THE FAST SHOW’S BEST CHARACTERS – BY THE CAST
Paul Whitehouse
Rowley Birkin QC
“I don’t think he had a happy life, he just found a way to laugh about it. I based him on a bloke I met fishing in Iceland.”
Charlie Higson
Johnny Nice Painter
“Like a lot of our stranger sketches, these ones were co-written by Brendan O’casey, who had a great use of language. He was obsessed with a painter called Alwyn Crawshaw, who looked exactly like Johnny.” woman in Selfridge’s, a rude cab driver and my friend’s motherin-law,” says Weir. “I loved doing the accent and being unbelievably vile.”
John Thomson
The Spaceman
Thomson’s time-travelling American spaceman tumbles into ordinary situations and demands to know who the president is. “Americans in films always want to know who the president is, as if it’s more important than the year.”
Mark Williams
The Directions Man
“There was an old bloke in Bromsgrove, who lived in a shed. You’d ask how he was and he’d shout ‘How long have you been a doctor?’ There’s a bit of that in there, that country suspicion.”
Simon Day
Gideon Soames
“He’s based on those Radio 4 intellectuals who have obscure theories about Byzantine churches or whatever. People like Simon Schama. Paul Morley, he’s another one. Once I got the voice, I was away.”