Characters
The show featured a mix of stand-up, spoofs of known television series, but also a number of character based sketches. These characters and sketches included:
- Mr Strange a man obsessed with milk and disgusting things to do with it. He briefly informs us of his latest 'experiment' and usually signs off with his catchphrase "milky-milky". (played by Hugh Dennis)
- Norris Employed by the BBC as a weatherman as part of a home-office scheme to help rehabilitate habitual criminals, Norris' forecasts feature advice to take advantage of specific weather conditions to break into peoples homes and "get yourself something nice!". (Hugh Dennis, Series 2)
- Kurt Wenker a living stereotype of the buff, tanned, German guy in charge of handing out the windsurf boards in holiday destinations. Kurt constantly intimidates British male tourists and jokes about stealing their girlfriends. (Hugh Dennis)
- World of Wine and World of Whiskey. A programme presented by a man called Tarquin (Punt) and alcoholic wine connoisseur Michael (Dennis). Tarquin attempts to maintain the pomp and circumstance of presenting a professional programme about wines and spirits while Michael, slurs his way through viewers Q&A sessions criticising their attempts to do anything with wine other than drink it.
- Update With Tony Shannon and Ian Pye News anchors Tony Shannon (Dennis) and Ian Pye (Punt) ( who constantly introduce each other and the news headlines without ever actually reading any news.
- The Rt. Hon. Hector Sleazely MP A member of parliament who is constantly in the middle of a scandle and attempts to explain himself in a statement to reporters. The statement is laced with word play, mostly homonyms, to the point where the long speech is generally meaningless. Sleazely always ends with his insistance that he will not be resigning before awkwardly resigning from making the statement. (Hugh Dennis)
Read more about this topic: The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show
Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)