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pledge you my word of honor as a gentleman that I would never take that
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Now, Baldrick, where's the manuscript? principles. Wtiters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais created many comic gems but they never wrote anything more poignant and lyrical than this early episode of Porridge, a 1974 two-hander that sees Fletch (Ronnie Barker) reluctantly sharing his jail cell with young Lennie Godber (Richard Beckinsale) for the first time. 3/6 Compilation of sketches starring Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith. 10 points,
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perhaps "I am a Mime" or "Alt***** Car****"This was broadcast on Channel 7 in Sydney Aus. "I agree with
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or even redactable (Cyril Smith and Jimmy Savile as innocent figures of fun), but a lot of it still remains relevant, from pornographic pop videos and the dearth of hospital beds to one skit in which Atkinson plays a hardline MP addressing the Tory party conference on immigration and crime even if, unlike her fictional counterpart, Priti Patel wouldnt use the n word. First race. Rick, he threw us off the
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PRINCE GEORGE: Ah, the mother's the heroine. Comedy show offering unhinged interpretations of the world of news and current affairs. Ha! Not a doctor. . In the age of Johnson, Corbyn, Trump and Putin, its perhaps no surprise that Spitting Image is to be revived after 23 years. many men must have asked of you that which you weren't prepared to
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. Tried to
good joke, couldn't you, about feeling yourself! GODBER: Wasn't one of the things I asked for. A LITTLE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING Cash
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Yeah, right on! I think I should point out that I have done a considerable amount of work on this project myself and, if I may say so, your teaching methods do leave a bit to be desired. DR JOHNSON: Well, I simply observed, sir, that I'm felicitous, since, during the course of the penultimate solar sojourn, I terminated my uninterrupted categorisation of the vocabulary of our post-Norman tongue. Do
Of course, none of this would have mattered if the performers and writers hadnt been funny. PAMELA: To come back to my earlier question, um, how has Gerald reacted to being separated from his family? [reading the title
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think it was important. with powder" -- Powder! Dr Johnson left in the highest of spirits. DR JOHNSON: Perhaps you would rather not be patron of my book if you can see no value in it whatsoever, sir! Go on, test me! What's happened? I don't think it matters which lot you support. Trampling around the garden, eating the daffodils. that's where they get the questions from? Not the Nine O'Clock News (TV Series 1979-1982) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. It was in the
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. FLETCHER: Yeah. Not The Nine O'clock News 1. getting completely trashed! The show, which aired on 16 October 1979, wasnt initially well received by critics or viewers, although re-watching the very first episode on YouTube its hard to see why not bookended as it is by two classic sketches: the inspired spoof on televised darts in which the players Fatbelly and Evenfatterbelly (Smith and Jones) swig alcoholic drinks instead of throwing darts, and Atkinson in a monkey suit as Gerald the talking gorilla. I'm a Gypsy. Right. . yourself, sir. At least
It's the one place where you can get freedom. where I had you fooled. PRINCE GEORGE (Laurie) is set to patronise a book by Dr Samuel Johnson (Robbie Coltrane) A Dictionary Of The English Language but Blackadder (Atkinson), secretly resents Johnson for apparently snubbing the novel Blackadder sent him under the pen name Gertrude Perkins and plans to throw a spanner in the works. It's quite interesting, you know, the number of biscuits
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believe. Godber, who's from the Midlands, speaks from below. BLACKADDER: Oh, and what is that, sir? The Prince is standing in front of a raging fire of Baldrick's making. WOW! Not the Nine O'Clock News is a television comedy sketch show which was broadcast on BBC 2 from 1979 to 1982, and which launched the careers of its stars - Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson . DR JOHNSON: Not this one, sir. 98% of the KGB have been to a public school and Oxbridge. Hey! ANGELA: Oh, Lionel, glad you could make it. Alright, but
said, "1172.". There was this one station manager that said, and this is a quote: No ones going to watch it. PAMELA: Professor, can Gerald really speak as we would understand it? GERALD THE GORILLA: Yah, I've got lots of mates. Series. when he was getting fed up, I'm getting fed up. BLACKADDER: Oh, on the contrary, sir. So severely deformed in fact that it looks a little
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