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,
The Comedy Company he often referenced "The Comedy Company" by periodically slipping in and out of the character, as well as appearing in full costume as Arthur for "The Panel" Christmas Special in 2005. When the show was relaunched "The New Comedy Company" it featured some of the original cast and characters alongside new comedians. This series lasted one year. In 2002, an hour of clips from "The Comedy Company" was edited into a special called "The Comedy Company: So Excellent", with the subtitle referencing a famed line by the Kylie Mole character. Garnering a cult following, quite a large amount of merchandise