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The Complete League Of Gentlemen (DVD)

 

Description: Genre: Television - The League Of Gentlemen / Director: Steve Bendelack / Actors: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton ... / ... more
The Complete League Of Gentlemen (DVD) ... DVD released 30 May, 2005 at 2 Entertain Video / Features of the DVD: Box set, PAL / The bizarre yet critically acclaimed BBC television series The League of Gentlemen is to sitcoms like The Good Life or even Friends what David Lynch's films are to Frank Capra movies. Instead of the usual one-family-in-suburbia or group-of-pals set-up, Gentlemen centres on the whole town of Royston Vasey. A Northern village of, to say the least, eccentric characters, the weird people of Royston Vasey (actually, the real name of lewd northern comic Roy Chubby Brown) look like they've been intermarrying for too long and are suffering from a particularly demented variety of xenophobia that drives them to extremes of tetchiness and psychosis. There are the local shopkeepers Edward and Tubbs, who go to murderous lengths to ensure their shop remains for local people only; the Denton family, toad-breeders obsessed with maintaining their household rituals at all costs; inept veterinary surgeon Dr Chinnery, who's never yet saved a patient; Barbara, the local transsexual taxi driver (one of the show's more well adjusted characters); Pauline the demonic Restart Officer at the local Job Centre; and Lance, the sadistic owner of Lance's Joke Shop which sells poisonous sweets and the ever-popular finger in a matchbox (with a real finger), among many others. Most of the characters are performed by the three core members of the group, sporting a disturbing variety of prosthetic demi-masks and latex make-up, who started the concept off with a stage show and then transferred it to radio before taking it on TV, which may explain why The League of Gentlemen seems blithely oblivious to normal sitcom conventions and has a stately air of surrealism that feels like The Archers as written by playwright Eugene Ionesco. Brilliant stuff. --Leslie Felperin

Newest Review: ... now never leave. Whenever anyone goes into the shop you are sure that there will be strange things happening. Barbara Dixon, ... more

 ... voiced my Steve Pemberton. Barbara is a Pre-op transsexual who runs the local taxi firm, 'Bab's Cabs.' You never see her face, but she is always wearing a dress and high heels, and is constantly telling passengers in her gruff voice about having the 'Op.' All that Barbara wants is to find a decent man. Matthew Chinnery, played by Mark Gatiss, the local Vet. He is very sweet natured and has good manners, he only wants to do well. But he manages to kill every animal he comes into contact with by accident. Hilary Bris...more

Gayna1979
Premium Review The Complete League Of Gentlemen (DVD): Welcome to Royston Vasey, You'll Never Leave... (1496 words)
by Gayna1979 - written on 23.03.06 (Very useful, 463 readings)
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Welcome to Royston Vasey and The League of Gentlemen, you'll never leave. The League of gentlemen are Jeremy Dyson, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith, who after becoming friends when they all attended Bretton Hall Drama College, got together to do a comedy stage show, winning the Perrier award at the Edinburgh Festival, then going on to Radio scooping the Sony Silver Award and then a Talkie Award for best audio comedy. This was all before bringing their wonderfully dark humorous show to the small screen in early 1999, making three series, a Christmas special, live show and finally a movie on the silver screen in 2005. The box set ...

hogsflesh
Premium Review Go johnny go go go go (1454 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 19.12.05 (Very useful, 319 readings)
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The League of Gentlemen, a kind of cross between a sitcom and a sketch show, first appeared in 1999. There were three series and one Christmas special, all of which are collected here. Since then they’ve made a film (which I haven’t seen yet), and it may be that they aren’t going to do any more TV shows. Before they were on the TV, they did a great radio series, and before that they were an acclaimed live act, doing well at the Edinburgh Festival, and wherever else it is that live comedy does well. The series is set in the (fictional) small northern town of Royston Vasey, and concerns the extensive cast of weirdos, freaks and psychopaths who live there. All ...

 
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