Bruiser - Sparky

Martin as Roger with his puppet friend Sparky in sketches from the short-lived, one-series-only sketch show 'Bruiser' (2000) starring Olivia Colman, Martin Freeman, Matt Holness, Charlotte Hudson, David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

"Ya gormless wazza!" Has recently become one of my favoured insults. Just 'cause. ;D

Clips are from episodes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Bruiser
• BBC
• Martin
• Freeman
• Matt
• Holness
• Charlotte
• Hudson
• David
• Mitchell

[hank3rox]

I've been looking for Sparky clips for ages & was beginning to think I'd imagined him. Nice job me bucko :-)

[Takaouto]

@hank3rox Definitely no imagining here. I think he would have been terribly difficult to dream up. XDD Maybe you have thoughts like that all the time? - maybe you should go into comedy script-writing? XDD :prods you in direction of the BBC:

[MadagascanLlama]

@Takaouto

What the hell?!

Obviously the guy that wrote this IS in comedy script writing.

[Takaouto]

@MadagascanLlama Maybe if you paid attention to the thread of the comments instead of reading one alone you would understand. ;-)

I never said that the person who wrote these sketches WASN'T in scriptwriting, just that hank3rox DIDN'T manage to dream Sparky up in his/her own head.

[sparklinganderson]

I keep imagining Sparky as Sherlock.

[TheACRainey]

@sparklinganderson As you should. "Sherlock I'm on a date!" "Chinese gangsters, John!" (And then the Chinese gangsters strangle Sherlock a few times)

[shaolin1802]

Its Robert Webb's baby seal voice haha

[TimArmst]

Thanks for the clips, thought I'd seen all the Mitchell and Webb stuff till I stumbled upon Bruiser

[kisapedra]

@MissNephilimAngel Iseewhatyoudidthere.

[MissNephilimAngel]

Oh thank God, Martin likes gingers <3

[TwoStupidGirlsYT]

I'm afraid I wee-weed on the floor Roger

[justme0910]

This becomes a thousand times funnier after having watched Sherlock.

Also, the idea that I have read at least one fanfic about each and every single horror scenario Sparky makes up is a bit creepy.

[drefeno]

"John! It's WWIII John! Quick, come home so we can spend the last few hours playing Cluedo and drawing funny faces on photos of Anderson!"

[MisaMumintroll]

BBC's Sherlock from Watson's point of view.

[Dinosaur3398]

@Takaouto

His own head.. its my dad that wrote it :-?

[Dinosaur3398]

My dad wrote all of the Roger and Sparky's for Bruiser ages ago, I remind him of this whenever he shouts at me.. You have no idea how embarrassing being his daughter is.