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Roy Chubby Brown

PolyGram Video · 1993 · 51 min

A 1993 mockumentary detailing the fictional hometown origins of the comic.

Roy Chubby Brown trades the stage for a scripted mockumentary, dragging viewers back to his roots in the North East of England. Framed as an investigative profile by fictional TV host Melvyn Shag, the 51-minute VHS acts as an origin story for the comic’s deliberately abrasive persona. It functions as an extended inside joke for his core audience, expanding the patchwork-suited character into a full biographical parody.

Released in November 1993 at the peak of his home-video dominance, the tape abandons standard club sets to detail his early life in Grangetown. Specific segments cover an unconventional birth, a brief education that allegedly netted him an “Open University PhD in Gynaecology,” and the rapid rise and fall of a fictionalized marriage.

The set list

1 bit

  1. TV host Melvyn Shag explores Roy Chubby Brown's upbringing and early life in Grangetown

    A mock-documentary narrative visiting Grangetown Secondary and recounting his lack of qualifications, learning French from the head girl, and meeting and divorcing the girl of his dreams.

How it plays

Tone
Dark, parody, slapstick
About
Spoof autobiography, Childhood and school days in Grangetown, Relationships and divorce

Backstory

A spoof autobiography of Roy 'Chubby' Brown featuring actors and animated inserts, framed around TV host Melvyn Shag taking Brown back to his roots in Grangetown in the north east of England.

Details

Released
Runtime
51 min
Where
PolyGram Video
Director
Ian Bolt
Topics
Before
The Helmet's Last Stand (1993)
After
Jingle Bx@!cks (1994)

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