Vivian Stanshall - Crank (Part One)

[CueWunAye]

The thumbnail of the video is creepier than fuck.

[kristoscan]

viv got me thru another bad nite and or weekend,brilliant.

[SirHenryLives]

3 dislikes? Who would click dislike on this??? As the great King Kenny Dalglish said to Wenger 'ach! Piss off!' This is tremendous and timeless! Thankyou very much for upping!

[CountKryzal]

God bless you, my dear friend. An inspiration and a modern Shakespeare. Real talent is rare; brilliance is an honour to behold. May we meet again one day.

[SunamiJane]

he made Oliver Reed look sober

[arealbladeofgrass]

Someone should upload "Real leather Jacket " and share it with me. This is a song from the That'll be the day film soundtrack. It goes something like this..

"Jimmy spent a packet

on a real leather jacket

With a lotta zip.

And greasing back his hair

in the mirror Jimmy learnt

How to curl his lip....etc..etc..

Brilliant number...if you have it then post it.

Luv you ....bye !

[motney555]

@arealbladeofgrass If I got it right its on my channel now as my very first upload. Check out Real leather jacket- Vivian stanshall

[youlittlerocket]

and this guy is meant to be Faul?

[thelostislandboy]

Has this marvelous song at 5.00 ever been recorded????

[PomBare]

@thelostislandboy Great isn't it, I sadly can't find any information on the song ;(

[utz14]

" A parsite in bed!" Vivian, I am so glad we never met but then you would have fitted in my zoo quite well, really.

[gemear2]

I love you Viv!

[skawashers]

who put this up and cant Edit the film, someone please re upload it and edit it Properly and not in a middle of a song

[WouterVoogsgeerd]

whats the name of the song on the end ? with the close up on his face ?

[wolriknitram]

Great vid. Viv and Keith Moon were my heroes in the 60's

[NewAgeOrder]

The price of genius eh

[namaste91]

Oh my dear,this guy is wicked! A odd bird.

[namaste91]

Odd bird.xD

[DavidMJordan]

John Peel has a facility with words that is as good as Viv's whilst being totally different. The definitive witty critic.

[OriTheEep]

So what happened to the Rawlinson sessions?

[truthslap]

Long live Vivian Stanshall and the Bonzo Dog Band

[jobzagudn]

MRS. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVE!!!!

[Yeevle]

Blilliant.

[Cugel1]

"Well! Strap me to a tree and call me Brenda!"

LOL!

[Brickshave]

assclown and megagayer surely have the taste of a brain dead bottom feeder of some kind. The kind of art that Stanshall produced has clearly gone way over your collective heads. My advice would be to go back to whatever mind numbing entertainment you choose to while away your unenlightened lives

[red1964]

I think you're wasting your time, old chap. These bottom-feeding types below neither understand Stanshall's genius, nor will they ever touch as many lives as he did with their pointless little existances. RIP St. Viv.

[ajbutch123]

ass

[megagamer3112]

FUCKING DICK

[bradondo]

The first time I heard "Yelp, Bellow, Rasp, etc." from Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead I bawled like a baby. What a genius! Why, oh why did such a man have to hurt so Goddam much just to get up in the morning?

[TheSnowballEarth]

God, John Peel. Now there's a bloke who did so much to introduce British music to the States. Both he and Viv are very much missed by this Yank.

[JayMaySayHey]

Poor Viv... the way he died. In his life he suffered a terrible lack of fatherly love that affected his comic and musical material disproportionately. But we have what he left us, that body of work interrupted only by his own extreme idiosyncrasies and, of course, his premature death. Thank you for this wonderful Late Show digest of some of Viv's inimitable performances, from earliest to latest.

[freeganjaman]

Total nutter, and genius. A lot like me.

[peacemtn]

Neato

[MondoBeno]

Was Vivian Stanshall autistic?

[red1964]

No, he was just different to you. You had that privelege in those days.

[anonUK]

@MondoBeno

No, he was not autistic. He was almost definitely manic depressive- in fact, he was like Spike Milligan in many ways, although far more difficult for "normal people" to get a handle on.

[DerrickthePinecone]

Ron Geesin is much, much funnier.

[ChickenboneJohn]

To my shame, I must confess I've never seen this before...so thanks for sharing this...Stanshall was an absolute genius..eccentric..yes...but so quintessentially English in both these traits

[firestartertwistedfi]

People say this guy was terribly funny - what's the evidence for this?

[Totalyvaporized]

The evidence is that you don't get it. LOL!

[firestartertwistedfi]

Give me Jake Thackray any day.

[monkeylab4life]

Who's Jake Thackray?

[diderik89]

never heard about thackray until today. just watched a few pieces now to get to know him...thanks for mentioning him, definitely enriched my day!

[firestartertwistedfi]

you're very welcome! i still remember with pleasure the car ride where i heard him for the first time.

[posthumanhero]

love jake thackray......a real genius......but different people have their different uses.

[Totalyvaporized]

Yeah, your right, this guy is no more funny than old monty python shit.

[mark919]

Nice Intro...and Outro...from John Peel

[broadsword342]

Viv was a genius.

[Sunburn2007]

Excellent! Thank you for putting this up.

[MonkeySpitone]

Im an aspiring comedy writer and I only hope that one day I can write something that is nearly as humorous as Vivian's Sir Henry At Rawlinson End.

I know it's impossible though.

I wish I could have met him before he died.

Such a shame he's not around anymore.

[BaddaBigBoom]

*sigh* what a guy. One in a trillion.