BOB DOWNE (the comic creation of Mark Trevorrow) made his UK television breakthrough with this appearance on Michael Barrymore's top-rating variety comedy show in April 1995. (This was five years before the talented and mercurial Barrymore's career imploded, with the tragic and mysterious death of a man in the pool of his outer London home in 2001.)
Bob would go on to make many appearances in the legendary London Weekend Studio 1 at Southbank - including his own New Year's Eve show, THE BOB DOWNE SPECIAL, in late 1996.