- Title: Comic Strip
- Date: 22nd February 1988
- Description:Comic Strip is a series of self contained TV films starring performers from London's "Comic Strip" comedy club and their friends including Dawn French,Jennifer Saunders,Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall. The Comic Strip was aired on Channel 4's first night and served to bring about fresh,modern and often controversial comedy. Written and Directed by: Adrian Edmondson Producer: Simon Wright Starring: Adrian Edmondson (Vim),Rik Mayall (Colin),Nigel Planer (Den),Peter Richardson (Spider),Jennifer Saunders (Sally),Dawn French (Rachel),Judy Hawkins (Spider's wife),Tommy Vance (Concert Compere),Steve Walsh (concert organiser),Anne Cunningham (Colin's mum),Gerard Kelly (Promo Director),Anthony Head (Recording Studio Engineer),Jonathan Stratt (Heavy),Yusuf Khan (Waiter),Jonathan Caplan (Virgin Megastore Shop Assistant),Gordon Kane (Assistant in Chart Shop),Susy Anne Watkins (Sexy girl on promo) (More Bad News) Remember the bad news tour and how it all ended...the fights and recriminations and how the boys swore never to work together again? It is five years later. Journalist Sally Friedman who followed the band on its disastrous maiden tour decides to find out what happened to them. Bringing them together again,a lucrative record deal,a follow-up TV documentary and the chance to play before 70,000 Heavy Metal freaks at castle Donnington is all that it takes to persuade them to get back on the road. Needless to say the reunion is not all plain sailing and after numerous arguments and splits the band finally gets to the rock concert where they trash their room and get arrested. Remarkably they play on stage and the crowd seems to like them at first but they soon grow bored and when Vim claims he is Jimmy Hendrix the stage is rushed by an angry mob. Den doesn't gets off lightly as he went to the toilet in his trousers,Colin gets his throat cut and is unable to talk,Spider blows himself up and is mummified and Vim has to have surgery and no one knows whether he will pull through. Members of Motorhead,Def Leppard,Scorpian and Ozzy Osbourne all say the band is awful but Den sees a positive in all this saying if Vim dies they could all make a lot of money.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Entertainment
- Producer:Michael White
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:22/02/1988
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 1980s