on The Young Ones, who was the guy who played an older man, who kept popping up in skits,(he was really funny).
Alexei Sayle. He had his own sketch comedy show, “Alexei Sayle’s Stuff” which was extremely funny.
"Oy! Who’s that fat bastard? "
“Its the Alexei Sayle Show!”
As Mr. Blue Sky said, it was indeed Alexei Sayle.
And on your way out, watch out for the Special Branch.
Those were the days.
I can still remember my schoolfriends and I all singing Alexei’s ‘Relax, make stupid noises!’ song.
Now that the OP’s been answered, I guess it’s safe to go into Café territory.
You can get the entire series on DVD: The Young Ones: Every Stoopid Episode. Definitely worth getting.
he also had a hit song in the UK
'‘allo john got a new motor’
it was class, just him shouting and rolling around an old cortina
n.
ere, nickannan, didn’ you kill my brutha?
He released a whole album - including his (ahem, slightly amended) cover of the Wild Cherry Disco classic “Play That Funky Music (Jewish Boy)”
…lay down and boogie and play that funky music for your mother.
Off to Cafe Society.
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What’s a Ftoomch?
[peoplespoet] " Could you ever give a fig…pig? " [/peoplespoet]
[rascist cop in sunglasses]" That’s white mans electricity your using and thats theft. " [/rascist cop in sunglasses]
God I loved that show. Filty Rich and Catflap was better though.
Revolutionary Biscuits of Italy:
You got your Garibaldi. You got your Bourbon. And you got your Peak Frean Trotsky assortment.
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Abba? Abba? Swedish?
I remember 'em when they were a Lancashire clog-dancing trio - Arthur, Betty, Boris and Angela!
It’s been a terrible blow to my life looking like Mussolini, you know. Especially when I was a kid, you know, I was about seven, right, and I was down the Youth Club, you know, dancing away, right, like in the 'sixties, doing the Twist,…
…you know. And, em, there was this girl, right, and she comes up to me, and she goes,"'Ere! Are you Mussolini?" I said, “Emmm…Yeah.” She says, “I thought you was dead.” I says, “No, it was just me day off, you know.” So she pulled me over the dance floor and butted me in the face! I said, “What’s that for?” She said, “That’s for the invasion of Crete!”
Oh I need you, you need me, oh my darling can’t you see…
Can anyone actually remember “Paris”? I remember it being on, but I have no recollection of if it was any good or not.
i remember at school we were forced to watch one of those Public Safety Videos.
We all, of course, expected it to be the usual moralistic shite but it turned out to be hosted (and semi-written) by Alexei Sayle.
It was pretty damn good
I’ve not always been mad, you know, but um… I was actually driven mad by the indifference of architects and council planners. You see, I live in a tower block, and um, the thing about those is, there’s terrible noise problems, 'cause there’s no noise insulation at all, you know, and eight floors below you, there’s always some bastard who’s got a Yamaha home organ, you know. You’re just about to go to sleep and you hear this “DOOT DOOT! TCH-TCH, DOOT DOOT! TCH-TCH, ROLL-OUT-THE-BARRELS! DOOT-DOOT, TCH-TCH, DOOT DOOT, TCH-TCH” And like, the people who live upstairs from me, I can’t understand what they’re doing, you know, I listen. And all I can hear is this weird noise that goes, “Whoom whoom! Blam blam! Whoom whoom! Blam blam!” It sounds, right, it sounds like two elephants on a motorbike riding round and round, while a seal bangs a kipper on the table! I went upstairs to complain, and the door was answered by this elephant in a crash helmet! Standing behind him’s this seal going, “What is it now, Ralph?”
the new tv shows
“Ooh wheres my Volvo?”
and
“Mr. Poo poo goes to the lavratry”
Since this has turned into an Alexei Sayle thread I’ll mention that he had a featured role in last night’s premiere episode of “Keen Eddie” and was quite entertaining. There’s opportunity for the character to return but I don’t know if he actually will.
When I first started watching TYO I hated the Alexei Sayle bits. I thought they dragged the show to a screeching halt. I was young and foolish and in the fullness of time have come to recognize and appreciate them for the bits of comic genius that they are.