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Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Very Important Pennis (TV Series 1995) Comedy Dennis Is Back And This Time Its Not Just England Now The Whole World Is In Trouble As Dennis Travels Around The World Interviewing More Celebrities Than Ever Before And Even Touring The BBC Televison Centre Stars: Paul Kaye, Demi Moore, Joan Collins Celebrities Beware Dennis Pennis Is On The Lose And Getting Right In Your Face Dennis Holds Nothing Back Daring To Asks The Question No Other Interviewer Would Stars: Paul Kaye, Keith Allen, Clive Anderson A rebellious young British bowls player teams with another older and more traditional player to take on the Australian bowls team. Director: Mel Smith Michael 'Mike' Strutter is a fictional character of an MTV show, Strutter. He was created and is played by Paul Kaye, the comedian and actor behind the character Dennis Pennis. Stars: Paul Kaye, Paul Garner, Lucy Montgomery Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Woody Allen , seen traveling with friends and fellow musicians during their New... See full summary » Director: Barbara Kopple Paul Kaye ...

Dennis Pennis / Mike Strutter / Tony Cream / Brian Munich / Ken Touken / Lloyd Richmond / Labian Quest / Bob Boonah / Kenny Dogleash Edit Storyline Pennis lives, in Cannes, New York and London, or does he? Because someone wants to take him down... 10 October 1997 (UK) See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Dennis tries to engage Woody Allen while he's walking down the street with Soon-Yi Previn . Paul Kaye later had a small role in Allen's film Match Point (2005). Kaye is a big fan of Woody Allen and said that he and his film crew spotted him by chance while in New York; he was reluctant to go up to him because he didn't want to offend him, but his producer ordered him to do it because they'd been there for several weeks and had produced very little usable footage. See more » Quotes Dennis Pennis : [to Kenneth Clarke] It's such a shame you didn't become leader, I look at you and I think what a waste... What a massive waist! A cult relic of the 90s!

14 November 2006 | by jagheterjack00 (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews DENNIS PENNIS: TOO RUDE TOO LIVE was the third and final video to be released of Paul Kayes TV interviewer from hell character Dennis Pennis. By 1997 it seemed Kaye had had enough of his alter ego and made this video to mark the murder of Pennis. The video contains several unseen Pennis sketches which the BBC deemed, too bad taste for broadcast, a sketch featuring the arch bishop of Canterbury inparticular. The downside of this video is that it contains far too many sketches of Kayes other over the top and vulgar characters which rarely amuse. The sketches are strung together with a rather tatty plot involving a character named Mike Strutter (played by Kaye) who is out for Pennises blood for a lame insult which leads to the murder of Pennis.

The video ends with the pennis killed with his own microphone after finally being caught up after months of hiding out by which time his hair has grown and also a long red beard in a chilling sequence which leads us to the closing shots of pennises grave which reads, DENNIS PENNIS: 1995 to 1997. Still available for corperate work which leads to one more horror esquire sequence with pennis's arm pushing through the earth still holding the microphone only to end with him being run over with a tractor being driven by an other anti pennis protester and the credits roll. In total there were 3 PENNIS videos made, the first of which, Anyone For Pennis shortly followed by V.I.P: PENNIS UNCUT(Which is the best) followed by DENNIS PENNIS: TOO RUDE TO LIVE. all 3 videos are now available on one DVD. TRIVIA The video also features a rare pre stardom performance from David Walliams as a anti Pennis protester. Matt Lucus and Michael winner also perform. 7 of 8 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Paul Kaye | Lucky Fred Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors) . “ I remember at the opening of Planet Hollywood, I got into a fight with an Aussie journalist; he was fucking purple with rage telling me that some journalists were trying to make serious news. So I said "Go to fucking Bosnia. It's the opening of a burger bar". ” –Paul Kaye Paul Kaye (born 15 December 1964, Clapton, London) is an English comedian and actor. He achieved notoriety in 1995 portraying the character of Dennis Pennis, a shock interviewer on The Sunday Show. Recently he has been known as rude New Jersey lawyer Mike Strutter with his own show Strutter (TV series) on MTV. Kaye also plays the voice of Vincent on the BBC comedy Mongrels (TV series). He is the original voice actor of Friday , Mr. Tonsils and Mr. Fractal of Lucky Fred . Contents Biography Early life Born in Clapton, east London to Jewish parents.

Paul was adopted with his twin sister Lisa and was brought up in Wembley where their father and mother ran a nearby schoolwear shop called 'Jackie's', first in Kingsbury and then in Kenton. Kaye was a promising schoolboy athlete who achieved an impressive time in the 100 metres (he was faster than Theo Walcott as a 16 year old) and he became a fan of punk rock, particularly Sid Vicious. [1] At 16 he entered Harrow school of Art on a two year foundation course and achieved a distinction. Paul got a First Class BA Hons degree in Theatre Design at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University). Pre-Pennis career Paul took a year out of college in 1984 and worked on a kibbutz in Israel. He met his future wife Orly whom he married in 1989. Paul designed theatre posters for the Kings Head, the Bush Theatre and the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill. He was a scene painter at the Old Vic Theatre in Waterloo and illustrated regularly for the NME, i-D, Literary Review, Time Out (company) and International Musician magazines between 1987-89.

Kaye had two exhibitions of his illustration and poster work between 89-90, firstly at the Soho House Theatre, W1 and then at The Drill Hall, WC1. He formed and sang in many bands - notably the dark psychadelic outfit We Are Pleb who played extensively on the Camden scene of 88/89 (which spawned Blur (band) and Suede (band)) and had a penchant for setting the stage on fire. Paul was signed to Go Discs in 1992 with a group called TV Eye (formed with ex-members of the band Eat (band) and released two singles, Killer Fly and Eradicator. In 1993, Kaye filmed a prototype Dennis Pennis, interviewing his own band on a late night indie music show on Granada called Transmission (TV series). After the interview, Kaye then went out with the crew, got very drunk and offended as many people as possible up and down Oxford Street. This tape somehow arrived on the desk of producers at Planet 24 six months later and they offered Kaye the job of knocking on peoples doors at 6 am on The Big Breakfast.

Kaye turned them down, preferring to stay on the dole and stick with We Are Pleb. Mark Lamarr eventually took the job. Paul was the in-house graphic designer for Tottenham Hotspur, he had an office in White Hart Lane and designed merchandise for Spurs, Derby County F.C.|Derby County, Southampton FC and Aston Villa for the company Hummel (doing caricatures of Paul Gascoigne for school lunchboxes etc.). Being a die hard Arsenal FC fan, Paul has claimed that there are subliminal cannons contained within his work for Spurs, most notably a pen and ink drawing of Tottenham's new stand on a catalogue cover which feature a minute cannon in the crowd. 70,000 were printed up. Paul became the in-house theatre designer of the Bet Zvi Drama Academy in Tel Aviv for 12 months in 1994, designing all the in house productions in their studio theatre. His TV debut was on The Word (TV series) being secretly filmed in Oliver Reed's dressing room. Kaye recalls "Reed had drunk two bottles of vodka, taken all his clothes off and I honestly thought he was going to kill me on live television.

I swore in bed that I'd never do a celebrity interview again. Typically, 6 months later I'd come up with Dennis Pennis." In 1994, Kaye convinced an old friend Ant Hines (a car mechanic and some time roadie for TV Eye) to help him write Dennis Pennis when he was offered the job on The Sunday Show. (Hines was later poached by Sacha Baron Cohen to write for Ali G on The Eleven O'Clock Show and went on to receive an Oscar nomination for co-writing Borat in 2006). Dennis Pennis Celebrity interviewer Dennis Pennis – created by Kaye and his friend Anthony Hines – was one of Kaye's best-known characters. A cross between Johnny Rotten and Woody Allen, with a shock of red hair, gaudy jackets adorned with punk-style badges, and thick glasses (worn, ostensibly, to reduce the likelihood of getting assaulted), Pennis stood out from the crowd and asked celebrities atypical questions, ranging from playful to cruel.

After brief stints presenting two episodes of Transmission (ITV's indie music magazine program circa 1990) as Pennis, the character next appeared in 1995 on BBC2's The Sunday Show. The basic premise was that Kaye and a camera crew would visit movie premieres, press functions and other assorted celebrity gatherings to attempt to get an "interview" with the stars, in between short skits and sketches featuring the character. Originally, the celebrities would be mainly British stars harassed at assorted London-based events, such as actor Hugh Grant, TV host Ulrika Jonsson and sports pundit Des Lynam. A 1995 video release of these early clips, Anyone For Pennis, assured success for the controversial comedian, who sought to broaden Pennis's scope. When the Pennis character took off, Kaye was afforded a budget large enough to travel to Cannes, Hollywood and Venice to record footage for his video VIP – Very Important Pennis, released in 1996. His victims from this point on were much more renowned, the most famous of whom were Arnold Schwarzenegger, Demi Moore, Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis, amidst a raft of other Hollywood A-list stars.

It was apparent that these victims, in the absolute upper echelons of fame, were unsettled and unhappy with Pennis's unique line of questioning. Some stars, such as Costner, insulted him back, while others, such as Moore, simply declined to comment and left. Pennis was visibly amused at the look of disgust on some of the stars' faces. There was some controversy when Pennis asked of Steve Martin: "How come you're not funny anymore?" Martin subsequently cancelled all scheduled press interviews. Kaye later said that he regretted this interview for a while, but that "anyone who thinks they can improve on Bilko and Inspector Clouseau needs a slap don’t they?". [2] The final video release, Dennis Pennis RIP: Too Rude to Live, released in 1997, saw the character killed off. In the video's plotline, certain members of the public take such offence at Pennis that they form a protest group against him, and the leader of the group deliberately provokes lawyer Mike Strutter (another Kaye character, see below) into strangling and finally bludgeoning Pennis to death.

Kaye gave his reasons for axing Pennis as expense, the effort required to get a single usable interview, the notoriety of the character, and Kaye's own boredom and unhappiness with Pennis. Although the video consists partially of more celebrity interviews in the familiar format, Kaye also used this release to portray several new characters he had created. One example was Labian Quest, an eccentric upper-class composer who turns out to have written many of the best-known English football chants, such as "In your Everton, Liverpool slums" and "Who the fucking hell are you?" (in Quest's words, "a generic piece concerning identity and belonging"). The reasoning for killing off the character was stated as such by Kaye, "Dennis Pennis had become too expensive. Taking a film crew out every night with no guarantee of getting even a minute's worth of footage of me harassing celebs was just stupid. And then the programme would take months to compile, and it was just boring, man..... hanging out in the rain, twiddling your thumbs, playing with your hip flask...... he had to go......at the risk of sounding a bit wanky, Pennis was more of an art project in my mind.

Living out my fantasy of being a naughty boy. Once i'd packed it in, I had no intention of ever doing anything like it again " "Dennis Pennis was pure situationaism. I’d never written or performed comedy before that and had no time to learn. It just puked itself out as an antidote to the way I thought our culture was going. Mind you, with only Hello magazine on the shelves back then, it’s safe to say we definitely lost the war. I had so many opportunities offered to me back then and wasted them all, but I just knew in myself after a year of doing that kind of telly, that I never wanted do anything like it again, and I haven’t." "All the good stuff I’ve ever done has been about raw, circumstantial self expression and nothing to do with ‘career’ anyway. The movie It’s All Gone Pete Tong was me in complete meltdown as I approached 40, and Strutter was my way of dealing with the initial horrors of sobriety. With Dennis, I just figured it was job done and I didn’t want to be the kid with a stink bomb any more. For what it was, you couldn’t really top it.

Anyway to continue annoying people, it was a far more titillating prospect going off and doing a safe BBC1 Scottish drama as a follow up." Pennis remains unrelieved. Post-Pennis career Kaye also appeared as the singer of a fictional punk band called Spunk in a 1999 mock-documentary of the same name, which appeared as the 'wrath' part of a Channel 4 series on the seven deadly sins. In 2000 Kaye starred in the comedy series Perfect World (sitcom), a sitcom about a down-on-his-luck marketing manager. Although somewhat coolly received, the show did manage two series, although a third has not been commissioned by the BBC. He also briefly presented a BBC2 quiz show, Liar, in which six contestants would all have a supposed claim to fame and the studio audience voted on which one they believed was telling the truth. In the same year Kaye took a dramatic role alongside Michelle Collins in Two Thousand Acres of Sky. In 2004, he played the leading role in the film Blackball (film).

His role as deaf DJ Frankie Wilde in the 2005 mockumentary It's All Gone Pete Tong won him the Film Discovery Jury Award at the 2005 US Comedy Arts Festival. Television appearances in 2006 and 2007 include episodes of Hustle (TV series), EastEnders and Kingdom (TV series). Kaye is now the chief interviewer on rockworld.tv, in which he interviews up and coming punk/indie bands. Kaye appeared in Hotel Babylon (11 March 2008, BBC One), Pulling (TV series) (Series 2, March 2008, BBC Three) and as Uncle Gorwel in A Child's Christmases in Wales by Dylan Thomas (17 December 2009, BBC Four and 24 December 2009, BBC One Wales). [3] Paul appeared in an episode of Channel 4's Skins drama as Cook's lawyer, Duncan. In 2010, Paul provided the voice of Vince the fox in the BBC3 comedy Mongrels (TV series).

2010 saw him also play a supporting actor role as the caterpillar in the film Malice in Wonderland (2009 film), which saw him as a dope smoking yardie gangster type who only speaks in rhymes. He appeared in an episode of BBC's Inspector George Gently in September 2010 as a character called Max Osgood. As well as portraying Mike Strutter in the MTV show Strutter, Kaye plays occasional live covers gigs in the guise of his character, where he fronts a live backing band. [4] Kaye's other musical projects have included a duet with London-based singer Kiria (musician), [5] who also appears on occasion as a member of the Mike Strutter Group. Kaye recently formed the group The Joys of Paranoia and recorded music for Kathy Burkes upcoming biopic series Walking and Talking on Sky. "Music has definitely come back into my life in recently. I’ve done a couple of film soundtracks this year, and have just finished recording a load of music for Kathy Burkes new drama. She’s amazing and it was great to finally meet her.

We’re both 1964 kids: she’s got the Clash carved into her arm and my youngest sons middle name is Strummer, so we were always gonna hit it off." "The last couple of years I’ve been playing in the Mike Strutter Group which has been great fun and brought out my inner maniac. We did a monthly residency at the Bethnal Green Working Mens club which was a great little scene. Lots of dressing up, all word of mouth, and more often than not I’d end up in A&E. But it was worth all the stitches. A dominatrix friend of mine, Kiria performed with us. It was basically a live punk rock sex show, with her dishing out blowjobs down the front and giving me Jack Daniels enemas. One night we had Jarvis Cocker, Paris Hilton and Ian Wright all show up! I left Paris alone, cos I thought she was a look-a-like, I gobbed on Cockers wooly hat cos someone threw a bottle at me from near where he was standing and I ended the night singing Arsenal songs with Wrighty in the dressing room.

Doesn't get better than that." [6] From November 2010 to January 2011, Kaye played Matilda’s father, Mr Wormwood, in the Royal Shakespeare Company's musical Matilda (musical), based on the classic Roald Dahl novel Matilda (novel). [7] He reprised the role when the musical transferred to The Cambridge Theatre in London's West End in October 2011. [8] In April 2012, Kaye was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical. That same day, April 17, he departed the show and was replaced by Steve Furst. In 2011 Kaye appeared in "Shameless (TV series)" as seedy night club owner Kermit. Paul Kaye will appear in the third series of HBO's Game of Thrones (TV series) as Thoros of Myr. [9] Personal life Kaye married Orly, a kindergarten teacher in 1989. Kaye is an Arsenal F.C. fan, [10] and writes a regular column for their official magazine.

A banner he painted with 'George Knows' on it was hung from the West stand for the last game of the 1990/91 season and was mentioned in the book Fever Pitch. He is fond of punk music, particularly The Clash, and The Sex Pistols. He has two sons, the younger of whom bears the middle name of Strummer, as in The Clash's Joe Strummer. Kaye is mentioned in Pete Doherty's The Books of Albion where a young Doherty and Carl Baret gatecrash a wild party in Kentish Town where Kaye was DJ'ing as Dennis Pennis. During a 6 year separation from his wife in the mid-90's, Kaye dated the American actress Chloe Sevigny. In 2008, Kaye was angered watching an interview on BBC News 24 in which comedian Alexei Sayle referred to Hamas only firing 'toy rockets' at Israel. Kaye's mother-in-law, Shuli Katz, had been killed by a Katyusha rocket fired from Gaza some months before.

Kaye rang the BBC to complain and was invited to come on the show half an hour later with Peter Sissons to talk about his experiences. Two weeks prior to the interview, Kaye's wife had been in a supermarket in Ashkelon which had also been hit by a rocket but was unhurt. Kaye later wrote an article for The Guardian calling for peace.

[11] Filmography Game of Thrones (TV series), 2013 as Thoros of Myr Candy Cabs, 2011 Malice in Wonderland (2009 film) 2009 Pulling (TV series) Hour Long Special, May 2009 A Child's Christmases in Wales, 2009 Massive (TV series) September 2008 Pulling (TV series) Series 2, (March 2008) Hotel Babylon Series 3, Episode 4 (March 2008) Fight the English way (Mobile and internet video) Hustle (TV series) - Series 3, Episode 5 - as Tim Millen Waking the Dead (TV series) - Series 4, Episode 6 "Shadowplay" Match Point Spaced Series 1, Episode 3 - as "Hoover" Perfect World (Sitcom) Two Thousand Acres of Sky EastEnders 9 April 2007 It's All Gone Pete Tong 28 September 2004 WΔZ Kingdom (TV series) Season 1 Episode 3 as Alan the Artist, (May 2007) The

 Big I Am (2010) - as "Keys" Skins (TV series) series 4 episode 3 "cook" playing Duncan Cook's lawyer February 2010 Mongrels (TV series) - as Vince Shameless (TV series) Add a photo to this gallery Trivia In the 1998 music video for 'Vindaloo' by Fat Les, Paul sent-up Richard Ashcroft in the video of the Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony'.

Has two sons, Jordan Katz Kaye (born in October 1991) and Geffen Strummer Kaye (Geffen Raphael Kaye) (born in December 2002). A lifelong The Arsenal fan. He writes for the Official Arsenal Magazine once a month. His twin sister is one hour older than him. Went to the Harrow School of Art at 16 and did a two-year foundation course and then went to Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University) to do a degree in Theatre Design, graduating in 1987. In 1983 he took a year out of his degree course and went to live in a kibbutz in Israel where he met his future wife Orly. References Paul Kaye - IMDb IMDb Actor | Writer | Composer Paul Kaye was born in 1965 in Clapham, London, England. He is an actor and writer, known for Match Point (2005), It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004) and Dracula Untold (2014). He has been married to Orly Katz since November 1989. They have two children.

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Russell Farquhar Hide Personal Details Other Works: Appeared as a guest on Jonathan Ross 's show on BBC Radio 2 on Saturday 2 April 2005. See more » Publicity Listings: 1 Interview | 1 Article | See more » Alternate Names: Did You Know? Personal Quote: I remember at the opening of Planet Hollywood, I got into a fight with an Aussie journalist; he was fucking purple with rage telling me that some journalists were trying to make serious news. So I said "Go to fucking Bosnia. It's the opening of a burger bar". Trivia: Went to the Harrow School of Art at 16 and did a two-year foundation course and then went to Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University) to do a degree in Theatre Design, graduating in 1987. See more » Trademark: Dennis Pennis - Everything2.com Dennis Pennis by Teiresias Fri Oct 20 2000 at 13:38:42 Dennis Pennis is a character who used to appear on the UK TV program ' The Sunday Show ' and is the alter-ego of London born comedian, Paul Kaye .

He specialises in getting interviews with celebrities and making them look stupid by asking ridiculously inane questions, or spouting one-liners. In his role as a self styled ' media terrorist ' he loitered outside film premiere s and gala dinners, dressed as a punk ,with dyed red hair, safety pins, the lot (the look apparently coming from a combination of Paul's obsessions with Johnny Rotten / John Lydon and Woody Allen ). When his next interviewee to left, Dennis approached them in the same style as a regular reporter and asked them daft questions. Most of the lines were scripted with Pauls ex-bandmate, Anthony Hiles , and allegedly taken from Penguin joke-book. Some of his most famous 'hits' are listed below "Mel, in this film you play a hairy Neanderthal barbarian . As an Australian , are you afraid of becoming typecast?" MG (with a smile) ???? DP "Your film did wonders for my sex life.

When I went to the cinema, I slept with the whole audience!" DP "Why was the supermodel staring at the carton of orange juice ?...because it said concentrate!" HC (looking confused)"I don't get it" DP (shouts)" BECAUSE IT SAID CONCENTRATE!" HC (confused, then inspired) " Oh I know!- I'm not supposed to get it because I'm a supermodel " DP (walks off) But possibly the best was the convesation with Jeff Goldblum DP: "Jeff. Quick word from the BBC ." JG: "Hello, you look so good." DP: "You look good too." JG: "Thank you." DP: "Thank you. Listen, I always wanted to know about the...the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park ." JG: "Yes, sir." DP: "How they made them look so real. I mean, there were times when David Attenborough was almost believable!" JG: "Who? Who? Richard Attenborough ?" DP: "Dave wasn't it? Oh no, it was Richard." JG: "Of course, yes. Erm, you being from the BBC especially.

Erm...." DP: "I should have known that." JG: "You're not an imposter are you? What have you done with the BBC ....fellow." DP: "I'm not an imposter. This is starting to peel off" (meaning the BBC sticker on the microphone as Jeff has started idly picking at it). JG: "The...they made them look ve...very real. Erm, the...the...the...the greatest people, you know, erm. Ah, you know, erm, all sorts of techniques, and the computer animation and th...." DP: "I don't really wanna know." JG: (looks a bit confused and then smiles) DP: "But I mean, you know Holsten Pils , right?" JG: (starts laughing at the ridiculousness of the whole thing). DP: "They were the official sponsor..." JG: "You're a madman !" DP: "Thank you." JG: "Yes." DP: "That's the nicest thing you could have said to me.

But, I wanna know about Holsten Pils , right?" JG: "What about it?" (Jeff is now very intrigued and amused) DP: "They were the sponsors of Tottenham Hotspur (Dennis does a derogatory fake spit). I just wondered whether you'd feel responsible if Sugar ( Alan Sugar , then chairman of the club) ever turned to Alcohol ." JG: "He's funny (pointing at Dennis). You're funny. You've got a funny....(does a "talkie" motion with his hand)...funny way of...... way of speaking too." DP: "A funny (does the "talkie" motion). Is that funny?" JG: "Yeah! It's amusing." DP: "Could you do a little bite for me? For the BBC . (JG: A bite.) Could you say "Hi, I'm Jeff Goldblum . Everytime I'm in England I watch BBC 3" JG: "Watch this! Hi I'm Jeff Goldblum . And me, everytime I'm in England I watch BBC 3. (voice deepens) Yes I do!" DP: "Ha!

Liar!" (Dennis looks really pleased with himself as we don't have a BBC 3) JG: "Noooo. You told me to say it! He told me to say it! Ah Jesus ." The character was killed off after several series and 3 videos as Paul decided he was ' too rude to live ' DP: Can you get out of my way please. Dennis pushes past him, leaving Jeremy trying to figure out what just happened. Another favourite of mine is Pennis's relationship with Kevin Costner . I think Pennis must have pissed of Costner on several occasions. The clip I saw was of Costner visiting Venice . As soon as he catches sight of Pennis he's shouting at his minders not to let the guy near him. All the time Dennis is shouting one liners at Costner trying to get a reaction. Costner then gets into a Gondola and proceeds along a canal, but still can't get away from Dennis who is running along the banks still firing off witty questions and put downs. Costner then opens up, shouting "come on man, can't you walk on water you fucking cocksucker!" Funniest thing ever, trust me.

Dennis Pennis finished his career by spending Oscar night in the LAPD&apos;s custody. Paul Kaye, his creator, says he&apos;s moved on. But can he really stay out of trouble? (From HeraldScotland) He half-laughs, half-shrugs. "Story of my life, really. I can't seem to do anything by half." It's not the first time he has broken his nose. By his reckoning it's his fourth, which makes for an interesting profile if nothing else. There have been other injuries along the way, of which more later, but it typifies a man who claims to be so keen he tends to hurt himself whenever he works. It is, as he says, the story of his professional life. He is utterly fearless. Dennis Pennis was just the most obvious manifestation of a career that has seen Kaye race off a succession of cliffs without wondering what lay beneath. Some may see it as heedless rather than fearless, but it has produced an interesting career path for a man who has been variously a musician, a graphic designer, a theatre designer and now - it seems - possibly a film star. Kaye's latest venture is another leap into the unknown.

It's All Gone Pete Tong has him starring as DJ Frankie Wilde, a god in the sweat-soaked, ecstasy-fuelled clubs of Ibiza. Frankie ranks among the most obnoxious characters brought to the screen in a long time, but he reaches a crisis point halfway through the film when he loses his hearing thanks to years of high-decibel clubbing. I have just left a screening of the film in Soho, and have had only moments to digest it, when I meet Kaye in his hotel round the corner. "D'you like it?" he asks almost immediately. This breaches an unspoken celebrity interview convention: unless the interviewer volunteers an opinion, the interviewee never asks for one, generally for fear that it might be honest. Kaye asks the question without hesitation. It is a forthright, genuine enquiry: he really wants to know, and is braced for whatever criticism might follow. I tell him I haven't had time to form an opinion, but add that if a film about the Ibiza clubbing scene genuinely appealed to a 48-year-old man, something must have gone badly wrong. "Fair enough, " he concedes. He also allows that Frankie is a desperately unsympathetic character.

"I think that's the key to him, because he is such an obnoxious character for the first hour. That was my concern throughout, but then someone who necks that amount of whisky and snorts that amount of cocaine is never going to be a pleasant chap. You have to wait till he sorts himself out. "There was a great moment at the premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. At the scene where I wake up in the studio with blood coming out of my ear, there was a collective gasp in the cinema, and I thought, 'Thank God for that. At least they give a shit, because if they don't, we're lost.' It's hard to like him." The film was shot on location in Ibiza two summers ago. Kaye lost a stone and a half filming inside Manumission, DC-10 and other clubs during the hottest summer the island had seen in years. The club scene wasn't really for him: his only previous experience of Ibiza was a family holiday when he was 14, and back then crazy golf was as mad as it got. "I'm pretty fit, but I was wrecked, " he admits. "When I got home, for three weeks I could barely speak.

We were doing up to 100 hours a week in clubs. It was an exhilarating experience ? I was dying to do something I could throw myself into. The one thing I have going for me is energy and enthusiasm, but it's not often that you find yourself in a position where you can really utilise all of that. And I trusted the director, Michael Dowse. He'd ask me to do outrageous things, and I'd do something even more outrageous to shut him up. "It was all for real, guerrilla film-making in all the clubs. I almost got lynched one night for stealing people's drinks. It was all real. I thoroughly enjoyed it." And a wicked smile creeps across his face. There is a childlike enthusiasm about Paul Kaye. His ice-blue eyes gleam with delight and, like a child, he is seldom at peace. His eyes dart round the room, he shifts in his seat, he is never still. You get the impression that misbehaviour is seldom far away. This, after all, is the man whose first real job was a personal version of hell. An Arsenal fan, he found himself working as an in-house graphic designer for the team's deadly rivals Tottenham Hotspur.

Kaye eased his pain by sneaking tiny Arsenal emblems onto the Gary Lineker pencil cases he designed for Spurs. He got sacked when they found out - but then they only found out because he couldn't help boasting about it to his friends. Life's been a bit like that ever since. Success has invariably been followed by a forfeit. He's already been over that course with Blackball, in which he had his last major film role. A comedy about crown-green bowling, it would have been a challenging enough sell without the added complication of coming out on the same day as the smash-hit Calendar Girls. "Some of the criticism was very harsh, " Kaye recalls. "That's what gets me: some of the viciousness was disproportionate to what the film was meant to be. It was just a harmless comedy and I don't understand why people got so uptight about it." He smiles wanly. "It made my dad a hero at the bowls club, and I get a good reception there whenever I go and see him play." In reality, Blackball suffered no worse treatment from the critics than some other British films. What was unusual was the way most of it was targeted personally at Kaye.

Even if it was a bad film - and whatever the critics said, it made some money at the box office - it was not a solo effort. Paul Kaye is in no doubt that there was an element of payback involved: retaliation for Dennis Pennis. "I think I'm always going to get that, " he says. It's like, 'Who the f- do you think you are? One minute you're on one side of the fence, the next you're on the other.' But Blackball was my first acting job. I was 31, didn't have a career plan, and Dennis closed a lot of doors for me. I call it Pennis envy. Especially those critics. 'Cause f- 'em, they wouldn't have the bottle to do what I did." For all that it was like watching a car crash, the Dennis Pennis routine was ahead of its time. "Maybe if he'd cropped up later on ?" Kaye muses. "We tried to get a chat show going but we couldn't get a guest. Then, within two years, along comes Ali G and Bo'Selecta! where celebrities have a sense of humour about themselves as long as you pay them five grand.

So I'm glad I didn't go down that route." It's hard to tell whether Kaye is bitter or righteously indignant when he looks at where his road has led. There is, they say, nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. And for Paul Kaye, that idea had arrived. Dennis Pennis was the embodiment of his childlike, reckless attitude to life. "I like to challenge myself, " he says. "The idea of Dennis scared the shit out of me because that sort of thing doesn't come naturally to me. I loved the idea of it more than doing it. I loved the idea of someone else doing it, but nobody else would. "My childhood fantasy was to be Johnny Rotten, and suddenly there I was with my two biggest heroes - Johnny Rotten and Woody Allen - combined. I had Johnny's hair and Woody's glasses and Pennis was born. There was no writers' meeting about where he was from, it was just a voice and an attitude.

He took me around the world - I got to go to America, which I had never done - and it was a real adventure." Armed with a BBC microphone, Pennis quickly established himself as the bane of the celebrity party, buttonholing stars and posing questions guaranteed to prick their vanity. He asked Steve Martin why he wasn't funny any more, told Hugh Grant he was wooden and enquired whether Richard E Grant's middle initial was intended to impart youth appeal. The audience loved it, but potential victims quickly learned to avoid him. Surely it would have been naive to expect anything else? "It was pretty obvious early on, " he recalls. "The PRs and the security people didn't want me near anyone. There was a genuine threat of violence. I got my finger broken in Vegas in some big mob trying to get Michael Bolton and Elton John. I was making a pain in the arse of myself all day and a hand reached into the crowd and just snapped my finger. And I got my nose broken in Cannes when someone shoved a camera in my face. It was the real thing: there was no make-up or wardrobe or direction.

It was just me and a mate with a camera." It all came to an end at the 1998 Oscars. Kaye wanted Dennis to go out with a bang; instead he spent the night banged up. "That was the longest night of my career, " he says, still obviously annoyed. "It was going to be my swan song, my cup final, and I think it was Barry Norman's lot that shopped me and got me pulled out. The LAPD kept us in this Portakabin all night until all the parties were over. Why is their job more valid than mine? That was always what bugged me. "My ethos at the time was that I found the whole [celebrity] circus hilarious, and I just got 'a buzz out of getting into a privileged position and then wasting it. There are people dying to get close to these people, and there I am wasting it. Especially these days, where everyone is scared they're going to f- up the next exclusive or what-have-you." Putting Dennis Pennis out to grass at the peak of his popularity might have been the right creative decision, but it cost Kaye money.

He turned down all the licensing deals for Pennis dolls, T-shirts and other paraphernalia. But eventually he was offered another series, the comedy Perfect World. The producers asked him to see if he could act - and, as it turned out, he could. The real catalyst for Kaye's acting career, however, was the BBC television series Two Thousand Acres of Sky, set on the imaginary Scottish island of Ronansay. Kaye now refers to the show as his drama school; the opportunity to conduct his education in public and learn his craft. "I made fantastic friends with the crew and cast, " he says. "Sean Scanlan [who played the gossip-mongering ferryman Gordon McPhee] is just a wonderful, wonderful man. Watching him work for two years, that was my education. There was nothing to do but work. It was a big part and there was lots to learn. It definitely gave me the confidence to go into castings and think I could hold my own, and that I'd kind of established myself in that respect, but not an awful lot came out of it.

I went to one meeting with a BBC bigwig who discussed my future at BBC Drama and I never heard from them for two years." Besides establishing him as an actor, the series brought Kaye the creative security he had been looking for. He had been restless for a long time, he admits, and was looking for a sense of self. He is now close to finding it, he believes, partly through an awareness of how much he almost lost. Paul Kaye was born in 1965, with a twin sister, Lisa, and - by some accounts - a broken arm. (His habit of feeding interviewers with flip fibs has built an intriguing if unreliable mythology around his early years. ) His Jewish family lived in Streatham, south London, where his father ran a menswear shop. The business evidently prospered, since Kaye attended the fee-paying University College School in London. At 16, he spent the summer on an Israeli kibbutz. He returned several times, and at 18 fell for an Israeli woman, Orly. They married in 1990 but the marriage faltered in 1993, just as his career was taking off.

Orly had no taste for the showbiz life and returned to Israel with their son, Jordan, now 13. Kaye would fly out to see them every six or eight weeks, and even tried moving to Tel Aviv, but eventually they parted. For more than two years, he stepped out with the glamorous Hollywood star Chloe Sevigny, but he and Orly reunited three years ago and now have another child, two-year-old Geffen Strummer. "My family situation changed completely, " says Kaye. "I was living without them and I was spending half my time living in Israel, so it was very difficult to keep the career going. I'd be spending three or four months over there to be with my son. But we've patched it up, we're all together, we've got another kid and it's fantastic. I was very lost at one point; I was finding it all very difficult and all I wanted to do was to get it all back together and it happened. I'm not a driven person any more. I enjoy family life and there's just no way I would uproot and go to America. Being at home means too much to me." Having just turned 40, Paul Kaye is a changed man.

His birthday was spent nursing a bottle of Jack Daniels and shooting birthday cards off the mantelpiece with the foam-pellet airgun he was given by Jordan. Having found a sort of contentment, he has even achieved the dream of working with his all-time hero, Woody Allen. Kaye should have a small part in Allen's new film Match Point, which was filmed in London and premieres at Cannes this month - provided he doesn't end up on the cutting-room floor. "That was the only time I've ever got a job without reading for it, " he says. "I got the call saying I'd got the job and I didn't even know I was in for it. It felt like a wind-up. It was only two or three days' filming, but it was a wonderful experience. "Apparently if Woody Allen doesn't like you he fires you straight away. I wasn't given a script - it's all improvised and it was very nerve-racking. We had a little chat and I felt great that he enjoyed what I was doing. Whether it's in the finished film is another matter.

It's like looking down the barrel of a gun, but that's what keeps me going in those situations - it's sink or swim." The evidence seems to bear out his claim that he is no longer as career-obsessed. Last year he spent four months at the Wyndham Theatre in London, acting in the play Dinner, but then he was unemployed for seven months. He took it philosophically. Orly went back to work and he stayed at home, looking after baby Geffen. "You start to panic a bit when the money runs out, and then I got a couple of little bits here and there, but it's hard, " he says. "I'm not anywhere near the point where I could stop worrying, and that's maybe the nature of the beast. Maybe all actors are like that. After doing the play I was in good shape, I felt really confident - then nothing." He shrugs fatalistically. "So it keeps you on your toes. That happened before Pete Tong as well. I hadn't worked for a while and that job came at exactly the right time, so I just exploded into it and gave it everything. "I've been up for a lot of things that I've not got, " he adds.

"It can be frustrating, but I don't want to be bitter. I didn't have the thing that made me different, that made people think, 'Right, Paul Kaye's the one, ' so maybe Pete Tong will do that." If it all ended tomorrow, Kaye says, he would pack it in and move with the family to Cornwall, where he would try his hand at ... well, something else. Whatever happens, he says, they're thinking about moving out of London. Making cash isn't important, as long as he can feed his family. Still, living in Cornwall would put a strain on the other great love affair of his life - Arsenal FC. It's All Gone Pete Tong will be released only a few days after Arsenal play Manchester United in the FA Cup final, and he'll be hoping for a double celebration. Last year, the same two teams met in the semi-final and Arsenal lost - but, in a throwback to his days in the graphic design department at Spurs, Kaye managed to take revenge. "Just after they had knocked us out, I was doing a programme about my favourite London building, which of course is Highbury.

For reasons that we don't need to bother about, I ended up stark naked in the Arsenal dressing room, holding the FA Cup to preserve my modesty. Without going into details, I made what you might call intimate contact with the trophy, and created what you might also call a little smudge. "Sure enough, " he says, grinning from ear to ear, "four weeks later United win the cup. And Roy Keane lifts the trophy and kisses it on that very spot. Lovely!" It's All Gone Pete Tong is released on May 27. Watch Strutter in HD quality - SolarMovie 3616 views Strutter: Michael 'Mike' Strutter is a fictional character of an MTV show, Strutter. He was created and is played by Paul Kaye, the comedian and actor behind the character Dennis Pennis. Site Links

Question: Which British comedian created the character Dennis Pennis?
Answer: Paul Kaye