Friday, 2 March 2018
935 Ben Elton - The Man from Auntie
First viewed : 15 February 1990
Ben Elton moved over to the BBC with his own comedy show based mainly around his stand-up routines.It followed the Nine o' Clock News He had carte blanche to espouse his right on views and lost no time in doing so. The first episode climaxed with a rant about contraceptive choices in graphic detail climaxing with the line "so stick this barbed wire up your fanny." It provoked a storm of complaints which has often been put down to it immediately preceding Question Time although, on the night it was broadcast, the two programmes were separated by Crimewatch. I remember another near-the-knuckle rant about unwanted erections -"the dick is not a hypocrite - it just wants a shag !!" - in a subsequent episode.
There was a second series in 1994 which had more sketches.
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