The Worst Comedy Acts Of All Time - David Copperfield

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In this case bad just means unsuccessful as I’m talking about a comedian who was / is quite funny. There are three famous David Copperfields, or as I’ll show here, two and a half. The best known is the eponymous hero of the Charles Dickens novel. The second is the American magician, famous for making the Statue Of Liberty appear to vanish. The half-Copperfield is a British Comedian who was launched to fame as one third of the Three Of A Kind comedy trio n British TV. The other two being Lenny Henry and Tracy Ullman who both went on to greater things. Copperfield now performs on cruise-ships. He was not entirely unamusing. He was just ridiculously easy to forget, especially in being overshadowed by two performers who were clearly very much on the rise. Of his recurring characters, the easiest to remember is Bhagwan Hardcastle, a Yorkshire guru modelled on the notorious Indian mystic, Bhagwan Rajneesh. This was hardly a character viewers loved to see on TV week after week. He was good enough for a one-off sketch, not for a recurring role. Like his creator, the Bhagwan was easy to forget. Copperfield’s name is worth remembering as naming the cast of Three Of A Kind often comes up in British pub quizzes. Youtube – David Copperfield Arthur Chappell