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'''Roger Mellie''' was an employee of the [[BBC (in-universe)|BBC]]. | '''Roger Mellie''' was an employee of the [[BBC (in-universe)|BBC]]. | ||
==Biography== | == Biography == | ||
For [[Red Nose Day]] in [[1991]], [[Tom (The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic)|Tom]] requested that Roger Mellie perform a special [[favour]] for [[Comic Relief (in-universe)|Comic Relief]], with Mellie remarking that he'd do his [[bit]] for the [[kids]], and that it had never done [[Jimmy Savile (in-universe)|Jimmy Savile]] any [[harm]]. | For [[Red Nose Day]] in [[1991]], [[Tom (The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic)|Tom]] requested that Roger Mellie perform a special [[favour]] for [[Comic Relief (in-universe)|Comic Relief]], with Mellie remarking that he'd do his [[bit]] for the [[kids]], and that it had never done [[Jimmy Savile (in-universe)|Jimmy Savile]] any [[harm]]. | ||
For this, he was to do the introduction [[The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (in-universe)|Comic Relief's new book]], but with the requirement that he must keep it [[Cleanliness|clean]], which he claimed to be capable of. As they were in the [[lift]], Mellie asked Tom what his [[cut]] would be of the book's [[profits]], although he misinterpreted nobody getting a cut as the [[money]] simply being handed in a plain [[brown]] [[envelope]] without a [[word]] to the [[taxman]].[[File:Roger Mellie covered in custard.jpg|left|thumb|"''[[Bollocks|Mollux]]! Luddy Muggering Mollux!''": Roger Mellie covered in [[custard]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)}})]]In [[Studio (The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic)|the studio]], he [[Drinking|drunk]] several cans of [[alcohol]] shortly before the broadcast would begin. He began on his best [[behaviour]], describing the contents of the book and what its purpose was, although just as he remarked that he'd been drinking all day and was "absolutely bursting for a [[Piss|pi-]]", [[Lenny Henry (in-universe)|Lenny Henry]] interrupted him by splatting a [[custard pie]] in his face, which greatly annoyed Mellie, with Tom reminding him that it was just a [[rehearsal]]. | For this, he was to do the introduction [[The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (in-universe)|Comic Relief's new book]], but with the requirement that he must keep it [[Cleanliness|clean]], which he claimed to be capable of. As they were in the [[lift]], Mellie asked Tom what his [[cut]] would be of the book's [[profits]], although he misinterpreted nobody getting a cut as the [[money]] simply being handed in a plain [[brown]] [[envelope]] without a [[word]] to the [[taxman]].[[File:Roger Mellie covered in custard.jpg|left|thumb|"''[[Bollocks|Mollux]]! Luddy Muggering Mollux!''": Roger Mellie covered in [[custard]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)}})]]In [[Studio (The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic)|the studio]], he [[Drinking|drunk]] several cans of [[alcohol]] shortly before the broadcast would begin. He began on his best [[behaviour]], describing the contents of the book and what its purpose was, although just as he remarked that he'd been drinking all day and was "absolutely bursting for a [[Piss|pi-]]", [[Lenny Henry (in-universe)|Lenny Henry]] interrupted him by splatting a [[custard pie]] in his face, which greatly annoyed Mellie, with Tom reminding him that it was just a [[rehearsal]]. | ||
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Roger Mellie was [[caucasian]] and wore a [[black]] and [[white]] [[stripe]]d [[suit]], with a black [[Shirt|undershirt]] and white [[tie]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)}}) | Roger Mellie was [[caucasian]] and wore a [[black]] and [[white]] [[stripe]]d [[suit]], with a black [[Shirt|undershirt]] and white [[tie]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)}}) | ||
==Behind the scenes== | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Roger Mellie is the titular main character in the comic series ''[[Roger Mellie: The Man on the Telly (series)|Roger Mellie: The Man on the Telly]]'', a strip published in ''Viz''. | Roger Mellie is the titular main character in the comic series ''[[Roger Mellie: The Man on the Telly (series)|Roger Mellie: The Man on the Telly]]'', a strip published in ''Viz''. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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