![]() ![]() Viz's founder and main contributor Chris Donald has said that the character of Roger Mellie was inspired by the off-screen behaviour of Rod Griffith, a 1980s Tyne Tees Television presenter but that Mellie is nothing like Griffith and other presenters have been worked into the character, including Look North presenter Mike Neville. He is the ostensible author of Roger's Profanisaurus ( ISBN 1-90), a parody of Roget's Thesaurus which is updated with extra entries in each edition of Viz, and has been published several times under considerably risqué titles. He is shown working on various TV networks and channels, the fictional Fulchester Television (FTV) and the BBC being his primary employers. The character first appeared in Issue 6 in July 1981 and (like many other characters in Viz) is a foul-mouthed and obnoxious misogynist who manages to maintain a career as a television presenter, in spite of his objectionable personality and incompetence (he sees himself as highly professional, despite abundant evidence to the contrary). His catchphrase was originally the same as David Frost's catchphrase "Hello, good evening, and welcome", but very soon degenerated into "Hello, good evening and bollocks!". Roger Mellie ("The Man on the Telly") is a fictional character featured in Viz magazine. ![]()
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