Green Gilbert?
April 12th, 2008 4 Comments
In the early 80s there was a kids show with a very snotty puppet on it called “Green Gilbert”. Gilbert was improvised and dangerous and totally out of order. I vaguely remember him shouting “Flush it Barry! Flush it Barry” when they had a cop on the show talking about the dangers of drugs. Does anyone else remember Gilbert or even better know of any YouTube clips that could convince me that Gilbert wasn’t the unlikely genius that I thought he was at the time.
It seems funny that even with Google and YouTube there is little evidence Gilbert existed.
p.s I think the person that played Gilbert was in tonight’s Dr Who and that comedian who mainly does Mick Jagger… you know the one.
April 12th, 2008 at 10:50 pm (#)
Ooh.. just found one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPj44aI6hYk
April 12th, 2008 at 10:54 pm (#)
About 4:30 in Gilbert makes an appearance… and yes, I’ve satisfied myself that he was a surreal genius rambling in the background. This is kids TV remember.
April 12th, 2008 at 11:00 pm (#)
And here’s another alleged incident where he tells a member of Aswad to “skin up”…
http://www.vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk/showthread.php?t=87488&page=3
April 13th, 2008 at 8:14 am (#)
You’re thinking of Gilbert the Alien (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_the_Alien), played by Phil Cornwell (of Spitting Image, Dead Ringers et al).
There are loads of Youtubes at http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gilbert+alien+phil+cornwell
And yes, he was a genius!