It's hard to know which one of them is the most camp but I've noticed a slight Bet Lynch-ness creeping over Sean Tully in the past couple of months on Coronation Street. Has anyone else noticed this? It's in Antony Cotton's delivery of Sean's lines both behind the bar at the Rovers Return and with the Underworld girls. He's started saying 'cocker' which was one of Bet's catchphrases and his mannerisms especially behind the bar are becoming more Bet by the day.
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Much as I love Sean Tully, he could never be the next Bet Lynch. She was a one-off and not even Liz Macdonald could match her. I so miss Bet!
P.S. The only person to come close to Bet (as far as wit and quips go) is Steve Macdonald. :-)
Sean has been saying “cock” or “cocker” for a while now. Nothing new there.
Nah. He's not got the hair for it for one thing ;) I think they're trying to make Liz into Bet, at least by appearance, with the manner of clothing and even *gasp* animal print!!! I do think Steve has much better comic lines even than Sean and i like Sean a lot
Surely Sean is the new Raquel?
Hats off to our Nora, she's always flaming right!
I agree with you completely, so much so that I was going to blog something similar more to the tune of "Will Sean Tully take over the Street?"
As well as 'cock' and 'cocker, Sean also says 'kid' a lot, which was first a staple line for Elsie Tanner, but also got used by Bet from her first scene in 1966.
The biggest way that Sean is like Bet is that he is EVERYWHERE and acts almost as a Shakespearean narrator acting as a filter between characters. This was also very true of Bet during the late 80s when the character gradually became as big as/bigger than Coronation Street itself. In some (but not all) late 80s episodes, we see Bet as the point of narrative cohesion, sometimes even having bizarre little monologues as she observes and comments on the customers in the Rovers.
That said, I love Bet, but I can't stand Sean.
Eh? Ben, that's deep for a Tuesday lunchtime! :-)
The difference, surely, is that whereas Julie Goodyear could act, Antony Cotton more or less plays himself... and gives such a one-note performance that I find him irritating in the extreme, especially as they seem to insert him into just about every scene in the programme.
Yes Antony Cotton does play himself, not that it's not entertaining, but he is exactly the same in real life.
Anyway. Bet's a woman and Sean's a man so there's a bit of a difference there...
There will only ever be one Bet but Sean is doing a good job livening up some dull days in the Rovers. How he finds time to do two full time jobs, father a child and keep everyone's pecker up is beyond me.
I've noticed that since Johnathan Harvey started writing episodes a lot of the characters are being given ever more camp lines to say, most noticably Steve MacDonald who's turning into something of a superbitch, and even Kevin 'knobbly knees' Webster has been known to take a trip down camp alley.
Sean works in the factor full time and does part time hours in the Rovers, notably evenings and weekends.
Yes, but how does he keep it up?
I've only heard Sean say "cocker" once recently (to Jerry) Hardly a trend!
As for Ben's comments, I think the world is "shallow", rather than deep.
If anyone's been watching properly, it's rubbish to say Antony Cotton can't act. (They'd say that anyway) The scenes between Sean & Violet and even Sean & Jamie were good.
If Sean & Antony are alike, it's because they're both nice people, and CAN be serious when they need to.