Variety's last hurrah: Des O'Connor and Jimmy Tarbuck at the Palladium
The jokes were dated and non-PC, the delivery perfectly timed: for one night only, the showbiz survivors teamed up to create a piece of theatre historyWith the two performers having a combined age of 158 " and the aggregate age of some rows of theatregoers potentially running into the thousands " there was some unease in advance about whether everyone involved would get through Des O'Connor & Jimmy Tarbuck: Toget…