Four Poofs And A Piano? Share your Jonathan Ross memories below.
Likelihood rating 4/10 Four Poofs and a Piano Graham Norton, Alan Carr, Paul O'Grady... we're thinking camp, gay, chat-show hosts... we're thinking let's give Four Poofs and a Piano their own show, with one-man backing band, One Straight Lech and his Harmonica.
Shamil Sharshek founded La La Piano Bar as a pop-up in 2013 with his life partner, David Roper, a former member of cabaret quartet Four Poofs and a Piano.
"I've also got a couple of Four Poofs and a Piano T shirts - the ones they used to wear on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross with the guests' faces on.
It's a 10-day festival (August 17-27) covering the arts, sport and film, with dozens of events, such as book talks and art shows, culminating in the Big Weekend (August 24-27), when artists including Gossip, Gareth Gates, Four Poofs and a Piano and Belinda Carlisle will be performing.
Apart from... Ah, the beatboxing: it made Four Poofs And A Piano seem like John Cale duetting with Rob Zombie.
Imagine Friday Night with Jonathan Ross if the four poofs were masked guerillas with berettas between their teeth and the piano was a corpse.
The Jonathan Ross Show ITV Saturday, the 10th of September 9.45PM (Watch it here) Somewhere, in the backroom of some deserted, downmarket bar, four poofs are slouched around a piano, watching ITV's Saturday night schedule.
I remember getting to my feet in a story conference and saying: 'Gentlemen, I have sat here for two-and-a-half hours and listened to three poof jokes, a storyline dismissed as poofy and an actor described as 'useless for us as he's a poof'.
Summer comes in a year divisible by four and POOF, gas prices go up, no biggie!
