Strike was indeed brilliant, with the teaser at the end where they mention the sequel of the GLC episode.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 22 September 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
i'm sitting in my living room watching "mr jolly lives next door" and eating a meat pie. the eternal 13-year-old inside me couldn't be happier if he'd discovered a year's worth of grumble under his dad's bed.
― BARMY FLUID?! (grimlord), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link
but WHO GIVES A FUCK, I HAVE MR JOLLY AND STRIKE ON DVD. woo!
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
I read an interview with Peter Richardson recently (I think it might've been in an Evening Standard I found on the Tube) and he mentioned "fixing up" a few of the later shows. I was mildly alarmed. As long as he hasn't touched a frame of Travellers' Cheques or Dirty Movie.
Watching the Ultimate Pop Star rundown repeat over Xmas - that is a young Richardson playing air guitar* in his bedroom on a 1977 Shadows' Greatest Hits ad, isn't it? (* - he's actually wielding a cricket bat).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 29 December 2005 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I watched the 'documentary' first, it's a 1 hour promo film for the "comic strip live" album, filmed by Julian Temple. The on-stage stuff is great. The off-stage acting stuff is fair to middling. The 'audience' in the club seem to be J.Temple's personal wacky/outrageous friends pretending to roll around in helpless mirth on-cue.
Well, is my life long enough to watch more of this than is healthy? (I hope so!)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
been watching the box set again this weekend. I'm enjoying them a lot more this time around.
and was in tears of laughter at The Crying Game ending, showing The Scum newspaper headline
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 13 December 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh right, there's a Comic Strip thread. The GLC one's just been on London Live. LOL @ Neil Kinnock, portrayed as a dithering prevaricating compromiser being shot by Tony Benn, played by Lee Van Cleef. Interesting that the music in this episode was composed by Kate Bush!
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
Oh I knew she'd done the song for the "Ken" Livingstone one...
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 March 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
That's... this one
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
Ah I know what I think I mixed up "Strike" with "GLC" so dmm..
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
Yes, this is Robbie Coltrane as Charles Bronson as Ken Livingstone. Good episode this one apart from Keith Allen doing a 'gay', especially as he'd played a very sympathetic gay character in "The Crying Game" episode. Prince Charles as kind of distracted upper class hippy was good.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link
spent a while watching these a few years ago, they are such an odd mix of obvious classic episodes, crap am-dram pissabout parodies which just baffle (The Beat Generation, Susie, Summer School) and the occasional wonderful surprise- I'd never seen Didn't You Kill My Brother? before and was not prepared for quite how intricate / granular it was, just a brilliant piece of writing.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
Kate Bush is actually in this one, getting mauled by a chocolate-covered Daniel Peacock right now.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
I'd completely forgotten the existence of Daniel Peacock - who, it turns out, is the son of the recently deceased Trevor.
― 25:30 mins bongo solo (Matt #2), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
There was a definite family resemblance!
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
I also had no idea about this until Trevor passed away; Trevor also father of Daniel's much younger half-sibling Harry (Ray Bloody Purchase in Toast of London, married to Katherine Parkinson).
Has Gino: Full Story and Pics been on yet? I think more of that is imprinted in my brain than even Fistful.... "He was ranting about he was going 'get' Mrs Thatcher and I pretended to agree with him." "Oh, I could never go back to sheets and blankets."
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:00 (three years ago) link