Roger Mellie
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Roger Mellie ("The Man on the Telly") is a fictional character featured in the VIZ magazine. The character (like many of the other characters in Viz) is essentially a foul-mouthed, obnoxious misogynist who somehow manages to maintain a career in television presentation. He is the ostensible author of Roger's Profanisaurus (ISBN 1902212053) but only because it is a pun on Roget's Thesaurus.
Viz's founder and main contributor Chris Donald claims that the character of Roger Mellie was inspired on the off-screen behaviour of Rod Griffiths, a 1980s Northern UK regional TV presenter. However, Donald also states that Roger Mellie is actually nothing like Griffiths in fact, and other presenters have also been worked into the character, including Look North presenter Mike Neville.
An animated TV series was broadcast on Channel 4 in 1991, with Peter Cook providing the voice of Roger, and Harry Enfield doing the majority of the other voices.
External links
- Roger's Profanisaurus online (http://viz.co.uk/profanisaurus/profanis.htm)