Good Advice – Shame About The Timing

Parental advice is all well and good, but getting sex tips from your mum whilst in flagrante is every man’s worst nightmare. And that’s exactly what happens in ‘Good Advice’, the latest comedy sketch from the BBC’s G.I. Jonny HIV awareness campaign.

Following the success of the first G.I. Jonny film, where the innuendo-laden antics of the eponymous action figure G.I. Jonny and his arch enemy Captain Bareback led to outrage from the PC brigade, this excruciatingly funny film is likely to further fan the flames.

The Good Advice film is part of an online information campaign aimed at raising and spreading awareness of HIV in the UK among 16-24 year olds. Along with BBC TV and radio programming, the film directs viewers to an interactive website www.gijonny.co.uk where, as well as finding out more about HIV and AIDS, you can create your own customised G.I. Jonny virtual action figure which can be sent to friends and downloaded to Facebook, thus creating your own army and protecting your friends.

G.I. Jonny is also on the move, ‘informing and protecting’ the nation about HIV with a series of events in towns and cities across the UK, as well as a marching parade through London on Friday November 30 in advance of World AIDS Day.

‘Good Advice’ goes live on Monday November 12, but you can enjoy an exclusive preview from 12pm on Friday November 9 at http://www.gijonny.co.uk/preview.shtml

Rob Newman Comedy - New For BBC Four, 30 October

Tuesday 30 October 2007
The History of the World Backwards
10.00-10.30pm BBC Four

In The History of the World Backwards, comedian Rob Newman returns to television with a unique perspective on historical events in this brand new series for BBC Four.

Fusing comedy sketches, history, archive and music, it’s a time warp where the world moves in reverse, but time still flows forwards. This is history in reverse.

This first episode sees Nelson Mandela enter prison a sweet-natured Spice girls fan but emerge from long incarceration a terrorist bent on the armed overthrow of the state.

From 2007 and through the 1990's there is a steady decline in I.T. jobs and from the 1990's to the 1970’s there is competition to have an even bigger computer than your neighbours. We also feel the pain of geneticists Watson and Crick as every day they get further away from understanding the secret workings of DNA.

In Brazil, the mop-topped Bororo and Kayapo people claim descent from Beatles tribute bands whose plane crash-landed on its way to a Beatles tribute band convention.

In Britain, closure of the M6 and Gatwick airport in response to climate chaos, means an end to supermarkets. In this new economic climate, Dr Sigmund Freud diversifies the business, combining psychiatry with a Veg Box delivery scheme, with the slogan 'Tastes As Good As Mother's Milk'.

This episode also introduces for the first time Galileo, Kepler and the Duchess of Padua who are bent on solving the mysteries of salvage technology. We find them sifting through junk antique technology from our time, trying to work out its meaning. Galileo solves the riddle of the lean, mean, fat-reducing grilling machine. But Kepler keeps secret his re-discovery of how to make electricity, selfishly hoarding the illicit joy of being the first person for hundreds of years to dance to disco classic 'Ain't No Stopping us Now' by McFadden & Whitehead.

This is history as you’ve never seen it before.
Written by and starring Rob Newman, the series features a cast including Richard McCabe, Lucy Liemann, Colin McFarlane, Anton Lesser, Jim Howick and Su Lin Looi.