Royal Variety Performance

Yeah.

And so I do think, and I say this in the introduction of my book, I think I have a memory of them being on the Royal Variety performance.

Some gags that were said before they came on.

But it seems like I would have been too young because I only would have been three.

When a king invites you to revel with him over his son and his daughter-in-law, new daughter-in-law, you don't take that lightly, but they take it very lightly to the point of contempt.

At the 2013 Royal Variety Performance, Dame Edna Everidge plays a joke on then Prince Charles and Camilla.

You can see it on YouTube.

It's very funny.

You might have thought someone might have told me, but yeah, I didn't.

And yeah, and then that weird-- being that weird moment of when I remember it very vividly, trying to catch bats, going in and watching The Royal Variety where Tommy Cooper died.

Yeah.

So with all these mad things all link up.

I have to, like, I've only sung it four times.

I did it at the Royal Variety.

I did it a few times at Banquet.

Then I actually went to Waterloo Station and King's Cross Station yesterday randomly and just sang it.

So you'd have, like, a comic, you'd have a group, you'd have a girl singer, you'd have a, just a variety of different acts on.

Bit like the Royal Variety Performance, you know.

And that's, that's how it...

So you'd get, go on and do 20 minutes or half an hour and that'd be that, you know.

Yeah, let me just have a look at the other.

No, I highlighted the Royal Variety performance.

Yes, yeah, yeah.

What's that like to do?

I did it three

times.

What royal was that, the royal variety performance you did? It

wasn't even a good one.

This guy said, there you go, I was right.

But we did have a spare ostrich that I used in the Royal Variety Show.

We have a second ostrich in the wings with a guy inside it.

It was what we used to call the empty ostrich on the Royal Variety Show.

That was my breakthrough, I suppose.

I did three or four minutes on the ostrich, and then it dragged me off.

And inside the ostrich was a guy, a dancer.

Yeah.

So I don't know what the hold Tom Cruise has on this family is, but the reason given for going to his latest film is that it was the 73rd Royal Film Performance for the UK's film and TV charity.

So much like the Royal Variety performance, the senior royals, I think, kind of trade off attending this royal film performance every year.

The charity's been around for 100 years, but this was the 73rd time there's been the royal film performance.

Digger was filmed in the UK at Pinewood Studios, which is in the village of Iverheath.