STUPID BOY!
Who do you think you’re kidding Mr Hayman! Dad’s Army star says cheering fans of new episodes are just like rabid Brexiteers
LOUD fans at a Dad’s Army TV recording were last night likened to rabid Brexiteers.
They cheered at Corporal Jones’ “they don’t like it up ’em” catchphrase – but Private Frazer actor David Hayman said it showed why the UK was leaving the EU.
ROWDY fans who watched the filming of the lost Dad’s Army shows were ordered to stop cheering every time Corporal Jones shouted his catchphrase “They don’t like it up ’em!”
Actor David Hayman, who plays Private Frazer in the TV remake, was stunned by the crowd’s reaction and compared them to Brexiteers.
He raged: “I’d never seen anything like it. I think they unleashed the beast in the audience. No wonder we are heading for Brexit.”
The TV channel Gold has re-made three episodes of the classic sitcom Dad’s Army, which had been wiped for good from the BBC archives.
A new cast is taking on the iconic roles of wartime Home Guard volunteers Captain Mainwaring, Sergeant Wilson and Corporal Jones, made famous by the late Arthur Lowe, John LeMesurier and Clive Dunn.
However, chaos erupted in the TV studio when the actors tried filming scenes for one of the missing episodes from 1968 called A Stripe For Frazer.
Every time Jones – played by Kevin Eldon – shouted his catchphrase, “They don’t like it up ’em”, the audience stood up and cheered his antiforeigner jibes.
Beeb bosses had to stop the recording twice and order everyone to calm down, amid fears all the cheering might make it sound like a pro-Brexit rally.
Scottish actor David Hayman said the cast were shocked by the reaction. He said: “There was a standing ovation every time Jones said, ‘Get it up the f***ing Nazis.’”