Reflecting badly

90s sitcom's Neil & Martin look back at 'misogynist' characters

- BY JEN PHARO

NINETIES sitcom “lads” Tony and Gary really were Men Behaving Badly, says actor Neil Morrissey, who now thinks the characters were misogynists.

Neil, who played Tony, with Martin Clunes as his flatmate Gary, believes the 90s series was so politically incorrect it could never be made today.

He said: “Tony and Gary were misogynistic ne'er-do-wells, but we kind of captured the zeitgeist because there was a lot of talk about laddism.”

He made the comments in a conversation with Martin on a new travel series filmed for U&Gold. He went on: “We were given that title of ‘the lads of the era. You couldn't get away with making Men Behaving Badly now.”