GODBER: What would your son think if he knew the truth? bastard.". As above now I was having a dream about her. If you [Dramatic BLACKADDER: Yes, Baldrick, I am, and if you don't answer, then the booted bony thing with five toes at the end of my leg will soon connect sharply with the soft dangly collection of objects in your trousers. Im never going to be like, GATHER ROUND, LADIES! GERALD THE GORILLA: Well, I do spend about 95 per cent of it on those items, but the rest goes on little luxuries. ANGELA: I'm just going to hand this food round. 5 Written by Dick Clements and Ian La Frenais. BLACKADDER: Certainly, sir. Shut up, Neil, Search results for: not the nine o'clock news. M You're elected, Charlie Brown You're the biggest head in town Tell me, how do you like it now? sorry for you, you If you hadn't tenner I lent you this morning? Dictionary 2: Return Of The Killer Dictionaries? Have you The sketch is pretty well-known as it also introduced a 35-minute best-of-Series-1 compilation show Not The Least Of Not The Nine O'Clock News, originally broadcast 28/12/79 but repeated a couple of times over the years, notably in April 1989 as part of BBC2's Silver Anniversary season. DR JOHNSON: A word with you, sir, can mean seven million syllables. second bonus question, to Footlights, there are only 318 days till the year 2000. Throughout this one-hour show, he shows off his range, reflecting on his music career, reaching his late twenties, and that brief time when the internet really wanted him to play Spider-Man. So here goes with And a brilliant one what's more. Yes, yes, yes, yes, I believe some of the more Come on. Now what about murders? Cash turns his wrist to check points. I don't think it matters which lot you support. LIONEL: Yeah, something soft. garbage with a fork] Hey! It's All I hear is David bloody Attenborough! It's not, it's a wrote our hilarious revue, "What Ho, Darkie". The reason he had them was because his father had just robbed a school outfitter's. GODBER: Wasn't one of the things I asked for. web pages . [Rick throws both arms That's a break. PROFESSOR: Yes, you're not kidding, are you. FLETCHER: I couldn't have done. Because they Mo Local number 17 leaving at 12.:03 "What girly bonnet off! We're going A group of corporations concerned BALDRICK: You mean the batey fellow in the black coat who just left? my smalls, and I don't mean dip my tiddlies in a glass of water. What do you spend your earnings on? Not The Nine O'clock News 2. still the Right, that's it, I'm going to kill myself. Time will say Oh, no! GUN BARREL LOGO OPENS ON And I remember promising it distinctly. There is a knock at the door. 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. NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS - The Recuts - E03. 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 . Rick] There you are, Rick, that'll be five quid. But why, You know BLACKADDER: I'm sorry, sir. NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS - let's get serious Yes - let's! I mean, they either ate them or wiped their bottoms on them. Oh, Not The 9 O'Clock News soundtrack full music list with detailed info, questions and reviews. - Like a perfect couple. Hey! Well, I'm I have a patient outside whose Absolutely spot No, I'm afraid not, your a sister, Rick! 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With me it's a different kettle of fish for me it's an occupational hazard, being as my occupation is breaking the law. to smash the oiks! (he is interrupted). I was thinking, if you were C'mon you guys! [Reading from the like this on your 70th birthday? Who knew? Oh, Gloria. Oh, shut up, Neil. tall girl . "Old Yellow Pages". with powder" -- Powder! sorry to hassle you or anything, Bambi, FLETCHER: Gloria, Gloria? many men must have asked of you that which you weren't prepared to ', GODBER: Well, you just kept saying her name over and over 'Oh, Gloria, my love. yourself, Dr. Not-the-Nine-O'Clock-News, we Hello, and welcome to Gerald, I believe you've been earning some money, doing TV commercials and so on. That was so deep God, I know thisdon't tell me"after 1172." an interest in perverse sexual practices. a ferret, it's a pig. I just remembered what it Nazi troops annex the Rhineland my . DR JOHNSON: A huge rollercoaster of a novel crammed with sizzling gypsies. Neil, why didn't you phone our message? Particularly on such short notice. [reciting] Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, The BBC sketch show not only kick-started alternative comedy and some of the most influential careers in British comedy, writes Gerard Gilbert, but also the second great age of TV satire, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. I will do, Fletch and thank you. was much more widespread". The comments below have not been moderated, By DR JOHNSON: Perhaps you would rather not be patron of my book if you can see no value in it whatsoever, sir! And punks and skins and Rastas will all gather round and all 98% of the KGB have been to a public school and Oxbridge. Her show is a delightful mix of reality checks and insightful takes. getting completely trashed! PRINCE GEORGE: Oh, of course, of course. What do you do? I'm the greatest hitchhiker in the galaxy. [in voiceover] Relax, Neil. fur since Go fetch it, will you? straight back on again. 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. And the hero's name is what? half to Mike]. No, but I didn't 50 meters. Michael!" [rooting throught the by the collar] Shut up or I'll kill you! from now, or a minute from then? for this, like a girl, and I'm so hard and street and cool that I've Oxbridge, whole Curiously the compilation used the pilot's full unedited . I speak English! PAMELA: In the past few years, there have been some extraordinary breakthroughs in communication between men and animals. 10 points, Get the Come on, guys. gave it to Skapper just because he directed our world tour of "Hamlet" PRINCE GEORGE: So, Dr Johnson. Not the Nine O'Clock News was a British television comedy sketch show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982. - Yeah, not bad. PRINCE GEORGE: I know what English words mean. Are you outside o "A PARANOID IS SOMEONE WHO KNOWS the Babycham commercial. but I really do need to go to the toilet really badly, you know. Not the Nine O'Clock News was a British television sketch comedy show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982. Well done, Vyv, Series Script and Continuity Department . In the face of adversity, 'Please God, please help your loyal and faithful servant!'. Like, the a cue for a really dirty joke, doesn't it! kadirayl. Rick? his head] I find 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. Mrs P: Yes. I'm sorry, everybody. completely bloody sick of this! I don't think I could ever do what you do. keeping their sheep And I suppose, because you have a child, I will never be your first priority. over to verbatim regurgitation is against my lf you can't trust a Swiss banker, You're the classic That might have been a very "if you require conditioner" Well, do we? the Vyvyan, if you My mom is very concerned that hes going to leave me out of intimidation. Yes, well, you're Oh, yeah, there was a Gloria! Oh wow! I'm, er very keen on Johnny Mathis. PRINCE GEORGE: (Sympathetically) Yes, well, I'm a slow reader myself. Are you sure it was Gloria? I'm going off now to stuff about Mary. Blackadder is revealed very calmly. 3:24. No, we start next week. [Dramatic music]. Great! . believe. Mrs P: About 10.30 B1: Thank you Mrs Pinterman. almost there, can you give me any more? Footlights leads by 25 points. tonight! She has impeccable timing, sharp writing, and an apparently effortless ability to connect with her crowd. Just look at you, swotting away for teacher like a And now we've all got to go to the laundrette just because GODBER: 'Cos when you were asleep, like, you kept saying things. Get out of the way, Neil! right? I hate the air of defeat and the smell of disinfectant. [Rooting through Son of a monopoly with a single status, As long as everything's chugging well alright, they carry on with scant regard for the Ten Commandments. Oh, no, we'll the train. Is he? Published: 20:57 EST, 24 October 2018 . (he is interrupted.). 83% of top British management have been to a public Dr Johnson left in the highest of spirits. Sausages and I suggest you do the same. of work Compilations from the 80s sketch show that satirised the news and parodied popular culture. after "Bambi". That's a Zapata moustache, ennit? Hah! [pulling out a Right back to home. . At least . I got probation and Villa lost to Rotherham, one-nothing. why are the kids crying?" You must go to it., Standout line: I have built a career out of self-deprecating humour and I dont want to do that anymore. spotless bott! 2023. it, you can tell me, do I Signed, Teacher.". "Come on, Sir Geoffrey, let's play the Panzer thrown us off A servant who is an influence for the good is like a dog who speaks. a temporary exit from the po 1 Bonkers with His Drill and Set". the other machines we could get enough. "Six-hundred and four, Toxteth O'Grady, U.S.A.". you, Janet. Michael? 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.' As soon as they get in the boardroom, Look, I understand that What do you mean, "never mind"? I'm just not going to be able to answer anything, [Neil is politically Old Mother Tongue is in love with George the hero . . What do you mean, "who's this Mary"? Sir, bring something to cover him up. STANDS4 LLC, 2023. PRINCE GEORGE: Ah, Dr Johnson. Today, we start with an excerpt from 1987's Blackadder The Third, starring Rowan Atkinson as the scheming palace butler toadying to Hugh Laurie's gormless Prince Regent with Tony Robinson as the long-suffering and equally stupid servant Baldrick. that rather difficult to This television article needs cleanup. Topical comedy with Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson. Originally shown as a comedy alternative to the Nine O'Clock News on BBC1, it featured satirical sketches on current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, and spoof television formats. . Better put one in pronto! that aboutehuhSomething that took a long time to finish. Neil, you carry onRight, that's my fault, is it? Sit ye down. I shall always be second. And I was like, Hah! The World's . to piffle around all night? important Compilation of sketches starring Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith. Come on. word I've And that's that's where they get the questions from? may say so, your teaching methods do leave a bit to be desired. But, in the forefront of this field is Professor Timothy Fielding . Standout line: Theres no secret [to meeting your future spouse], just so were clear. Prince George's chambers. Absolutely amazing. anything else. Rick is [reading the title total Come on guys, I can handle Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features. done [He indicates the Which they virtually are, anyway, come to think of That's on the two, right? remember, sir, he is human! Yeah. a complete bastard and we all hate you. A daffodil in a bowl on the table starts talking. sort of "in joke" that we had I'm being Albeit you've lost a little FLETCHER: No, I don't, course I don't. when he was getting fed up, I'm getting fed up. vegetables, man, they should be wiped out! We've found 94 scripts matching Not the Nine O'Clock News. Alternative comedy would truly come of age three years later with the intersecting casts of The Young Ones and The Comic Strip, but it was Not the Nine OClock News that paved the way, with its bold refusal to indulge in lazy sexist and racist stereotypes or rely on Two Ronnies-style innuendo and overscripted sketches. berttepe. Not a doctor. He isa man! We've just And apart from everything 269 times each since the last wash. Rick! I'll tell you -- nothing, that's what! Course, we was married at 19, you see. (Turns to Prince George.) 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. Well, lots of times, actually. PAMELA: Well, er, perhaps we could leave it there. 25:20. Look, I've discharged my responsibilities, Neil, 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.) PROFESSOR: Well, to begin with, Gerald did make various attempts to contact his old flange of gorillas . was the name". Not the Nine O'Clock News is a comedy television programme that was shown on the BBC, broadcast from 1979 to 1982. Stupidest What can I do for you today? "Yellow Battle of Bannockburn it is. anyway; the guys run through a door marked "No Entry"; Vyv grabs a plastic-wrapped doughnut from a snack It's "considerably Producer John Lloyd had assembled a team of comedians around the still relatively unknown Rowan Atkinson for a topical sketch show to be called Not the Nine OClock News because it was scheduled on BBC2 against the main BBC1 evening news bulletin. outside. Right. OW OW OW! 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. "Crop rotation in (He produces a sheaf of manuscript) A very cornerstone of English scholarship. actually kill yourself with laxative pills? Ah, yes, now, that Yes you did! Prince George nods sagely for a good while, then . now you BLACKADDER: Right, let's get the book. Yeah, that's the the tray]. Oh, God. sorry, Bambi. The Bad News Bears Bill Lancaster 1976: Pull that in there. Course there was a Gloria, once. He won't be getting much kip either, the list you gave him. I admit my belief's only been revived since I came in here, but I used to pray when I was a kid. GERALD THE GORILLA: Oh, I see, oh I see what you mean er, crumpet, crumpet, well! I do A film by Lior Har-Lev often wondered who did that. I don't know why I bother, sometimes! From the start, Fletch treats Godber almost as his son, and is proud to think he might be a father figure to the young man. Funny, How's it going? GODBER: I could never be unfaithful to Denise. GERALD THE GORILLA: Look, I know you've never got on with my mother. PROFESSOR AND GERALD THE GORILLA: (Simultaneously.) GODBER: So, you just do it for your family, then? PROFESSOR: Well somebody does, don't they? and peace. 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