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There have been a lot of people over the years who flared into ten-year stardom and then sank. I think you get pulled in, you can't say no, you want it to happen and then you're inevitably stranded. If any bunch of people need a self-help group to get over it, I reckon they're the ones. The public still knows exactly who they are, but the public would much rather engage with other acts.

Keith Harris had gone through an awful lot of that before he made his Giffgaff advert. I've no idea whether it says a lot or it doesn't, but it might. It's a great advert though.

That must have been one hard life to get through.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32498955

I'd not actually seen that advert before. Its very good. It must be a hard life in the wilderness after that initial success and then finding your agent calls less and less.

I never saw his appeal. As a ventriloquist he was rubbish.

FourPart;1478332 wrote: I never saw his appeal. As a ventriloquist he was rubbish.


We could look for clips and compare, I suppose. You may not have liked his act. I'm not sure I ever saw him perform but as a ventriloquist, from a technical perspective of not moving his lips while his dummy was talking, he had a reputation of excellence. Unlike, for example, Mr Hull.

The one aspect his agent particularly referred to when being interviewed by obituarist reporters was that Keith Harris was "a technically great ventriloquist", and he obviously wasn't saying that in order to get bookings.

rest in peace Keith Harris