Me and Sid are both still alive and are happily living in retirement in the countryside. He looks great, I've put on weight and gone bald. Trevor James.
I can't believe I've never seen this great act before. So glad to hear that you and Sid are enjoying retirement. I'm curious to know if you ever take Sid out for the occasional performance. I wish you both good health.
Trevor! OH dear God! This is my old friend Trevor James in a performance I missed at the time and I've been trying to find it ever since. I first met Trevor when he joined our land-based pirate radio station (Radio Aquarius 1972 to 1975), and his shows were always very amusing. When the station broke up, we lost contact but occasionally our paths crossed and it was obvious that he was heading for some kind of fame. Trevor, I had heard that you were not too well, let's hope that's not true.
I watched this on TV in '97. I was in my twenties and I remember tears running down the face of my mom and I as we struggled to breathe for laughing. Don't know where you are now, Trevor... but we love you man : ) Thanks for all the giggles and the happy memories o/ o/ o/
Ho, I love Trev and Sid. I wet myself. Best ever ventriloquist performance. The moustache, the bloody flea bag of a parrot … all excellent. Sorry you are retired but all the best. I check you and Sid out a couple of times a week! Every week, and all my friends have seen your superb act. KL. From Down under.
That was from the Royal Variety Performance at London Victoria Palace Theatre on the 30th November 1997. The RVP is an annual affair attended by the Queen/King and other members of the Royal family. If you notice, as well as bowing to the audience he bows separately to the side where the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh would be sitting.
The things you find on youtube. So much fun to learn about my country's birds from a British comedy show, hahahahahaha... This is so funny. Thanks for uploading.
There have been several occasions in my life where I have finished a book and re-read it again completely. This is the first time in my life I just had to watch a comedy video again. It is that good!
The ventriloquist is Trevor James (as announced by Des O'Connor a few seconds into the clip). Trevor appeared with Sid during much of the final series of legendary anarchic UK kids' TV show Tiswas in 1981-2. This clip must have been the thick end of a decade later. gc
this is the funniest act I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of vent acts, I can'tstop watching it, great manipulation, great character, just great, wow, this is soooo funny, thanks for sharing
As a kid I actually remember watching this and absolutely wetting myself! I laughed so hard I fell off the settee!! Great act. Happy to know they're still around.
Classic and absolutely funny...till it devolves utterly into a struggling ventriloquial spoof. Reminds me of Albert Brooks classic take on the totally inept ventriloquist act. Here, the craft of the comic artist remains always in subtext. Wonderful! The audience perceives the 'incongruity' between what the 'professor' says and what the character actually feels. Thanks for posting.
I love ventriloquism! I can't ventriloquise for love or money though, but I can make a puppet seem alive through movement and Trevor, that was the best I've seen. Bloody funny stuff. 😂
I love this act. So simple yet so effective. The reaction of shock from the bird when Trevor starts talking. I actually cry with laughter when I watch this. Nice little surprise when the bird shits too.
never seen some one with a bird so funny in a long time //the idea is a great one that if he gos round the uk showing this act he could make all the young ones laugh and think the birds real very well done young MAN
how does he make the bird move?? i think the guy off camera has a remote control while the guy the holding the bird does all the sound effects and the voice
More than a decade later, and the secret is finally out! The voice came from a partner off stage. Trevor blowing bubbles in his beer is a clever misdirection, to convince you that he's the one talking. Also, it's not a real bird... it's a small child in a 'bird suit'. Trever had tried, his entire life, to grow his own birds from a packet of birdseed... but was sadly unsuccessful. You're welcome : )
This is so funny. I wish there were more acts like this still around
Tears in my eyes AGAIN! I've watched this hundreds of times, and I still laugh. to me its the gormless expression on Sid's face.Classic!
I watch this every 3 or 4 months,
always puts a smile on my face.
Proper entertainment, no swearing, or shouting, just hilarious creativity. Thank you for posting this.
best way to get a free beer I have ever seen, that ventriloquist is smart!
Never seen this before and I'm so glad I now have. Good old British comedy at its very best. Thank you Trevor and Sid, have a great retirement
same here!!
Such a shame we don't have this anymore on tv,world would benefit from it,more laughter.....
...even if it is canned.
Nina Conti and Monkey are pretty good....as is Granny....and she really is a ventriloquist.
Somebody would get offended and try to cancel it 😢
Here in 2024 its still Comedy gold😂👏👏🇬🇧
Was hilarious.
I’m seeing a lot of old acts here on UA-cam this week! They’re original, witty and so funny!!
The best of british commedy - thanks for putting this up
Grant never heard of Monty python, must have been just out of a 30 years coma.
Me and Sid are both still alive and are happily living in retirement in the countryside. He looks great, I've put on weight and gone bald. Trevor James.
Tell us more, master Trevor!
Trevor James :Has Sid picked up any other songs or other drinking habits?🙄
I can't believe I've never seen this great act before. So glad to hear that you and Sid are enjoying retirement. I'm curious to know if you ever take Sid out for the occasional performance. I wish you both good health.
Loved every moment of your act and wish you and Sid all the best.xxxxxxxxxxx
Trevor! OH dear God! This is my old friend Trevor James in a performance I
missed at the time and I've been trying to find it ever since. I first
met Trevor when he joined our land-based pirate radio station (Radio
Aquarius 1972 to 1975), and his shows were always very amusing. When the
station broke up, we lost contact but occasionally our paths crossed
and it was obvious that he was heading for some kind of fame. Trevor, I had heard that you were not too well, let's hope that's not true.
PURE British Comedy Gold, never ages! Absolutely brilliant!!!!!!!!
Absolute magic ! Thank you so much for the joy ..what a gift !
Wonderful comedy. Really funny and brilliantly performed.
I watched this on TV in '97. I was in my twenties and I remember tears running down the face of my mom and I as we struggled to breathe for laughing.
Don't know where you are now, Trevor... but we love you man : )
Thanks for all the giggles and the happy memories o/ o/ o/
First time watching😂😂😂😂 absolutely brilliant.
For sure
Me too laughed out loud...where has this humour gone????
Well thought out routine... genuine laughter from me...brilliant.
The very first encounter and you’re busting a gut laughing. Oh how I miss this kind of comedy.
It was called talent
Try Nina conti.
Fun fact. The guy who holds the parrot lives next door to my grandad and he’s my family’s close friend and comes up to my house all the time
he is ok now?
@@jackburton5085 yes! He’s doing very well, we saw him the other day :)
@@zahrabradley8898 how's the parrot?🤣
"Absolutely no fear of heights". Until it looked down from his arm. Hilarious. 😂😂😂
So funny, good old comedy you just cannot beat.
I’ve never seen this before, but I have laughed my butt off. It is hilarious. Good comedy, and clean. Wish we had more of it.
I love visual comedy. Well done. Laughed till I cried. Brilliant.
This was really funny!
I miss clean comedy like rhis.
@@badeugenecops4741 me too
If ever I need cheering with a good laugh Trevor James I just watch this and I laugh out loud, god bless you and Sid.
This was posted 15 years ago and the first time ever I've seen it or heard of him. Funny comedian and a great Parrot... Had a great laugh.
Ho, I love Trev and Sid. I wet myself. Best ever ventriloquist performance. The moustache, the bloody flea bag of a parrot … all excellent.
Sorry you are retired but all the best.
I check you and Sid out a couple of times a week! Every week, and all my friends have seen your superb act.
KL. From Down under.
First time I have seen this which is so unusual seeing how much time I search You Tube. Loved it, classic English comedy at it's best.
How have I not seen this before 😂😂. Bravo!
Laughed til I cried... watched it a second time and laughed even more!
just dropped in on this and laughed my socks off. Utterly silly and completely outrageously hilarious.
Beautiful plumage.
The plumage don’t enter into it!
Hilarious. Thanks so much for the upload.
happy to hear your alive and sid your both 5 stars in my world
That was from the Royal Variety Performance at London Victoria Palace Theatre on the 30th November 1997. The RVP is an annual affair attended by the Queen/King and other members of the Royal family. If you notice, as well as bowing to the audience he bows separately to the side where the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh would be sitting.
@@mikesommers1068 My respect for your ability to write so much info with so few sentences.
Oh wow that was just brilliant, thanks so much for allowing us to see this. Glad to hear you're both enjoying your retirement 😂
The things you find on youtube. So much fun to learn about my country's birds from a British comedy show, hahahahahaha... This is so funny. Thanks for uploading.
First genuinely funny ventriloquist act in human history... I'm impressed.
Randy Feltface and Sammy J blow this away...
The best act I've seen in a long time.
There have been several occasions in my life where I have finished a book and re-read it again completely. This is the first time in my life I just had to watch a comedy video again. It is that good!
This is comedy gold couldn't stop laughing and crying with how funny it is thank you
Nicely done, Mr. James! Very funny bit. 'thank you, young man...'
I have watched a LOT of ventriloquist acts on tv and UA-cam but this is the funniest one EVER! I'm STILL laughing!
true!
The ventriloquist is Trevor James (as announced by Des O'Connor a few seconds into the clip). Trevor appeared with Sid during much of the final series of legendary anarchic UK kids' TV show Tiswas in 1981-2. This clip must have been the thick end of a decade later.
gc
this is the funniest act I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of vent acts, I can'tstop watching it, great manipulation, great character, just great, wow, this is soooo funny, thanks for sharing
That was HILARIOUS! It's rare that something makes me laugh out loud that much!
I never laughed so much while watching a UA-cam video as when I saw Sid attempt to sing while Trevor sipping beer.
Only in Britain, wonderful comedy, so creative. Thanks, Jp
As a kid I actually remember watching this and absolutely wetting myself! I laughed so hard I fell off the settee!! Great act. Happy to know they're still around.
Absolutely fabulous, very funny, best laugh for ages.
It made me laugh non stop for 5 minutes 😂Thank you! 🎉
Funny, funny stuff!!!! Thanks Sid & Trevor.
A great original act, some have tried to copy the idea but none did this as well as Trevor. A true showman.
Still bloody funny. Watched this so many times. Never gets old
Loved the way he coordinates his hands to show parrots emotions and feelings.
Brilliant. Laughed all the way through.
Absolutely brilliant😊
It was Trevor James and Sid the parrot. Cheers for the upload.
Classic and absolutely funny...till it devolves utterly into a struggling ventriloquial spoof. Reminds me of Albert Brooks classic take on the totally inept ventriloquist act. Here, the craft of the comic artist remains always in subtext. Wonderful! The audience perceives the 'incongruity' between what the 'professor' says and what the character actually feels. Thanks for posting.
Just fantastic, my jaw hurts :), blimey, we don't arf need something this funny to cheer us up now Labour is in, god help us :(
got to love the parrot its had a rough life
Fantastically performed...so funny...😂😂😂..thank you
That was absolutely hilarious man!
Oh my days that was brilliant!!!!
I love ventriloquism! I can't ventriloquise for love or money though, but I can make a puppet seem alive through movement and Trevor, that was the best I've seen. Bloody funny stuff. 😂
Brilliant! The seperation that he has from it is great!
This, of course, is an all-time classic!
Brilliant, but check at www.memories of long ago.com ( UFO Shepperton Australia ) neilmcintyre1935@outlook.com
It was the very best show I've seen in a long time..I replayed it at least 5 times in a row..WELL< WELL done James :)
THE BEST EVER, THANKYOU TREVOR AND SID.🤣🤣🤣
I love how comically bad it's meant to be, makes it funnier to me
Is that David Jason as the zoo keeper, I needed that laugh 😂
Absolutely wonderful!
The most funny guy lv seen for years, more please.
Great stupid hilarious FUN! Clean family FUN! Oh, how times have changed [unfortunately!].
Brilliant I remember seeing that and still makes me laugh now.😂😂😂😂
I love this act. So simple yet so effective. The reaction of shock from the bird when Trevor starts talking. I actually cry with laughter when I watch this. Nice little surprise when the bird shits too.
Greatness is not always recognized when it first occurs. Hopefully, Trevor James is well and enjoying his fame here on You Tube.
Brilliant. So funny. My favourite vent performance.
Brilliant. Proper comedy and entertainment. 😂
Love this 😂hope you and sid 🦜 still living the dream 👌😎
You sir are one of the best I've seen great to here you guys are doing well
I’m not big on ventriloquists, but that was bloody awesome 😅
Genius, little to no speaking from the puppet, yet I laughed a lot, well done indeed!
Brill. The best i have seen for a long time.
never seen some one with a bird so funny in a long time //the idea is a great one that if he gos round the uk showing this act he could make all the young ones laugh and think the birds real very well done young MAN
Wonderful old school entertainment.
I've never seen this before, hilarious !
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time
That was so funny. Never seen you before. Thanks
omg that was freaking awesome XD laughed all the way throught it xD
Professor Trevor James & the Venezuelan Jungle Parrot on the Royal Variety Show.
Great work.
Amazing ! I love ventriloquism and that was so funny !
Mooost hilarious! This is just perfect.
We need more of this on TV 😂
Started laughing the minute he walked on with that Bedraggled Bird and could not stop. Sheer Comic Genius!
I never tire watching this video, it is so funny.
I bloody love this! fantastic puppeteering.
VERY FUNNY!!!!! PEOPLE , I got a real good laugh out of your act. THANK YOU and are you still in your countryside ?
the show is the royal variety performance i think
I used to pee my self of laughing you were absolutely brilliant
how does he make the bird move?? i think the guy off camera has a remote control while the guy the holding the bird does all the sound effects and the voice
steven herrold you are joking...aren't you?
More than a decade later, and the secret is finally out!
The voice came from a partner off stage. Trevor blowing bubbles in his beer is a clever misdirection, to convince you that he's the one talking.
Also, it's not a real bird... it's a small child in a 'bird suit'. Trever had tried, his entire life, to grow his own birds from a packet of birdseed... but was sadly unsuccessful. You're welcome : )
Great sketch, very funny. No idea how I've missed it before. Was this before or after Rod Hull and Emu?