Bo in the USA

"Bo! in the USA" out now on DVD
Hello to you and Welcome to "Bo Selecta" MySpace Profile.PLEASE NOTE, THIS PROFILE HAS NOT BEEN MADE BY AVID MERRION/LEIGH FRANCIS OR ANYBODY ELSE AT BELLYACHE PRODUCTIONS.I MADE THIS SITE TO LET PEOPLE KNOW MORE ABOUT BO SELECTA AND THE REST OF LEIGH FRANCIS` WORK. I ALSO MADE THIS SITE FOR THE FANS OF LEIGH AND BO SELECTA AND TO INFORM THEM OF THE NEW SERIES OF "BO IN THE USA"."Bo! in the USA" the complete first series out NOW on DVD!
MySpace.com BO SELECTA For those of you who dont know Bo Selecta, Bo' Selecta is a British TV comedy sketch show written and staring Leigh Francis. The humour involved in Bo'Selecta derives from masks, puppetry, extremely bizarre and surreal humour, brutal (and pop culture-penetrating) catchphrases, vulgar jokes and imagery, and the exposing of celebrity pretentiousness disguised as enthusiastic fan worship. The title is taken from the UK Garage subculture, and literally means "great DJ!". It was most notably used in the Artful Dodger and Craig David's song, "Rewind", which is the most likely source of the title.Bo' Selecta! has so far been rewarded with three complete seasons, a Christmas special, a hit music single (with bo selecta clips) called 'Proper Crimbo' and a diverse fanbase in the UK.In reality and in interviews, Francis is seldom seen outside of his role as the celebrity-obsessed and sexually tilted "Araknipusian", Avid Merrion, who speaks with a generic Eastern European accent and uses bizarre synonyms for certain words or phrases, such as "sex wee" for semen. The character essentially presents the show. In the first two seasons of Bo' Selecta! Avid lives in his flat with his dead mother slouched in one cupboard and Craig Phillips from Big Brother chained up in another. By the time Series 3 comes around, Avid becomes conscious of his newly heightened status in popular culture and is given the freedom to talk one-on-one with his celebrity heroes on his own chat show.Francis also plays 'The Bear', a foul-mouthed and easily aroused but completely adorable bearcub who intimidates showbiz figureheads on his 'treehouse' set. The Bear sketch is essentially a combination of two televisual mediums: the children's show and the celebrity interview. The Bear sketch also features a red squirrel puppet named "Steven", who can only communicate in non-intelligable squeaks and is frequently referred to as a "ginger twat".The main body of the Bo' Selecta! series, however, involves a host of celebrity caricatures. This perhaps evolves from the puppets of 1980s political satire Spitting Image (though where Image employed complete puppets, Bo' Selecta! draws from masks and occasionally prosthetic limbs on human actors). Leigh Francis plays the vast majority of these celebrity characters himself. Some characters such as Kelly Osbourne or Dale Winton are quite obvious send-ups of their real-life counterparts but others have become bizarre distortions of their namesakes that bear little obvious relationship with the original celebrity. For example, the Bo' Selecta! version of The Spice Girls' Mel B seems to be mostly aesthetically based upon out-of-work darts aficionado Jim Bowen and spends most of her time talking about her vagina or hemorrhoids. The Bear character is tought to be based on comedian Ronnie Corbett but is in fact based on another carachter Leigh played called Barry Gibson* . Perhaps the most popular or iconic of these rubber-faced creations are those based on Michael Jackson and Craig David.www.MerrionTV.com - Avid's Offical Website!Avid Merrions Official Website, exclusive material including a behind the scences gallery photos and video clips, news and an online store Where you can buy T-Sirts and Signed Bo Selecta DVDs and Books. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16HM_mhyxic