Vasey appeared on the UK television talent show
New Faces as Roy Chubby Brown in the 1970s, coming second to a
country and western band. He failed the audition for another television talent show,
Opportunity Knocks, after saying the word '
arse' during his interview.
women, and
homosexuals, and described as
blue comedy,
insult comedy,
political satire,
sarcasm, and
self-deprecation. He eventually began to perform at larger venues, reaching 500,000 people in the UK per year.
Film In 1993, Brown released
U.F.O., a science fiction film in which he featured along with
Roger Lloyd-Pack and
Sara Stockbridge. It was reviewed poorly, with
Empire magazine calling the film "a stand-up show, allowing the comedian to tell his sexist jokes to a race of aliens who charge him for being a misogynist" and rating it 1/5. In 2012, Brown voiced a talking lamp post in
Robin Sheppard's film adaptation of
Richard Milward's novel
Apples. He also played the Victorian Photographer in the feature film
Unconditional (titled
Unconditional Love in the USA) directed by Bryn Higgins.
Television Due to the controversial nature of his act, Brown's shows are rarely seen on television, however, a programme called ''Roy Chubby Brown: Britain's Rudest Comedian'' was broadcast on
Channel 4 in May 2007. Brown appeared in Series 2 of
The League of Gentlemen as Larry Vaughn, mayor of the fictional town of Royston Vasey. The town's name comes from Brown's birth name. Vaughn's name, conversely, comes from the name of the mayor of the town in the American horror film
Jaws.
Music One of his best-known songs is "Living Next Door to Alice (Who the Fuck is Alice?)", a
cover version of "
Living Next Door to Alice", recorded with
Smokie. The record spent 27 weeks in the
UK Singles Chart, selling 400,000 copies and peaking at number 3 in October 1995. He released a solo single in the winter of 1996 called "A Rocking Good Christmas", written by
Ray Hedges; this reached number 51. Brown has also released two albums,
Take Fat and Party (1995) and
Fat Out of Hell (1996); they achieved positions 29 and 67 in the
UK Albums Chart respectively. ==Personal life==