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| Blunder | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Nina Conti Simon Farnaby Tom Meeten David Mitchell Rhys Thomas Tony Way |
| Opening theme | by Steven Burge |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Alan Marke |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 2006 |
Blunder is a Channel 4 comedy sketch series from 2006 that originally aired on E4. One series of six episodes aired.
| Character | Played by | |
|---|---|---|
| The Baron | A hyperactive puerile madman who claims to be the most evil man in the world. He notably tires out towards the end, and often finishes attempting to leave the stage in a strange fashion. | Tom |
| Karate Johnson | A martial arts expert who tells morality tales, ending with his catchphrase "This is karate" and following it up with a flurry of kicks which reveal too much seemingly accidentally at first, but it becomes more deliberate as the series goes on. | Tom |
| Franco Franco | A Euro-style crooner who sings inappropriate and nonsensical songs about his unfortunate family. | Tom |
| Colonel Rudd | A maverick wannabe vet who ill-advisedly uses his animal practices on humans. | David |
| Edgar Ford | A doddery old man, who's "unlikely to make it to Christmas". | David |
| Nigel Livid | A man who is constantly annoyed by today's poor TV shows. He storms the Channel 4 offices, only to realise he should stop watching them in the first place. | David |
| Mr. Pratt | The swimming teacher with the barnacle head. | Tony |
| Tollund Man | A 2,000-year-old peat bog man who has come back to life. | Rhys |
| Malibu Man | The Malibu man gets randy on Malibu rum and tries it on with a member of the audience. When they refuse his offers he turns to the camera and says "Oh, blow!". | Rhys |
| Frank | A man who wants to perform a bodily function, such as farting, but refuses to do it in a public place because it's "disrespectful", and says he'll be "back in da minute". He ends up carrying out his function inappropriately, and is frowned upon by a man in a bowler hat and moustache (David Mitchell). | Rhys |
| Mr Whippy | A domineering father who won't let his son (Rhys) get a word in. The sketch usually ends with Mr Whippy attacking his son. | Tony |
| Emperor Boswellox | He has conquered moons along with his followers, but his memory isn't quite so superhuman. He asks each member of his group if they would like a particular food item, such as a poppadom or a falafel, before moving on to the audience. | Tony |
| Trish | A woman who can only talk in a "comedy" language. | Nina |
| Pru the Bored Housewife | who does unspeakable things with household appliances. | Nina |
| Stuart Ogilvy | A frustrated middle-aged, middle-class golfer who literally gets steamed up about what's wrong with society. He makes several references about the "gowlf clerb". | Simon |
| Mighty Mouse | A racehorse who is unlucky in love. | Simon |
| Singing Cat | Taking place in a car, a singing cat puppet sings (meows) a tune from a TV soap such as Coronation Street , and the owner (Tony) utters obscenities at it. In later episodes, however, the cat would sing a popular tune ("Vienna" by Ultravox), and the owner would join in. This was shown at the credits of each episode. | Tony |
The Baron was infamous for his use of obscene language. Channel 4 were criticised by Ofcom for allowing this to be aired. Channel 4 said in their defence that a lot of other more offensive bad language had been used in the same time slot. Channel 4 issued a spoof apology at the end of the second episode which was interrupted by a barrage of insults from the Baron.
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