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An assortment of sketches follow: Jimmy Nail does what sounds like a traditional local folk song (the Tyne features prominently). If anyone knows what it was we would be grateful to find out. Mike Elliott was a hoot. He endures some jeers for being from Sunderland (there is no love lost between the two areas), but his humour has us in stitches. He asks if there is anyone in from "down South....like Middlesborough or Darlington?" For a horrible moment I think that Sharon is going to shout "we're from Essex!" Thank God she doesn't. Gillian Taylforth ("Kaff" from Eastenders, appeared in Lost in France with Ronnie Johnson) does a skit with Denise Welch (Tim Healy's real life wife and Natalie in Coronation Street) have a chat while Peter Beardsley (yep, that one) plays with his football while dressed as a little kid. They are also joined by "Janice Battersby" from Coronation Street, wearing the famous apron and track suit. The McNally Band features Tony McNally who has played with Jimmy Nail live in the past. They do two songs. The second Auf Weidesehen sketch once again has Neville shouting into the stage-hand's "public telephone" to Brenda about being delayed, this time from Malaga airport. Brendan Healy stumbles onto the stage (if you saw Spender, he was the guy that Jimmy Nail punched in the face because he thought he had broken into his ex-wife's house - he was in fact her new boyfriend). He is much bigger than he seems on TV and has a massive shock of long blonde hair. He is falling over drunk and is shouting out in a thick Geordie accent a joke about being a scout for General Custer (General Custer keeps calling for his "Geordie Scoot"). He is hilarious and we can hardly hear him for laughing ourselves. The joke goes on for so long that the McNally Band has already set up and is fidgeting to get started before Brendan has left the stage. |