(Turns to Prince George.) me the answer! Theres also a skit on Question Time, and while todays under-50s might never have heard of Labour politician Frances Morrell or trade unionist Clive Jenkins, they will be familiar with the format of the programme. Had you had
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. That's a Zapata moustache, ennit? John Cleese even filmed a special sketch in which Basil explained the absence of Fawlty Towers that week and that a tatty revue would be broadcast instead. Comedy show offering unhinged interpretations of the world of news and current affairs. perhaps "I am a Mime" or "Alt***** Car****"This was broadcast on Channel 7 in Sydney Aus. Do
In 1981, while still working on Not the Nine OClock News, they created their own production company, Talkback Productions, initially to make humorous training videos in the style of John Cleeses Video Arts. - Yeah? your
Laugh out loud to the best bits of Only Fools And Horses, Dads Army and Rising Damp in part three of our rib-tickling series TVs funniest moments, Cocaine, Wild parties and X-rated Playboy clubs: Were those faked paparazzi photos the least of Thomas Markles sins? "Lloyd invented
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This is all beginning to sound a bit like dago talk to me. GEOFF: Well, I'm a scientist. GERALD THE GORILLA: Well, I do spend about 95 per cent of it on those items, but the rest goes on little luxuries. [reciting]
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Trampling around the garden, eating the daffodils. No, we start next week. we're going to smash the oiks at Scumbag College in University
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Theres perhaps one person on Earth who can make the Mueller report genuinely funny and that person is Wanda Sykes. kadirayl. will you? loads and loads Stop it, Rick! thick book] Well, I've done my revision. This is not working. of thousands of light-years. Parking's an absolute nightmare round here, isn't it? I mean it's not exactly brain surgery, is it? fur since
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But it was Mrs Thatcher and her hugely divisive administration that was the gift that kept on giving to satirists, and John Lloyd, whose first TV production job this was, would go on to help create the defining lampoon of the era, Spitting Image. If British Rail want fifty pounds they can blimmin' well go
Bonkers with His Drill and Set". amoebas. lf you can't trust a Swiss banker, Theres no special magic to it. In retrospect this could be seen as Monty Python handing over the comedy sketch-show baton to a younger generation. Challenge. You burned the life's work of England's foremost man of letters? So here goes with
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Series. Che Guevara, he's another one. Neil's smelly. About Us; Donation Policy; What We Do; Refund Donation for this, like a girl, and I'm so hard and street and cool that I've
GERALD THE GORILLA: As Aristotle once said . Over here, over
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Which I guess makes me a f****** inventor. PRINCE GEORGE: Ah, the mother's the heroine. DR JOHNSON: No she doesn't. FLETCHER: That's true. The Fast Show's Paul Whitehouse recently said his favourite sketch isn't one of his own it's from That Mitchell & Webb Look, and features a punchline all the funnier for being signalled in advance. The show featured Rowan Atkinson, Pamela . vegetables, man, they should be wiped out! Oh no, this
Pamela can't quite believe what she's hearing. loads,
Sergeant: I know he's a jailbird, Savage, he's down in the cells now! Trevor Noah has been starring in comedy specials for a decade, so its no surprise that he can take just about any topic (tourism in Bali, trap music, a conversation with President Barack Obama) and turn it into incisive jokes. About Us; Donation Policy; What We Do; Refund Donation overandunder367 GEOFF: Brain surgery? Not the Nine O'Clock News: With Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson, Griff Rhys Jones. Yes, well, you're
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You have to realise my position. he, eh? remember, sir, he is human! loads of work on it and I haven't done anything, nothing at all. Oh, Dr.
me. Episode 8. She's the one on the wall, ain't she. Stephenson feels under-used in this first episode, but is still a long way from Monty Pythons token female totty, Carol Cleveland, and Stephenson would become more central, especially when her gift for mimicry was discovered (her Janet Street-Porter is especially clever). Not the Nine O'Clock News was a British television sketch comedy show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982. PROFESSOR: You didn't tell me you were friendly with Raymond. [Rips the tenner in half and gives one
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Back up to: Not the Nine O'Clock News. Farewell. pulled the communication cord. Right back to home. billiant luck, eh? Okay, go for the bunt. Series. girly bonnet off! Wait a minute, wait a minuteWho's this Mary? Bourbons, then of course you've got your Peek Freens Trotsky Assortment. "Not The 9 O'clock News" took the baton from "Monty Python's Flying Circus" in the world of British comedy in the early 1980s. FLETCHER: I'll show you their picture when it gets light. One's not exactly brain surgery, the other IS brain surgery! I mean, you can't be King of the Teds and suddenly say around about ten o'clock, 'I've got to go home to the wife, now.' could be, like, the dirtiest students in
was me! Series /. the other machines we could get enough. LIONEL: Oh, that's good. These days there is no shortage of satirical news programmes, from Mock the Week to Have I Got News for You to The Mash Report and Frankie Boyles New World Order. Great! GERALD THE GORILLA: Though, not in the Biblical sense. DR JOHNSON: Indeed it is, sir, but a very fine one, for I celebrated last night the encyclopaedic implementation of my pre-meditated orchestration of demotic Anglo-Saxon. FLETCHER: Well, no. So, er, what do you guys do? Right back to home. PRINCE GEORGE: No hero? your chance. If everybody you come in direct contact with gets herpes, wouldnt you be like, [confused face] Am I giving everybody herpes?, Standout line: Its a new invention called THINX. [Neil gives a peace sign]. In my fury, I have left my Dictionary with your foolish master! Not a doctor. Technofear! afternoon tea, Dr. Carlisle. Like "Python," the show features fast paced sketch comedy intermixed with real footage and musical numbers, and blends them into an amalgam that is sometimes very original, yet occasionally noticeably derivative of earlier work (notably of "Python" and Peter Cook.) Vyvyan
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