Of particular note, the always cheery Ali (Dino Shafeek, recognisable from It Ain’t Half Hot Mum and Carry On Emmannuelle), George Camiller’s Italian wide-boy, Giovanni and the extravagantly-moustachioed Juan, played by Ricardo Montez whose 45 year career covered everything from Hammer ( Pirates of Blood River) to Mamma Mia. The students are even better, thankfully all played by actors from the country of their character.
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Jeremy Brown is played by the terrific Barry Evans, one of Britain’s most regularly over-looked stars his naive, rather hapless portrayal is a perfect foil to his students’ antics – similarly, starchy principal Ms Courtney (Zara Nutley) sends up the British stiff-lipped reserve as much as anyone else bumbling caretaker, Sid, is played by Tommy Godfrey, a mainstay of TV comedy and British sex comedy flicks throughout the Seventies and early Eighties, who adds cockney to the list of exaggerated accents. However bad the gags, however low it stoops to get laughs, the show is saved entirely by the cast. It’s not a very good joke by any standards.
The problems, of course, arise from the forehead-slapping stereotyping of the international students you really have to prepare yourselves for an avalanche of “a thousand apologies”, “excusing mes” and “hokey-cokeys”, ‘comedy’ misunderstandings and light entertainment gold such as: No country is left unscathed – it’s essentially one of the biggest total wars England has ever launched. The much picked-on pariah of British comedy, Mind Your Language is so reviled that even the constant parade of 70s nostalgia programmes either skip over it completely or mention it so quickly in passing that not even a clip dared be used.įrom the dizzying mind of Vince Powell ( For the Love of Ida, Love Thy Neighbour and, yes, Slinger’s Day all have his anti-Midas touch upon them – how’s that for a CV!), Mind Your Language follows the mishaps of teacher Jeremy Brown and his adult night class of English students from around the world.
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