Comfort and Joy is a 1984 film directed by Bill Forsyth. It stars Bill Paterson as a Glasgow radio DJ whose life undergoes a bizarre upheaval when his girlfriend leaves him.
In Glasgow, just before Christmas, newly-single radio disc jockey Allan "Dicky" Bird follows an attractive girl riding in an ice cream van and witnesses a sudden turf war between rival Italian ice cream vendors. Misadventure ensues, including an ambush on the van (whose occup...
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Comfort and Joy is a 1984 film directed by Bill Forsyth. It stars Bill Paterson as a Glasgow radio DJ whose life undergoes a bizarre upheaval when his girlfriend leaves him.
In Glasgow, just before Christmas, newly-single radio disc jockey Allan "Dicky" Bird follows an attractive girl riding in an ice cream van and witnesses a sudden turf war between rival Italian ice cream vendors. Misadventure ensues, including an ambush on the van (whose occupants retaliate with squirts of raspberry sauce), and later the 'bombing' of his red BMW 323i Baur convertible with ice cream cones.
Bird becomes obsessed with the turf war. In trying to normalize relations between the "Mr. Bunny" and "Mr. McCool" gangs, he broadcasts coded messages on his radio show. His boss, played by comic actor Rikki Fulton, becomes suspicious of Bird's sanity and orders him to see a psychiatrist.
In the end, Bird negotiates a truce between the rival entrepreneurs, who turn out to be uncle and nephew, by inventing a new...
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