Trivia / Peter Simple

• Life Imitates Art: As The Other Wiki says, "Some real people seem to be based on [Peter Simple]'s characters".
  • When Eric Pickles rose to prominence as a government minister, one sketchwriter suggested he had been cloned from Alderman Foodbotham (like the Great Alderman, Pickles was prominent in local government in Bradford).
  • The petrol-headed J. Bonington Jagworth anticipated Jeremy Clarkson.