Chanel 9 Neus opening screen.

Chanel 9 was a recurring sketch in the British sketch comedy TV show The Fast Show. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Sketch comedy consists of a series of short Comedy scenes or vignettes called "sketches" commonly between one and ten minutes long The Fast Show, known as Brilliant in the US was a BBC comedy sketch show programme that ran for three series from 1994 to 1997

Chanel 9 is a grainy, fictional television channel from an imaginary country (ultimately revealed as an island dictatorship known only as "Republicca"), the idea being originally to parody the sort of programmes that British people end up watching on vacation around the Mediterranean (in particular in Spain and Greece). Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. The term television channel generally refers to either a Television station or its cable / satellite counterpart (both outlined below Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία

The stars, usually Paul Whitehouse, Paul Shearer and Caroline Aherne, speak a nonsensical language, which is mostly based on Spanish and Italian but also contains words from other languages including English, Greek, German, and large doses of gibberish. Paul Whitehouse (born 17 May 1958 is a British Comedian and actor Paul Shearer is a British Actor who is best known as a minor member of the Fast Show team Caroline Aherne (born 24 December 1963 in Ealing, London) is an English Comedian, Writer and Actress Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Gibberish is a generic term in English for talking that sounds like speech, but has no actual meaning The accents veer from stereotypical Mediterranean to Eastern European.

The hosts dress in garish 1970s-style suits and dresses and appear otherwise glitzy. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The sketch would often begin by appearing from untuned signal snow interference effect from what looked like the middle of a different sketch and itself appearing to be halfway through, giving the impression of accidentally receiving a different programme on a foreign channel for a while. After a few minutes it would untune and fade out again into what looked like the middle of another sketch.

In the first season, the only programme was the news, read by Poutremos Poutra-Poutros (Whitehouse) and Kolothos Apollonia (Shearer), which always concluded with the weather forecast by meteorologist Poula Fisch (played by Aherne). Meteorology (from Greek grc μετέωρος metéōros, "high in the sky" and grc -λογία -logia) is the Interdisciplinary The weather was always entirely "scorchio" (meaning scorching sunny hot) for the whole country, and the appearance of a single small cloud on one occasion triggered panic on the set and was followed by an emergency on-site news report: "Sensacio! Nimbocumulus a costa!" The news was always interrupted by commercials for useless products ("te auto gizmo", "te garden gizmo" etc, the same object every time and always at a ludicrously high price in a possibly worthless currency) of the sort advertised in late-night infomercials, complete with girls in skimpy outfits grinning inanely. In two episodes sporting news was presented by Antonios Gubba (Simon Day), seated at a much lower desk and talking with a low voice. Simon Day (born 7 June 1962) is a British Comedian most famous for his roles in the Sketch show The Fast Show

In later seasons, sketches also included other Chanel 9 shows: Mundo Tedios, a current affairs discussion show which mutated into a garish game show when the guest, a government minister, uttered the word "inflaytion" (sic); a lottery draw; the misogynistic telenovela El Amoro I El Passionne; surreal cartoon Willy Ton Bastardo; and light entertainment specials such as [Holy] Sprog (a disco-rock-opera of the Christian nativity story) and Singing Ringing Binging Plinging Tinging Plinking Plonking Boinging Triee (a parody on The Singing Ringing Tree). A telenovela is a limited-run Television serial Melodrama of the type made famous in Latin America. For depictions in painting and sculpture see Nativity of Jesus in art. ---- The Singing Ringing Tree ( Das singende klingende Bäumchen) was a children's film made by East German studio DEFA in 1957 and shown Further Chanel 9 celebrities were introduced, including overweight 70s disco freak Miki Disco, as well as additional adverts for dubious brands such as "Pissi Bir" and "Futha Mukka Piney Shine".

Examples of Chanel 9 speak

• Bono estente (meaning "good evening")
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali (meaning "goodbye")
• Scorchio (meaning sunny / scorching sunny hot weather)
• te, ton (often used for "the")
• ethethetheth pethethethethe. Boutros Boutros-Ghali ( Arabic: بطرس بطرس غالي Coptic: Ⲃⲟⲩⲧⲣⲟⲥ Ⲃⲟⲩⲧⲣⲟⲥ Ⲅⲁⲗⲏ (born November 14, 1922 . . is often inserted into phrases
• Sminki-pinki
• Falia helee, falia helii, falia helaa
• B. A. Robertson
• Chris Waddle
• Pighardia
• Pippi snaa

Trivia

At the end of Robbie Williams' song "She's Madonna", you can hear him speaking Chanel 9 gibberish, including "bono estente". B A Robertson (born Brian Alexander Robertson 12 September 1956, Glasgow) is a Scottish Musician, Actor, Composer Christopher Roland Waddle (born 14 December 1960 in Felling, Tyne and Wear, England) is an English former professional Robert Peter Maximilian Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer " She's Madonna " is the third and final international single released from Robbie Williams 's album Rudebox.