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Comedian and entrepreneur Eric Scarboro is an enigmatic figure in entertainment. He formed a band around 1977 called False Idols, as singer Bruise Banner, with friends who came to be known as Mahatma Coat (Drums), John Bull-Shit (Bass), and Winsome Churchill (Guitar). Churchill was his best friend Paul Spoors but the others' real names are probably lost for good. The band played only three gigs, the first ending in a brawl in the Mount Pleasant Club, the other two in being booed out. The audience attempted to boo them off, failed and the band played on until all the audience had left. They steadfastly refused to record any songs so that none could ever be published, leaving them, in their minds, as the only true punk band ever. He began performing for sporting presentations around the north east of England around 1979. He graduated to submitting various humorous articles for magazines and newspapers almost always under a variety of aliases, one of them being Viz Cliche, and writing music articles and appearing on radio phone-ins under another array of pseudonyms, one of them being the almost incomprehensible Dutchman Sid Andik (named after Morecambe and Wise's writers Sid Hills and Dick Green). Day jobs included bus driver for Northern General, loan arranger for KH Ross, McDonald's manager at Metrocentre (quit after one weekend), Kirby salesman, balustrade maker at Ted Saville's, Streatham, London), Driegersteller welder (Driestieffenbach, Germany), teacher of technology (Washington Oxclose and Sunderland Farringdon), and market trader. In the early 1990s he moved on to stand-up comedy, running the first comedy clubs in North Shields (The Magnesia Bank), Gateshead (The Barley Mow) and Sunderland (The Ropery), and giving the first paid gigs to Ross Noble and Gavin Webster, now established stars of comedy, but also to Chris Telford who went on to become publicity officer for the National Front. In 1993 he featured in a talent show final in Edinburgh, ''So You Think You're Funny?'', and was controversially left out of the winner's rankings when the audience assumed he had won. His act, which was based around cartoons and props, like his comedy clubs, always contained an element of chaos. If a gig looked like going completely smoothly, he would find some way to disrupt proceedings. Towards the end of the 1990s he was injured in a car crash, stopped performing and teaching and attempted a recovery which later involved two years of treatment in America. While there he was involved in an incident with a stolen ambulance. The details are sketchy and he refuses to talk about it, saying only that he had to sign a confidentiality agreement before he was allowed to return to Britain. In 2000 he returned to stand-up briefly before becoming mentor to a group of young wrestlers. He encouraged them to relate to the crowd and improved their character presentation and microphone technique among other things. In November 2004, his wrestling troupe, the Sensational I.W.F., were asked to perform at The Cafe De Paris, Leicester Square, to celebrate the 25th birthday of ''VIZ Magazine'', before an invited audience of B, C and D-list celebrities and fans of the magazine. His two sons Shaun and Kris became the wrestlers The Avery Brothers, and are now accomplished rappers, forming Rapscallion with Dan Moore and C.T. Renegade. He encountered many problems when dealing with wrestlers and wrestling promoters, whom he described as, "A bunch of fantasists, many of them entering their third childhoods.", and left wrestling after several bad-tempered incidents and violent clashes. He also featured completely naked in the ''Daily Mirror'', in an article focussing on men's health issues. He has returned to stand-up comedy, but still refers to himself as an alternative comedian. Recently he has promoted comedy gigs at The Copt Hill, Houghton Le Spring, Gateshead Fell Cricket Club and has recently compered for Edinburgh Previews for Simon Donald and Vladimir McTavish. He opens a monthly show at Gateshead Town Hall from September 18, 2010. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eric Scarboro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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