(Rob Brydon arrives in his car outside the Public
Records Office in Cardiff.)
BRYDON (inside car to camera): (smugly) Here we go. They make a bit of a fuss of me in Wales.
(He leaves the car, which he - surely illegally - parks right in front of the building.)
INCREDULOUS PASSERBY: (in strong Welsh accent) WAN-KER!
BRYDON (inside car to camera): (smugly) Here we go. They make a bit of a fuss of me in Wales.
(He leaves the car, which he - surely illegally - parks right in front of the building.)
INCREDULOUS PASSERBY: (in strong Welsh accent) WAN-KER!
The series ends in a curious way
- with the mock panel show perhaps having exhausted itself, we see Brydon
appearing in (and behind the scenes of) a mock episode of Who Do You Think
You Are? instead, skewering how some egotistical personalities seem to have
little interest in family history in that programme.
As you'd expect, it feels a bit different than before, partly because the parodied programme is of a higher quality, but also because there's rather less of a distinction between an obviously-performed programme like a panel show and the comedian's life offstage than there is in a biographical documentary.
The distinction is quite subtle at its best moments, such as Brydon interacting awkwardly with his father - because the father is acting inappropriately for the camera in one scene, and then because that's how the two men are together in the next. It works well though, and was a good way to end it.
As you'd expect, it feels a bit different than before, partly because the parodied programme is of a higher quality, but also because there's rather less of a distinction between an obviously-performed programme like a panel show and the comedian's life offstage than there is in a biographical documentary.
The distinction is quite subtle at its best moments, such as Brydon interacting awkwardly with his father - because the father is acting inappropriately for the camera in one scene, and then because that's how the two men are together in the next. It works well though, and was a good way to end it.
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