Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson operate a male escort business from above a Soho off-license (liquor store).
The gin-soaked duo inadvertently get mixed up with organised crime in the shape of the dangerously unbalanced Mr Lovebucket (played with silky-voiced menace by Peter Richardson) and his gang when they receive a large amount of cash and instructions to “take out Nicholas Parsons”, which they assume to be an escort engagement.
They spend the £3,000 on gin and take Nicholas Parsons out for a night of heavy drinking.
It turns out the parcel was actually for their neighbour in the office next door, Mr Jolly (Peter Cook), a rather house-proud, Tom Jones-obsessed contract killer who masquerades as a purveyor of fluffy toys.
Rik and Ade then make an absolute pig’s ear of trying to kill Parsons. “If you can’t make it noisy . . . make it stupid!”
It’s high-energy drunken lunacy and hilarity from start to finish, and one of the strongest of the Comic Strip Presents… productions.
The multitude of one-liners and quotable lines (“What’s Mr Jolly got that we haven’t got?” “Our bloody Fairy Liquid!”; “Nabushi Shang Hong”; “Elephant and Castle, Stick it up your arsehole”; “Good morning and stick ’em up!”; “Let’s play a game” “Not Fatty’s game”; “It’s a Mr Quietyou to see you”; “One thousand, five hundred and seventy-four gin and tonics please, Monica”; “Barmy fluid – I’ll have some of that!”) has nourished a sizeable rabid cult following for over three decades.
Although it was made for television, Mr Jolly Lives Next Door was briefly screened in British cinemas in late 1987 before it was broadcast on Channel 4 in March 1988.
“Never, ever, bloody anything ever!”
Dreamy Time Escorts
Rik Mayall
Adrian Edmondson Mr Ralph Jolly
Peter Cook Mr Lovebucket
Peter Richardson Nicholas Parsons
Himself Monica
Jennifer Saunders Mrs Cooper
Dawn French Mr Cooper
Michael Cule Mr Yakimoto
Basil Ho Yen Heimi Henderson
Thomas Wheatley Reg
Gordon Kane Hilary
Gerard Kelly Ron
Granville Saxton Norman
Basil Otoin Sir Larry
Philip Locke Policeman
Ian Bartholomew German Businessman
Tommy Windward Brenda
Harriet Thorpe
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Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson operate a male escort business from above a Soho off-license (liquor store).
The multitude of one-liners and quotable lines (“What’s Mr Jolly got that we haven’t got?” “Our bloody Fairy Liquid!”; “Nabushi Shang Hong”; “Elephant and Castle, Stick it up your arsehole”; “Good morning and stick ’em up!”; “Let’s play a game” “Not Fatty’s game”; “It’s a Mr Quietyou to see you”; “One thousand, five hundred and seventy-four gin and tonics please, Monica”; “Barmy fluid – I’ll have some of that!”) has nourished a sizeable rabid cult following for over three decades.
