Revolver
A black comedy sketch show written by some of the newest names, performed by some of the oldest talent. Cast members include Melvyn Hayes, Roy Barraclough, Julie Goodyear and Nicholas Smith.
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"It wasn`t until I came to this site to review REVOLVER that I found out that the series I`d just seen had been a follow up to a series from 2001 . I don`t recall seeing the first series . Or maybe I did . You see that`s the problem with REVOLVER - It`s truly unmemorable REVOLVER is a comedy sketch show done in a highly surreal manner with actors best known from sit-coms in the 1970s , actors like Roy Barraclough , Stephen Lewis and John Inman . Unlike JAM the surreal sketch show from Chris Morris the jokes themself aren`t in any way offensive but they`re also very unfunny . Example : Woman..."
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Julie Goodyear, most famous for playing Bet Lynch in Coronation Street (1960), spoke of her love for this sketch show in her 2007 autobiography "Just Julie". Goodyear stated:
"[...] in 2003 I did a comedy sketch programme for BBC Scotland called Revolver. I had a wonderful producer called Gary Chippington and worked very closely with Melvyn Hayes who's a fantastic comedy actor. It was filmed on location in Glasgow and I played eighteen different characters, which for an actress is like giving a kid a bag of toffees.
When you've played one character for as long as I did, to be given that kind of opportunity was heaven. And all eighteen were a long way from Bet - like a meths-drinking old tramp on the docks; an agoraphobic; a pathologist; Hettie at the National Trust; and Joyce who ran a brothel with a stair-lift! I thought Revolver was a quality show and really hoped that it would be recommissioned. But sadly that wasn't to be, as so often happens."
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A black comedy sketch show written by some of the newest names, performed by some of the oldest talent. Cast members include Melvyn Hayes, Roy Barraclough, Julie Goodyear and Nicholas Smith.