John Sparkes as Siadwell - on Saturday Live, Channel 4, 1986

Please subscribe to my channel    / @billbobmatthews  , which is home to many rarely seen comedy gems from the early to mid 1980s, when only early adopters had VCRs – as well as my own work as a writer and producer in TV and radio since that period. There are also riches from other decades too. The best way to navigate all the videos on the channel is via the Playlists...    / @billbobmatthews   John Sparkes was one of my favourite comedians of the first wave of New Comedy in the early to mid-1980s, and I got to see him a couple of times. I was especially fond of Siadwell (sic) - here he is as the character in the first episode of series 1 of Saturday Live, on Channel 4, on January 25th 1986. Sparkes later went on to appear in the Channel 4 sketch show Absolutely. There are a couple of brief glitches.

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