Kevin Turvey Kevin Turvey Kevin Turvey was a British television comedy character, created by actor and comedian Rik Mayall, who featured in the BBC sketch show "A Kick Up the Eighties" in 1981. Turvey, an awkward and socially inept character who spoke with a broad West Midlands accent, was a self-styled "investigative journalist" who still lived with his mother, wore a shapeless blue anorak, fancied a local girl called Theresa Kelly (who was never depicted), and rarely ventured outside his home town of Redditch, north Worcestershire. Each week, his "investigations" amounted to little more than an over-excited, rambling, uninformed monologue delivered straight
David Copperfield (comedian) David Copperfield (comedian) David Copperfield (born Stanley Barlow, 1947, Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire), is a British comedian who is best known for his role in the 1980s BBC sketch show "Three of a Kind", in which he starred alongside Tracey Ullman and Lenny Henry. Copperfield began his professional career performing in various cabaret venues. His first TV appearances were on the "Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club." His big break in TV earned him appearances on "Wogan" and "Cliff and Friends". "Three of a Kind" ran from 1981 to 1983. After that, Copperfield worked on his own shows, "Coppers &