Jethro Live 2015 – What Happened Was… The West Country’s greatest ever spinner of madness and mirth JETHRO, is back and live for the first time in 4 years and for the last time ever. Filmed on one special night in Summer 2015 at Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre, What Happened Was… is a celebration of Jethro’s forty years as one of the great joke-masters of all time. Jethro Live, Bonus In response to endless requests, Jethro finally revisits some of the favourite gags and stories – as voted for by YOU the fans – that have made him one of the UK’s best loved comedians, along with new gags, twists and added surprises along the way.
Cornish comedian Jethro is back, entertaining a raucous West Country audience with a series of anecdotes, jokes and sketches.
Join Jethro for I Told It My Way, the brand new show from the man with more then his fair share of shaggy dog stories and other nonsense! Filmed live on tour at 3 shows in Taunton, Tewksbury and Hereford, I Told It My Way, contains plenty of kooky comedy capers and tall tales from the inimitable comedian. Come along with Jethro, and learn of Denzil’s unique methods for soothing chapped lips, tales of trouble and strife with the wife and why you should be very wary of the brown and yellow snake… So come on and enjoy a portion from the man who’s irrepressible, irresistible and unmissable!
Cheeky Cornish comedian Jethro performs live at Poole's Lighthouse Theatre, sharing everything from the benefits of going out with a homeless girl to his experiences at a deaf and dumb dance and the true meaning of ram raiding in Wales.
Another helping of standup from the blue-tinged Cornish comedian, giving his own unique west country slant on the world.
Jethro explains to a jam packed audience everything from the differences between men and women to West Country logic and Viagra. He has the audience roaring with belly aching laughter with his tales and yarns of his old mate Denzel Pemberthy. He's been barmy and bonkers but now he's gone OFF THE WALL.
Jethro is at his rambling side splitting best as the pride of Cornwall tells of all his favourite characters, including his infamous friend Denzil and his long suffering wife!
Usual good fun show with plenty of belly laughing jokes without too much obsenity easy listening country humour with a few sketches.
The irrepressible Jethro returns, treating us to some more of his own special insights into the workings of the world, in this combination of classic sketches and live stand-up. Filmed in Wisbech, Worthing and Weston-Super-Mare.
Stand-up comedian Jethro presents his own brand of saucy West Country comedy at the Pavilion, Sandown, on the Isle of Wight.
Geoffrey Rowe known by his stage name Jethro, was a British stand-up comedian and singer, born in Cornwall. He was born in St Buryan, Cornwall, the son of a farmer, and after leaving school apprenticed as a carpenter and worked in the Levant tin mine. He joined the local operatic society in St Just, as a bass singer, and then started touring pubs and clubs in Cornwall, singing traditional songs and developing his comedy act. From 1967 he also played rugby as a prop forward in over 100 matches for Penzance & Newlyn RFC, which later became the Cornish Pirates. The name 'Jethro' came from his real name, Geoff Rowe, influenced by the character Jethro in The Beverly Hillbillies television show. After his popularity grew in Cornwall and Devon through the 1980s, he made his first national television performance in 1990 on the Des O'Connor Show, making several subsequent appearances. He also appeared on Jim Davidson's programmes, and on regional television, though much of his material was considered unsuitable for a television audience. He produced his first video, A Portion of Jethro, in 1993, followed by several others. He has also claimed that, during the height of his popularity, he sold some 250,000 theatre seats a year. In 2001, he appeared in a Royal Variety Performance. He lived for some time at Lewdown, in Devon close to the Cornwall border, where he bred horses and owned a comedy club which closed in 2012. In 1995, he walked from Land's End to Lewdown and raised £20,000 for a cancer scanner appeal. In February 2020 he announced that he was retiring from public performances at the end of the year. He died in Plymouth on 14 December 2021, at the age of 73. An official notice said that he had contracted COVID-19 in the time leading up to his death.
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