The Scousers

The Scousers was sketch from the Harry Enfield's Television Programme comedy show of the early 1990's.

It featured a set of stereotyped Scally characters from Liverpool, "Ga'", "Ba'" and "Te'" played by Gary Bleasdale, Harry Enfield, Joe McGann, and Mark Moraghan. The original inspiration for the Scousers sketches was the soap opera Brookside, set in Liverpool.^{[citation needed]}

The Scousers were usually depicted with curly Kevin Keegan-esque permed hairstyles and bushy moustaches, wearing shell suits, and speaking in thick Scouse accents. Common catch phrases they came up included "Eh? Eh? Eh?" "Dey do dough, don't dey dough" (They do though, don't they though).

Whenever a potential problem or dispute arose, this would result in The Scousers repeating to each other their most famous catch phrase: "Alright! Alright!, Calm down! Calm down!" This catch phrase was Bleasdale's input as he changed the scripted original, which was 'break it up 'ey, come on, break it up', during the first rehearsal. McGann brought 'Dey do dough, don't dey dough' to the sketches.

The sketch, a parody of Liverpudlians, influenced people who actually thought that they acted in this way. Liverpudlians even embraced these characters in a similar way to the Scots and Russ Abbott's C U Jimmy.

The actors Paul Usher and Brian Regan who played Brookside characters "Barry" and "Terry" also appeared in a "The Scousers" sketch "Terry Gets Married".