coming in as an ordinary customer. Does anyone reckon that it was arranged or whether it was just a coincidence? Which ever it was, it was a nice surprise.
Emotional Ricochet writes -
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:45 pm
Did anyone just see Elvis on Dead Ringers New Year
Special. They were doing a scene in a chemist shop
with an impressionist doing Ozzy Osborne. Unsuspecting
members of the public came in and were on film then
Elvis suddenly appeared. It didn't seem to be a
celebrity appearance, it just seemed like he was
coming in as an ordinary customer. Does anyone reckon
that it was arranged or whether it was just a
coincidence? Which ever it was, it was a nice
surprise.
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laughingcrow responds -
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 11:35 pm
Hey cool....they're repeated on Mon 5 Jan at 21:30 on
BBC Two and
Wed 7 Jan at 22:00 on BBC Two, but the Wednesday one
is the New Years one that was on tonight!
Good spot Ric!
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Nick Ratcliffe writes on l-listserv-
Earlier today Matthew wrote this about
EC's appearance on the New Year's edition of "Dead Ringers" .
"Yes, it was definitely Elvis. It was very hard to tell if it was a set-up or not, but either way it was pretty funny. The Ozzy impersonation
was spot-on. If it wasn't arranged in advance, Elvis must have been very confused."
Jon Culshaw, of Dead Ringers, was on the Mark Lamarr show on BBC Radio 2 this morning (sitting in for Jonathan Ross). For the next 7 days you
can hear the show again here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/ross/ and click on "listen live"
(needs realplayer).
Culshaw enters about 50 minutes into the 3 hour show. You can get there by clicking the "skip 5 mins" button ten times !
He discusses EC's appearance about 1 hour twelve minutes into the show. According to Culshaw, it was not set up and EC's appearance was
unplanned !
Posted by: johnfoyle | January 3, 2004 1:33 PM