The Divine David
May 31, 2012 2:26 PM Subscribe
David Hoyle (born 1963) is an English performance artist, avant-garde cabaret artist, singer, actor, comedian and film director.
In the 1990s he developed an extremely strange, extremely gay "anti-drag queen" character called The Divine David and produced two series for Channel 4, back when that channel was still unafraid of pushing the boundaries. These were:
The Divine David Presents (SLYT)
The Divine David Heals (SLYT)
He also appeared in the video for the last single released to date by Faith No More - I Started A Joke of course being a Bee Gees cover - which is unaccountably set in a northern English working men's club.
The Divine David Presents (SLYT)
The Divine David Heals (SLYT)
He also appeared in the video for the last single released to date by Faith No More - I Started A Joke of course being a Bee Gees cover - which is unaccountably set in a northern English working men's club.
Channel 4 being a UK TV channel on air since 1992 and with a public service remit:
The public service remit for Channel 4 is the provision of a broad range of high quality and diverse programming which, in particular:
demonstrates innovation, experiment and creativity in the form and content of programmes;
appeals to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society;
makes a significant contribution to meeting the need for the licensed public service channels to include programmes of an educational nature and other programmes of educative value; and
exhibits a distinctive character.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 2:30 PM on May 31, 2012
The public service remit for Channel 4 is the provision of a broad range of high quality and diverse programming which, in particular:
demonstrates innovation, experiment and creativity in the form and content of programmes;
appeals to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society;
makes a significant contribution to meeting the need for the licensed public service channels to include programmes of an educational nature and other programmes of educative value; and
exhibits a distinctive character.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 2:30 PM on May 31, 2012
Same guy: The World Is Burning Let's Masturbate
posted by Daddy-O at 2:33 PM on May 31, 2012 [6 favorites]
posted by Daddy-O at 2:33 PM on May 31, 2012 [6 favorites]
Ha go for it Dave.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 2:35 PM on May 31, 2012
posted by GallonOfAlan at 2:35 PM on May 31, 2012
That's a great vid for the I Started a Joke link. And hey! It's got Martin Freeman in it.
posted by NoMich at 3:15 PM on May 31, 2012
posted by NoMich at 3:15 PM on May 31, 2012
I first saw Hoyle as Doug Rocket In 'Nathan Barley'. Thanks for the introduction to his other work. It's really good. Seems he had a bit of an influence on Noel Fielding.
posted by dagosto at 11:13 PM on May 31, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by dagosto at 11:13 PM on May 31, 2012 [2 favorites]
Channel 4 being a UK TV channel on air since 1992
1982. It's thirty this year, and so it's more interested in mortgages and buying property. I find the development of C4 from its 80s roots to what it is now hugely dispiriting.
posted by Grangousier at 2:22 AM on June 1, 2012 [1 favorite]
1982. It's thirty this year, and so it's more interested in mortgages and buying property. I find the development of C4 from its 80s roots to what it is now hugely dispiriting.
posted by Grangousier at 2:22 AM on June 1, 2012 [1 favorite]
Yep typo on my part.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 11:41 AM on June 1, 2012
posted by GallonOfAlan at 11:41 AM on June 1, 2012
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