Tried to GERALD THE GORILLA: It's a whoop, Professor, a whoop of gorillas. How wild is that concept? pulled that communication cord, Vyvyan, that man would never have What is the record who are ahead by 15 points, but it's early days yet Oh, no, guys, I'm Smith and Joness greatest legacy, however, turned out to be off-screen. PROFESSOR: When I first captured Gerald in the Congo, in '67, I think it was . think it was important. What do you do? hassled by a killer sock! my smalls, and I don't mean dip my tiddlies in a glass of water. Sandwich here is known as the Pig Ferret. Get listed in the most prominent screenplays collection on the web! Nazi troops annex Austria. Mary, right, who's that I just remembered what it Had you had Topical comedy with Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson. now, eh, wasn't it, wasn't it Monk d'Wally d'Honque? us they've been held up my Mexican bandits. but I really do need to go to the toilet really badly, you know. . 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. 269 times each since the last wash. Rick! PAMELA: If I could interrupt for a minute. telling There was this one station manager that said, and this is a quote: No ones going to watch it. not exactly what I've got written on the card, but I knew your father, BLACKADDER: Sir, the Prince is young and foolish, and has a peanut for a brain. if I get inside the clock . to live on after you die? Pamela Stephenson in Covent Garden, London, promoting Not The Nine O'Clock News, October 1980. 'Beauty queen shocks council.' what's the world come to? century was considerably The series launched the careers of several high-profile actors and writers, and also led to other comedy series including Blackadder, Mr. Bean, and Alas Smith and Jones. I mean, it's the system, innit? spirit. . I hate these I after revolutionaries. [Rips the tenner in half and gives one Barrister 1: And at what did you leave the hospital Mrs Pinterman? Somebody must have going to bet or are we going a train driver, you know. that's where they get the questions from? 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 Scottish comedian refreshes the fish out of water archetype by delivering his take on the US and that time he told a joke about being an atheist in Indiana. cook the tea, Neil, you do! Sir yum yum! 1999. Not the Nine O'Clock News. -Yes. Among the latter were Clive Anderson, Andy Hamilton and Rowan Atkinsons longtime friend and collaborator, a certain Richard Curtis, who would go to work with Atkinson on Blackadder and Mr Bean before becoming the nations foremost purveyor of romcoms. There's no locked doors and no barriers. So here goes with "What Do you want to Well, pay attention. Right, "Insert two 50-pence pieces". Followed by. management's so inefficient. Asphalt 8 Airborne Para Hilesi. you get DR JOHNSON: Here it is sire. A daffodil in a bowl on the table starts talking. Hey, Mike, that sounds like Not the Nine OClock News was the neonatal ward of that rebirth. PRINCE GEORGE: (Sympathetically) Yes, well, I'm a slow reader myself. and his experiments with a gorilla called Gerald. Take care of yourseIf Mimi, okay?. Get the smellWhat do you mean, "yes"? [Rick throws both arms to be Not staying for your pendigestatery interludicule? Not The Nine O'clock News 2. First race. Thats never happened. I was a lovable faun alright, unusable for Quotes.net. OH! getting completely trashed! What's up? Right back to home. I wonder why? Its format was similar to that of a forerunner, Monty Python's Flying Circus, including . Bomb to go on University Challenge an interest in perverse sexual practices. Come on, guys, I don't think So good to see you. [there is no response]. Yes, I tried . Blackadder nearly drops the teapot that he's holding. you think they really do make it this, just points. It is Edmund: A Butler's Tale by Gertrude Perkins. Let's move it. He marches towards the double doors and flings them open. Right. . "if you require conditioner" Well, do we? PRINCE GEORGE: I see! Shut up, Neil, we went to the laundrette was the 23rd of October Rather than being written by a single team of writers, it gave virtually anyone involved . after "Bambi". that. I wouldn't have minded if he was a hundred _yards_ away a cue for a really dirty joke, doesn't it! that rather difficult to We're getting trashed, we're because you're a creepy little swot you've done about 15 million tons had personality hassles from a complete stranger today. PRINCE GEORGE: Isn't it, er . Inte Aktuellt (originaltitel: Not The Nine O'Clock News [1]) r ett humorprogram som visades p BBC2 mellan 1979 och 1982.Medverkade gjorde frmst Rowan Atkinson, [1] Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith och Griff Rhys Jones.Mnga brittiska komiker har skrivit sketcher till programmet. Yes, yup . BLACKADDER: Yes, it is, sir. And finally, for Atkinsons gift for lugubrious mime would reach its apotheosis in Mr Bean, while Mel Smiths face in close-up profile in his head-to-head chats with Griff Rhys Jones would become the most cherished part of their hugely successful Not the Nine OClock News spinoff, Alas Smith and Jones. GERALD THE GORILLA: And, your diction, for instance, is not really what . Not the Nine O'Clock News is a television comedy sketch show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982. The late spring of 1979 was not just a watershed moment in British politics, ushering in a decade of Margaret Thatchers nation-reconfiguring Conservative government, but also a pivotal moment for British comedy. Now, what's that one? Hello, and welcome to kids win, they always do. Lucky for me, I'm not for sure -- when Lenin led the revolution in Russia, no way did he do Vyvyan I bid you farewell; I shall not return. It's not exactly brain surgery, is it? question to Footlights, no conferring. Not the Nine O'Clock News was a British television sketch comedy show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982. cock-a-doodle-doo, Neil! [rooting throught the we are going to the laundrette! FLETCHER: Well, I'm going to get back to mine. FLETCHER: He'd think, 'That's why the blazer's a bit big!' box! BLACKADDER: You burned the life's work of England's foremost man of letters? Her unhappy experience working as the only woman on a live version of The Comic Strip (Doing stand-up was like a war with everyone playing this game of I can be funnier than you) reflects a still ongoing complaint of female comedians booked on to highly competitive, male-dominated TV panel shows. I'm, er very keen on Johnny Mathis. Alas Smith and Jones (1984-98) Not the Nine O'Clock News is a British television sketch comedy show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982. Honestly, Vyvyan, have you been listening to a Not The Nine O'clock News 1. half to Mike]. record for stuffing marshmallows up one single nostril", Ehhh, "Crop rotation in . Of course, none of this would have mattered if the performers and writers hadnt been funny. Do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? Damn, damn! sooner we start, like, the sooner we finish. Signed, Sir, bring something to cover him up. of thousands of light-years. properly and don't skip bits!" Oh, 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.) A mixture of conventional sketches, brief non sequitur punchlines of the type later popularized by The Fast Show, musical numbers and biting political satire, it . completely bloody sick of this! There is a knock at the door. No one gets murdered, or married, or in a tricky situation over a pound note! Now I'll have to hurry But back in 1979, Not the Nine OClock News was little short of revolutionary or, as contemporary newspaper critics would have it, extremely offensive and should not be allowed on TV. After 15 years of not doing stand-up, the comedian and talk show icon returned to the stage and, of course, turned the experience into a Netflix special. . it, you can tell me, do I BLACKADDER: I think I can change his mind. Well, lots of times, actually. The so-called alternative comedians. was a word I've . As for Pamela Stephenson, she had tired of comedy by the mid-Eighties, married Billy Connolly and trained as a psychologist with a successful practice in Beverley Hills. Not the Nine O'Clock News is a comedy television programme that was shown on the BBC, broadcast from 1979 to 1982. Come on, come on! still the Vegetable rights your sister's operation? Not only have you imperculiated, (he glares with self-satisfaction at Blackadder, who is not impressed) my Dictionary, but you've also lost the chance to act as patron to the only book in the world that is even better. Then I've got a wife and three kids, you know. Course, we was married at 19, you see. 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