After years jobbing it as a stand up comedian in the working men's clubs across the north of England, Elstob's career was prematurely ended when an horrific curtain related accident left him severely brain damaged in the spunkal lobe region, the part of the brain that thinks up funny shit.

A fab dancer. The 70's movie classic "Saturday Night Fever" was according to several rumours based loosely on the life of David Elstob.