Harry Enfield

Henry Richard Enfield born 30 May 1961is an English comedian actor writer and director He is known in particular for his television work including Harry Enfields Television Programme and Harry Paul and for the creation and portrayal of comedy characters such as Kevin the Teenager Loadsamoney Smashie and Nicey The Scousers Tim NiceButDim and Mr You Dont Want to Do It Like That Born in Horsham Sussex he is the eldest of four children and only son of English television radio and newspaper journalist and presenter Edward Enfield and his wife Deirdre Jenkins The Enfield family are descendants of the nineteenthcentury philanthropist Edward Enfield He was educated at the independent Arundale School in Pulborough Dorset House School Worth School Collyers Sixth Form College all in West Sussex and the University of York where he was a member of Derwent College and studied politics He squatted in Hackney and worked for a while as a milkman Enfield first came to wide public attention when appearing on Channel 4s Saturday Live as several different characters created with Paul Whitehouse These quickly entered the national consciousness Among these characters were Stavros a Greek kebab shop owner with fractured English and Loadsamoney an obnoxious plasterer who constantly boasted about how much money he earned The Loadsamoney character was created in reaction to the policies of the Thatcher government of the day and took on a life of its own sampling the songs Money Money from the musical Cabaret and Money Money Money by ABBA to spawn a hit single in 1988 and a sellout live tour5 In May 1988 Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock used the term loadsamoney to criticise the policies of the Conservative government and journalists began to refer to the loadsamoney mentality and the loadsamoney economy As a foil to Loadsamoney Enfield and Whitehouse created the Geordie BuggerAllMoney and in 1988 Enfield appeared as both characters during the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium In time Whitehouse and Enfield became disturbed that Loadsamoney was being seen in a positive light rather than as a satirical figure and they had him run over during a Comic Relief Red Nose Day show while leaving the studio after presenting host Lenny Henry with the biggest cheque of the nighta physically huge cheque for ten pence Enfield created Tory Boy a character which portrayed a young male Conservative Member of Parliament MP