The Michael Barrymore Special

TV Special
1987
52m

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Michael Barrymore's first TV special, with the star performing comic skits and songs with guests including Steve Davis and The Communards. The one-off special proved so popular it made the T... Read allMichael Barrymore's first TV special, with the star performing comic skits and songs with guests including Steve Davis and The Communards. The one-off special proved so popular it made the Top 10 most-watched programmes that week.Michael Barrymore's first TV special, with the star performing comic skits and songs with guests including Steve Davis and The Communards. The one-off special proved so popular it made the Top 10 most-watched programmes that week.

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With the era this special was produced in, it's perhaps not surprising that some elements appear that would be extremely unlikely to feature in the modern day. In particular, there's a sketch with Michael Barrymore as a "Chinese" man, "Mr. Takeaway", squinting his eyes and interchanging his Ls and Rs.

The sketch is tempered somewhat by the revelation that "Mr. Takeaway" has been putting the accent on to present a stereotype to a TV presenter interviewing the family - as well as his co-star in the sketch, Claire Lutter, very clearly laughing at Michael's ad-libs.