Mel Smith

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He made his breakthrough in the topically satirical BBC television series Not the Nine O'clock News. This was followed briefly by Smith and Goody (with Bob Goody) and then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones. Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... The cast of Not The Nine OClock News (from left): Griff Rhys Jones, Rowan Atkinson, and Mel Smith, with Pamela Stephenson at the front. ... Smith and Goody was a childrens sketch show on ITV shown for one series in 1980. ... Alas Smith and Jones was a British comedy sketch series featuring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. ... Griff Rhys Jones (born 6 November 1953) is the comedy partner and foil of Mel Smith. ... Alias Smith and Jones was a television comedy-western series on ABC from 1971 to 1973, starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy. ...

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company which has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train. Griff Rhys Jones (born 6 November 1953) is the comedy partner and foil of Mel Smith. ... Smack the Pony was a Channel 4 sketch comedy show that ran from 1999 until 2003. ... Da Ali G Show (formal English: The Ali G Show) was a satirical Channel 4 show (aired on HBO in the United States) starring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who played three bumbling journalists — Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, and Bruno — who interviewed unsuspecting people (sometimes very high-ranking officials) and... Alan Partridge: Every Ruddy Word cover Im Alan Partridge is a British sitcom. ... Big Train is a surreal television comedy sketch show written by the creators of the more successful Father Ted, Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan. ...

Mel Smith also guest starred on an episode of The Goodies. The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s combining the sketch and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ...

TV shows

Performer

• Not The Nine O'clock News (1979)
• Smith And Goody (1980)
• Fundamental Frolics (1981)
• Alas Smith And Jones (1982)
• Weekend In Wallop (1984)
• Comedians Do It On Stage (1986)
• The Home-made Xmas Video (1987)
• The World According To Smith And Jones (1987)
• Colin's Sandwich (1988)
• Smith And Jones (1989)
• Amnesty International's Big 30 (1991)
• Comic Relief (1991)
• The Night Of Comic Relief (1995)
• A Gala Comedy Hour (Best Of The Prince's Trust) (1996)

The cast of Not The Nine OClock News (from left): Griff Rhys Jones, Rowan Atkinson, and Mel Smith, with Pamela Stephenson at the front. ... Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character or scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension. ...

Writer

• Not The Nine O'clock News (1979)
• Smith And Goody (1980)
• Fundamental Frolics (1981)
• Alas Smith And Jones (1982)
• Weekend In Wallop (1984)
• Comedians Do It On Stage (1986)
• Smith And Jones (1989)
• Amnesty International's Big 30 (1991)
• A Gala Comedy Hour (Best Of The Prince's Trust) (1996)

Producer

• Too Much Sun (2000)

Filmography

Director

• The Tall Guy (1989)
• Radioland Murders (1994)
• Bean (1997)
• High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)

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Actor

• Bullshot (1983) - Crouch
• Slayground (1983) - Terry Abbatt
• Morons from Outer Space (1985) - Bernard; also co-wrote the script with Griff Rhys Jones
• The Princess Bride (1987) - The Albino
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1988) - Mr. Grimshaw
• Wilt (from a novel by Tom Sharpe) (1989) - Inspector Flint
• Brain Donors (aka Lame Ducks) (1992) - Rocco Melonchek
• Twelfth Night (1996) - Sir Toby Belch

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External links

• Mel Smith at the Internet Movie Database