Kevin Turvey

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Kevin Turvey was a character created by Rik Mayall for the BBC sketch show A Kick Up the Eighties in 1981. Turvey was a self-styled "investigative journalist" who lived with his mum, fancied a local girl called Theresa Kelly and rarely ventured outside his native Redditch. His investigations would usually amount to no more than a rambling and uninformed monologue.

In 1982 a one-off mock-documentary, "Kevin Turvey - The Man Behind The Green Door" was broadcast. In this, a BBC 'fly-on-the-wall' crew followed Kevin around for a week as he went about his "investigations." Robbie Coltrane played Mick the lodger (who was obviously AWOL from the Army), Adrian Edmondson played 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 The 20th Century were Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron, collectively better known as Raw Sex.

In interview, Mayall once described Kevin Turvey as just "an accent and a mood from South-West Midlands" where he (Mayall) had grown up.

A subsequent "accent and mood" character called Siadwell appeared on the TV series Naked Video. John Sparkes, the comedian behind the Welsh Siadwell, was apparently inspired by Kevin Turvey.

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• Kevin Turvey sketch from A Kick up the Eighties reproduced at YouTube