The Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison who plays Neil in Channel 4 show regrets popularity of show’s catchphrases and urges fans to stop shouting ‘bus w****rs’ at random people
- Blake Harrison, 35, who played Neil in The Inbetweeners says stop saying clunge
- The actor said he regrets success of show’s catchphrases, such as ‘bus w****rs’
- Harrison made the comments on ‘Distraction Pieces’ podcast by Scroobius Pip
The actor who played Neil in The Inbetweeners has urged fans of the show to stop saying ‘clunge’ and calling people ‘bus w****rs’.
Blake Harrison, 35, said he regrets the success of the show’s catchphrases and feels bad every time he hears kids calling out ‘bus w****r’ to those waiting at a bus stop.
Harrison played dopey-but-loveable Neil Sutherland in three series and two films of the multi-award-winning comedy The Inbetweeners.
The show was a massive hit and became famous for its rude catchphrases.
A well known scene from The Inbetweeners in which Jay Cartwright (played by James Buckley) shouts ‘bus w****rs’ out the window of the teens’ car to people waiting at a bus stop
Blake Harrison, 35, who played dopey-but-loveable Neil Sutherland in The Inbetweeners
But speaking on the ‘Distraction Pieces’ podcast, hosted by Scroobius Pip, Harrison now says he regrets that so many of them became part of the English language – and wants people to stop.
He said: ‘It’s weird ‘cos you think, well I don’t think I’ve given the world anything great.
‘It’s like the word “clunge”. Or people shouting “bus w****rs” at people standing at bus stops.
‘I kind of rather people didn’t do that. It doesn’t feel like the nicest or the best thing in the world to have contributed.’
But he added he never tires of the admiration he gets for being part of the show.
He said: ‘In terms of people using phrases – when it is someone very popular that comes out with a ‘something fweind’ or whatever, you go, well that is kinda cool.
Blake Harrison as Neil Sutherland (centre left) and co-stars, James Buckley as Jay Cartwright (centre right), Simon Bird as Will McKenzie (left) and Joe Thomas as Simon Cooper (right)
‘So you clearly liked the show and you might think I’m funny, that is really nice. You can’t not like that. You can’t get fed up with that. It’s really lovely.’
Since the show Harrison and his co-stars, James Buckley (who played Jay Cartwright), Simon Bird (Will McKenzie) and Joe Thomas (Simon Cooper) have all gone on to have successful acting careers, mostly in comedy.
Harrison landed the role of Private Pike in the 2016 remake of Dad’s Army and a hapless hitman in the 2018 BBC drama A Very English Scandal.
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