A Kick Up the Eighties 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 reporter Kevin Turvey; it was also the start of Tracey Ullman's television comedy career. Peter Capaldi, a trained graphic artist from Scotland, contributed to designing the show's opening sequence prior to launching his
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,