This is the point where I fully confess to being a geek; yes I am and I'm out and proud. Growing up in a London suburb, my dislike of going out and 'hanging out' with the 'in crowd' were quite defined and it meant that I spent a lot of time at home. Comedy was always my anchor and continues to be; especially with the rise of VHS video rentals in the 1980s. There was a video shop located at the top of our road and we used to go and have a gander there on a regular basis, they also printed a list of their stock which included the amusing titled Billy Connolly Bites Yer Bum which was particularly amusing to my pre-adolescent state. However, it was a certificate 18 and we didn't rent it and to be honest, to this day I'm not a huge fan of Mr C's comedy as I can barely understand him, but I still read his second wife's book about sex, that was an interesting wander, but let's not meander of the topic in question. Actually, if pressed, I've never been a huge fan of the surname 'Connelly' in all of it's forms as there was a horrible girl called Joanne Connelly at my school that was a complete bitch and gave me a hard time; so Joanne, if you're reading, it's been a long time now, but you're still clearly a twisted indivdual and I hope you've thought long and hard about what you did in the mid 1980s to early 1990s. Oh you haven't? Quelle suprise?
Oooh, I've completely wandered off topic now, but let's revert to comedy films, namely The Naked Gun starring the peerless and now deceased Leslie Neilsen. God I used to love those and the series version of Police Squad used to crack me up; I rented it recently and it didn't have the same effect, but you can see why it was such a trailblazer in it's time and spun off from the success of films such as Airplane.
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