Do any of you 'pringle pricks' use the Stella Street chatroom at all?

No? ok, sorry for asking.

So what did us Brits think of show number 1 of the LONG awaited Seies
3? Pretty good, huh?

Joe Pesci and Marvin Brandy stole the show for me...

"Whoa! Dial-a-Prick...we deliver everything except what you fuckin'
axed for."

Gotta go, they're showing the Swarm on Channel 5.

I'm an Aussie fan and you can trust me...the 3rd series is brilliant!
Enjoy!

cheers, Sharon

-----Original Message-----
From: josiefan.no1@... [mailto:josiefan.no1@...]
Sent: Friday, 24 November 2000 7:56
To: stellastreet@egroups.com
Subject: [stellastreet] JS/Phil?Stella article anyone? :)


From my local TV guide.....

SET FOR STELLA STARDOM

Late night comedy series Stella Street became cult TV
thanks to the talent of John Sessions and Phil Cornwell.
As the show returns with an earlier slot, York Membery
meets the unlikely double act responsible for bringing
us suburban versions of Joe Pesci, Michael Caine and
Mick Jagger.

It would be hard to imagine a more surreal scene. A
white coach pulls to a stop in a typical suburban street.
The doors open and big-time stars including Michael
Caine and Al Pacino disembark. "That's the last time I
go to the bloody seaside," moans Caine. "It's like being
in the middle of a Robin Askwith film. It's nice to come
back to peaceful suburbia."
Welcome to the weird world of Stella Street, the cult BBC
comedy about a host of sad celebrities who have
swapped their pampered Hollywood lives for sleepy
suburbitan, Surrey. Here they clash egos while rubbing
shoulders with minor British stars and the streets long-
term residents. Now returning for a third series. It
features a mid-period Caine, a po-faced Pacino, an
anorak-dull Jimmy Hill, a grumpy John Hurt and a send-
up of Mock Jagger and Keith Richard as the old soaks
running the corner shop. Joining the cast this time
around is new talent in the shape of Des Lynam, Patrick
Moore, Sting and Van Morrison.
Every character in this spoof spao-opera-meets0fly0on-
the-wall documentary is played by actors John Sessions
and Phil Cornwell. Arriving on the set of Stella Street
(actually a road in west London) it's apparent the show
has worked so well because the two seem effortlessly
comfortable together and appear every inch the double
act - even when the cameras stop rolling. Why this
should be is anyone's guess,; two more different
characters would be hard to find. Cornwell is a tall
Englishman who lives in north-east London,
communicates is estuary English and, when not with his
family, spends his spare time exercising a passion for
football. Sessions, by comparison, is a compact, refined
Scot and confirmed bachelor who holds forth RADA-
polished Caledonian burr, and likes nothing more that a
good book when resting at his home in Wimbledon,
south-west London. As Sessions says "We are different
in almost every area of life you can think."
Their differences are integral to the show and help when
it comes to choosing characters. Cornwell is most at
home with variations on the London accent that is
closest to his own. His star turns are Caine and his
octave-hopping Jagger, while Sessions excels at
playing 'Noo Yorkers' Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, although
his Hurt is also excellent
So it is that we discover Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino and
Marlon Brando devoting their lives to the hero worship
mod Eastenders, which they assiduously watch in Jack's
club while making frequent calls to Francis For dCoppola
to persuade him to buy the film rights. Des Lynam is in
fact a male escort, Patrick Moore a pensioner lost to the
hypnotic allure of house music, and Joe Pesci a
homeopath and psychotherapist. Mick and Keef,
meanwhile, spend their lives conniving against the
threat of takeover of their corner shop by the beatles,
at one stage commandeering Bowie to take over the till
while they go away on tour. Worryingly, Anthony
Hopkins, in Hannibal Lecter mode, runs the café; Alec
Guinness, doing his George Smiley turn, watches the
action from the sidelines and Jimmy Saville, clad in
Union flag jogging suit, regularly pads past.
Throughout, the action is held together by Caine, whose
flat cockney tone - "Ere, see that little bloke over there?
That's Al Pacino that is" - is deemed most suitable for
narration. It can, says Cornwell, be a confusing
business. "You're dressed like jimmy Hill, talking like
Michael Caine and thinking like David Bowie." The
characters bizarre new surroundings and qualities can
also be disconcerting. As Sessions says, "Doing Pesci
without swearing is like doing Long John Silver with two
legs."
Sessions and Cornwell were brought together by Comic
Strip director Peter Richardson. "I had worked with both
of them separately," says Peter, "and I thought thye
were alike in the sense that their impressions are more
caricatures that photocopies." The duo had actually met
briefly while working on a Radio 4 sketch show in the
Eighties, but initially Cornwell was doubtful about
teaming up. "I wasn't sure how it was going to work
because, well, John had a reputation for working on his
own," he says. But the two got talking and found they
got on. The initial idea was for a sketch in which Roger
Moore and David Bowie spend Christmas alone
together. "Then we thought it would be fun having Mick
and Keith running a corner shop in overalls," says
Cornwell. "and it just grew from there."
For Sessions, Stella Street has helped him bury the
smug, 'clever, clever' tag that he was landed with
following his run of Channel 4's Whose Line Is It
Anyway? appearances in the Eighties. He looks back with
obvious embarrassment, and says his behaviour was
caused by being 'scared of boring an audience'. In fact,
his career has been beset by a lack of confidence. He
contemplated suicide. "I spent years seeing all sorts of
shrinks," he says bluntly. "In the Eighties I took anti-
depressants and got hooked on a highly addictive
tranquilliser." His attempts to conceal his homosexuality
form the world undoubtedly contributed to his problems.
Only after the death of his strict Presbyterian father and
Catholic mother in the mid-nineties did he feel able to
admit he was gay.
Sessions was born in Ayrshire 47 years ago and moved
south when he was three. He describes himself as 'a
coddled middle-class boy who has spent his life with his
nose in a book'. At school he was mercilessly bullied. "I
was just another curly-haired 15-year-old. But what they
really objected to was the fact that I was interested in
painting and art," he says. To conceal his lack of
confidence he became something of a court jester,
using his natural gift for mimicry.
It's something the actor-writer has been doing with
varying degrees of success ever since. Although , as a
grammer school boy, he was hardly destined for a
career in showbusiness. After a long period of academic
study which took him to Bangor University and Canada,
he arrived at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
comparatively late, aged 26. But he soon made his
mark. Be the late Eighties, he had become a regular on
Whose Line Is It Anyway?, appeared in Porterhouse
Blue and had established himself on stage with his
acclaimed one-man show The Life Of Napoleon. Today
he seems more at ease with himself, a transition aided
by making Stella Street. "I've had more fun doing Stella
street with Phil than anything else," he says. "It's great
to be able to loosen up and have a few laughs. Working
with someone else also means that you share
responsibilities."
Cornwell has none of the theatrical angst which has
weighed down Sessions. His great-grandfather once trod
the boards in a music hall. At secondary modern school,
in Southend Essex, he amused his classmates by doing
impressions. "Frankly, I just thought I was boring," he
says. "Doing impressions gave me a chance to be
someone else. I would spend hours perfecting
impressions in front of the bathroom mirror." He had a
job in the motor trade - "driving around in a little van
selling car parts" - but always harboured dreams of
making it in showbusiness. "When I told people I
wanted to be an actor, they laughed." One day he quit
work to enter an East End drama school called E15
where "it didn't really matter how you spoke".
He made his stage debut at a Canvey Island talent
show, graduating to a stand-up comedy routine in Easy
End strip clubs. "None of the punters wanted to see this
kid trying to be funny. They wanted to see the girls,"
says Cornwell, now 43. "But it was a start." By the
Eighties he was making a name for himself on the
stand-up circuit, as Mick Jagger on Steve Wright's radio
1 show, and as the voice of Gilbert the Alien on the
Saturday morning TV show Get Fresh.
Then came Stella Street. The first episodes were shot
on video by Richardson in 1997, without a commission,
for just £4,000. But despite its late-night BBC2 slot, the
show was a hit. Sessions and Cornwell insist it's
affection, not malice, that lies behind their choice of
characters. "I have never considered impersonation to
be based on a dislike of somebody," says
Sessions. "It's usually quite the reverse.
Cornwell, who lives in a three-storey Victorian house in
north-east London with his wife Rita and two-year-old
son Freddy, switches off when he is away form the
set. "It's just a job for me. When I get home I forget
about it. I go and watch Spurs with the missus. I never
get recognised in the street because no-one knows who
I am. I like that. I've got to live my life, too."
The chances of Sessions joining Cornwell at White Hart
Lane appear remote. "I find things like football matches
scary and wouldn't go to one in an armoured cay," he
says. Beside she is too busy. In addition to a planned
fourth series of Stella Street he's writing with Cornwell,
Sessions has just written a play about Robert Louis
Stevenson for Radio 4 and has a part in Martin
Scorsese's next movie, The Gangs Of New York. "I like
to wear different hats. - to do something serious, and
then something silly."
Cornwell, by comparison, has got just one other job on.
It's a new BBC comedy series called World Of Pub.
Robert Louis Stevenson it ain't; but the odd couple
wouldn't have it any other way.

Angie


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From my local TV guide.....

SET FOR STELLA STARDOM

Late night comedy series Stella Street became cult TV
thanks to the talent of John Sessions and Phil Cornwell.
As the show returns with an earlier slot, York Membery
meets the unlikely double act responsible for bringing
us suburban versions of Joe Pesci, Michael Caine and
Mick Jagger.

It would be hard to imagine a more surreal scene. A
white coach pulls to a stop in a typical suburban street.
The doors open and big-time stars including Michael
Caine and Al Pacino disembark. “That’s the last time I
go to the bloody seaside,” moans Caine. “It’s like being
in the middle of a Robin Askwith film. It’s nice to come
back to peaceful suburbia.”
Welcome to the weird world of Stella Street, the cult BBC
comedy about a host of sad celebrities who have
swapped their pampered Hollywood lives for sleepy
suburbitan, Surrey. Here they clash egos while rubbing
shoulders with minor British stars and the streets long-
term residents. Now returning for a third series. It
features a mid-period Caine, a po-faced Pacino, an
anorak-dull Jimmy Hill, a grumpy John Hurt and a send-
up of Mock Jagger and Keith Richard as the old soaks
running the corner shop. Joining the cast this time
around is new talent in the shape of Des Lynam, Patrick
Moore, Sting and Van Morrison.
Every character in this spoof spao-opera-meets0fly0on-
the-wall documentary is played by actors John Sessions
and Phil Cornwell. Arriving on the set of Stella Street
(actually a road in west London) it’s apparent the show
has worked so well because the two seem effortlessly
comfortable together and appear every inch the double
act – even when the cameras stop rolling. Why this
should be is anyone’s guess,; two more different
characters would be hard to find. Cornwell is a tall
Englishman who lives in north-east London,
communicates is estuary English and, when not with his
family, spends his spare time exercising a passion for
football. Sessions, by comparison, is a compact, refined
Scot and confirmed bachelor who holds forth RADA-
polished Caledonian burr, and likes nothing more that a
good book when resting at his home in Wimbledon,
south-west London. As Sessions says “We are different
in almost every area of life you can think.”
Their differences are integral to the show and help when
it comes to choosing characters. Cornwell is most at
home with variations on the London accent that is
closest to his own. His star turns are Caine and his
octave-hopping Jagger, while Sessions excels at
playing ‘Noo Yorkers’ Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, although
his Hurt is also excellent
So it is that we discover Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino and
Marlon Brando devoting their lives to the hero worship
mod Eastenders, which they assiduously watch in Jack’s
club while making frequent calls to Francis For dCoppola
to persuade him to buy the film rights. Des Lynam is in
fact a male escort, Patrick Moore a pensioner lost to the
hypnotic allure of house music, and Joe Pesci a
homeopath and psychotherapist. Mick and Keef,
meanwhile, spend their lives conniving against the
threat of takeover of their corner shop by the beatles,
at one stage commandeering Bowie to take over the till
while they go away on tour. Worryingly, Anthony
Hopkins, in Hannibal Lecter mode, runs the café; Alec
Guinness, doing his George Smiley turn, watches the
action from the sidelines and Jimmy Saville, clad in
Union flag jogging suit, regularly pads past.
Throughout, the action is held together by Caine, whose
flat cockney tone – “Ere, see that little bloke over there?
That’s Al Pacino that is” – is deemed most suitable for
narration. It can, says Cornwell, be a confusing
business. “You’re dressed like jimmy Hill, talking like
Michael Caine and thinking like David Bowie.” The
characters bizarre new surroundings and qualities can
also be disconcerting. As Sessions says, “Doing Pesci
without swearing is like doing Long John Silver with two
legs.”
Sessions and Cornwell were brought together by Comic
Strip director Peter Richardson. “I had worked with both
of them separately,” says Peter, “and I thought thye
were alike in the sense that their impressions are more
caricatures that photocopies.” The duo had actually met
briefly while working on a Radio 4 sketch show in the
Eighties, but initially Cornwell was doubtful about
teaming up. “I wasn’t sure how it was going to work
because, well, John had a reputation for working on his
own,” he says. But the two got talking and found they
got on. The initial idea was for a sketch in which Roger
Moore and David Bowie spend Christmas alone
together. “Then we thought it would be fun having Mick
and Keith running a corner shop in overalls,” says
Cornwell. “and it just grew from there.”
For Sessions, Stella Street has helped him bury the
smug, ‘clever, clever’ tag that he was landed with
following his run of Channel 4’s Whose Line Is It
Anyway? appearances in the Eighties. He looks back with
obvious embarrassment, and says his behaviour was
caused by being ‘scared of boring an audience’. In fact,
his career has been beset by a lack of confidence. He
contemplated suicide. “I spent years seeing all sorts of
shrinks,” he says bluntly. “In the Eighties I took anti-
depressants and got hooked on a highly addictive
tranquilliser.” His attempts to conceal his homosexuality
form the world undoubtedly contributed to his problems.
Only after the death of his strict Presbyterian father and
Catholic mother in the mid-nineties did he feel able to
admit he was gay.
Sessions was born in Ayrshire 47 years ago and moved
south when he was three. He describes himself as ‘a
coddled middle-class boy who has spent his life with his
nose in a book’. At school he was mercilessly bullied. “I
was just another curly-haired 15-year-old. But what they
really objected to was the fact that I was interested in
painting and art,” he says. To conceal his lack of
confidence he became something of a court jester,
using his natural gift for mimicry.
It’s something the actor-writer has been doing with
varying degrees of success ever since. Although , as a
grammer school boy, he was hardly destined for a
career in showbusiness. After a long period of academic
study which took him to Bangor University and Canada,
he arrived at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
comparatively late, aged 26. But he soon made his
mark. Be the late Eighties, he had become a regular on
Whose Line Is It Anyway?, appeared in Porterhouse
Blue and had established himself on stage with his
acclaimed one-man show The Life Of Napoleon. Today
he seems more at ease with himself, a transition aided
by making Stella Street. “I’ve had more fun doing Stella
street with Phil than anything else,” he says. “It’s great
to be able to loosen up and have a few laughs. Working
with someone else also means that you share
responsibilities.”
Cornwell has none of the theatrical angst which has
weighed down Sessions. His great-grandfather once trod
the boards in a music hall. At secondary modern school,
in Southend Essex, he amused his classmates by doing
impressions. “Frankly, I just thought I was boring,” he
says. “Doing impressions gave me a chance to be
someone else. I would spend hours perfecting
impressions in front of the bathroom mirror.” He had a
job in the motor trade – “driving around in a little van
selling car parts” – but always harboured dreams of
making it in showbusiness. “When I told people I
wanted to be an actor, they laughed.” One day he quit
work to enter an East End drama school called E15
where “it didn’t really matter how you spoke”.
He made his stage debut at a Canvey Island talent
show, graduating to a stand-up comedy routine in Easy
End strip clubs. “None of the punters wanted to see this
kid trying to be funny. They wanted to see the girls,”
says Cornwell, now 43. “But it was a start.” By the
Eighties he was making a name for himself on the
stand-up circuit, as Mick Jagger on Steve Wright’s radio
1 show, and as the voice of Gilbert the Alien on the
Saturday morning TV show Get Fresh.
Then came Stella Street. The first episodes were shot
on video by Richardson in 1997, without a commission,
for just £4,000. But despite its late-night BBC2 slot, the
show was a hit. Sessions and Cornwell insist it’s
affection, not malice, that lies behind their choice of
characters. “I have never considered impersonation to
be based on a dislike of somebody,” says
Sessions. “It’s usually quite the reverse.
Cornwell, who lives in a three-storey Victorian house in
north-east London with his wife Rita and two-year-old
son Freddy, switches off when he is away form the
set. “It’s just a job for me. When I get home I forget
about it. I go and watch Spurs with the missus. I never
get recognised in the street because no-one knows who
I am. I like that. I’ve got to live my life, too.”
The chances of Sessions joining Cornwell at White Hart
Lane appear remote. “I find things like football matches
scary and wouldn’t go to one in an armoured cay,” he
says. Beside she is too busy. In addition to a planned
fourth series of Stella Street he’s writing with Cornwell,
Sessions has just written a play about Robert Louis
Stevenson for Radio 4 and has a part in Martin
Scorsese’s next movie, The Gangs Of New York. “I like
to wear different hats. – to do something serious, and
then something silly.”
Cornwell, by comparison, has got just one other job on.
It’s a new BBC comedy series called World Of Pub.
Robert Louis Stevenson it ain’t; but the odd couple
wouldn’t have it any other way.

Angie

Just thought I'd introduce myself and say "hello" to everyone being a
nayboillee soyrt of poyssen. The Australian members of this group
don't know how lucky they are in that they get to see Stella Street
before we do in Britain! I mean, what sort of cocktail were
the "powers that be" on when they decided that? Anyway, needless to
say, Stella Street is pure comic genius and incidentally I work at
County Hall in Kingston which means a) whenever I get the train
to/from work, I arrive/leave at Surbiton station and b) on the map at
the start of each episode, you can see where my work would be. So
there! (It's a pity the series is actually filmed in London!) Must go
as I have to meet up with some friends (in the dark sense). And
Stella Street is on tonight! Arramadurchi!

Aw ra best,

Monty

P.S. Hoohar!

Many of you [in the UK] may have missed the Jonathan Ross show this
Saturday morning where the star guest was Phil Cornwell.

He was involved in general chit-chat and talked about his interests
and his son and family etc....

He also mentioned a new programme called 'Down the Pub' or
something....(?)

[The programme is World of Pub--recordings are due soon. I may have some tickets
available if anyone's interested. Steve.]

I bought a copy of the radio times and when I turnedthe first page I
was in hysterics, the sight of 'Marvin Brandy' being lowered into
Stella Street with the use of a crane and harness! Cracking!

Maybe someone could scan the article etc for our Australian friends.

[Gotta be careful here! Maybe in a couple of weeks! Steve.]

Rich.

Roll on Thursday!!

Great idea but how many of us live within travelling distance of
London? Probably the same amount as Dr. Joe has patients, not too
many.

I'm not sure how many fans there are in the UK who'd like to meet up
but somewhere a bit more central would be better, say Birmingham...
(and no, that's not where I live!)

I tell you what would be great would be if we had a convention
sometime and maybe Phil or John could pop in.....

Hoo Har!

From: Stella Street <steveday@...>
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:06:57 +0000
To: "stellastreet@egroups.com" <stellastreet@egroups.com>
Subject: [stellastreet] New Radio Times

Go buy it now! There is an article about the new series, plus loads of photos, and even a link to our favourite web pageŠ

Steve

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• Dead Ringers, BBC Radio 4. Fantastically good fun, this semi-satirical show stars Jan Ravens (the best female impressionist), Jon Culshaw and others. Characters who pop up are Anne Robinson, John Humphries, Rolf Harris, Michael Parkinson, William Hague, the cast of The Archers, Trevor MacDonald, Sue Macgregor, Charlotte Green and Radio 4¹s Big Daddy Brian ³Wassup² Perkins. The show is broadcast Fridays at 18:30 and repeated Saturdays at 12:30. Consider it essential listening. Phil Cornwell is set to return to the future episodes. Especially hilarious is the Anne Robinson, trust me. Goodbye.
• Rory Bremner, Channel 4. I don¹t have any details at the mo, but next week Rory Bremner has another programme. Again, essential viewing.
• Alistair MacGowan¹s Big Impression, BBC1. This show will be returning soon, with all the old favourites (Posh and Becks etc.). Jan Ravens from Dead Ringers and Ronnie Ancona will both appear with him.
  

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From: Stella Street <steveday@...>
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:06:57 +0000
To: "stellastreet@egroups.com" <stellastreet@egroups.com>
Subject: [stellastreet] New Radio Times

Go buy it now! There is an article about the new series, plus loads of photos, and even a link to our favourite web pageŠ

Steve

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Go buy it now! There is an article about the new series, plus loads of photos, and even a link to our favourite web pageŠ

Steve

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http://www.stellastreet.com/

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From: Stella Street <steveday@...>
Reply-To: stellastreet@egroups.com
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:21:49 +0000
To: "stellastreet@egroups.com" <stellastreet@egroups.com>
Subject: [stellastreet] SERIES 3 AT LAST

UK viewers: Series 3 of Stella Street will start on Thursday 23/11/2000 at 21:50 on BBC2.

That's not this Thursday, but next Thursday. Don't worry, it's all written down.

From the Radio Times website: Spoof soap set in a leafy suburb of Surbiton, apparently inhabited by myriad superstars from music, cinema and television. Mick and Keith are excited to have started a new door-to-door delivery service. Jimmy takes in new lodgers. And Michael Caine visits Jack Nicholson's new club.

Thanks to James Crook for letting us know.

Hoo har!

Steve

PS: "I know they're on the inside, but I can see them."

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Hello everyone!

This is my first email to you all, so welcome to the new list. It seems to
be growing quite well, but we're not quite up to 300 members yet!

Please be aware: I do not have any details of series 3 yet! This list will
receive the latest as soon as I do.

However, to keep us fed till then, "Nigel" has very kindly contributed the
following info. This is another in a long line of BBCR4 programmes to make
the shift to TV. The original was fairly funny and very mad, so the TV
version should be interesting if nothing else. See you there!

"No one's going to sue anyone."

Steve

PS: Don't forget to check the site from time to time!

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http://www.stellastreet.com/




> Ooooweeeeeeeeerrrreeeeeeeeeee, Ave you seen the date on Phil's next
> appearance like?
>
> Spotted this on the BBC web site at
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/tickets/tvtvc.shtml#allover
>
> Nigel
>
>
> World Of Pub
>
> World Of Pub is the new 6-part comedy for BBC 2 from established writer Tony
> Roche and stars Kevin Eldon (Big Train, Blue Jam), Phil Cornwell (Stella
> Street, Dead Ringers) and Peter Serafinowicz (How Do You Want Me?).
> Follow the highs and lows of Barry and Gary who run a not very successful
> East End pub. But their mate, Dodgy Phil (king of the 'Get Rich Quick'
> scheme), has other ideas and each week comes up with various ideas for
> re-building and re-launching the pub to turn it into a money-spinning
> venture - with disastrous consequences.
> With special guest appearances from Chas 'n' Dave and Germaine Greer.
> * Recording dates: 10 December 2000 & 14 January 2001
> * Doors open at 7.15 p.m.
> * Age Limit: Persons under 14 years of age will not be admitted
> * Venue: BBC Radio Theatre
> * Nearest tube: Oxford Circus
>
>
>
>

I'm a Stella Street fan with a bit more age on me than most.  As a kid I
remember watching the ABC in the black and white days.  They used to show
the BBC Match of the Day (Soccer).  This show was introduced by Jimmy Hill.

The take off of Jimmy Hill is absolutely spot on.  Jimmy had verbal diarrhea
in those days (lots of statistics and did you knows about the players) and a
big cheesy grin.  Jimmy wasn't the attraction in those days it was purely
the soccer.  Its been a long time since Jimmy graced the idiot box in
Australia.

Top show ..... bring on series 4 (in Australia  first of course)

Brad


-----Original Message-----
From: Anderson Sharon [mailto:sharon.anderson@...]
Sent: Monday, 6 November 2000 7:45
To: 'stellastreet@egroups.com'
Subject: RE: [stellastreet] Digest Number 5

Hi

I'm from Australia too.  My partner and I tuned in during series 3 and soon
became addicts of this superior comedy.  I would like to get the video tapes
for my man for Xmas.  After Jimmy Hill's legendary bed scene with Pam
Slurrey in series 3 he became a firm favourite and I asked the same question
to Steve (SS, website), who the hell is Jimmy Hill.  This was the response I
got back from Steve.

Jimzo Hill is a well known (if superannuated) soccer pundit. I think he used
to be a manager or something about 40 years ago, but that is my knowledge of
soccer exhausted. Everyone here knows JH, anyway!

oh, for those interested, Steve's brief on Len MacMonotony...

the gardener, is from Newcastle, N.E. England. He is not a
famous character, nor is he similar to any. He's just mad, he is, and an
excuse to do a Geordie accent.

cheers all, Sharon


-----Original Message-----
From: nina riddel [mailto:nina_riddel@...]
Sent: Monday, 6 November 2000 3:09
To: stellastreet@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [stellastreet] Digest Number 5


hi dave I'm from aust too, and they can bitch about us getting season 3
first, but we got all 3 seasons in one go and now there's nothing!!!!
aauurghh!

by way of intro - nina, 18 (well almost), brisbane, australia. And....
Stupid question time: I missed the very first episode, who IS Jimmy Hill?


>From: stellastreet@egroups.com
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>To: stellastreet@egroups.com
>Subject: [stellastreet] Digest Number 5
>Date: 4 Nov 2000 18:44:46 -0000
>
>
>The Stella Street page:
>http://www.stellastreet.com/
>
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>            From: "Dave John" <troxen2000@...>
>
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>________________________________________________________________________
>
>Message: 1
>    Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:09:21 -0000
>    From: "Dave John" <troxen2000@...>
>Subject: Hi there all!!
>
>Hello peeps, allow me to introduce myself as a new member, my name is
>Dave and i am 26y.o and from Queensland in Australia, i am a huge fan
>of Stella Street, the series has recenly ended over here and i have
>serious withdrawl from it.....lol, probably one of the most basic but
>effective comedies i have seen in a long time, look forward to
>getting some info on the show.
>
>Thank you........Dave
>
>
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>________________________________________________________________________
>
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Len MacMonotony...
>
> the gardener, is from Newcastle, N.E. England. He is not a
> famous character, nor is he similar to any. He's just mad, he is, and an
> excuse to do a Geordie accent.
>
Some nerd facts about Len MacMonotony;

Len was a character Phil used to do many years ago on the stand up
circuit. He wasn't a gardener or anything, just a voice Phil thought was
funny. It was also a voice Vic Reeves thought was funny, who asked Phil
if he could use it. Thereby fans of Vic Reeves may have heard the
lilting Geordie tones of Len coming from a different character (I'm
afraid I'm not sure what show he would have been on, but I suspect it
was Vic Reeves Big Night Out, or maybe just one of the live shows)

By the way, I get all this from Phil, who may well have been having me
on, so although I'm pretty sure it's true, a pinch of salt may be an
idea. It's of course also possible that Phil just nicked the voice from
Vic Reeves.

Greg

Hi

I'm from Australia too.  My partner and I tuned in during series 3 and soon
became addicts of this superior comedy.  I would like to get the video tapes
for my man for Xmas.  After Jimmy Hill's legendary bed scene with Pam
Slurrey in series 3 he became a firm favourite and I asked the same question
to Steve (SS, website), who the hell is Jimmy Hill.  This was the response I
got back from Steve.

Jimzo Hill is a well known (if superannuated) soccer pundit. I think he used
to be a manager or something about 40 years ago, but that is my knowledge of
soccer exhausted. Everyone here knows JH, anyway!

oh, for those interested, Steve's brief on Len MacMonotony...

the gardener, is from Newcastle, N.E. England. He is not a
famous character, nor is he similar to any. He's just mad, he is, and an
excuse to do a Geordie accent.

cheers all, Sharon


-----Original Message-----
From: nina riddel [mailto:nina_riddel@...]
Sent: Monday, 6 November 2000 3:09
To: stellastreet@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [stellastreet] Digest Number 5


hi dave I'm from aust too, and they can bitch about us getting season 3
first, but we got all 3 seasons in one go and now there's nothing!!!!
aauurghh!

by way of intro - nina, 18 (well almost), brisbane, australia. And....
Stupid question time: I missed the very first episode, who IS Jimmy Hill?


>From: stellastreet@egroups.com
>Reply-To: stellastreet@egroups.com
>To: stellastreet@egroups.com
>Subject: [stellastreet] Digest Number 5
>Date: 4 Nov 2000 18:44:46 -0000
>
>
>The Stella Street page:
>http://www.stellastreet.com/
>
>To unsubscribe, send an email to:
>stellastreet-unsubscribe@egroups.com
>
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>steve@...
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>            From: "Dave John" <troxen2000@...>
>
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>
>Message: 1
>    Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:09:21 -0000
>    From: "Dave John" <troxen2000@...>
>Subject: Hi there all!!
>
>Hello peeps, allow me to introduce myself as a new member, my name is
>Dave and i am 26y.o and from Queensland in Australia, i am a huge fan
>of Stella Street, the series has recenly ended over here and i have
>serious withdrawl from it.....lol, probably one of the most basic but
>effective comedies i have seen in a long time, look forward to
>getting some info on the show.
>
>Thank you........Dave
>
>
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>

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hi dave I'm from aust too, and they can bitch about us getting season 3
first, but we got all 3 seasons in one go and now there's nothing!!!!
aauurghh!

by way of intro - nina, 18 (well almost), brisbane, australia. And....
Stupid question time: I missed the very first episode, who IS Jimmy Hill?


>From: stellastreet@egroups.com
>Reply-To: stellastreet@egroups.com
>To: stellastreet@egroups.com
>Subject: [stellastreet] Digest Number 5
>Date: 4 Nov 2000 18:44:46 -0000
>
>
>The Stella Street page:
>http://www.stellastreet.com/
>
>To unsubscribe, send an email to:
>stellastreet-unsubscribe@egroups.com
>
>Any other queries:
>steve@...
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>            From: "Dave John" <troxen2000@...>
>
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>________________________________________________________________________
>
>Message: 1
>    Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:09:21 -0000
>    From: "Dave John" <troxen2000@...>
>Subject: Hi there all!!
>
>Hello peeps, allow me to introduce myself as a new member, my name is
>Dave and i am 26y.o and from Queensland in Australia, i am a huge fan
>of Stella Street, the series has recenly ended over here and i have
>serious withdrawl from it.....lol, probably one of the most basic but
>effective comedies i have seen in a long time, look forward to
>getting some info on the show.
>
>Thank you........Dave
>
>
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>

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Hello peeps, allow me to introduce myself as a new member, my name is
Dave and i am 26y.o and from Queensland in Australia, i am a huge fan
of Stella Street, the series has recenly ended over here and i have
serious withdrawl from it.....lol, probably one of the most basic but
effective comedies i have seen in a long time, look forward to
getting some info on the show.

Thank you........Dave

At last! A goddam site for us wannabe residents of Stella Street...
I can't wait for the third series to be broadcast but the bloody
Aussies have got it first while we have to wait for the goddamn BB
fuckin' C to get their collective asses in gear... I know what Joe
would do....! He'd axe e'm why they weren't showing the series on the
TV and they'd tell him get out of here you hoodlum. "Hoodlum?!" "I'll
show you fuckin' hoodlum..."

C'mon BBC, my craving is getting out of control and there are only so
many times you can watch Jimmy Hill getting high on rosemary...

Anyway, gotta go, Mama wants her orange juice..


"Yeah, ok Mama, I'm comin'..."

--- joannarchist@... wrote:
> This program needs to be on the Comedy Central
> Network in the states
> asap! Christ they have a League of Gentlemen on why
> not Stella Street?
> Why do the British tease us like this??
> Hoooha Joanna
>
>
I know ! I've requested it ( in addition to airing
more John Sessions - filled episodes of Whose Line ? )
, and I received no reply . Is it because there's too
much cursing ?
I got all excited when I saw the video tape on ebay
for
$4.99 ... then I remembered that the US and UK have
different formats ( DUH ! ). And it would cost me over
$18 to have it converted . Recockulous ! As much as I
want to see the show , I don't know if it's worth it -
I'm a poor college student . But someday I will by God
! I swear on the life of Joe Pesci I will !
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This program needs to be on the Comedy Central Network in the states
asap! Christ they have a League of Gentlemen on why not Stella Street?
Why do the British tease us like this??
Hoooha Joanna

Hi,

I have met Phil & John & Peter (Richardson). I saw the third series being
shot and have seen Phil at a radio show since and on the Victoria line
platform at Oxford Circus with his wife. They are all very nice people.

Nick

> From: w.w.pennington@...
> Reply-To: stellastreet@egroups.com
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:02:09 -0000
> Subject: [stellastreet] (unknown)
>
>
> Hello  stellastreet fans,
> hows your pollarding elms .
> Just a quick question: has anyone met the stellastreet stars , i mean phil and
> john not al or joe
> thanks
>
> mel
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> stellastreet-unsubscribe@egroups.com
>
> "Oh no, I've broken my neck."
>

Hello  stellastreet fans,
hows your pollarding elms .
Just a quick question: has anyone met the stellastreet stars , i mean phil and
john not al or joe
thanks

mel

Hi

Fatty Arbuckle