Richard Stilgoe - The Now Show - It Really Isn't Easy Being Dave

In the summer of 2007, Mitch Benn missed the last two episodes of that series of The Now Show - at the time of my writing this, it marks the only time he's been absent since joining the cast on a permanent basis. He sent a taped song into the penultimate show of that summer series, but for the final episode, Richard Stilgoe was drafted in as a standin. Copyright BBC/Richard Stilgoe etc, this is a song about David Cameron, before he became PM, although it's probably still reasonably accurate now.

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[ImplyDods]

Has anyone checked out Tim Minchin....The new and better richard

[LABCall]

@ImplyDods I've heard him a couple of times, but he's never appealed. Chaque a son gout, I suppose . . .

[otchightower]

Birriliant line at 2:22

[smhorse]

Doesn't Richard Stilgoe look like a dead ringer for the late Robin Cook?

[ianwilson2007]

terrific stuff

[6musky]

Brilliant!

[pimpmykilroy]

is there the song about the Shark and Lord Lucan?

[Helena74]

@ImplyDods Yes indeed. I actually found out about Richard through Tim and also Tom Lehrer!

I think they are brilliant satirical piano playing wonders.

[welshdiver1]

Brilliant! Do you have the song about the toucan and Lord Lucan, I would LOVE to hear that again :)

[Tristanjplane]

@fraserkatie you lucky ducky i love to see them unfortunaly they stopped performing the year i was born

[fraserkatie]

He's funny! I love Richard Stilgoe! He's funny and makes me laugh! I saw Richard when I went to a performance at the Royal Opera House, of the Orpheus Centre's Orpheus The Mystical! He walked up the steps of the seats where I was and when he went past me I felt starstruck!