Billy Bleach
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Billy Bleach is a fictional character, played by Simon Day in the BBC comedy sketch show The Fast Show, the character featured in all four series, from 1994 to 2000.
Billy Bleach is a tousle-mopped pub know-it-all who often approaches various people in his local, declaring that he is an expert in whatever they are doing/saying/etc., before proving his total incompetence or ignorance.
He has appeared in several sketches of this nature including: a quarreling couple, a man picking lottery numbers, a man trying to change loose change, a man at a jukebox, a man at a quiz machine, a man playing darts, and a man at a drink dispenser just to name a few.
Billy appears to have no friends, and exclaims that he was once caught masturbating by a member of his family: which shows that perhaps his family are not on particularly good grounds with him. He has written a book: In, out, and put the kettle on
He also appears in the spin-off BBC Three series Grass where he is given a new identity following being witness to a gangland murder. He is the first of Day's creations to get a show of his own, the other spin offs have all been based around Ted & Ralph, Ron Manager and Swiss Toni - Day is the only member of the Fast Show to appear in every single spin-off.
In series 3, Billy's sketches were given a new concept: Billy would be sitting in a random place and another person would sit next to him, Billy would exclaim Someone's sitting there mate and the person would leave. This happened in various places: on a park bench, in Billy's local pub, in some swimming baths, in an empty football ground and even at the edge of a cliff!
