40 Fun Facts About Harry Enfield

Which actress plays Waynetta Slob opposite Harry Enfield's Wayne in the Slobs sketches?

Kathy Burke drew Waynetta partly from a character in her own stand-up act, while the couple's squalid home life echoed neighbours who once lived in the flat below Enfield.

Which British tennis star was nicknamed Kevin the Teenager for his surly on-court manner early on?

Andy Murray picked up the label for his bad-tempered demeanour and gruff interviews, borrowed from Enfield's schoolboy who turns into a sulking monster the moment he hits thirteen.

Harry Enfield based his toddler characters Harry and Lulu on which future pop star and her brother?

Lily Allen and her brother Alfie were small children when Enfield was dating their mother, film producer Alison Owen, and he later admitted the pair inspired the sketches.

Harry Enfield played Loadsamoney at Wembley Stadium in 1988 at a 70th birthday tribute to whom?

Nelson Mandela was still a prisoner when the concert went out to 67 countries, and Enfield took the stage as both the braggart and his penniless Geordie counterpart.

Harry Enfield played Gary's original flatmate Dermot in the first series of which 1990s sitcom?

Men Behaving Badly lost Enfield after one series because he felt out of place in a sitcom, and Thames Television nearly scrapped the show before recasting the flatmate.

Kevin and Perry fly to which Spanish island to become DJs in the 2000 film Kevin & Perry Go Large?

Ibiza is the boys' clubbing paradise, and the trip only happens after Kevin accidentally foils a bank robbery and the manager hands over a cash reward.

Wayne and Waynetta Slob argue over baby names before calling their first daughter what?

Frogmella won out because the couple thought the name sounded exotic, and a later baby in the family was named after a fast-food chain.

Loadsamoney, Harry Enfield's cash-waving 1980s loudmouth, earned his wad working in which trade?

Plasterer was a fitting boom-years trade for the satire, but audiences warmed to him so much that Enfield had the character run over to kill him off.

Harry Enfield has played which member of the royal family in the Channel 4 sitcom The Windsors?

Prince Charles, later the King, is Enfield's part, and the performance earned him a BAFTA nomination for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2017.

Which job did Harry Enfield do for a while in his early years, when he was squatting in Hackney?

Milkman was Enfield's day job in his squatting years, an unlikely start for a politics graduate who was soon writing topical gags for radio.

In Harry Enfield & Chums, the Slobs' baby Canoe is supposedly named after which Hollywood actor?

Keanu Reeves lent his mangled first name to the baby, who joins the household after Wayne's fling with a supermodel produces octuplets.

In Harry Enfield & Chums, Wayne Slob's affair with which supermodel results in octuplets?

Naomi Campbell is the unlikely other woman in the storyline, and one of the eight babies goes home with the Slobs to complete the family.

Wayne and Waynetta Slob name their second daughter after which British fast-food chain?

Spudulike, the baked-potato chain, was Waynetta's favourite place to eat, so the new baby was christened Spudulika in its honour.

How do Wayne and Waynetta Slob suddenly become rich in the sketch show Harry Enfield & Chums?

They win the lottery and then a holiday as well, but the plane crashes under the couple's combined weight and leaves them stranded in the wild.

Which Fast Show star played DJ Mike Smash opposite Harry Enfield's Dave Nice in Smashie and Nicey?

Paul Whitehouse also dreamed up Stavros and Loadsamoney for Enfield, a neighbour with a stage act whom he first met in a local pub.

Fab FM, home of Harry Enfield's ageing DJs Smashie and Nicey, was a parody of which real station?

BBC Radio 1 took the joke to heart: its new controller said in 1993 that he wanted to rid the station of its Smashie and Nicey image, and veteran presenters soon left.

Harry Enfield created Loadsamoney in reaction to the policies of which prime minister's government?

Margaret Thatcher's boom-era Britain was the target, yet the character's creators grew uneasy when viewers began cheering the swaggering figure instead of laughing at him.

Which Labour leader used Harry Enfield's word loadsamoney in 1988 to attack the Tory government?

Neil Kinnock used the word to sum up a grab-what-you-can culture, and journalists were soon writing about a loadsamoney mentality and a loadsamoney economy.

Harry Enfield's 1988 hit single as Loadsamoney sampled a money-themed 1976 hit by which pop group?

ABBA's Money, Money, Money is in the mix beside a snatch of the money number from the film Cabaret, and the novelty record climbed to number four in the UK chart.

Harry Enfield became a star on which 1980s Channel 4 comedy show hosted by Ben Elton?

Saturday Live made Enfield a household name through Stavros and Loadsamoney, and the show itself was modelled on America's Saturday Night Live.

Stavros, the Greek Londoner Harry Enfield played on 1980s television, ran what kind of business?

Kebab shop owner Stavros, with his fractured English, was invented for Enfield by his writing partner, who then followed him up with the even bigger Loadsamoney.

The Scousers sketches in Harry Enfield's shows opened with a spoof of which soap opera's theme tune?

Brookside, set in Liverpool, supplied both the tune and the models for the hot-tempered trio, and two of the soap's own actors later turned up in a sketch.

Julio Geordio, the Colombian footballer in Harry Enfield & Chums, has joined which English club?

Newcastle United is his new home, and with every interview his Spanish slides further into broad Tyneside dialect as he recounts his nights out.

Harry Enfield's sheepskin-coated interviewer of Julio Geordio is a spoof of which TV commentator?

John Motson was known for his sheepskin coat, and the running joke is that his stand-in keeps failing to steer the player's stories back to football.

Harry Enfield's Tory Boy was partly modelled on a younger version of which Conservative politician?

William Hague had made national news at 16 by addressing the party conference, which made him a ready-made template for a pompous teenage Tory.

Which television satirist co-created Tim Nice-But-Dim for Harry Enfield with cartoonist Nick Newman?

Ian Hislop and his fellow Ardingly old boy Nick Newman based the amiable twit on wealthy, well-mannered but dim contemporaries from their own schooldays.

Which Formula One driver made a cameo in a Self-Righteous Brothers sketch in Harry Enfield & Chums?

Damon Hill gets a polite welcome from Frank until the brother pictures him tearing through the neighbourhood at 140 mph and flies into a rage.

Which actor arrived as flatmate Tony when Harry Enfield quit his sitcom role as Dermot?

Neil Morrissey, already known as Rocky in Boon, took over for the second series when the part of Tony was written to fill the gap Enfield left.

Which Welsh actor, fresh from Notting Hill, plays DJ Eyeball Paul in Kevin & Perry Go Large?

Rhys Ifans plays the preening club idol, who makes the two boys clean his house before he will even listen to their demo tapes.

Before he became Kevin the Teenager, Harry Enfield's Kevin appeared in sketches under which title?

Little Brother showed Kevin as a hyperactive twelve-year-old pestering his older sibling, until midnight on his thirteenth birthday transformed him on the spot.

Harry Enfield played Martin, father of which comedian's teacher Alfie, in the sitcom Bad Education?

Jack Whitehall co-wrote the show and plays the teacher, and Enfield's goofy Martin eventually lands a job at the same school as deputy head.

Harry Enfield played Jim Stonem, the father of Tony and Effy, in which Bristol-set teen drama?

Skins cast Enfield as a perpetually exasperated dad, and he also stepped behind the camera to direct two episodes of the second series.

Harry Enfield appeared as a tea lady on stage with which Britpop band at Hyde Park in 2012?

Blur brought Enfield on in costume during Parklife, at the concert held to mark the closing ceremony of the London Olympics.

Harry Enfield played a yokel who preferred armadillos in a 1990s advert for which chocolate bar?

Dime, renamed Daim in most other countries, was still sold under its old spelling in Britain when Enfield's bumpkin turned one down in favour of the armoured animal.

Harry Enfield studied politics at which English university, where he belonged to Derwent College?

York was where Enfield took his politics degree, before he was recruited at the Edinburgh Fringe to write for a Radio 4 comedy show.

Harry Enfield's father Edward found late fame as a reporter on which BBC programme?

Watchdog made Edward Enfield a television regular after he took early retirement from a council education job, and he later cycled through Greece for a radio series.

Which arts broadcaster plays himself in Harry Enfield's spoof documentary Norbert Smith: A Life?

Melvyn Bragg fronts the spoof as though it were an edition of The South Bank Show marking the 80th birthday of a much-honoured theatrical knight.

Which producer, later behind Madonna's Ray of Light, co-wrote Harry Enfield's Loadsamoney single?

William Orbit shared the writing credit with Enfield and two of his comedy collaborators, a decade before his Grammy-winning work with Madonna.

Dave Nice ends every Smashie and Nicey sketch by cueing up a 1970s hit by which rock band?

Bachman-Turner Overdrive's You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet is the one record he always reaches for, usually introduced with a groan-worthy pun on the band's name.

Kevin & Perry Go Large opens with Kevin dreaming that he rescues which Tudor queen from execution?

Anne Boleyn's rescue was filmed at Dover Castle, a costume-drama opening for a comedy that quickly heads off to the nightclubs.