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Series 1, Episode 4

Season 1, Episode 4, Aired Feb 03, 1989

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Sketches include: "Prize Poem," "Madness," "Bank Loan," "Nipples," and a Control & Murchison segment, all interspersed with short takes of man-on-the-street Vox Pop.

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Benjamin Whitrow

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Deborah Norton

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Hugh Laurie

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The true heirs of Monty Python at work.

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By francklloyd, May 13, 2007

There have been many comedians and sketch shows that were hailed as 'the next Monty Python'. This show probably comes closest to being just that. The Cambridge background of Fry and Laurie (similar to Cleese, Chapman and Idle) might have something to do with it, but the similarity doesn't end there. They have a fascination for authority, language and television clichs. Their humor varies from the very absurd (the non sequiturs in the vox pops) to the juvenile (Bishop and the Warlord). A remarkable similarity with Monty Python in this episode is shown in the sketches that end abruptly, without a real punchline, when an audience member protests. Like Monty Python they even dare to do this several times. And when Chief Inspector Venice shows up, you sort of expect it to be Graham Chapman...moreless
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- Hugh: Ask a stupid person and you get a stupid answer.
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- Stephen (as a teacher): Don't suck your thumb, boy.
  
  Hugh (as a student): I am not, sir.
  
  Stephen: No, it was just a piece of advice for the future.
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- Stephen: I can't pretend to be much of a judge of poetry. I'm an English teacher, not a homosexual.
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- Stephen (as a banker): I don't believe in market forces. I used to, of course, when I was a child, but like everybody else, when I grew older, I discovered it was all made up.
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- This is the poem from "Prize Poem": Inked Ravens Of Despair Claw Holes In The Arse Of The World's Mind Scrotal threats unhorse a question of flowers I asked for answers and got a headful of heroin in return When time fell wanking to the floor, they kicked his teeth My body disgusts, damp grease wafts sweat balls from sweat balls and thigh fungus Fireball the dead cities of the mind and watch the skin peel and warp Unhappy bubbles of anal wind popping and winking in the moral bath
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- David Bowie: The three songs referenced in "Prize Poem" are "Time" (from the "Aladdin Sane" lp), "Let's Dance" (from Let's Dance) and "Ashes To Ashes" (from Scary Monsters And Super Creeps).
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