![Monkey Trousers. Image shows from L to R: Ted (Alex Lowe), Patsy Palmer, Constance (Ronni Ancona), Stanley (Alistair McGowan). Copyright: Pett Productions / Baby Cow Productions Monkey Trousers. Image shows from L to R: Ted (Alex Lowe), Patsy Palmer, Constance (Ronni Ancona), Stanley (Alistair McGowan). Copyright: Pett Productions / Baby Cow Productions](https://cdn.comedy.co.uk/images/library/comedies/180x120/m/monkey_trousers.jpg)
Monkey Trousers
- TV sketch show
- ITV1
- 2005
- 6 episodes (1 series)
ITV sketch show written by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and performed with an all-star cast. Also features Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Mark Benton, Tim Healy, Alistair McGowan and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 5
Further details
Eponymous freak and everything-whisperer Monkey Trousers stands as an independent election candidate; Stanley McAlister off of Professional Footballers' Wives has been sold to a foreign club (in Wales); and estate agent Alasdair shuts a potential buyer in the shower.
Jimmy Savile destroys nosey Honker's only chance of happiness at the Sunshine Hospice Fun Run; the mission is aborted at the Geordie Space Centre due to Kev arriving in a frogman suit; and we learn of the Dorf face-care system, 'one of many ways for you to proceed'.
Voice-over man Dave uses every trick in the tobacconist's book to achieve vocal perfection; Mary uses reverse psychology to get some office workers to explode themselves; and the Croc Botherer meets a national park warden and gets some of his own nightmarish medicine.
Finally, "Windy" Dick Baker leaves his co-antiquarian Clive hanging; the Vicar appraises Revelation 1 with Calvinistical rigour; and Roy of Roy's Toys attempts unsuccessfully to flog a Lego set depicting, not Dumbledore in his office, but J. K. Rowling in her agent's office (with 'a tiny little enormous cheque in her hand').
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 17th June 2005
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Vic Reeves | Various |
Bob Mortimer | Various |
Steve Coogan | Roy |
John Thomson | Various |
Mark Benton | Various |
Tim Healy | Various |
Alistair McGowan | Stanley |
Ronni Ancona | Constance |
Patsy Palmer | Various |
Alex Lowe | Ted |
Rebecca Front | Various |
Neil Morrissey | Various |
Matt Berry | Various |
Joanna Bobin | Various |
Liz Smith | Various |
Tony Way | Various |
Chloe Okora | Various |
Charlie Higson | Various |
Nichola McAuliffe | Various |
Nancy Sorrell (as Nancy Moir) | Various |
Kate Russell | Various |
Vic Reeves | Writer |
Bob Mortimer | Writer |
Simon Blackwell | Writer (Additional Material) |
Jill Parker | Writer (Additional Material) |
Ian Brown | Writer (Additional Material) |
David Kerr | Director |
Lisa Clark | Series Producer |
Steve Coogan | Executive Producer |
Henry Normal | Executive Producer |
Rachel Ablett | Associate Producer |
Ted Dowd | Associate Producer |
Charlie Phillips | Editor |
Julie Harris | Production Designer |
Videos
The Geordie Space Centre
The Geordie's prepare to go in space... but there's a problem with one of the suits.
Featuring: Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Mark Benton & Tim Healy.
Roy of Roy's Toys
Roy of Roy's Toys attempts unsuccessfully to flog a Lego set depicting, not Dumbledore in his office, but J. K. Rowling in her agent's office.
Featuring: Steve Coogan (Roy) & Matt Berry.