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ROB GOTOBED (Jedi Knight remastered!!)
Rob Gotobed arrived from Never Never Land in 1972 in pursuit of his lost shadow. He is a 'dada absurdist' who lives on the island of Caspiar in the Caspian Sea.
He is unique insofar as he wasn't actually born in the conventional sense. He was created when, during an accidental fire in a comprehensive school chemistry lab, by a million-to-one chance, all the chemicals contained in the human body were fused together in the extreme heat.
He is virtually identical to normal human beings. Although due to the fact that the carbon available came from the ashes of the lab benches, he has a tendency to float without effort in water.
And here due to popular demand is a brief history of the comedy trio Gotobed, Harris & Knight.
On January 21st 1999 the GHK story really began at 45 Eggshell Lane, Scunthorpe England, where Rob Gotobed and Tony Knight first bumped into each other. Rob invited Tony to help him stand up. Tony, merely an amateur drinker, agreed and on that very spot a legend was created a legend that would last a pub lunchtime!! They were soon joined by John Harrington-Smythe a comedian of no fixed hairstyle. When John joined they persuaded him to change his name to save time and his haircut to save on hair gel!
They gained their first manager Arthur Scrotum as part of a bet (which they lost). So unimpressed was he with their comedy that he immediately sent them packing to Berlin. Thinking that Berlin was just outside Scunthorpe they accepted. It turned out to be in Germany, but in the very worst part! The Extremely Naughty Comedy Improv Club Berlin is located in one of the naughtiest streets in the world. This is where they ended up, far from home, and far from talented!!
In those days there was a fourth member of the trio, Leppo, he couldnt tell jokes but he knew how to have a good time, and in Berlin that was more difficult!! For eighteen months, night after night, they played live at The Extremely Naughty Comedy Improv Club Berlin, before they finally escaped and returned to England. In their rush they lost Leppo. He had crawled into bed with a small German Fraulein called Heidi who had started a new fashion with the way she trimmed his bush.
Very soon their comedy began to create no small interest in fact no interest at all. Then in October 2002 Shaggy Epstein, a failed Oxford scientist entered their lives. Shaggy had lost an eyebrow during the Falklands war and had been winking around London ever since!! One day he accidentally stumbled down the steps to a cottage and what he saw there was to change his life a sailor who told him about Gotobed, Harris & Knight!
And so one night, Shaggy Epstein found himself in a dank, sweaty, comedy club, torrid and pulsating with humor. He hated it. He hated their comedy, he hated their hair, he hated their cologne, - but he did like their pants!! As he wrote in his autobiography The story of me and the Leppo Bush, they were tight, really tight, nothing left to the imagination.
An elated Shaggy immediately put Gotobed, Harris & Knight into the studio. Their first comedy album What the hell happened to us? took 12 minutes to record. The second, Why is there hair? took even longer!!
In 2005 Gotobed, Harris & Knightmania hit England. It seemed that GHK could do no wrong. A string of comedy hit singles followed, Rut Me Do, Baby, Dont You Be Ovulating Tonight Coz Were In The Mood For Love, and The Ballad Of Rob And Tony, which brought unprecedented scenes of mass ovulation all over the United Kingdom!
At one point they had nineteen out of the top twenty jokes in England, even the Queen was a fan and she invited them back to her Palace for tea and muffin-the-mule!!
In 2006 the Fab Three made the all-important breakthrough in America. 10,000 screaming fans were at Kennedy Airport to greet them. Unfortunately Gotobed, Harris & Knight arrived at La Guardia.
They were due to be guests on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno but as a security precaution Gotobed, Harris & Knight arrived by helicopter a day early. This enabled them to be safely in and out of the studio before the audience arrived and the show was recorded! It was a brilliant public relations coup. The audience were laughing and screaming so hard that the millions watching at home never even noticed that the Fab Three didnt even appear on the show!! Jay Leno described it as the most exciting three minutes of his life.
Be seeing you!!
PS: The Gotobed, Harris, Knight & Saltwater lost tape sessions featuring the original line-up of Rob Gotobed, John Harris, Tony knight & Leppo Saltwater is still available for import; (Parlourphone LP: GEP *3045).
Blog update (01/07/2009) by Vic Ferrari xxx
