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Kevin Patterson is a character created and played by the British comedian, Harry Enfield.

Evolution

Kevin originated in the "Little Brother" sketches of Harry Enfield's Television Programme as an annoyingly energetic boy who constantly vexed his older brother with his irritating catchphrases and habit of bursting into his room when he was with a girl.

In the first episode of Harry Enfield and Chums (the new name for the show), Kevin, who despite the same name and similar initial manner was actually separate from the earlier character, reached his thirteenth birthday. The sketch showed his parents watching in horror as Kevin lost his sense of dress, courtesy and posture as the clock struck midnight on the day of his thirteenth birthday, thus becoming Kevin the Teenager, one of the most memorable of Enfield's comic creations.

Personality

Wearing a baseball cap the wrong way round and with his red hair flopping over his face, Kevin is rude to his despairing parents, frequently shouting "I hate you, I wish I'd never been born!" at them, and insisting that everything is "so unfair!". In one sketch, when his father asks him to wash his car, Kevin ends up taking the entire day to complete the task due to his inability to get out of bed before noon and an apparent allergy to work, and in another sketch, though wide awake, he made the most primitive of attempts at tidying his room when required to do so.  The character is also heavily dictated by peer pressure, and was seen in various other sketches trying to sound like Ali G, or Liam Gallagher.   

His best friend is another teenaged boy named Perry (played by the actress Kathy Burke, and based on an early character Burke portrayed on various Channel 4 shows).  They starred in a 2000 feature film, Kevin & Perry Go Large.

The sketches suggest that teenage boys are always very polite to all parents except their own. Kevin and Perry heap immense amounts of abuse on their own respective parents (though Perry shouts at his down the phone rather than face to face) yet are very polite to each other's parents. In one sketch, Kevin's plans to host a party go wrong and ends with the house being trashed. Despite his frequent declarations of hatred towards his parents, Kevin ends up crying whilst his long-suffering mother gives him a much needed hug.

Aside from playing video games, Kevin's one aim in life is to lose his virginity, or at least to prove that he has a girlfriend.  From boasting about the (imagined) joys of sex to placing the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner to his neck to look as though he has received a love bite, he is determined to prove that he has "done it".  He eventually does lose his virginity during a drunken party in the final episode of Harry Enfield and Chums. The following morning, he wakes up transformed into a nice, polite and helpful young man. This is however later revealed to be a dream by his mother in the first of the 2 Christmas specials, with Kevin still behaving like before.

Reception

Due to Kevin and the other characters in Harry Enfield and Chums getting positive feedback and statements of the truth behind the writers' observations, the term "Kevin the Teenager" (often shortened to simply a "Kevin"), has entered British vernacular to describe any adolescent who is bad-tempered or rebellious ("He's a right Kevin!"). It can even be applied to female adolescents.

Kevin's parents

Kevin's father (named Dave in one of the earlier sketches, and later Frank in the movie) has been played by three actors:
* Duncan Preston in Harry Enfield and Chums
* Stephen Moore in Harry Enfield and Chums - Moore replaced Preston in the mid-1990s.
* James Fleet in Kevin & Perry Go Large - a full-length feature film based on the character.

When Kevin was "Little Brother", his father was played by Martyn Whitby and his mother was played by Caroline Quentin.

Kevin's mother (named Sheila in one of the earlier sketches), in contrast to Kevin's father, was played by Louisa Rix in both the series and the movie. Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (born 13 June 1964) is an English actress, comedian, playwright and theatre director. She became known for her regular appearances in the sketch shows French and Saunders (1988–99), Harry Enfield's Television Programme (1990–92) and Harry Enfield and Chums (1994–98), and for her recurring role as Magda in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–96). For her role as Valerie in the film Nil by Mouth, she won Best Actress at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Burke made her film debut in Scrubbers in 1983, and played Mary I in the 1998 film Elizabeth. Her other film appearances include Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), This Year's Love (1999), Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), The Martins (2001), and Anita and Me (2002). From 1999 to 2001, she starred as Linda La Hughes in the BBC sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme, for which she received two of her five BAFTA TV Award nominations. Having spent most of the 2000s concentrating on her work as a director, she returned to film roles in the 2010s with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Pan (2015) and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016).

Early life

Burke was born at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London, and was brought up in Islington. She has two elder brothers, John and Barry. Her mother, Bridget (Bridie),  died of cancer when she was two, and she was brought up by neighbours (the Galvin family) for the following few years. Subsequently, she returned to live with her Irish father, Patrick (Paddy), a builder who died of cancer in 1985. Burke attended the Maria Fidelis RC Convent School.   She then studied theatre at the Anna Scher Theatre.

Career

Burke's first role was in the controversial 1983 film Scrubbers, directed by Swedish actress Mai Zetterling and featuring Pam St. Clement, Robbie Coltrane, Miriam Margolyes, Honey Bane, Debby Bishop and Eva Mottley. The film was set in a young offenders' institute for girls and was seen as a female version of the film Scum.

Burke appeared in a non-speaking role in a 1985 public information film about heroin addiction.

Burke first became familiar to television audiences as a player of minor roles in sketches by better-known performers such as Harry Enfield, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.  Early TV work included regular appearances on the chat show "The Last Resort" hosted by Jonathan Ross on UK Channel 4 in the mid-1980s, playing the characters 'Tina Bishop' and 'Perry the Pre-pubescent Schoolboy". Bishop was a continually pregnant "expert" offering advice on household chores, always with disastrous results. Along with French and Saunders, she has contributed to two Comic Relief charity singles. She first appeared as a member of Bananarama parody band Lananeeneenoonoo in 1989, and then as a member of Spice Girls' look-alike band the Sugar Lumps in 1997. In real life Burke is a big fan of Morrissey and appeared in the video for his 1989 single "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" and later in the 2002 Channel 4 documentary The Importance of Being Morrissey.

She quickly became successful in her own right and although mainly associated with comedy, she has played several serious roles including that of Queen Mary I of England in Elizabeth.

Burke was awarded the Royal Television Society Award for Best Actress, for her performance as the mute Martha in the 1993 BBC TV series Mr Rowe's Virgins.

Burke won the Best Actress award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the gritty drama Nil by Mouth. Burke was so convinced she would not win that she made no plans to attend the ceremony; when told shortly beforehand she had won, she found her passport was out of date. The film also earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.  Since then she has appeared as Perry in Kevin & Perry Go Large, and as Linda La Hughes in Gimme Gimme Gimme (which she developed with wrilter Jonathan Harvey) where she was nominated for 3 British Comedy Awards (winning one), 2 BAFTA TV Awards and a National Television Award for her performance. In 2000, she appeared in the cult film Love Honour and Obey with Ray Burdis.

In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

Beginning in 2001, she refrained from acting and threw herself into theatre directing; something she considers to be one of her true passions.  She said in an interview with Dawn French in Dawn French's Girls Who do Comedy that she no longer felt the same creative energy associated with acting that she used to (she described it as a "feeling in my belly") and that this was the reason she had stopped acting. However, she has done some voiceover work in the past few years, including adverts for Ski yoghurt (in the UK) as well as Flushed Away (2006). She also appeared in the 2007 Christmas Special of The Catherine Tate Show as Nan's daughter.

In early 1990 she wrote and directed her first play, Mr Thomas, at the Old Red Lion Theatre. Set in 1950s London it starred James Clyde, Anita Graham, Jamie Oliver, Ian Jentle, Oliver Smith and Ray Winstone. It was subsequently filmed and shown on Channel 4 the next year.

In 2007, Burke contracted Clostridium difficile while in hospital for an operation, resulting in her having to pass directing duties on Dying for It at the Almeida Theatre (which starred Charlie Condou and Sophie Stanton who she worked with on Gimme Gimme Gimme). 

In 2009, Burke made her television directorial debut with the BBC Three sketch show series Horne & Corden, starring Mathew Horne and James Corden. 

In 2010, Burke completed a short autobiographical film, "Better Than Christmas", for Little Crackers, a collection of comic shorts. Burke plays a nun. On 19 January 2012, it was announced that Burke's short for Little Crackers would be turned into a four-part series, "Walking and Talking", written by Burke. Burke appeared as a nun in each of the episodes.  The series aired in the summer of 2012 on Sky Atlantic. 

In 2011, Burke played Connie Sachs in the film adaptation of the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.  She was long-listed for a BAFTA nomination for her performance as Supporting Actress in 2012. 

Burke appeared in the 2015 Peter Pan prequel film, Pan, as Mother Barnabas.  In November 2015 Burke presented the BBC topical news panel show Have I Got News for You. 

Filmography

Theatre 

* Lilli in Amongst Barbarians by Michael Wall at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1989)
*It's a Great Big Shame! by Mike Leigh (Theatre Royal Stratford East, 1993)

As director

*Out in the Open by Jonathan Harvey at the Hampstead Theatre.
*Kosher Harry (2002) by Nick Grosso at the Royal Court Theatre.
*Born Bad (2003) by Debbie Tucker Green at the Hampstead Theatre.
*Love Me Tonight (2004) by Nick Stafford at the Hampstead Theatre.
*Blue/Orange (2005) by Joe Penhall at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.
*The God of Hell by Sam Shepard at the Donmar Warehouse.

Awards Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio or visual medium such as radio and television. Often sketches are first improvised by the actors and written down based on the outcome of these improv sessions; however, such improvisation is not necessarily involved in sketch comedy.

An individual comedy sketch is a brief scene or vignette of the type formerly used in vaudeville, and now used widely in comedy and variety shows, talk shows and some children's television series (such as Sesame Street).

Sketch comedians routinely differentiate their product from a "skit", maintaining that a skit is a (single) dramatized joke (or "bit")  while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character or situation. 

History

Sketch comedy has its origins in vaudeville and music hall, where a large number of brief, but humorous, acts were strung together to form a larger programme.

In Britain, it moved to stage performances by Cambridge Footlights, such as Beyond the Fringe and A Clump of Plinths (which evolved into Cambridge Circus), to radio, with such shows as It's That Man Again and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, then to television, with such shows as Not only... But Also, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Not the Nine O'Clock News (and its successor Alas Smith and Jones), and A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

There is also the Los Supergenios de la Mesa Cuadrada created by Mexican comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños, under the stage name Chespirito, transmitted in Mexico between 1968 and 1973 that created famous characters like El Chavo del Ocho and El Chapulín Colorado and other character like Los Caquitos, Dr. Chapatín and Los Chifladitos.

Historically, the sketches tended to be unrelated, but more recent groups have introduced overarching themes that connect the sketches within a particular show, with recurring characters that return for more than one appearance. Examples of recurring characters include Mr. Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circus; Ted and Ralph from The Fast Show; The Family from The Carol Burnett Show; the Head Crusher from The Kids in the Hall; Martin Short's Ed Grimley, a recurring character from both SCTV and Saturday Night Live;  and Kevin and Perry from Harry Enfield and Chums. The idea of running characters was taken a stage further with shows like The Red Green Show and The League of Gentlemen, where sketches centered on the various inhabitants of the fictional towns of Possum Lake and Royston Vasey, respectively.

In North America, contemporary sketch comedy is largely an outgrowth of the improvisational comedy scene that flourished during the 1970s, largely growing out of The Second City in Chicago and Toronto.

Notable contemporary American stage sketch comedy groups include The Second City, the Upright Citizens Brigade, The Groundlings and the cast of Saturday Night Live.

Films

Sketch films are rare, since the genre is associated with TV and theatre. The more popular ones were made during the '70s and '80s: The Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie (and its sequel Amazon Women on the Moon) and the Monty Python movies. There have been a few sketch films in recent times, but they've been critical and financial failures: The Underground Comedy Movie (and its sequel InAPPropriate Comedy) and Movie 43.

Festivals

Many of the sketch comedy revues in Britain included seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Since 1999, the growing sketch comedy scene has precipitated the development of sketch comedy festivals in cities all around North America, including festivals in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Philadelphia. Henry Richard "Harry" Enfield (born 30 May 1961)  is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director.

Early life

Born in Horsham, Sussex, England, he is the oldest of three children, the son of English television, radio and newspaper journalist and presenter Edward Enfield. He has two sisters. He was educated at the independent Arundale School in Pulborough, Dorset House School, Worth School, Collyer's Sixth Form College (all in West Sussex) and the University of York, where he was a member of Derwent College and studied politics. He worked for a while as a milkman. 

Career

Enfield first came to public attention when appearing on Channel 4's Saturday Live as several different characters created with Paul Whitehouse. These quickly entered the national consciousness. Among these characters were Stavros, a Greek kebab shop owner with fractured English; and Loadsamoney, an obnoxious, Cockney plasterer who constantly boasted about how much money he earned. The Loadsamoney character took on a life of its own and sampled the song "Money, Money" from the musical Cabaret to spawn a hit single in 1988 and a sell-out live tour.  In May 1988, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock used the term loadsamoney to criticise the policies of the Conservative government of the day and journalists began to refer to the "loadsamoney mentality" and the "loadsamoney economy". 

As a foil to Loadsamoney, Enfield and Whitehouse created the Geordie "Bugger-All-Money" and in 1988 Enfield appeared as both characters during the Nelson Mandela Birthday Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium. In time Whitehouse and Enfield became disturbed that Loadsamoney was being seen in a positive light, rather than as a satirical figure, and they had him run over during a Comic Relief Red Nose Day show while leaving the studio after presenting host Lenny Henry with "the biggest cheque of the night"—a physically huge cheque for ten pence.  Enfield created "Tory Boy", a character which portrayed a young male Conservative MP.

In 1989, Enfield realised a personal project, Norbert Smith - a Life, a spoof on British theatrical knights slumming in the film industry. He also provided voices for the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image, and starred as Dirk Gently in the BBC Radio adaptations of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

TV series

In 1990, Enfield developed his BBC sketch show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, later called Harry Enfield and Chums, with Whitehouse and Kathy Burke. Eschewing the alternative comedy style prevalent at the time, both versions of the show were indebted to early '70s comedians such as Dick Emery and Morecambe and Wise. Enfield and his co-performers created another group of nationally recognised characters for these shows, such as Stan and Pam Herbert, who use the catchphrase "We are considerably richer than you" (in an exaggerated West-Midlands accent), Tim Nice-But-Dim, The Scousers, Smashie and Nicey, Wayne and Waynetta Slob, Annoying Kid Brother, who grew into Kevin the Teenager, and two old-fashioned BBC presenters, Mr Cholmondley-Warner and Grayson.

In 1991, Enfield played Dermot in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly along with Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash, originally on Thames Television. Enfield left after the first series, and was replaced in the second series by Neil Morrissey as Tony. Enfield is a professed fan of opera and fronted a Channel 4 documentary series on the subject. In 1991 Harry also starred in the series Gone to the Dogs (TV series) as Little Jim.

After a short break from television, Enfield signed a new contract with BSkyB, but produced only one series, Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show. In 2002 Enfield returned to the BBC with Celeb, a new series based on the comic strip of the same title in Private Eye, as the ageing rockstar Gary Bloke.

In 2002, Enfield was the first guest on the revamped version of BBC's Top Gear and also appeared on the show on 23 November 2008.  Enfield has also narrated various TV documentaries such as the Discovery Wings channel "Classic British Aircraft".

In 2007, he played Jim Stonem in the Channel 4 series Skins. He reprised this role in the second series in 2008, and the third series in 2009. Enfield also directed two episodes of Skins in season two entitled "Chris" and "Tony" in 2008.

He appears often on mainstream television shows. His current comedy series Harry & Paul (originally titled Ruddy Hell! It's Harry & Paul) started in 2007.

In September 2013 Enfield appeared in the BBC Three comedy series Bad Education as Martin, the father of Jack Whitehall's character Alfie.

In October 2014, Enfield and Paul Whitehouse returned to the characters of Frank and George in a sketch for Channel 4's testicular cancer awareness comedy show "The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night". 

In August 2015 Enfield, alongside Whitehouse, in celebration of their 25-year partnership, presented An Evening With Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse  In 2016 he is to appear as John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare, in the sitcom Upstart Crow. 

In May 2016 Enfield appeared as Prince Charles in the Channel 4 sitcom The Windsors. 

Films 

In 2000, Enfield appeared in his first leading film role playing Kevin alongside Kathy Burke, who played the character's (male) friend Perry—roles originally created for Enfield's television series—in Kevin & Perry Go Large. The film charted the pair's attempt to become professional DJs by travelling to the nightclubs of Ibiza and pestering their idol, the DJ Eyeball Paul, played by Rhys Ifans, while gaining love and losing their virginity. Enfield also appeared as King George VI in Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004), a satire on Hollywood's tendency to change elements of history. In 2012, he starred with Simon Callow in the film Acts of Gordfrey, which opened in UK cinemas on 27 January.

He reprised his role as Martin in The Bad Education Movie, released on 21 August 2015.

In 2015 Enfield and Jessica Hynes appeared as Mr and Mrs Jackson in a BBC film of the Arthur Ransome children’s novel  Swallows and Amazons.

Video games 

In 2012, a likeness of his character Loadsamoney, named "Harold Lott", was released as a DLC skin for the game Killing Floor.

A sample of the character 'Loadsamoney'(Shut Your Mouth and Look at my Wad)
is used in the 1989 Game "Blood Money".

Commercials 

Enfield appeared in some television commercials before becoming famous, including one made in 1987 for Heineken. Enfield's commercials include a series made in 1996 for Dime Bar. One commercial in this series had Enfield as a yokel refusing a Dime bar—smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside—because he preferred armadillos—smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside. Later Enfield, with Paul Whitehouse, starred in a series of commercials for Hula Hoops as The Self-Righteous Brothers, characters from Enfield's television show. In 2004 Enfield starred in a series of commercials for Burger King in the United States as Dr. Angus, a character intended to promote the company's newest hamburger. Two more characters from Enfield's TV series, Mr Cholmondley-Warner and Grayson, also appeared in commercials, for Mercury Communications.  Also in 2004 Enfield provided the voice of "The Roaming Gnome" character used in Travelocity's U.S. advertising campaign.

Music 

Enfield made a cameo appearance as 'the tea lady' during Blur's headline performance at the Olympics Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert in London's Hyde Park in 2012.

He also appeared alongside Albarn's other project The Good, the Bad & the Queen as compere during a live performance at The Tower of London on 9 July 2007 where he mock-beheaded Princess Diana.

Discography

Personal life 

For several years, Enfield was in a relationship with Alison Owen, the mother of Alfie and Lily Allen. They lived together for three years and he helped look after the children. They intended to get married but separated in 1995.  He previously dated producer Debbie Vertue (daughter of Beryl Vertue and sister of Sue Vertue). 

In 1997, Enfield married Lucy Lyster and they have one son and two daughters. Harry Enfield and Chums (also called Harry Enfield's Television Programme) was a British sketch show starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. It first broadcast on BBC Two in 1990 in the 9 pm slot on Thursdays nights which became the traditional time for alternative comedy on television.

Enfield was already an established name due to his 'Loadsamoney' character (which featured in a few entertainment programmes in the late 1980s), but the series gave greater presence to his frequent collaborators Paul Whitehouse and Kathy Burke – so much so that, in 1994, the show was retitled Harry Enfield and Chums.

History

The 1990 series was written solely by Enfield, Whitehouse, Charlie Higson and Geoffrey Perkins. The original series titles began with Enfield in a black suit walking towards the camera and blowing a raspberry to the music of a brass band, and ended with him taking a quick drag from a cigarette hidden behind his back. There was also a Christmas special produced for this series.

After the original series, there were a couple of radio appearances and a one-off special for the characters Smashey and Nicey. During the period between series, Enfield concentrated on straight acting parts, and Whitehouse worked on other projects.

Through repeats, the characters proved popular, and in 1994, BBC One commissioned a new series called Harry Enfield and Chums. This series was produced with a pool of writers, rather than the cast alone. The format of the opening credits was the same, although Enfield was now joined by co-stars Whitehouse and Burke to take a collective bow to the audience. There were two Christmas specials produced for this series.

Characters 

Arguing Couple

A married couple (played by Enfield and Julia St. John) who quite clearly have grown to despise each other, stuck in a seemingly eternal argument which consists of them constantly flinging insults at each other (often to others irritation), yet won't separate or get a divorce for the sake of their son.

Big Bob Joylove 

Based on the TV series about Lovejoy. A shady-looking man who in each sketch faces a problem or disappointment and attempts to bribe someone who has no control of the situation, including paying a station guard to bring back a missed train and a nurse to exchange his newborn daughter for a baby boy. His catchphrases were "Oh, I getcha!" and "You drive a hard bargain, don't you?", always followed by Bob offering more money to his harassed victim.

The Bores 

Two middle-aged men prone to having achingly dull conversations at parties, revolving mostly around cars ("What are we driving at the moment?"), and laughing loudly at their own jokes.

The Double-take Brothers 

Two brothers with an irritating propensity for double takes whenever the unexpected occurs.

Dr Philip Boyish Good Looks 

A blond softly spoken TV doctor. He is often seen on a morning show couch, reading letters from 'menopausal women' about their fantasies of him.

The Dutch Coppers 

Two Dutch policemen who are more interested in smoking marijuana and conducting a homosexual affair with each other than doing any police work. A parody of liberal attitudes in the Netherlands.

Fat Bloke 

A fat, jolly-looking man (played by David Barber) who made his first appearance in a script for Lee and Lance. He later formed a running gag where, for no apparent reason, he would walk into the middle of a sketch, hand something to a character (usually appropriate to the situation), be told "Thank you Fat Bloke!", and walk off.  In Harry Enfield and Chums, he would be introduced at the end of the closing credits by Enfield who would announce: "The show's not over until the Fat Bloke sings!" whereupon he sing a song (ranging from "Lord of the Dance" to "Smack My Bitch Up") in operatic style.

Julio Geordio 

A Colombian footballer who has recently joined Newcastle United. Interview after interview passes with Julio gaining more and more a Geordie accent as he describes events on and off the field, the latter often involving 'liaisons' with pin-up girls of the time such as The Spice Girls and Dani Behr. Probably inspired by the arrival of Faustino Asprilla at Newcastle United in 1995.

Jürgen the German 

A young German tourist in England who can't stop apologising for his country's actions "during ze Var" but often resorts to displaying aggressive Nazi-like tendencies.

Harry and Lulu 

A pair of toddlers played by Enfield and Burke in oversized sets.  Harry deliberately hurts Lulu, or more often tricks her into hurting herself, but then plays the innocent when their mother arrives to investigate, and asks for a "big hug". On Channel 4's Sunday Night Project on 8 February 2009, Harry admitted the characters were based on a young Lily and Alfie Allen; at the time of them being toddlers, he was dating their mother.

Kevin Patterson 

One of the most memorable of Enfield's comic creations. Kevin goes through a major personality transplant once he turns 13 years old, he also loses his dress sense and physical energy. He grows up to become Kevin the Teenager, a stereotypical teenager who ruins his parents' lives with his refusal to do anything and complains constantly. He usually brings round his friend Perry (real name "Muggy Bill"), who persists on helping himself to food from the freezer. Perry is faultlessly polite to Kevin's parents, Mr and Mrs Patterson, but in one episode we see he is just as rude to his own parents as Kevin is to his whereas Kevin is faultlessly polite to them. The character was so well received that a feature film Kevin and Perry Go Large was released in 2000.

Lee and Lance 

Two idiot mechanics (fruit and veg/fish stall holders in the later series) commenting on current affairs much in the same mode as "Pete and Dud".  Lance is tone deaf in English but can sing Italian opera perfectly.  Lee thinks he is cleverer than Lance, and he is, but not by much.

Lesley Norris 

A chronically absent-minded pub landlord who is easily confused, never manages to serve a drink and frequently mixes up his anecdotes, customer orders, money ("Now, you gave me a fiver"), the names of even his regular customers (one of whom was played regularly by Martin Clunes) and even his own marital status (Les: "Maureen! Can you come and help me at the bar please me love?" Regular: "You're not married, Les").

The Lovely Wobbly Randy Old Ladies 

A deliberate contrast, on Enfield's part, to show the opposite of 'The Old Gits': Two lecherous old ladies who do not care who approaches them so long as the newcomer is male, and good looking.  Their catchphrase is "Ooh! Young man!", which they repeat in an attempt to pass themselves off as 'nice little old ladies', while comparing young men they encounter to male celebrities of their young adulthood ("You're the spitting image of a young Lester Piggott").

Michael Paine – A self-confessed "nosey neighbour" 

Played by Whitehouse in the style of Michael Caine as parodied by Peter Sellers in his infamous appearance on Parkinson in the early 70's. The parody is in part based on Caine's character from The Italian Job released in 1969 and so loved by British audiences ("I told you to only blow the bloody doors off") and his diction when presenting his lines in many of his films. It relies on Caine's ability to impart trivial information in the same way, starting with "Did you know..." and ending with ".. and not a lot of people know that.". Whitehouse continues in this tradition, talking about extremely dreary things his neighbours were doing such as "do you know, he didn't call that woman back until... approximately two hours later.  Would Damon Hill have taken that long to call his mother? I'll be honest with you.  I don't know.  Not a lot of people know I don't know that, but I don't."

Mister Dead 

Parody of Mister Ed. A (supposedly) talking corpse (played by Whitehouse) who travels around with his living friend (Enfield) and often helps him get out of troublesome situations, such as in one sketch where he avoids a speeding ticket by pretending to rush Mister Dead to the hospital. The opening ditty is a parody of the original "Mr Ed" song: "He lives in box, he looks like a corpse.  He's dead of course!". Additionally, all the characters display a typical southern US drawl

Modern Dad 

An old-fashioned father, looking and sounding suspiciously like Enfield's own, who struggles to accept his son's homosexuality, often making tactless remarks and Freudian slips ("Make yourself at homo... er, at HOME!") or judgements based on stereotypes. For example, going up to a pink Fiat Panda that he assumed was his son's car. Ewen Bremner played the son's boyfriend in some sketches.

Mr Cholmondley-Warner 

A snobbish, upper-crust 1930s newsreel presenter (played by Jon Glover). Miles Cholmondley-Warner, with his manservant Greyson (Enfield), would expound on various issues of the day and attempt to uphold the British Empire's values.  In the second series this gave way to a series of public information films that would advise, amongst other things, that women refrain participating in complex conversations (as this would lead to insanity) or that babies be given gin to ensure a good night's sleep. The characters also appeared in a series of TV adverts for Mercury Communications. The sketch Women: Know Your Limits!  was plagiarised by a Danish PR agency in a campaign video for the Danish Act of Succession referendum, 2009.

Mr You-Don't-Wanna-Do-It-Like-That 

An infuriating know-it-all father who advised various people with both household tasks and diverse jobs, such as a football pundit. This was Enfield's take on the traditional "mother-in-law" stereotype. His catchphrase, on encountering someone, or entering a room is "Only me!" When his interfering goes wrong he tends to blame everyone but himself, using the catchphrase "Now I do not believe you wanted to do that, did you?"

The Old Gits 

An obnoxious pair of old men who take great delight in persecuting younger people – although they do branch out their cruelty on other groups of people, so as not to discriminate. However, in the case of one of their more famous sketches, Alf Git finds his childhood sweetheart, showing that he once had a kinder side.

The Palace of Righteous Justice 

A superhero team who are forced to encounter everyday problems such as opening a bank account. Their members are "Law Man" (Wielder of the mighty sword of Dobber), "Fire Man" (Whose fiery balls of fire can start fires) (played by Nathaniel Parker), "(Kometh the) Ice Man" and (Apparently the most powerful of all) "She Woman Cat Type Thing".

The Scousers 

Played by Harry Enfield, Joe McGann (later by Mark Moraghan) and Gary Bleasdale, Ga', Ba' and Te' (which are short forms of the names Garry - Gareth, Barry and Terry - Terrance) are stereotypical Liverpudlians, who alternately fall out and make peace.  They often say such things as "Dey do dough, don't dey dough" (They do though, don't they though), and "Alright! Alright! Calm down, calm down"- which is what one of them says when the other two start arguing.

The Self-Righteous Brothers 

A pair of middle-aged opinionated men, Frank and George Doberman, who spend their time sitting in a pub, discussing celebrities they admire (always referred to by just their surnames), and then becoming angry when contemplating said celebrities doing something selfish and extremely unlikely. Their most famous sketch involved British Formula One driver Damon Hill, where Harry Enfield's character initially asks for an autograph, but as their conversation develops, Enfield begins to get angry at Hill whilst describing a hypothetical situation that he doesn't approve of, ending in the inevitable, "OI! HILL! NOO!" Based on a neighbour in a block of flats that Enfield lived in at the time who would insist on deliberately addressing him by his surname. The Self-Righteous Brothers are named after musical duo The Righteous Brothers. In October 2014, Enfield and Whitehouse returned to the characters of Frank and George in a sketch for Channel 4's "The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night". 

Smashie and Nicey 

Out-of-date Fab FM DJs Dave Nice and Mike Smash, a thinly veiled parody of some older Radio 1 DJs of the time. It is believed that the characters were based primarily on Mike Read, Simon Bates and Tony Blackburn, though other then-current DJs such as Alan Freeman were also believed to have influenced the writers. Each skit would feature the pair's love of "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman–Turner Overdrive, seemingly the only record they ever played – although they were shown playing other records at the introduction of several sketches. The pair would also try to outdo each other with deliberate mentions of charidee (charity) work for which the pair would ostensibly claim to be keeping hush-hush. The sketch became extremely infrequent when the show became Harry Enfield and Chums.

Stan and Pam Herbert 

An affluent couple who spoke with exaggerated Black Country accents and were forever informing people that "We are considerably richer than yow!"  Many sketches involved the couple patronising another couple of similar age, desperate to convince the other couple (Pam's sister and her husband in one sketch) that their greater wealth meant greater happiness or social importance, and their inability to accept the successes or talents of others as being noteworthy (such as the British couple they meet on a Spanish holiday who, fluent in Spanish, are dismissed as "showing off"). They eventually reach their come-uppance when they try this on with a scruffily-dressed man in a hotel, who doesn't want to talk about money, but when pushed by Stan, quietly, and devastatingly from Stan's point of view, reveals that he is actually vastly richer than Stan and, in fact, owns the hotel they are sitting in.

Tim Nice-But-Dim 

An upper class twit who is usually being ripped off by one of his 'jolly nice' prep-school chums.  He is an exaggerated version of "posh" yet pleasant and stupid people that Enfield knew. He is a fictional Old Ardinian with an eccentric public school-influenced dress-sense involving jeans and a school blazer worn over a striped rugby shirt. The character was initially created by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, who are both Old Ardinians and wrote the character as an antidote to contemporary portrayals of ex-public schoolboys as sharp-minded high-achieving young men, and instead chose to base the character on former school contemporaries who had plenty of money and good manners but were light of intellect. His catchphrase is "What an absolutely, thoroughly, bloody nice bloke!" A notable scene was him going to the School Reunion of another school. He appeared in TV adverts promoting British meat in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The adverts were pulled because of the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis.  The character returned again as Tim Nice-But-Balding in the third series of Harry & Paul, Episode 4, in a Dragon's Den parody sketch. He represents a city banker and it is revealed that Peter Jones is his brother.

Tory Boy 

A repulsive thirteen-year-old with glaringly out-of-date ideas about the world, based on a cross between a snobbish, unpopular boy who went to school with Enfield, and a younger version of William Hague.  Enfield also claimed to have mixed more recent Conservative politicians such as Michael Howard and Michael Portillo together in the character, on the allegation that they were "Tory Boys who have never grown up." Became 'Tony Boy' (a parody of Tony Blair) after the 1997 General Election.

Wayne and Waynetta Slob 

(Derived from one of Burke's stand-up skits) A benefit-dependent, lower-class couple with a lack of personal hygiene and spend most of their time smoking a fag or eating pizzas. Wayne and Waynetta argue constantly over everything including the name of their child who they eventually name Frogmella because "it's exotic". Later, another daughter is named Spudulika after Waynetta's favourite restaurant Spud U Like. A third child which Waynetta calls Canoe (which is supposed to be named Keanu Reeves) is born of an affair Wayne had with Naomi Campbell which resulted in octuplets completes the family with the 'brown baby' Waynetta always wanted. Now she is just like all the other Mums on the estate!  Wayne and Waynetta also win the lottery and win a holiday but their plane crashes because they are so overweight and end up stranded in a jungle.  Enfield based them on a couple with a similar lifestyle who lived in the flat below his in his younger days. Waynetta Slob was played by Kathy Burke.

William Ulsterman 

An extremely religious, loud-mouthed Ulsterman who demands "cheddar cheese and pineapple on a stick" at a dinner party, and then goes on to violently insult the party hostess for the lack of this dish, threatening that she will burn in hell. He was a parody of Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Rev Ian Paisley.

George Integrity Whitebread 

George is a stereotypical insensitive plain speaking Yorkshireman; unfortunately he usually finds himself in a position of responsibility requiring creativity and sensitivity. When first introduced it is stated with approval by the other characters in the sketch that "Integrity is his middle name", only for them to discover that this is only true in a literal sense.

Freddie & Jack 

Only featured in 'Harry Enfields Television Programme', Jack, a generic Tory politician and Freddie, a generic Labour Party politician are portrayed as acting like typical infant school children who frequently squabble over the benefits of their various polices in the manner of a playground-style argument. One particular sketch featured then-member of parliament David Steel , a prominent Liberal, whom Freddie & Jack unite against during a birthday party. This sketch has become more dated than most due to Freddie's frequent references to the EEC.

Commercials

Dime did a number of adverts featuring Harry Enfield's Television Programme characters.

Mr Cholmondley-Warner did adverts for Mercury Communications.

Smashie and Nicey appeared in an advert for Nestlés Fab Ice Lolly.

Kevin the Teenager appeared in an advert for Pillsbury Toaster Pockets.

The Self-Righteous Brothers appeared in a series of 1996 British Hula Hoops advertisements that explained that if a consumer found a square Hula Hoop in a packet, he or she would win a prize, with Frank stubbornly and aggressively maintained that "Hula Hoops are round, they'll stay round, and they'll be around forever!". Frank alone then did some adverts for madasafish.com.

Tim Nice-But-Dim appeared in two adverts for British meat in 2000 (lamb and beef).

Home Media releases

VHS

"Harry Enfield's Television Programme: The Very Best of Series One"
"Harry Enfield's Television Programme: Series Two - Part One"
"Harry Enfield's Television Programme: Series Two - Part Two"
"Harry Enfield and Chums" (Contains some of the best sketched from Series 1)
"Harry Enfield and Chums 1997" (Contains some of the best sketched from Series 2)
"The New Harry Enfield and Chums Video - Oi No!" (Contains an extended version Harry Enfield and Christmas Chums 1997 Special with previously unseen sketches)
"More Harry Enfield and Chums" (Contains Harry Enfield's Yulelog Chums 1998 Christmas Special)
"Harry Enfield presents Kevin's Guide to Being a Teenager (Christmas special from 1999, later included on Kevin & Perry Go Large DVD.)

DVD

Harry Enfield and Chums: The Complete Collection was due to be released as a two-disc DVD on 21 May 2007, but it was delayed until further notice. It was then to be released on 19 November 2012, but was delayed once again to 11 March 2013, it has since been cancelled. The Collection was going to be a five-disc set containing Series 1 and 2, and the 1992 Christmas episode of Harry Enfield's Television Programme, and Series 1 & Series 2 of Harry Enfield & Chums, and Christmas specials from 1997 and 1998.
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