Kevin Turvey - Revision history

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	'''Kevin Turvey''' was a British television comedy character, created by actor and comedian [[Rik Mayall]], who featured in the [[BBC]] [[sketch show]] ''[[A Kick Up the Eighties]]'' in 1981.<ref>{{cite journal\|last=Taylor\|first=Steve\|title=Talking Turvey with Rik Mayall\|journal=[[The Face (magazine)\|The Face]]\|date=January 1982}}</ref>		'''Kevin Turvey''' was a British television comedy character, created by actor and comedian [[Rik Mayall]], who featured in the [[BBC]] [[sketch show]] ''[[A Kick Up the Eighties]]'' in 1981.<ref>{{cite journal\|last=Taylor\|first=Steve\|title=Talking Turvey with Rik Mayall\|journal=[[The Face (magazine)\|The Face]]\|date=January 1982}}</ref>

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	'''Kevin Turvey''' was a British television comedy character, created by actor and comedian [[Rik Mayall]], who featured in the [[BBC]] [[sketch show]] ''[[A Kick Up the Eighties]]'' in 1981.<ref>{{cite journal\|last=Taylor\|first=Steve\|title=Talking Turvey with Rik Mayall\|journal=[[The Face (magazine)\|The Face]]\|date=January 1982}}</ref>		'''Kevin Turvey''' was a British television comedy character, created by actor and comedian [[Rik Mayall]], who featured in the [[BBC]] [[sketch show]] ''[[A Kick Up the Eighties]]'' in 1981.<ref>{{cite journal\|last=Taylor\|first=Steve\|title=Talking Turvey with Rik Mayall\|journal=[[The Face (magazine)\|The Face]]\|date=January 1982}}</ref>

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'''Kevin Turvey''' was a British television comedy character, created by actor and comedian [[Rik Mayall]], who featured in the [[BBC]] [[sketch show]] ''[[A Kick Up the Eighties]]'' in 1981.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Taylor|first=Steve|title=Talking Turvey with Rik Mayall|journal=[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]]|date=January 1982}}</ref>

==''A Kick Up the Eighties''==
Turvey, an awkward and socially inept character who spoke with a broad [[West Midlands English|West Midlands accent]], was a self-styled "investigative journalist" who still lived with his mother, wore a shapeless blue [[anorak]], fancied a local girl called Theresa Kelly (who was never depicted), and rarely ventured outside his home town of [[Redditch]], north [[Worcestershire]].<ref name=roberts>{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=JF|title=The True History of the Black Adder|pages=76–77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ft0EWWSRdEC&pg=PA76}}</ref> Each week, his 'investigations' amounted to little more than an over-excited, rambling, uninformed monologue delivered straight to camera,<ref>{{cite book|last=Pickering|first=Andrew|title=Science as Practice and Culture|pages=319|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_mL2pPGY7YC&pg=PA319}}</ref> providing absolutely no insight into the subject-matter whatsoever.

The Kevin Turvey segments used as theme music the third movement ''alla marcia'' from the ''[[Karelia Suite]]'' by Sibelius; the first movement, ''Intermezzo'', was the theme of ITV's ''[[This Week (ITV TV series)|This Week]]'' current affairs programme.

==''The Man Behind the Green Door''==
In 1982 a one-off [[mockumentary]], ''Kevin Turvey the Man Behind the Green Door'' was broadcast. In this, a [[BBC]] 'fly-on-the-wall' camera crew followed Kevin for a week as he went about his "investigations." [[Robbie Coltrane]] played Mick the lodger (who was [[Desertion|AWOL]] from the [[British Army|Army]]), [[Ade Edmondson]] played Kevin's friend Keith Marshall, and [[Gwyneth Guthrie]] played Kevin's mum. [[Roger Sloman]] appeared as a psychotic park-keeper. Making guest appearances, as part of Kevin's band "20th Century Coyote", were [[Simon Brint]] and [[Rowland Rivron]], known as Raw Sex.

==Influences==
Mayall described Turvey as "an accent and a mood from the West Midlands" where he (Mayall) had grown up (in [[Droitwich]]). J. F. Roberts has suggested that Turvey bore some strong similarities to [[Peter Cook]]'s dullard, know-it-all character [[E. L. Wisty]].<ref name=roberts/>

Mayall had previously performed a similar, though slightly differently named, character called 'Kevin Turby', on stage at London's [[the Comic Strip#Early history|the Comic Strip]]. Critic [[Ian Hamilton (critic)|Ian Hamilton]] described Turby's routine:
{{blockquote|Kevin's tour de force is a long, intricately plodding monologue about His Average Day. He gets up very late and goes down to Tesco, where he buys some cornflakes, which he then takes home and puts into a plate before sitting down at a table with the flakes in front of him{{nbsp}}... etc. 'I was just sitting there eating my cornflakes. I don’t know how many I had had. Fifteen, sixteen, maybe. I wasn’t counting.'<ref name=hamilton>{{cite journal|last=Hamilton|first=Ian|title=The Comic Strip|journal=London Review of Books|date=3 September 1981|volume=3|issue=16|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n16/ian-hamilton/the-comic-strip}}</ref>}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Youtube|-B6fZPRNGHg|Kevin Turvey Investigates}}
*{{Youtube|yaG6oiSdHpo|Kevin Turvey "2 - Work" sketch}}
*{{Youtube|-NQRBbMRek4|Kevin Turvey "4 - Advice" sketch}}
*{{Youtube|HhSOldqndPQ|Kevin Turvey "6 - Leisure" sketch}}

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