IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!! Er komt een derde serie van The League of Gentlemen! De DVD’s vand e eerste en de tweede serie zijn de moeite van het kopen meer dan waard trouwens: wordt the price of admission voor het commentaar van de gasten zelf.

De derde serie begint met The Lesbian and the Monkey. Nieuwe karakters, volgens http://www.leagueofgentlemen.co.uk:

DOUGAL, KENNY, SHELLEY AND OSHI

Christopher Ecclestone is our guest star, playing Dougal Siepp, who
used to be in business with Kenny, at the the front. Kenny runs a dog
cinema and they had a falling out because Siepp is into cats and
started to show films that had cat influences. Reece and me play
Kenny’s employees Shelley and Oshi, who’s a Japanese film
projectionist. (Where the hell did they get the inspiration for
thatt?? – Dave;o))

TISH

Tish is shit backwards (er, almost), which wasn’t deliberate. She’s a
fag hag, she loves gay guys. She’s posh and she’s ‘been to India and
shit? And it’s amazing? And everything’s a question?’ I had to shave
my belly to play her. If you go to Camden and throw a rock you’ll hit
someone like her with a floppy hat and crystals. So please do.

DEAN TAVOULARIS

That’s his stage name, which he’s obviouslyy chosen because he thinks
it sounds showbiz. He’s a street magaician, Royston Vasey’s answer to
David Blaine. But he’s doing it to pensioners on their way to buy
some bin bags or something. They pick a card and then by the time
he’s done the trick, they’ve forgotten what the card was.

DADDY

Mark calles him the Klingon Ambassador just becayse of his look. He
comes to the B&B in Royston Vasey to give a demonstraion of his sex
device ‘The Medusa’. He sounds a bit like a seedire Jonathon Ross, if
you can imagine that. ‘Twust your Daddy…Do not be afwaid my child’
You can’t tell in this picture, but I actually wore a bra.

DON LYNCH

This is probably the closest we’ve ever come to copying a real
person. Out stage manager on tour was a guy called Don, and Irish guy
who was one part Long John Silver, one part Frank Carson, and one
part Tony Soprano. He was jovial but would have dark days. We went to
Belfast and he was like ‘Ah, lot o’ coddins…’

KEITH DROP

We realised that Vinnie and Reenie, who run the charity shop, were
basically the same character and were a bit hard on the ears, so we
replaced Vinnie with Keith. He’s a camp man who’s into amateur
dramatics and he’s doing a production of The Diary Of Anne Frank,
which Pam Doove gets involved with. Playing a Nazi.

Boe, en nu is het op BBC geen Watching the Detectives meer: alleen een lauwe aflevering van Perry Mason geweest, en niets geen Columbo of Quincy. Bah.