Bobby Davro
Bobby Davro

Bobby Davro

  • English
  • Actor and stand-up comedian

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My favourite photograph by Bobby Davro

Actor and impressionist Bobby, 57, recalls the joy of becoming a dad for the first time and how he worked the birth into his comedy routine.

Kristen Jones, The Daily Express, 1st May 2016

Bobby Davro admits to using cocaine

Bobby Davro has admitted smoking cannabis and using cocaine. But he insisted his drug use did not make him a "bad person."

The Sun, 21st April 2016

Bobby Davro admits to smoking cannabis & using cocaine

Bobby Davro has admitted smoking cannabis and using cocaine. But he insisted his drug use did not make him a "bad person."

Ed Dyson, The Sun, 24th February 2016

Bobby Davro quit EastEnders as they didn't pay enough

He left EastEnders back in 2008 after just one year, and comedian Bobby Davro has revealed the real reason he quit - his wages were too low.

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, Metro, 22nd February 2016

Bobby Davro on being tarred with the Yewtree brush

Comedian Bobby Davro says he is tarred with the same brush as disgraced celebrities such as Jimmy Savile and Max Clifford despite being innocent.

Mark Jefferies, The Mirror, 2nd February 2016

Bobby Davro on changing tastes in comedy

Comedian Bobby Davro joined Andrew Neil, Caroline Flint and Michael Portillo on This Week to talk about changing tastes after the remake of classic series Dad's Army was released.

He said the nature of comedy had changed since the shows that made him famous - but was frustrated that he was "still keen, still ambitious, still contemporary, but unfortunately they put you in a box and say you belong in the 1980s".

Andrew Neil, Caroline Flint and Michael Portillo, BBC News, 29th January 2016

Bobby Davro is back on the circuit

An extraordinary line-up at the brilliant Outside the Box club in Kingston on Monday, where 80s comic and impersonator Bobby Davro was appearing.

London Is Funny, 20th February 2013

The All Star Impression Show was ITV1's big novelty entertainment show for Boxing Day, wherein celebrities did impressions of other celebrities - except for Joe Pasquale, who came on and was Joe Pasquale, in an oddly unconvincing manner.

For weeks before broadcast, ITV1 had promoted the show as if it were the magnificent glazed goose of its Christmas schedules, to be placed on our table to cries of "God bless you, good broadcasting sir!" In the event, The All Star Impression Show was essentially ITV1 bringing a roast cat to the dinner table, garnished with minced rat stuffing.

Eamonn Holmes as Elvis Presley kicked off proceedings. You need not ask which era Elvis he chose. This was not '68 Comeback Special; it was more 99 Flake Comeback Special. Indeed, in sunglasses and goitre, Holmes could have removed the cape and gone on to knock off both Roy Orbison and Carlos the Jackal, but sadly lacked the imaginative expanse to do so.

He was followed by what appeared to be Arsène Wenger doing a camp Jimmy Corkhill from Brookside - a frankly mind-blowing concept - but which perusal of the credits revealed to be a comedian called Stevie Riks doing Paul O'Grady. I hope that the confusion over this conveys some measure of how surreally awful the whole thing was, like a collection of your more lacklustre in-laws suddenly deciding to put on a revue, apparently written by their parents and occasionally studded with someone from Coronation Street.

Things reached their "WTF?" apogee with a sketch that involved Bobby Davro as Chris Tarrant, the wrinkles drawn on to his face with black felt-tip, and Les Dennis playing Gary Barlow as someone with no distinguishing physical or conversational features whatsoever, in a bath. Naked.

The skit revolved around Barlow trying to guess how Tarrant washed - "You gonna use your loofah?" - and peaked with Dennis rising, wholly naked, from the bath, genitals covered in a distressingly meagre slick of bath-foam. It may even have been Matey.

This, then, is why so many of us found ourselves at the bottom of the garden at 4am, sitting on a wet trampoline with a bad uncle. This, then, was Christmas.

Caitlin Moran, The Times, 2nd January 2010

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