A Kick Up the Eighties own career as an actor. The first series won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Entertainment Programme in 1982. A compilation episode was broadcast on 31 December 1987, entitled "A Kick Up The Bells". A Kick Up the Eighties A Kick Up the Eighties was a 1981-1984 BBC 2 sketch show starring Robbie Coltrane, Tracey Ullman, Richard Stilgoe, Miriam Margolyes, Rik Mayall, Ron Bain and Roger Sloman. The series was created by Tom Gutteridge (producer/director) and Sean Hardie (executive producer). Colin Gilbert was script editor. The show was the first break into television for Rik Mayall, who played the anorak-wearing investigative
Henry Stone (comedian) which went on to win the Golden Gibbo award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In 2016, Fancy Boy were commissioned to create a TV sketch show for ABC TV and Seeso. As a screen director, Stone worked on the webseries "Dirty Bird" with Sam Campbell in 2014 and the comedy series 1800-Success for ABC iView in 2017. Henry Stone (comedian) Henry Stone (born 21 May 1988) is an Australian comedian, writer, and director. He is a member of the sketch comedy groups Skills in Time & Fancy Boy. Originating from Queensland, Stone began performing comedy in Brisbane in 2009,