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The League of Gentlemen have played in total nearly a hundred characters, many created in the

early stage shows, others during the span of the television series and some specially for the
team's film.
Nearly all of the characters live in Royston Vasey. Tubbs and Edward Tattsyrup run the local
shop, despite the fact it is far away from the actual centre of the town. However, they believe
themselves to be local and will protect their localness by any means. Deeper inside Royston
Vasey, there is Pauline Campbell-Jones, a Restart officer at the local Job Centre who hates the
"Dole Scum" she has to work with. Then there is Barbara Dixon, a transsexual taxi driver who
goes into great detail about her process of sexual conversion. Alongside them is Mr Matthew
Chinnery, a veterinarian who suffers from a curse which results in any animal he comes into
contact with dying a violent death; the Rev. Bernice Woodall, the local priest who does not
believe in God and spends her time berating her parishioners; and Hilary Briss, "The Demon
Butcher of Royston Vasey" known for serving his "Special stuff" to a select few customers.
Elsewhere, there is Charlie and Stella Hull, whose marriage is falling apart. There is also Judee
Levinson and her cleaning lady Iris Krell, who are in a constant mind-battle. Levinson has a
grand lifestyle, while Iris has a grand sex life. Then there is Geoff Tipps, who works in the local
plastics company. Geoff likes comedy, but is hopeless at joke-telling. His relationship with his
workmates Mike Harris and Brian Morgan is shaky, with Brian having a relationship with Geoff's
wife, and Geoff often threatening people with a gun under pressure.
Royston Vasey has its share of visitors. Benjamin Denton comes to the town on a hiking trip, but
his friend is killed by Tubbs and Edward. He is forced to stay with his toad-loving Uncle Harvey
and Auntie Val, whose house is managed in an insanely ordered manner, with them being
paranoid about germs and masturbation. There is also "Legz Akimbo" theatre company, who
perform plays for the area, and whose manager Ollie Plimsolls is often shown to be unsuitable
for acting. From abroad, there is Herr Lipp, a homosexual German exchange teacher who has a
disturbing and monstrous side. The most evil of all the visitors is Papa Lazarou, a circus
ringmaster with a blackface, who calls everybody "Dave" and steals wives.
It is widely believed that a lot of the characters and indeed the town are based on Pemberton's
home town of Chorley, with Royston Vasey based on Adlington, a village within Chorley
Borough. The character of Herr Lipp is believed to be based on a hospital chaplain Steve
Pemberton encountered after suffering a heart attack in Germany and Pauline is primarily based
on a restart officer of Reece Shearsmith's. Similarly, Ollie Plimsolls is based on a community
theatre actor that Shearsmith had worked with. In the DVD commentary on the second series,
Pemberton and Shearsmith state that Papa Lazarou's speech patterns are based on their former
landlord, who would phone their flat and insist on speaking only to Steve. Gatiss has said in
interview that the local shop was inspired by a shop in the village of Rottingdean
[8][9]
and that he
was influenced growing up around the former Winterton Hospital asylum near Sedgefield.
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The majority of the inhabitants of the village male and female are played by Reece
Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, and Mark Gatiss, and the script was written by these three, along
with Jeremy Dyson. Dyson, not an actor like the others, appears only in cameo roles. As there
are usually only three actors on screen at any one time, the different characters mostly play out
their own stories in several serialised sketches, rarely crossing into each other's storylines. Only
rarely do actors "meet themselves". Exceptions include Papa Lazarou facing the Reverend
Bernice in the Christmas Special (both Reece Shearsmith), Les McQueen buying a magazine
from Pop's son (both Mark Gatiss), and Alv

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