Everything about The Scousers totally explained
The Scousers was sketch from the
Harry Enfield's Television Programme comedy show of the early 1990's.
It featured a set of stereotyped
Scally characters from
Liverpool, "Ga'", "Ba'" and "Te'" played by
Gary Bleasdale,
Harry Enfield,
Joe McGann, and
Mark Moraghan. The original inspiration for the Scousers sketches were
Barry Grant and
Terry Sullivan two characters from the
soap opera Brookside, set in Liverpool.
The Scousers were usually depicted with curly
Kevin Keegan-esque
permed hairstyles and bushy
moustaches, wearing
shell suits, and speaking in thick
Scouse accents. Common catch phrases they came up included
"Eh? Eh? Eh?" "Dey do dough, don't dey dough" (They do though, don't they though).
Whenever a potential problem or dispute arose, this would result in The Scousers repeating to each other their most famous
catch phrase:
"Alright! Alright!, Calm down! Calm down!" This catch phrase was Bleasdale's input as he changed the scripted original, which was 'break it up 'ey, come on, break it up', during the first rehearsal. McGann brought 'Dey do dough, don't dey dough' to the sketches.
The sketch, a parody of
Liverpudlians, influenced people who actually thought that they acted in this way. Liverpudlians even embraced these characters in a similar way to the
Scots and
Russ Abbott's
C U Jimmy.
The actors
Paul Usher and
Brian Regan who played Brookside characters
"Barry" and
"Terry" also appeared in a "The Scousers" sketch
"Terry Gets Married".
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