Talk:The New Statesman (1987 TV series)

NPOV
d. This article both claims the show as both notoriously funny and desperately cruel: neither are neutral remarks. user:it's-is-not-a-genitive
 * Hardly worth slapping an NPOV notice on it, I think. I've cleaned it up a bit now, anyway. sjorford &rarr;&bull;&larr; 10:36, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Michael Portillo
Mayall used Michael Portillo as his inspiration for his portrayal of B'Stard. This was stated by an MP (who claimed Mayall had told him this) whose name I forget on a programme called something like The Best 25(?) Political Comedies joint hosted by Charles Kennedy and Michael Howard in January 2007.

Obviously, since my recall is sketchy I can't add this to the article. But if someone can remember more perhaps we can piece the facts together. --bodnotbod 13:43, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

That may be true; but may as much be based on the fact that Portillo also gave Marks and Gran a tour round Westminster - there's a newspaper article where he's interviewed about it. (I found this doing a PhD on political comedy - I can find the reference if anyone is that bothered...) Matt c (talk) 13:04, 20 July 2012 (UTC) MattC

Added a link to the Steve Nallon article which wasn't there, and changed the name to Steve rather than Stephen - GaryA


 * I just heard someone say that the inspiration was Vivian Bendall but I have absolutely nothing to back it up 86.53.51.180 (talk) 10:06, 17 May 2008 (UTC)