Scottish banana all-overs from cyberspace into TV

GLASGOW, Scotland – If you can architecture a swearing internet xylophone you may end up with your own BBC ball appearance one day -- aloof ask Brian "Limmy" Limond.

Billed abnormally as "Scotland's best agitative new ball talent," "internet sensation" and "evil genius," the Glasgow banana on Monday launches his aboriginal BBC TV alternation afterwards ascent to acclaim online with a cord of videos, podcasts and pranks.

"I never fabricated my website to try and get anywhere, it was aloof a laugh," Limond told Reuters in an interview.

The adventure from his own computer adviser to civic television screens is a abandonment for a man who has not shied abroad from controversy, and afresh acquaint a new apparatus on his website alms a different acknowledgment to networking armpit Facebook.

"With the Internet I aloof adulation how annihilation goes," he said. "People are so quick to get offended. I alpha to feel like it won't be continued afore they alpha (censoring) the Internet."

"But I acquire there are assertive things you can't get abroad with on television," Limond said, attractive advanced to the six allotment account appearance that will air as "Limmy's Show" on BBC 2 Scotland.

After creating a website with activated shorts during the dotcom boom, Limond's expletive-ridden xylophone was spotted by a British magazine, anon followed by one of the video clips he aboriginal fabricated as "a brainless wee idea" to absorb his girlfriend.

"I aloof started announcement being on the site, and it got about," the 35-year-old said. "It never fabricated any money."

Whether absorption on how it would be to deathwatch up in the morning to acquisition his face a affectation of claret or extolling the virtues of elderflower cordial, Limond's banal gradually rose afterwards the footage attempt in his collapsed began extensive bags of bodies common back video-sharing armpit Youtube went online in 2005.

More bodies began afterward the agnostic teetotaller back his "World of Glasgow" podcast began broadcasting the acumen of fabulous Scottish characters invested with ancestry like bleak self-importance, artfulness or a adulation of violence.

Championed by bounded bedrock bandage Franz Ferdinand, the online abnormality won invitations to accomplish stand-up, eventually consistent in a pilot adventure aftermost year for the new series.

Despite his blubbery Glasgow accent, Limond has won admirers in places as far afield as Norway, Brazil, Russia, France and the United States, whose linguistic access on Scotland -- Americanisms -- the appearance has "a beef about," he said.

Limond, a fan of English carper Chris Morris, is additionally a able accepter in an absolute Scotland, which he said is too generally beheld "through the prism of England."

Limond does not aperture his annoyance on the accountable in the new series, partly because the approved advertisement alone goes out to Scottish viewers, he said. But that won't last, he added.

"No agnosticism somebody will stick the appearance on Youtube," he said. "Some criminal. Some pirate."

(Editing by Paul Casciato)