The Kipper and the Corpse The Kipper and the Corpse "The Kipper and the Corpse" is the fourth episode of the second series of the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers". It first aired at 9.00pm on 12 March 1979 on BBC2. Distinguishing it from other episodes is its heavy use of black comedy. During the early 1970s, John Cleese met a young hotelier called Andrew Leeman. They went on holiday together to the Aegean with their girlfriends between the first and second series of "Fawlty Towers", a time when Cleese was looking for ideas for plots. During the holiday, Leeman told him how when he was
The Kipper Family hold up his trousers in place of a belt. Often, as with all great comedy doubles, they would swap being one down or one up with their replies: The fictional village of St. Just-near-Trunch is known as the home of the Kipper Family. When the duo split in 1991, Henry Kipper was pronounced dead. Sugden felt that he had to kill off the character as people kept asking when Henry would return. The Kipper Family The Kipper Family was a two-man parody English folk group played by Chris Sugden (as Sid Kipper) and Dick Nudds (as his father Henry). The