Sketches from Stop Messing About
Cartoon illustrations by Brian Platt inspired by sketches from the stage show 'Stop Messing About'. Click an image below to see a larger version.
The Dirty Half Dozen
The absolute scum of the British Army.. .thuggish, brutal, venal and cruel... are gathered together, not for a new 'Bootsie and Snudge' series... but to attack a top secret German depot at 49 Rauchenstrasse, Western Desert, North Africa, NAI4 GD7.
Sir lnigo Parchmutter
Known as 'the Hanging Judge' for reasons we won't go into, Sir lnigo first took silk in 1937 but was never found out. He continued to take silk and occasionally cotton for many years. To Sir lnigo, LegalAid is a soft drink for lawyers...
The Driving Test
Joan Sims is a very, very short-sighted lady, trying to pass her driving test in a fog of uncertainty. Flinty hearted Kenneth Williams is her examiner.
'Seatbelt... seatbelt... ah! Here we are!'
'They're my braces, Madam...'
The Radio Addict
Dick Barton, Sing Something Simple, The Clitheroe Kid... the marijuana of the seventies, leading on to stronger programmes... The Lost World, a Walter Gabriel anecdote... finally ending with the Ten O'Clock News and the BBC Pips, all shame forgotten. A Radio Addicts pathetic story...
The Kingston, Surbiton, Wimbledon and District Line Trio
Possibly the worst folk-singers in the known universe... more in sorrow than in tune... The Kingston, Surbiton, Wimbledon and District Line Trio sing a Cowboy's Lament to His Dead Saddle, complete with gestures. They actually play by ear which is, unfortunately, the way most of us listen...
Ballroom Dancing Rally
Long before 'Strictly Come Dancing' the London to Brighton Ballroom Dancing Rally was a firm favourite with radio listeners. The thrilling cross country Pasa-Doble, the enchanting Minuet on the M25, the Turkeytrot round the Traffic Cones. Take your partners for an exciting Samba around the B327...
"It's not until Robin Sebastian's Kenneth Williams steps up to the microphone that the hairs stand up on the back of your neck... he's so good, it's as though he was born to play the much missed wag" - Daily Telegraph
"The cast are a joy to watch... the magic works... it's a joy to enter this golden age of innuendo" - Sunday Telegraph about Round the Horne... Revisited
"Nigel Harrison captures Hugh Paddick's alter ego with a sensitively underpitched performance" - Mail on Sunday
"Charles Armstrong lovingly brings to life the honey voiced BBC announcer Douglas Smith" - Mail on Sunday