Saw a clip for the upcoming : The Hunt for Tony Blair,

Got me thinking…what was their best film?

Five Go Mad In Dorset

A fistful of travelers cheques

You want softee softee toilet paper, you go Hotel Gayboy! Theeese is the Hotel Bastardos!!!

Bad News, More Bad News, Four Men in a Plane and Four Men in a Car.

Oh, and Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase. 😆

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Post-Dangerous Brothers / pre-Bottom plus Peter Cook.

The one with Nicholas Parsons

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Strike! Al Pacino is…… Arthur Scargill

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
The Yob
Bad News
More Bad News

Fistful of travellers cheques +1
That one about the end of the GLC

Did Bad News come before or after This Is Spinal Tap?

The Yob. Still got that on video somewhere. (Somewhere? On the bloody bookshelf in the spare room with allyourothervideosyouneverplay! Sorry dear)

BAd news was well after spinal tap IIRC

I never saw the comic strip stuff, I was too young

Did Bad News come before or after This Is Spinal Tap?

Well after! But its different (ie English!)

NICHOLAS BLOODY PARSONS

oh and Eat the Rich is good

Well after! But its different (ie English!)

Christopher GUest (who played Nigel Tufnel), as well as being married to Jamie Lee Curtis, is a titled english lord – 5th Baron Haden-Guest

The Yob

Can’t believe I’m bothering to answer, but:

Christopher Guest (I)
Actor | Writer | Director
US-born actor, director, writer, musician

Official Sites: MGM
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 4 May 1984 (UK) See more »
Also Known As: This is Spinal Tap®: A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi
Filming Locations: Pasadena, California, USA

Robert Reiner
March 6, 1947 in The Bronx, New York, USA

what, so it’s an English film?

🙄

Five Go Mad In Dorset

Agreed. There’s something about being first.

Five Go Mad In Dorset

“blah blah blah …… atom bomb ….. blah blah blah”

There’s a few episodes on Ch4 website; http://www.channel4.com/programmes/comic-strip-presents/4od#3106380

deffo Mr Jolly was my fave feature-length, I didnt get The Strike at the time, but quite liked it when I saw it again recently.

also, anyone else got/heard the Bad News album? lots of swearing but never fails to raise proper chuckles 😆

Four men in a car for me…. brought tears of mirth to my eyes. Cant wait for this new one to air

Can’t believe no one has mentioned Gino yet!!!

All time favourite Comic strip presents

The Bullshitters !!

Mr Jolly.
‘another old english drinking establishment’

Well after! But its different (ie English!)

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Actually Bad News pre-dated Spinal Tap by about 6 months…

Just seen the trailer for the new one (well, last night). Looking forward to it.

Would it be bad to admit, I’ve never seen any of the old ones? I’m aware of them, but I was too young to be allowed to watch them when they were first broadcast. I should do something about that really.

I was looking to see if you can get any of the old ones on DVD, but reviews seem to suggest that the DVD versions have been re-editted and ruined in the process – as in whole 1 – 2 minute chunks missing. But given I’ve probably not seen a episode for about 15 years I don’t know if i’d notice any changes.

Anyway ‘Didn’t you kill my brother’ was probably my favorite at the time, followed by ‘Supergrass’

Yep, Bad News Tour was broadcast on 24 Jan 1983 according to my Comic Strip boxset.
Spinal Tap was released(UK) 4 May 1984.

I thought Bad News hit a new high in altruistic, self-indulgent. bullshit. mollycoddled mother my dog instinct rock and roll. I thought it was the worst kind of pimply shit of the worst kind of city ghetto probably populated by winos, junkies and general all round ****-ups….

another vote for mr jolly lives next door.

“who are you?”
“nicholas parsons”
“**** off”

oh, and i was at the monsters of rock festival at donnington the year bad news played/recorded the sequel. it was funny, all these hell’s angels getting seriously riled with 4 comic actors on that stage…

and if anyone has a VHS player still, i have the mr jolly/dirty movie tape that you can have for a quid or so to cover postage…

on now

“take out Nicholas Parsons” pmsl

Gotta be the yob.