Normally I would never get the plastic out pay to watch something on the internet but I was unable to find The Comic Strip Presents ‘The Yob’, free so had to pay. I vaguely remembered it while watching another Comic Strip Presents offering which was free.
A trendy, pretentious music video director Patrick Church (Keith Allen) is hoping to make the next David Bowie video, but his younger rivals get the job. Having turn down UB40, he now jumps at the chance to direct their upcoming video. At a UB40 concert he enters into what he believes is a toilet but it is not, while in the other cubicle is a nasty football hooligan Steve played by the late Gary Olsen.
In fact, the toilets is a teleportation machine that transfer brain patterns from one to another the scientist and his assistant hoped who have a lab at the back of the concert hall. The machine as worked and slowly their character begin to change.
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| Top: Patrick with girlfriend Bottom: Patrick the Yob |
Patrick shows signs of changing by mumbling to himself about Arsenal, Allen in real life is a Fulham fan. At the video shoot for the new UB40 single, which by the way is ruddy awful. When cut is shouted the camera man tells Patrick the shot ends on the bass player who is black and he is not happy telling the director to re-shoot with the instruction to “Don’t finish on the sooty” to the shock of everyone in ear shot.
The talking to himself becomes wilder and wilder he now drinks pints of beer instead of spritzers and his girlfriend tells her best friend he has become wild sexually. At the after show party for the UB40 video he (Patrick) takes a dislike to a black guy he believes is flirting with his girlfriend and pops open a bottle of champagne in his face. When he retreats to the toilet his girlfriend’s friend follows him to make sure he is ok but is girlfriend finds them shagging.
She goes around to his flat the next morning and walks in on him shagging some bird called Linda. She goes to pack but find all her clothes have been changed to tarty stuff she would never wear. Patrick now does a full on ‘American Werewolf in London’ transformation into the Yob and walking down the street chanting, “You’re going to get your head kicked in” as he disappears down the street. That the same time the scientist and his assistant pull up.
They explain what as happen to Patrick on the way to see Steve who was now on full Patrick mode much to the upset of his mum. Steve understands what happen to Patrick and you get the feeling he is happy with the new him. Later down the local pub a full on fancy dress competition with Steve’s step dad turning up as a ‘Black Hitler’. Steve wins the fancy dress competition just then Patrick arrives walks up to Steve and nuts him and all hell breaks out in the pub.
Steve and Patrick are pulled away, taken back to the lab in hope of reversing the process but the assistant comes up with the idea to merge the two into one. With all this going on the lab cat is chasing a fly, and yes you know what’s going to happen the fly is going to end up in the third chamber. When the door opened, standing in front of the assistant and Patrick’s girlfriend is an Adonis of a man but for the fact, his lower half was that of a ginger cat, tail as well. Great viewing on a Sunday afternoon of boredom.
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