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From
1995-97, Dennis Pennis was the UK's first celebrity interviewer
from hell. From behind the respectability of a BBC microphone,
this punkoid Woody Allen would stalk the pampered world of
the rich and famous and cut them down to size, pouncing with
intimate, juvenile or downright rude questions. If the celebrity
world is a swimming, Dennis was a veruka waiting to happen...
Pennis
From Heaven: The Complete Pennis is
broken down into three episodes: Anyone For Pennis,
Very Important Pennis and Dennis Pennis RIP.
The idea is simple, attend movie premiers and other events
frequented by celebrities and try and make them look foolish.
Highlights
of The Complete Pennis include Des Lynam illustrating
why the public love him. He goes along with Pennis and actually
makes him look very immature; and Pennis asking Tom O'Conner
if he can buy him because he collects old comics - O'Conner
shows what a professional he is and actually finds the gag
amusing.
However,
James (tosser) Whale and Melvin (pompous) Bragg really do
make themselves look stupid. And what happened to satirist
and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop's sense of humour?
Attending a Private Eye function, Angus Dayton is a
sport, but Hislop doesn't see the funny side.
One
of the major problems with a lot of the jibes at celebrities
is that, more often than not, Pennis is miles away from his
target and is merely shouting his insults as people are going
into buildings, which means they don't hear him. And, when
they do come back with a witty comment, or play along with
him, Kaye really doesn't know what to do - which makes him
look rather foolish.
In
Very Important Pennis the format changes quite drastically.
Instead of being interview heavy, the interviews are linked
by a lot more pretty poor sketches.
This
episode sees Kevin Costner proving he has no sense of humour,
while Emma Thompson comes across very well. Charlton
Heston, bless the crazy old fool, doesn't get it - but that's
not his fault as Pennis uses English expressions that most
Americans wouldn't understand.
Michael
Douglas is funny; Drew Barrymore and her friend are not so
impressed - but they are a little drunk; Dudley Moore doesn't
get it; Frank Bruno and Kris Agabusi come across well - both
finding Pennis to be funny; But Chris Ewbanks ends up making
a fool of himself without Pennis realising it. Pennis asks
Ewbanks: "Are you ever gonna release an autobiography?"
to which he answers: "On what?"
Mike
Smith reminds us why no one ever liked him (incidentally my
girlfriend's father used to employ Smith to carry his records
around when he was at Capital Radio); Tony Blair comes across
as a bit of a donkey, as does Pierce Brosnan. Pennis tells
Brosnan he looks like him. Brosnan rather arrogantly retorts
that he doesn't think so. The funny thing is that Paul Kaye
(Pennis) does look every so slightly like Brosnan.
There
is also a segment where Pennis interviews actors at the annual
porno awards. Obviously, as I don't own any porn (No, honestly
I don't!) I had no idea who any of the stars were.
The
third episode, Dennis Pennis RIP, has hardly any interviews
at all - which is probably why they ended up killing him off:
all his victims knew who he was.
Robbie
Williams acts a complete idiot (surprise, surprise) even though
he knows who Pennis is.
This
episode includes a very bizarre, but amusing, guide to American
sports - which reveals that they are all crap. It also takes
the Mickey out of the Pennis character as Pennis is now mega
famous and when interviewed by a green haired interviewer
acts the same way as all of the actors he's been embarrassing
over the years.
It
was also great to see David Walliams and Matt Lucas, from
Little Britain, appear in a couple of segments.
There
is also an extra which features Kaye walking around Leicester
Square. Kaye comes across as a rather arrogant and rather
childish prig! Which is a shame as it would appear that he
has become what he was drawing attention to in other celebrities.
While
this is fun the first time around, especially if you remember
Pennis from the '90s, there's not really enough here that
will make you want to watch it more than once.
Nick
Smithson
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