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Has there ever been a time when they wouldn't have a field day?

Even 'Dull Grey John Major' was lampooned - for being dull and 'grey'!

Also what keeps Ian Hislop's enterprises going!
 
Hold a chicken in the air
Stick a deckchair up your nose
Buy a jumbo jet
And then bury all your clothes
Paint your left knee green
And extract your wisdom teeth
Form a string quarter
And pretend your name is Keith

They don't make lyrics like that any more ......
 
They had a studio in Covent Garden at one time and you could have a look round at how they made the puppets and operated them. Quite good fun. Never really a big fan of the show per se, but it definitely left a legacy.
 
Pathetic Shark said:
Hold a chicken in the air
Stick a deckchair up your nose
Buy a jumbo jet
And then bury all your clothes
Paint your left knee green
And extract your wisdom teeth
Form a string quarter
And pretend your name is Keith

They don't make lyrics like that any more ......
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If I remember correctly that was a satire on the 'Birdie Song' / 'Agadoo' type of songs that were strangely popular at that time.
 
Pathetic Shark said:
Hold a chicken in the air
Stick a deckchair up your nose
Buy a jumbo jet
And then bury all your clothes
Paint your left knee green
And extract your wisdom teeth
Form a string quarter
And pretend your name is Keith

They don't make lyrics like that any more ......
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I thought the 'b' side was better - 'I've never met a nice South African'. Bloody hilarious but you'd never get away with it in this day and age:(
 
If they brought it back now it would be sanitized and safe due to the constant threat from highly paid briefs. No TV channel would commission it in its original format.. Too dangerous..

One of the best satirical formats of all time and rightly remembered as a TV classic. The Tory cabinet of the time was a group just asking to be immortalized.. Most of todays politicians are too "safe" to make good TV.. Shame really...:(
 
I watched an episode in a bar on a naval air station once. The bar was also full of visiting Americans. You should have seen their faces when there was a sketch with Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. They could not believe what they were seeing.
 
srixon 1 said:
I watched an episode in a bar on a naval air station once. The bar was also full of visiting Americans. You should have seen their faces when there was a sketch with Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. They could not believe what they were seeing.
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"The Presidents brain is missing!!!!" Classic..:D
 
My favourite character was the one I called "peep hole door fella". I told the missus and she wouldn't believe me, I've googled it but can't find a picture of him. He was the fella who when you looked through the small eye-hole in a door, would look exactly the same when you opened the door - one massive eye, skewed head etc.
 
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SaintHacker said:
I thought the 'b' side was better - 'I've never met a nice South African'. Bloody hilarious but you'd never get away with it in this day and age:(
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Damn right! This arrogant loudmouth has no sense of humour! I actually think it's pretty funny. I get it sung to me from the slips when I run in to bowl sometimes. Pulled up laughing on many occasions
 
Used to watch it every week without fail. Had be in stitches but it would never happen now. I think that I still have the Chicken Song single in a box somewhere.
 
ArnoldArmChewer said:
Surely you would only need one model for all politicians, a snivelling brown nosing little weasel that agree's with everyone and everything. :whistle:
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And fiddle his/hers expenses .......they would have had a field day in 2014 , everyone was fair game , Tiger Woods would on it for sure , can see him now with a broken 7 iron
 
Captainron said:
Damn right! This arrogant loudmouth has no sense of humour! I actually think it's pretty funny. I get it sung to me from the slips when I run in to bowl sometimes. Pulled up laughing on many occasions
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I've met the King of China and the working Yorkshire Miner but I've never met a nice South African
No he's never met a nice South African and that's not bloody surprising mon
etc etc

I've had a close encounter of the 22nd kind, that's where a alien space ship disappears up your behind

Absolute classic. In my Top 10 novelty singles of all-time without a doubt.
 
Forgotten that other classic "Essex is crap" song! Ah happy days.
 
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