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Not the Nine O'Clock News
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Not the Nine O'Clock News is a British comedy Sketch Show which ran from 1979 to 1982, starring and launching the careers of Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Rowan Atkinson, and Pamela Stephensonnote Stephenson would later become a cast member with Saturday Night Live for the show's tenth season from 1984 to 1985A mixture of conventional sketches, brief non sequitur punchlines of the type later popularized by The Fast Show, musical numbers and biting political satire, it was so called because The BBC put it on BBC-2 opposite their own BBC-1's Nine O'Clock News. After a long fallow period during the post-Monty Python era, its mix between alternative comedy and social commentary was the next big thing in British TV sketch comedy, and inspired a boom in the genre during the rest of the 1980s.The team had a particular fondness for taking real footage and inserting their own around it - for example, having a drunken, swearing Atkinson go put on a blonde wig and blue dress, walk through a door, and then switch to some real footage of Margaret Thatcher leaving Downing Street.Smith and Jones went on to continue their partnership with Alas Smith and Jones, Atkinson struck out on his own, notably with Blackadder and Mr. Bean, and Stephenson continued working on stage and screen throughout the 80s before switching careers to become a psychologist and university lecturer.The series inspired an American export, Not Necessarily the News, which ran on HBO from 1982 to 1990. | |
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Unions Suck | |
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Unions Suck: A recurring joke. Sketches included a shop steward filing a complaint about a dead employee's "unfair dismissal", and a group at a TUC conference using their proxy votes to determine whether tea or coffee was going to be served during a break. | |
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Powersuit Monkey | |
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Powersuit Monkey: Gerald the Gorilla. | |
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Ambivalent Anglican | |
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Ambivalent Anglican: The various portrayals of the Church of England in the show, where the cleric is almost always played by Rowan Atkinson. Examples include: The Form of Solemnisation of Divorce, in which the Church of England officially blesses and solemnises the break-up of a marriage, even creating a formal ritual for this. The Reverend Atkinson presides. Are you A Gay Christian?. in which the Reverend Atkinson plays a seemingly liberal vicar, trying to talk about homosexuality and to welcome gay people into the Church; Songs of Praise, in which the Reverend Atkinson notes he only has a full church because the BBC are there to film the weekly religious service. The Devil: Is He all Bad?, in which Mel Smith plays a trendy vicar arguing that Satanism is compatible with Christianity. | |
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Nepotism | |
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Nepotism: The entire point of the "Football Team Manager" sketch, where the team in question is so absolutely hopelessnote so far they've played 18 games, won or drawn none, and lost 19 because of the last game where they surrendered before kickoff because the manager has stacked the entire team with his own family, irrespective of their ability to play, right down to making his dog the goalkeeper. At the end, it turns out that the only reason hopeless manager is getting one more chance is because the board representative chewing him out is his uncle. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Comedian Billy Connolly was the most notorious of them; he later married Pamela Stephenson. | |
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Sermonette | |
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Sermonette: One sketch is a parody of poetry readings that were sometimes delivered in lieu of a sermon at the end of the broadcasting day, with a reading of the poem Abou Ben Adhem with multiple readers. It's all pretty standard except that Rowan Atkinson's lines are completely unintelligble. | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
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Skewed Priorities: One sketch is about an episode of Question Time being recorded shortly after the Soviets have just started World War III; aside from an Only Sane Man panellist whose contribution is "Help! We're all going to die!", the others focus on the 'real issues' such as blaming the crisis on the appalling record of the previous government. | |
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Zipperiffic | |
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Zipperiffic: Poked fun at with a sketch set in a gents' lavatory with a punk desperately zipping and unzipping his many zips, frantically trying to gain access to relieve himself. | |
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Fish out of Temporal Water | |
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Fish out of Temporal Water: Smith in the "Gramophone" sketch, although he hasn't time-travelled, he's just... out of his depth... Either that or he was looking for a comedy number. With a pair of Jerkass Deadpan Snarker hi-fi store clerks portrayed by Atkinson and Rhys-Jones. The result is a Humiliation Conga which climaxes with Smith having a bag put on his head and being squirted with slimline salad dressing. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The first season not only featured Chris Langham while Rhys-Jones was a minor player, but it also had more outside scenes and a more numerous cast than the later seasons (sometimes by the inclusion of material from the unaired pilot). There was also a higher amount of shock value, which later on was used sparingly. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Billy Connolly pub sketch. Constable Savage isn't the most decent of people either. | |
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Those Wacky Nazis | |
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Those Wacky Nazis: Baronet Oswald Ernald Mosley. note The gushing obituary quotes they include in the song are all absolutely genuine, despite Mosley being such an inveterate fascist that he was interned from 1940-43. Subverted with the Chilean Milk Marketing Board (a Take That! against the government of the time), with the government agents varying between stereotypical German and Italian accents (with the occasional use of El Spanish "-o"). | |
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Angry Mob Song | |
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Angry Mob Song: "All-Out Superpower Confrontation". | |
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Straw Character | |
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Straw Character: Thatcher, Reagan, Prince Charles were the most notorious. | |
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Transatlantic Equivalent | |
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Transatlantic Equivalent: A sort of one for Saturday Night Live (Stephenson was featured in both shows), being similarly groundbreaking and controversial at the time. However, NTNON was more political in tone, aside from not having as many guests or regular sections SNL had. Not Necessarily The News is an American adaptation of the show running on HBO from 1983 to 1990. | |
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Eagleland | |
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Eagleland: Complete with Country & Western music in the parody song ''I Believe'' | |
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Stark Naked Sorcery | |
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Stark Naked Sorcery: A sketch dealing with Satanism in suburban Britain has an interviewer speaks to two Satanists in their living room. | |
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Embarrassing Tattoo | |
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Embarrassing Tattoo: A sketch had a skinhead tattooing the word 'HATE' on his forehead. He then turns around and we discover that, because he did it looking in the mirror, it is backwards. | |
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Attack of the Political Ad | |
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Attack of the Political Ad: Parodied with a political ad sketch attributed to the Conservative Party. It 'proves' extravagant spending by the Labour Party through an interactive narrator who instructs a man to do silly things in his bathtub in a particularly convoluted analogy for the economy. It ends with the man having his arms cut off to "cut down on spending". Another one, this time for Labour, resembled a movie trailer for the trainwreck of a final term for Harry Wilson, with the slogan "Labour is... never bothering to say you're sorry". Rowan Atkinson sits in front of a brightly-painted background reading a fairy tale in which "the wicked witch died" and everyone lived happily ever after, the end. Cue the narrator: "This has been a party political broadcast on behalf of the Social Democratic Party." | |
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UnPerson | |
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Un-person: Chris Langham, a founder member of the performing group and there to establish the show in its first series. Since airbrushed out of the record after a child pornography possession conviction. | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Gerald the gorilla explains he and the professor live together, "but not in the Biblical sense". Doesn't stop their arguing getting a bit domestic later on... | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Often played for laughs. Also the show was capable of going from incisive biting satire to crude slapstick humour (e.g. Rowan Atkinson walking into a lamppost) and back again very rapidly. | |
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Separated by a Common Language | |
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Separated by a Common Language: "I believe that lever is pronounced levver / And the best film ever made is Saturday Night Fevver" | |
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Stereotype Reaction Gag | |
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Stereotype Reaction Gag: Inverted by Gerald the Gorilla, who makes the stereotypical claims against himself first: "I suppose you think I spend all my money on bananas, peanuts and carpet cleaner". The interviewer denies thinking this, only for Gerald to confirm that he does in fact spend "about 95% of it" on those things. | |
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Bigot with a Badge | |
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Bigot with a Badge: A sketch called "Constable Savage" features a Chief Inspector giving a dressing-down to a police officer who has repeatedly arrested the same (black) man on a variety of ludicrous charges, culminating in him being held for "possession of curly hair and thick lips". He tells Savage "There's no place on my force for officers who use their position to uphold their bigotry! I'm transferring you to the Special Patrol Group!" | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Pamela Stephenson, often in her underwear and fully nude in one sketch. | |
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Intellectual Animal | |
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Intellectual Animal: Gerald the Gorilla, who has attended evening classes, likes the music of Johnny Mathis and has a low opinion of the teaching skills of the professor who captured him. | |
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Take That! | |
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Subverted with the Chilean Milk Marketing Board (a Take That! against the government of the time), with the government agents varying between stereotypical German and Italian accents (with the occasional use of El Spanish "-o"). | |
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Snooty Sports | |
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Snooty Sports: In one of the episodes a Gag Dub of a televised golf tournament's announcer makes it seem like what's being shown is really a dumb trousers contest. | |
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Car Fu | |
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Car Fu: The truckers in the "I Like Trucking" song (a parody of then-common Yorkie chocolate bar adverts) keep a tally of their casualties on the side of the cab. They're particularly fond of hedgehogs. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Gerald's mother got on well with David Attenborough, apparently. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Proposed as a solution for football hooliganism. | |
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Surreal Music Video | |
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Surreal Music Video: Parodied in "Nice Video, Shame About the Song". | |
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The Secret of Long Pork Pies | |
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The Secret of Long Pork Pies: In one sketch, a woman from a youth employment scheme goes to visit the owner of a successful pie factory, who employs a large number of young people from the scheme. He claims to use them for "filling in" ... a bit more literally than the woman thinks. | |
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Incessant Music Madness | |
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Incessant Music Madness: Gryff-Rhys Jones plays a colonial planter, driven to drink by the noise of the jungle, who staggers drunkenly onto the verandah and demands, "Will you shut up! Will this damn noise never end!" The camera pans back, revealing that what we have taken to be the chittering of night insect noise is really 30 or 40 natives, each of whom is playing with a Rubik's Cube. A similar sketch featured Rowan Atkinson opening a window and shouting "Why don't you grow up, you little bastards!" When questioned by his wife, he clarifies that he was talking to their plants. | |
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Mile-High Club | |
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Mile-High Club: From the song "Do Bears" by Rowan Atkinson and Kate Bush (originally performed at Comic Relief 1986 and later included on one of the Not the Nine O' Clock News albums): | |
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