Sidekicks
It must be hard being a sidekick.
Tonto, Prescott, Rubble, Oates*, Gareth from The Office.
Sidekicks generally are rubbish. Unless they know they are, crap like Hank from the Gary Shandling show, Karl Pilkington. Or Niles from Frasier and then that make them ace.
Sidekicks need to know their place. And they should lay low after their leading man/lady has moved on. This is why I kind of admire Pliers for not carrying on after Shaka Dimas of “Tease Me” fame.
Musicians take note, if the biggest billing you ever had was a “ft.” on someone else’s single, leave it like that.
Remember Artful Dodger “ft.” Craig David? Enough said.
Also - brothers and sisters of famous performers who follow in their footsteps? Don’t stop fucking off until I tell you otherwise. Apart from Ira Gerswhin and Ashley Simpson - they’re cool. Also, step forward Mike McCartney, who was not only rubbish, but in the 60’s when he wanted to bring a record out, he did so under the name Mike McGear (which is fab) so it would do well on its own merits.
*There would be those who argue that John Oates was not a sidekick of 80’s Philly soulpop sensations Hall & Oates, but it wasn’t Oates and Hall, was it?
July 26th, 2006 at 11:22 am
You forgot K9?
July 26th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Don Swayze and Frank Stallone have been in some quite good made-for-TV movies.
August 1st, 2006 at 11:58 am
Forgive me for my pedantry, but Chaka Demus and Ashlee Simpson cannot go uncorrected.
Ooh, I’ve got a good one! Chris Penn!
August 1st, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Very nice. Thanks Mike and Mr Angry.
Remember Andy Gibb? Yikes.
I stand corrected on everything else.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Re brothers and sisters of the famous… remember that time at AOL when Danni Minogue apparently got very upset when we featured her as one of the ‘famous siblings that weren’t as successful as their older siblings’ or some such nonsense? She managed to get the feature - which cost me all of five minutes labour - pulled. Ah, those were the days.
Incidentally, why am I posting comments to eight-month old blog posts?
March 12th, 2008 at 2:03 am
But at least you can say you pulled Danni Minogue. Athough that’s possibly not such a big claim in reality.
March 13th, 2008 at 12:13 am
I remember Adam. After that we had to be careful about anything to do with Danni. I appreciate the comments on old posts, as well. They’re all there to be read and the archive is not organised as well as it could be.