This is definitely one of the best episodes of this series.While it's not Ade's best performance, Rik and Nigel really shine in this one.Not to mention that the TV detector guy from The Young Ones is in this, even though he has a tiny part.I don't know that guys real name and I have only seen about ten minutes of his work but he's hilarious.The other review on here calls it a parody of the British music scene but that's not true.The band looks like all those lame eighties pop/dance bands but the story isn't really about the music industry.It's about a thief and lying and it's hilarious.If you only see one episode of this show, make it this one.
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A very funny satire of the British music industry...
christopher_hooker30 July 2007
This was my favorite of the "Comic Strip Presents" movies (as I didn't grow up with the Famous Five and didn't understand that episode until very recently).
A toilet paper deliveryman/con-man stumbles upon the break-up of a rather horrible band (the mastermind of which is played by the hilarious Rik Mayall).
Taking the discarded master tapes of their last recording, he presents himself as a band manager and, with no one in place to argue against the marketing machine of a British record label and the British music press, the band skyrockets to success... causing our anti-hero to do some very quick-stepping to avoid crazed fans.
It was funny and a bit biting, and so worth the time. This aired on MTV after the Young Ones has exhausted its audience, and I remember it fondly as one of the funnier bits of post-Monty Python Brit comedy.
A toilet paper deliveryman/con-man stumbles upon the break-up of a rather horrible band (the mastermind of which is played by the hilarious Rik Mayall).
Taking the discarded master tapes of their last recording, he presents himself as a band manager and, with no one in place to argue against the marketing machine of a British record label and the British music press, the band skyrockets to success... causing our anti-hero to do some very quick-stepping to avoid crazed fans.
It was funny and a bit biting, and so worth the time. This aired on MTV after the Young Ones has exhausted its audience, and I remember it fondly as one of the funnier bits of post-Monty Python Brit comedy.
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