The children’s comic’s role in a drama of ‘death, deceit and carnage’ shouldn’t be a stretch for an established master of destruction
Next year a British gangster film will be released, entitled Fall to the Top. Its plot concerns a frustrated labourer who becomes a drug dealer and ends up trying to control London’s entire criminal underground. Its official summary promises “death, deceit and carnage”. One thing it doesn’t promise, however, is what might turn out to be its biggest draw: Paul Chuckle.
Readers of a certain vintage will recognise Paul Chuckle as one of the Chuckle Brothers, the beloved slapstick children’s entertainment duo who starred in 292 episodes of Cbbc’s ChuckleVision between 1987 and 2009. A typical ChuckleVision episode would see Paul and his brother Barry take employment at a new workplace, and then essentially destroy everything around them with their dangerous ineptitude. It was brilliant.
Next year a British gangster film will be released, entitled Fall to the Top. Its plot concerns a frustrated labourer who becomes a drug dealer and ends up trying to control London’s entire criminal underground. Its official summary promises “death, deceit and carnage”. One thing it doesn’t promise, however, is what might turn out to be its biggest draw: Paul Chuckle.
Readers of a certain vintage will recognise Paul Chuckle as one of the Chuckle Brothers, the beloved slapstick children’s entertainment duo who starred in 292 episodes of Cbbc’s ChuckleVision between 1987 and 2009. A typical ChuckleVision episode would see Paul and his brother Barry take employment at a new workplace, and then essentially destroy everything around them with their dangerous ineptitude. It was brilliant.
- 12/18/2024
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
To me, to you: comedian Paul Chuckle is going to the dark side for his latest role in thriller Fall To The Top.
Words you never expect to type – Paul Chuckle is playing a hitman.
Beloved by millions for his decades long career as one half of The Chuckle Brothers alongside his late brother Barry, they dominated children’s television for many years. ChuckleVision ran on the BBC from 1987 to 2009, clocking up a whopping 292 episodes and very nearly rivaling shows like Last Of The Summer Wine for the title of longest running sitcom.
Since Barry sadly passed away in 2018, Paul has continued working in pantomime and has taken on sporadic television roles, appearing in an episode of Doctors with Su Pollard and Ruth Madoc, and he has a recurring role in The Madame Blanc Mysteries.
His next role is very much against type, though. He will play a violent hitman...
Words you never expect to type – Paul Chuckle is playing a hitman.
Beloved by millions for his decades long career as one half of The Chuckle Brothers alongside his late brother Barry, they dominated children’s television for many years. ChuckleVision ran on the BBC from 1987 to 2009, clocking up a whopping 292 episodes and very nearly rivaling shows like Last Of The Summer Wine for the title of longest running sitcom.
Since Barry sadly passed away in 2018, Paul has continued working in pantomime and has taken on sporadic television roles, appearing in an episode of Doctors with Su Pollard and Ruth Madoc, and he has a recurring role in The Madame Blanc Mysteries.
His next role is very much against type, though. He will play a violent hitman...
- 12/2/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
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