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    Comic, The (1985)

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    In a post-apocalyptic future dystopian Britain, aspiring comedian Sam Coex (Steve Munroe) murders Joey Myers (Jeff Pirie), the leading comic on the club circuit, and takes his place in the limelight.

    Soon after, Sam – sporting the worst ginger mullet in the free world – hooks up with drug-addicted stripper Ann (the beautiful but untalented Berderia Timini who shows her breasts at regular intervals), who is the cause of his downfall.

    Sam also gets picked up by Joey Myers’ old agent Stan (Bernard Plant), who charges a staggering 80% fee for booking him into various dives. As his career progresses, Coex is haunted by visions, often involving the zombified return of Joey Myers.

    In this authoritarian future – where jackbooted ponytailed militia can beat the crap out of people in public for no reason then throw them in gaol without trial – the highest form of culture appears to be the working man’s club circuit.

    It has the worst cast, the worst sets (Sam’s flat looks like it has been wallpapered with wet toilet roll), the worst camera work, the worst sound, the cheapest and weakest special effects and the greatest over-use of a smoke machine in cinematic history.

    Makes Ed Wood look like Stanley Kubrick.

    Sam Coex
    Steve Munroe
    Ann 
    Berderia Timini
    Joey Myers
    Jeff Pirie
    Stan Clarke
    Bernard Plant
    Jim Malone
    Bob Flag
    George Ellington
    Vass Anderson
    Compere
    Simon Davies
    Inspector Trow
    Gary Twomey
    Vision
    Joy Lale
    Mr Bland
    Eddie Blackstone
    Eddie
    Gabe Cameron
    Police Soldier 1
    Philip Hope
    Police Soldier 2
    Eddie Dudzik
    Prostitute at Bar
    Anna Simmons
    Dead Man
    Graham Anderson
    Club Artist
    Daryl Nock
    Police Victim
    John Deerey
    Dancer
    Nicki Wheelen
    Helen Coex
    Sarah

    Director
    Richard Driscoll

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