And before anyone says "Morons From Outer Space", remember it's his corporate advertising money that funds your Brass Eyes.

Wotcha, Bob
Wotcha, Mel...

I used to quite enjoy Colin's Sandwich (was that what it was called?). But I always thought the likes of The Tall Guy were dismal, unfunny crap, especially as you couldn't move around the time of that film's release without Mel Smith talking about that allegedly funny shagging scene ("can't you see what i'm doing? i'm trying to bring out the absurdity of sex!"). And the less said about Bean: The Movie...

He's a talented comic actor, but his directorial work has been patchy. Anyone seen The Radioland Murders? His directing is workmanlike and the quality of his films is very much in the hands of the writers/performers.

Thanks for reminding me of Colin's Sandwich, I used to love that. That was ages ago, wasn't it?

>Wotcha, Bob
>Wotcha, Mel...

Bloody hell. Proustian rush. That'll be Mel and the toothy Bob Goody from the credits of their circa-1980 kiddy-aimed book show Smith & Goody. Rest of lyric:
"Wotcha been up to?
Can't you tell?
I've been having a look at a book, mate, I've been taking a squint at the print. I've been thumbin' me way through a paperback a day and I'll tell you about it if you're in-ter-est-ed . . .
Good books, bad books, funny books, ever-been-had books, good books, bad books, ever-been-had books and sa-a-ad books. Book about a . . . beaver, beggar, bogeyman, bandit blowing up a bank, big brown bear, boy withn a blue balloon, boxer, ballet etc."

Sorry, I must go and do some work.

re: Morons From Outer Space.

This was on Sci-fi the other day, and it's not *that* bad. It's quite enjoyable in a British-comedy-early-to-mid-80's kinda way. Granted, it's no Withnail, but still, eh?

Although, I must stress that I had also watched the last half-hour of Guest House Paradiso, and the whole of You're Dead in about the same timeframe, so my judgement may have been clouded, and it may well have been that I'd have found the weather forcast funny by that point.

I remember seeing Mel Smith at the Isle Of Man Derby (pisspoor excuse for a racing meet popular with b-list celebs - Larry Hagman was also there) in the mid-eighties - he was pissed out of his nut at 2pm, screaming obscenities at the top of his voice and trying to clamber through the window of the Tote. So respect is due.

Colin's Sandwich was top stuff too, despite the blatant Perrinisms.

Colin's Sandwich was indeed a very underrated show. Endearingly subtle, and tightly-scripted to boot.

Repeats please, BBC.

>re: Morons From Outer Space.
>
>This was on Sci-fi the other day, and it's not *that* bad. It's quite enjoyable in a British-comedy-early-to-mid-80's kinda way. Granted, it's no Withnail, but still, eh?

I thought it was quite good in a "lame 80s Brit comedy" sort of way (ie trying way too hard). Especially the sneeze in the spacesuit joke.

'Morons From Outer Space' was directed by Mike Hodges, who also did 'Get Carter'!!

Colin's Sandwich is the best 'everyone says it's crap when it's in fact great' sitcom ever made.

He's from Chiswick so he's alright.

Whatever happened to 'Milner', that private eye pilot he did in late '94?

Always been a bit suspicious of him because he left job of writing the "Smith and Jones Instant Coffee Table Book" to Griff (and Clive Anderson and Rory McGrath.) This was sent up in the book itself with a letter from Mel's solicitor explaining in detail what he wasn't prepared to do for the book.

>"Wotcha been up to?
>Can't you tell?
>I've been having a look at a book, mate, I've been taking a squint at the print. I've been thumbin' me way through a paperback a day and I'll tell you about it if you're in-ter-est-ed . . .
>Good books, bad books, funny books, ever-been-had books, good books, bad books, ever-been-had books and sa-a-ad books. Book about a . . . beaver, beggar, bogeyman, bandit blowing up a bank, big brown bear, boy withn a blue balloon, boxer, ballet etc."

"There's a book about a ship that disappeared without trace, there's a book about a man who came from outer space"

I still have my Smith & Goody certificate proving that I "read the book!" and some other related stuff. It was a brilliant series that, as I remember, only lasted one series and one xmas special, but really stuck in my mind.

The fact that Smith was in "NTNON" was a real bonus.

>Colin's Sandwich was indeed a very underrated show. Endearingly subtle, and tightly-scripted to boot.
>
>Repeats please, BBC.

Righto! Glad you thought to contact us here.

>I still have my Smith & Goody certificate proving that I "read the book!" and some other related stuff. It was a brilliant series that, as I remember, only lasted one series and one xmas special, but really stuck in my mind.

To which to obvious response is: whatever happened to Bob Goody, and who was he in the first place? (I feel I have seen him in a minor role in a Dickensian costume drama on TV.)

> whatever happened to Bob Goody?

In December of last year he was playing Scrooge at the Liverpool Playhouse.

>>Colin's Sandwich was indeed a very underrated show. Endearingly subtle, and tightly-scripted to boot.
>>
>>Repeats please, BBC.
>
>Righto! Glad you thought to contact us here.

Boom boom.


Anyway, Colin's Sandwich...

>To which to obvious response is: whatever happened to Bob Goody, and who was he in the first place? (I feel I have seen him in a minor role in a Dickensian costume drama on TV.)

Porterhouse Blue, The Borrowers, The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Blackheath Poisonings, Selling Hitler and Crime Traveller are the only things on his CV I can place him in (I'm not counting "Azurian Man" in Flash Gordon). None of them strike me as Dickensian (unless the Blackheath thing isn't the one I'm thinking it is...) but the IMDb isn't infallible. He's also been in Paul Merton's Life of Comedy, Blue Heaven and Lovejoy, which don't look Dickensian either...

We made Bob Goody very happy last year in Edinburgh. He was drinking in our local and it turned out that most of the people in the
pub were fans and spent the afternoon making him feel loved and wanted.

>We made Bob Goody very happy last year in Edinburgh. He was drinking in our local and it turned out that most of the people in the
>pub were fans and spent the afternoon making him feel loved and wanted.

This is so sweet. Me and my mates once made Jimmy Pursey feel wanted at the Reading Festival in the early 90s by shouting "If the kids are united we will never be divided" at him in a friendly way. I think he liked the attention anyway.

Have other Corpses made slightly past-it, slightly crap people feel warm inside by paying them attention? (Whilst on a trip to London during my foundation year, my mates - different mates - spotted David Rappaport on a bench in St James Park and made him feel like a fucking superstar by asking him excitedly about Time Bandits.)

>We made Bob Goody very happy last year in Edinburgh. He was drinking in our local and it turned out that most of the people in the
>pub were fans and spent the afternoon making him feel loved and wanted.
>

Did you go to his show and was it any good?

>Have other Corpses made slightly past-it, slightly crap people feel warm inside by paying them attention?

In a pub I ignored Noel Gallagher to talk to Nick Cope of the Candyskins, which didn't please the [potentially libellous remark removed on reflection] Mancunian but evidently made Nick's day by implying he was infinitely superior to the Oasis tosser. Nick Cope is FAR more a) sexy b) talented and c) interesting, and his dad is Kenneth Cope who counts as slightly past-it, slightly crap even if Nick doesn't. I also ignored Greg Proops (as did everyone else) to talk to Gordon Kennedy (does he count as past-it? What's he doing lately anyway?) in a bar.

What could that remark be? I'll start the ball rolling - impotent (this comes back to the rumours about Goldie and Meg, natch)?

>What could that remark be? I'll start the ball rolling - impotent (this comes back to the rumours about Goldie and Meg, natch)?

Hmm, possibly a related issue...

>Have other Corpses made slightly past-it, slightly crap people feel warm inside by paying them attention?

I am possibly the only person here who has never met anyone famous or even nearly-famous in a pub or any other social situation.

So I guess the answer's 'no'.

What, nobody famous at all?

>What, nobody famous at all?

Not in a social situation, no.

I watched in awe in 1991 as Bob Goody crossed the very same pelican crossing outside Waitrose on Finchley Road that only the week before I had seen kissed by the feet of Bill Oddie.

What a magical crossing that was.

And I once made Mike Gibson out of 80s Dr Feelgood-a-likes The Godfathers blush deep red. I bumped into him at a party and told him he was the person who'd influenced me to buy my first guitar. If he'd known how shit I was, it would have meant less.

(And I was lying. He was the second person after whoever it was who played on Mickey and Sylvia's "Love Is Strange")

This is getting self indulgent now. Back to the Bob Goody stories. Is it true that Kim Goody was his mum?

> I watched in awe in 1991 as Bob Goody crossed the very same pelican crossing outside Waitrose on Finchley Road that only the week before I had seen kissed by the feet of Bill Oddie.

You could have added this to the "C-List Celebrity" thread if it hadn't already been consigned to, and subsequently dropped from, "Old Topics", under Rob's new ruthless "20-minute" rule.

Ever since he imposed martial law on the forum after it all exploded because of Brass Eye, you're lucky if you can reach the end of your sentence before your thread is delet

I was given a free copy of the Daily Express in WH Smith today. In said newspaper was a double-page spread about Mel Smith - I didn't know he used to live with Ruby Wax!! I knew she wrote for NTNOCN but this startling revelation quite put me off my lunch........

> he used to live with Ruby Wax!!

What, in the Biblical sense?

I spoke to Stewart Lee in a pub the other week, but I can't confirm if it cheered him up.

>> he used to live with Ruby Wax!!
>
>What, in the Biblical sense?

Too right, in the sharing of bodily secretions sense.