IN
2003 AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE
APPEARED
IN HIS NEW PLAY
LEGEND
OF THE BBC
The
mysterious death of the most influential comic in Britain
A
tragi-comic tale inspired
by real-life comedians
  
"Everybody
in the business knew him. Especially the big knobs at the BBC
- Michael Grade, Bill Cotton – they all knew him. You’ll
be surprised at how many celebrities come. And the ones that do
come – is it out of respect? Out of guilt? Will Vic be there?
Jo Brand? Ben Elton? Brucie? That would be nice. There’s
plenty of them have Freddie to thank for their careers. The ones
that are household names now – you’ll remember them.
But nobody remembers Eddie Shit – or Freddie.
"I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it
with my own eyes. But I was there in the studio the day Freddie
- the Keith Moon of comedy - fell from his seat, in the top right
Celebrity Square – past Frank Carson - slap bang onto Cilla’s
lap. Drunk as a skunk. She was furious. She screamed at him -
“Don’t touch the star!”
"Then he got picked for a TV series – “The Young
Ones”. You’ll remember all of them. Well maybe all except
the guy that played Mike. But you won’t remember Freddie
in it. They filled the gaps where Freddie should’ve been
speaking with puppets. Hamsters, rats and lentils – all that
stuff.
"They don’t know what happened. The police don’t
know. Some think it was deliberate – suicide. Somebody should
have finished him off years ago. I’d thought about it –
often - but going through with it takes nerve. The blood’s
really on their hands – those people at the BBC. I just put
him out of his misery." |
"One
of last year's big successes, Ian Watt
returns with this
amusing and intriguing tale."
(Scottish
Sunday Mail)
"Good
script. Wonderful acting....a poignant, sad character study
of
a stand-up comedian coming apart at the seams.
As
good as - probably better than - John Osborne’s ‘The Entertainer’....
I've
never seen such a serious, well-written play with so many laughs."
(www.edfringe.com/reviews/)
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