The Comic Strip / Kevin Turvey / Filthy Rich & Catflat

The Comic Strip started out as an edgy comedy club in London's red light district. Though their biggest draw was punk-era alternative comedians such as Alexei Sayle, Adrian Edmonson, Rik Mayall and Keith Allen, The Comic Strip club was the brainchild of prolific comedy writer and performer Peter Richardson. In the midst of the alternative comedy boom of the early 1980s, Richardson managed to sell the idea of a show featuring the club's regular performers to the new Channel 4. Rather than a sketch comedy show or a sitcom, The Comic Strip Presents... consisted entirely of 30 minute short films written by members of the group and performed by an assortment of its members. The subject matter varied wildly between shows, as did the style of narrative and the style of humour. The one thing that remained constant was the originality of the shows, even after it had run for several seasons. The core writers and cast members include: Peter Richardson, Pete Richens, Nigel Planer, Adrian Edmonson, Rik Mayall, Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French. These core members were frequently joined by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane, Alexei Sayle, Daniel Peacock. Later episodes featured a host of guest stars, from musicians (such as Brian May, Ozzy Osbourne and Def Leppard) to other comedians (Leslie Phillips, Ruby Wax and Graham Crowden).
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Title	Comment	Year	Mins	MyID
The Comic Strip Presents Starring... Rik Mayall Ade Edmonson Nigel Planer Peter Richardson Dawn French Jennifer Saunders Keith Allen Robbie Coltrane Alexi Sayle Ruby Wax	Series 8 : 40 Episodes - 30 minutes each. Series 1 : 1982 Five Go Mad In Dorset Bad News Tour War Five Go Mad On Mescalin Summer School The Beat Generation Series 2 : 1983/4 Dirty Movie Susie Slags A Fistful Of Travellers Cheques Gino - Full Story & Pics Eddie Monsoon - A Life Series 3 : 1986 Class The Bullshitters The Supergrass Consuela (or The New Mrs Saunders) Series 4 : 1988 Private Enterprise The Stike More Bad News Mr Jolly Lives next Door Series 5 : 1990 The Yob Didn't You Kill My Brother Funseekers Series 6 : 1992 South Atlantic Raiders 1 South Atlantic Raiders 2 (Argy Bargy) GLC : The Carnage Continues Oxford Spaghetti Hoops Series 7 : 1993 Les Dogs Red Nose Of CCourage The Crying Game Wild Turkey Detectives On The Edge of a Nervous Breakdown Space Virgins From The Planet Sex Series 8 : 1998 / 2000 / 2005 Queen Of The Wild Frontier Gregory - Diary Of A Nutcase Demonella Jealousy Four Men In A Car Four Men In A Plane Bonus DVD The Original Comic Strip Live at London's Raymond Revue Bar (29:10) A hilarious "documentary" about a typical night at the Comic Strip club, directed by notable punk documentarian Julian Temple. Actual live performance footage is cut together with a fictional off-stage story of sex, drugs and comedy that resembles an episode of the eventual show. The Comic Strip - A Retrospective (53:03) A retrospective documentary about the series, compiled from recent [2007] interviews with many of the performers from the show. First Laugh On Four (49:48) A two part Channel 4 retrospective documentary about the show. This plays out in a very similar fashion to the other retrospective, but is made up of different interviews and tells a bit more of the history behind the comedians themselves.	1982	40 x 30	£3 per Series £20 for all 9 DVDs. 8 series 1 Bonus disk
Rik Mayall	Kevin Turvey Investigates When Kevin Turvey made his first appearance, people couldn't believe this incredibly stupid young man had got a job at BBC as a investigating reporter, who "investigates everything properly, not like Keith Marshall". People actually thought Kevin Turvey was for real. But that is however not the case. It was one of British comedian Rik Mayall's first roles. Topics covered include the following... Death Work Media Sex Drugs Rock & Rock	1981	40	& get both Kevin Turvey shows.
Rik Mayall Adr Edmundson Robbie Coltrane	Kevin Turvey - The Green Door This is the 40 minute VHS version (the TV broadcast version is only 30 minutes). Kevin Turvey is an investigative reporter who works mainly in the Reditch area, Midlands, UK. He investigates the park, the canal, the library, the supermarket... Sadly this character never had his own series. He did have a regular five minute section in the middle of a sketch show called A Kick Up the Eighties.	1982	40	& get both Kevin Turvey shows.
Rik Mayall Ade Edmundson Nigel Planer	Filthy Rich & Catflap This is the Young Ones without Mike (Christopher Ryan). They are a few years older and living in a different flat, but much remains the same. Dead Milkmen Game Show Dinner Party A Death In The Family? Breakfast Television Smear Campaign	1987	6x30
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