Kevin Turvey was a British television comedy character, created by actor and comedian Rik Mayall, who featured in the BBC sketch show A Kick Up the Eighties in 1981.
[1] Turvey, an awkward and socially inept character who spoke with a broad West Midlands accent, was a self-styled "investigative journalist" who still lived with his mother, wore a shapeless blue anorak, fancied a local girl called Theresa Kelly (who was never depicted), and rarely ventured outside his home town of Redditch, north Worcestershire.
[2] Each week, his 'investigations' amounted to little more than an over-excited, rambling, uninformed monologue delivered straight to camera,[3] providing absolutely no insight into the subject-matter whatsoever.
Making guest appearances, as part of Kevin's band "20th Century Coyote", were Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron, known as Raw Sex.
Critic Ian Hamilton described Turby's routine: Kevin's tour de force is a long, intricately plodding monologue about His Average Day.