Billy Bleach is a fictional character, played by Simon Day in the BBC comedy sketch show The Fast Show, the character featured in all four series, from 1994 to 2000. Simon Day is a British comedian most famous for his roles in the sketch show The Fast Show, sitcom Grass and a series of comedic adverts for Powergen. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is largest the publicly-funded radio and television broadcasting corporation of the United Kingdom (see British television). ... The Fast Show was a BBC comedy sketch show programme which ran for four series from 1994 to 2000, starring Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Simon Day, Mark Williams, John Thomson, Arabella Weir and Caroline Aherne (1994-1997). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Billy Bleach is a tousle-mopped pub know-it-all who often approaches various people in his local, declaring that he is an expert in whatever they are doing/saying/etc., however the tables are often turned upon Billy and he retreats.

He has appeared in several sketches of this nature including: a quarreling couple, a man picking lottery numbers, a man trying to change loose change, a man at a jukebox, a man at a questionnaire-type arcade game, a man playing darts, and a man at a drink dispenser just to name a few.

Billy appears to have no friends, and exclaims that he was once caught masterbating my a member of his family: which shows that perhaps his family are not on particularly good grounds with him. He has written a book: In, out, and put the kettle on

He also appears in the spin-off BBC Three series Grass where he is given a new identity following being witness to a gangland murder. He is the first of Day's creations to get a show of his own, the other spin offs have all been based around Ted & Ralph, Ron Manager and Swiss Toni - Day is the only member of the Fast Show to appear in every single spin-off. BBC Three, the successor of the similar BBC Choice, is a British television channel from the BBC broadcasting only on digital cable, terrestrial and satellite. ... Ron Manager is a character from the popular BBC comedy sketch show, The Fast Show. The character is played by Paul Whitehouse. ... Swiss Toni is a fictional car dealer played by Charlie Higson, and also the title of a sitcom in which he is the main character. ...

In series 3, Billy's sketches were given a new concept: Billy would be sitting in a random place and another person would sit next to him, Billy would exclaim Someone's sitting there mate and the person would leave this happened in various places: on a park bench, in Billy's local pub, in some swimming baths, in an empty football ground and even at the edge of a cliff!

External Links

• Grass Official BBC Website
• BBC Comedy Guide Entry for Grass