Bluebottle (character) Bluebottle (character) Bluebottle is a comedy character from "The Goon Show", a 1950s British comedy radio show. The character was created and performed by Peter Sellers. Bluebottle is an adenoidal squeaky-voiced Boy Scout from East Finchley (the same neighborhood of London where Peter Sellers grew up). He was noted for reading his own stage directions out loud, and was always greeted with a deliberate round of applause from the audience ("Enter Bluebottle wearing string and cardboard pyjamas. Waits for audience applause. Not a sausage.") As was common with "Goon Show" characters, Sellers' Bluebottle was paired with a Spike Milligan character,
Major Bloodnok the 3rd Bombay Irish to fight the Red Bladder. Denis is plagued by chronic gastro-intestinal problems and his entrance is usually accompanied by explosions or flatulent sound effects, the sound being created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (on the one occasion it wasn't played, Bloodnok cried, "I'm Cured!") and quotes such as: In "The Policy" Bloodnok sings a song called "The Indigestion Waltz". In several episodes Bloodnok has an Indian manservant called Singhiz Thing. Bloodnok's arch enemy is "The Red Bladder", voiced by musician Ray Ellington. In the DreamWorks film "Shrek", a reference is made to the Major when the