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
Paul Putner 2005 until early 2007 Putner toured in the "Little Britain Live" show, and later appeared in Matt Lucas and David Walliams' TV follow-up, "Come Fly with Me". In 2010 and 2011, Putner played the ill-fated Gerald "Jelly" Kelly in the "Only Fools and Horses" prequel trilogy, "Rock & Chips", written by John Sullivan. In 2013, he appeared in Kevin Eldon's sketch show, It's Kevin. Also in 2013, Putner appeared in an episode of the second series of "Wizards vs Aliens" as a troll called Mervyn. Paul Putner Paul Putner is an English comedian and actor. Putner was born in East