The second edition of 'Not The Nine O'Clock News' pokes fun at the ITV strike ( inion boss Alan Sapper is seen clinging to Big Ben. A sequence lifted from the 1978 movie 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'. ) The spoof news items, delivered by Pamela Stephenson and Mel Smith, make their debut here. Oscar James and Olu Jacobs play representatives of the newly independent Caribbean island of St. Vincent. In the course of the interview, it transpires they've never actually visited the place. Rowan Atkinson's vicar does a monologue 'are you a gay Christian' ( which almost certainly could not be done now ). Andrew Sachs' 'Manuel' appears at the end, having just realised the point of a joke made at the start of the programme. Pam's newsreader does an item about a shortage of gravity, which ends with her hair floating upwards. Atkinson plays an angry man in the studio audience, who denounces BBC programmes as rubbish. A security guard was so convinced by Rowan's performance he tried to throw him out!
A big improvement on the first episode.
Funniest moment - the spoof horror trailer. A married couple react in terror as something is put through their letter box. It turns out to be the latest phone bill!
A big improvement on the first episode.
Funniest moment - the spoof horror trailer. A married couple react in terror as something is put through their letter box. It turns out to be the latest phone bill!