The Bongo Brothers
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The Bongo brothers are Rudi Van DiSarnio (Barratt) and Spider Dijon (Fielding) who we meet in the episode The Priest and the Beast searching for the new sound.
Rudi and Spider have a stormy but close friendship in this flashback episode, however, their relationship seems to have soured later as Rudi is living alone in the Zooniverse's Jungle Room by the time of the first series.
[edit] Rudi Van DiSarnio
When we encounter him in the first series, Rudi Van DiSarnio (Barratt) lives in the Jungle Room in The Zooniverse where he poses series of bizarre tests and attempts to guide lost people using his wisdom, although in reality he is usually of little use. He has a large afro, inside which is the door of Kukundo, from which a mystery hand may offer different instruments, and he has protruding upper teeth which affect his speech. Rudi sits atop his own small section of Woodstock.
Rudi reappears in series 2 as a High Priest of the Order of Psychedelic Monks and member of The Bongo Brothers alongside his partner, Spider Dijon. In this episode we discover that Rudi's wife left him after she found him in bed with his guitar (he had his balls inside it and strummed himself to ecstasy) and since then Rudi has no place for women. Strangely, in the series two episode Rudi is shown as a full-sized man, but in series one he appeared to be some sort of dwarf and he was (literally) rather two-dimensional, growing out of his traveling "Woodstock" backdrop. The issue is never directly addressed, but it seems logical to conclude that the change in Rudi's appearance is probably related to the arcane, mystical pursuits that also put a door in his head.
Rudi also appeared in the 2006 Live Tour, in which he fought a duel with the Hitcher. During the show Vince comments on the large number of tests that Rudi sets, to which Rudi responds that many people think this, and that in school his friends gave him the nickname "Testy" because of that very fact.
Rudi was first played by Rich Fulcher in the early live and radio show (he was a judge in the battle of the bands that Howard and Vince were in), but is played by Jullian Barratt in both TV series and the later live shows.
One of Rudi's defining characteristics is that he has many aliases, many of which he reveals ad nauseum. The names he mentiones include:
- Shatula: Bringer Of Corn
- Secret Peter-Where is he hiding, in a shoe, in a rock, in a bush, in a side, a cupboard, in a... lane?
- Mickey Nine: The Dream Weaver
- Photo Shop
- Trinew: The Boiler
- Marjory Keak
- Captain Margaret (which was also another name of The Shadowed One/Uncle Pedro)
- RRRRRrrrubbady Pubbady
- Cilit Bang
[edit] Spider Dijon
Played by Noel Fielding. Spider is so called because of his eight penises and he admits to have had an affair with Rudi's wife. However, he claims in his defense that she was neglected due to Rudi's love for his guitar. He is resentful of the fact that Rudi made them stay behind at Woodstock which resulted in them having to do "six weeks of Hoovering" with Carlos Santana, who we find out is trying to poach Spider away from The Bongo Brothers. Spider longs to have a door in his head like Rudi, and at the end of the episode is granted one.
