64 zoo lane - billy connolly?!

[Belle]

just watching 64 zoo lane with my little boy (like this soooo much more than waybuloo) and am convinced the frog is billy connolly! anyone know if it is his voice?

[nunheadmum]

I was thinking the same but when I listened more closely, it didn't sound quite like him.

It does seem to be a bit of a thing just now though, to get known names doing voices. It's sooooo irritating to hear a voice and not be able to place it!

[????]

Lenny Henry does about 50% of them

[littleEDfamily]

Lenny Henry is Big, from Big and Small, right?

I am going to watch 64 zoo lane all week to verify this....... I can actually tolerate that one....

[????]

Some grow on you amazingly - I've warmed to Jakers....but Timmy Time is my favourite.

[legalbeagle]

littleEDfamily Wrote:

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> Lenny Henry is Big, from Big and Small, right?

>

> I am going to watch 64 zoo lane all week to verify

> this....... I can actually tolerate that one....

Lenny Henry is actually Big and small!

[Belle]

I like the fact postman pat doesn't seem to work for the royal mail anymore... V politically topical... And I too actually quite like zoo lane, plus confess to a certain soft spot for the current cbeebies spring theme tune.

[The Nappy Lady]

I LOVE Big & Small, it makes me laugh so much every time.

Molly

[ryedalema]

I love Timmy Time and 64 Zoo Lane (although I much preferred 64 when it was just before bedtime!). The TV tends to 'break down' when In the Night Garden or the Teletubbies is on - I can't stand the brain addling-ness.

Another Mummy confession - oops. :-$

[littleEDfamily]

Yes, 64 Zoo Lane is definitely the pick of the bunch. Is it immature of me to sing the song as '64 Poo Lane', though?

I told my daughter in complete frustration the other day that she wouldn't be watching Waybaloo as they were 'loons' - she seemed quite offended. What's with the strange noises and baby talk on shows like Waybaloo and In the Night Garden? Surely they're meant to be helping our children learn to form actual words.

Didn't know Lenny was Big AND Small. Fascinating, yet still quite grating.

[Keef]

I quite like the one with the birds living in the tree. It's quite musical. Can't remember wat it's called.

Night Garden is doing my fecking head in!!!!!

[Pickle]

There's also a new one (well, since I went away in Feb anyway) called Zingzillas which my kids love. So far I've seen Cleo Laine, John Dankworth and Julian Lloyd-Webber on it, quite impressive for a kids programme (and all people I've had the pleasure of performing with in the past, so kids are getting a running commentary on Mummy's life pre-children!).

[legalbeagle]

Keef Wrote:

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> I quite like the one with the birds living in the

> tree. It's quite musical. Can't remember wat it's

> called.

It's called Third and Bird. My kids "do the muffin" at the end of every episode!

[ryedalema]

I'm watching Zingzillas right now - is it weird to think that the lead singer monkey is quite fit (underneath the costume obv.)?

Someone's going to tell me it's Keith Chegwin or something now aren't they?

[Keef]

I like the ZingZilla's too.

[littleEDfamily]

What's your vision of Lead ZingZilla? What do you reckon lurks beneath??? Just trying to get a visual....

ryedalema Wrote:

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> I'm watching Zingzillas right now - is it weird to

> think that the lead singer monkey is quite fit

> (underneath the costume obv.)?

>

> Someone's going to tell me it's Keith Chegwin or

> something now aren't they?

[Belle]

ooh they slightly freak me out. i hate in the night garden too and also caught a few mins of telly tubbies the other morning and thought was awful.

[Ant]

For slightly older kids: CBBC, 5.45pm Mon-Thur, Big Babies. It's excellent. Sometimes it's followed by Sean the Sheep and then Jakers, which is an all-star line up in my book.

Third and Bird was very popular with my lot for a while, but then the Wonderpets came along and no one's doing the muffin any more.

[ryedalema]

Not sure - I just think he looks like he hasa nice body.

Ooh - I sound like a perv now.

littleEDfamily Wrote:

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> What's your vision of Lead ZingZilla? What do you

> reckon lurks beneath??? Just trying to get a

> visual....

>

[Smiler]

Think you have topped even the sportacus fantasies of another thread!

ryedalema Wrote:

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> Not sure - I just think he looks like he hasa nice

> body.

>

> Ooh - I sound like a perv now.

>

> littleEDfamily Wrote:

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> > What's your vision of Lead ZingZilla? What do

> you

> > reckon lurks beneath??? Just trying to get a

> > visual....

> >

[Jamma]

It's not Billy Connolly. It's a chap called Lewis McLeod who does lots of voiceovers on all sorts of stuff and can do some good impressions too. Hence the Billy Connolly.

Of course the real lyrics to Zoo Lane go "There's one with a hump and one that can jump, and one that is a bit of a c---. 64,64,64 Zoo Lane"

[ratty]

TBH Milkshake on 5 pisses all over CBeebies. Igam Ogam anyone?? Moo Baa Double Quack Double Quack??

[Jamma]

C'mon Ratty, it's not Igam Ogam you're watching for it's Kemi or Jen. (But definitely not big-faced Beth)