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You Woke?
John Horsley and Sue Nicholls, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin [1976]
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Ladies and Gentleman, Mr Jonathan Pie
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Morecambe and Wise
At home with the Thunbergs
“A pint? Have you gone raving mad? I mean, I came here in all good faith, to help my country. I don’t mind giving a reasonable amount, but a pint? Why, that’s very nearly an armful!"
Tony Hancock, The Blood Donor
"I don't know whether it's possible to be nostalgic for a time that didn't exist, but I think I am."
Tony Hancock
“If you walked into a nuclear missile showroom you would buy Trident. It's lovely, it's elegant, it's beautiful. It is quite simply the best. In the world of the nuclear missile it is the Savile Row suit, the Rolls Royce Corniche. It is the nuclear missile Harrods would sell you.”
Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, pictured with Prime Minister, Jim Hacker and Principal Private Secretary, Bernard Woolley.
Yes Prime Minister, Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington & Derek Fowlds
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Yes Minister explains the EU.
“Brussels is a shambles. You know what they say about the average Common Market official? He has the organising ability of the Italians, the flexibility of the Germans and the modesty of the French. And that’s topped up by the imagination of the Belgians, the generosity of the Dutch and the intelligence of the Irish.”
The Devil You Know is the twelfth episode of the BBC comedy series Yes Minister and was first broadcast 23 March 1981.
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Bring Me Sunshine, Morecambe and Wise
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“To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat”.
Peter Sellers, Songs For Swingin’ Sellers [1959]