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00:00Squeeze it, Cheesy Peas!
00:03Very little telly of any kind reveals as much about Britain and the way we live as the sketch shows.
00:09When I caught Gerald, he was completely wild. Wild. I was absolutely livid.
00:14All life is here.
00:15Can I help you?
00:16Yes, your face, my arse.
00:18No class, occupation, region or community has escaped parody.
00:23I'm flying, Jack, I'm flying!
00:25Are we the baddies?
00:27They've supplied catchphrases that quickly became the unofficial language of Britain.
00:31That is so unfair, I hate you!
00:34You are awful.
00:36I like you.
00:39I'm Paul Whitehouse, and I've spent a huge chunk of my career writing and performing in comedy sketches.
00:46I'm dead. Dead.
00:49So, who's better than me?
00:51Me.
00:52To look at the history of short-form comedy.
00:54My name is Michael Payne.
00:56Well, you can probably think of loads of people, but tough.
01:00You're stuck with me.
01:01Brilliant!
01:04Yeah!
01:23Three decades in, and the sketch show had firmly established itself as the bedrock of TV comedy.
01:30The most entertaining and instantly digestible of all comedy format.
01:35What's the blandest thing on the menu?
01:39But what followed wasn't just a new decade, it was a new minellium.
01:44The Global Party ushered in the first truly digital decade.
01:48A quiet revolution was happening in the palms of our hands.
01:52And it would change the way we watch TV forever.
01:57It's the boys!
01:59The sketch show survived and strived.
02:02The noughties brought us some era-defining blockbusters.
02:05Even Harry and I clung on by our fingertips.
02:08How wonderful! I know, it's magnificent, isn't it?
02:11Louder, prouder, ruder, and let's face it, sometimes really bloody shocking.
02:15Don't forget the bottom shelf, Prime Minister.
02:17The sketch show forgot taste and decency, but didn't forget to be funny.
02:22This is a local shop for local people.
02:25Talk about an era-defining blockbuster sketch show.
02:28Well, there was none bigger in the noughties than the Catherine Tate show.
02:32If biting parodies of minellial Brits is what you're after, look no further.
02:37A posh mum and her first world problems are brilliantly written,
02:41but it's the acting that really nails it. Flawless, madam.
02:44Hello, Jacques. Yes, they're here with me now.
02:47I'll get back to you this afternoon.
02:49And, Jacques, thank you.
02:53You know Daddy left for Paris this morning on business?
02:56I've got some bad news.
02:59Daddy hasn't been able to find any good brie this trip.
03:05The decade was a kind of return to the more conventional sketch structure and length.
03:10It was probably inevitable that sketches would stretch after the previous decade,
03:14and Catherine Tate had the acting chops to carry it off.
03:18She traded in character, not caricature.
03:21I'd like to baste his turkey for him, you know what I mean?
03:24The things she said were outrageous, but no-one seemed to be offended at the time.
03:28And if they were, they didn't tell me.
03:30Will this be a case of you can't say that no more in ten years' time?
03:34They do, don't they, don't they?
03:36Just because I live with my mother and haven't found the right girl yet,
03:40you assume I'd take it up the arse.
03:43How very dare you!
03:47Maybe she got away with it because she was a woman.
03:50A neat role reversal in sketch comedy compared to the previous few decades.
03:56Here she is, at her best, as Joni Taylor, the man who had a bad word for everyone.
04:01What a fucking liberty!
04:04Check out the amount of swearing!
04:06Oh, fucking chill out!
04:08You'd never have heard that in the 70s and 80s.
04:10And even in the 90s, on our shows, we weren't allowed to say fun.
04:14What a load of old shit!
04:16I see your sister today.
04:18Did you?
04:19She's had the baby.
04:20I know.
04:21She's let me hold her.
04:23Have you seen it?
04:24Yeah.
04:25Ain't it ugly?
04:30It's brightened the fucking life out of me!
04:34It's brightened the fucking life out of me!
04:39Oh, I nearly had a bilious attack looking at it.
04:42They're calling it some funny name and all, aren't they?
04:45Francesca.
04:46They're calling it Tesco's.
04:50They're calling her Francesca?
04:52Calling the poor child Tesco's.
04:55Oh, I said, don't call it Tesco's, darling.
04:57Whatever you do, it'll have enough fucking problems looking like that.
05:02But it was Lauren, the teenager with attitude,
05:04that became the most iconic of Katherine's characters
05:08and gave us the catchphrase of the decade.
05:10Am I bothered?
05:14Lauren?
05:15Am I bothered, Dad?
05:16Look, don't make me do this.
05:17I ain't doing nothing because I ain't bothered.
05:18You'll regret this.
05:19No, I won't because I ain't bothered.
05:20I mean what I say.
05:21Do I look bothered?
05:22I don't understand why you do this.
05:24I don't understand why you wear that.
05:26Now, I'm very much against corporal punishment,
05:29but in Lauren's case, in fact, I might introduce capital punishment.
05:33Am I bothered?
05:34Now, Lauren, look.
05:35You, now.
05:36Cut sandals.
05:37You, look.
05:38Am I bothered?
05:39Am I bothered?
05:40Am I bothered?
05:41Am I bothered?
05:42Am I bothered?
05:43Right!
05:44Lauren!
05:45God, we hated our teenagers in that decade
05:47and sketch show comedy relished the opportunity to reflect that.
05:51Unsurprisingly, Little Britain pushed the image even further.
05:55Matt Lucas' terrifying Vicky Pollard was Lauren turned up to 11.
06:00Yeah, but no, because I'm not wasting police time,
06:02because you know Misha?
06:03Well, she saw the whole thing, right?
06:04Because she was bunking off school
06:05because she was going to go down the Wimpy
06:06and get off with Luke Griffiths,
06:07only she never because he's been trying to grow a moustache,
06:09but it just looks like pubes,
06:10so she got off with Luke Talbot instead.
06:11Only don't tell Bethany that,
06:12because she's fancied Luke Talbot
06:13ever since she flashed her franny at him during Home Ex.
06:16Another millennial big hit, or possibly the biggest of all.
06:19Some of Little Britain's extreme comedy grotesques
06:22may not have aged as well as others,
06:24but its acerbic, surrealist take on British eccentricity
06:27certainly struck a major comedy call with viewers.
06:31Lovely, did you make these?
06:33Yes, with my partner Stephen.
06:42Their wonderfully OTT creations
06:45lampooned the full spectrum of British stereotypes.
06:48Oh, Prime Minister, I want it so bad.
06:51Their catchphrases seeped into everyday conversation.
06:54Computer says no.
06:58The show was a huge hit
06:59and made big stars of Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
07:02Controversy aside, their satirical look at millennial society
07:06was really spot on.
07:08I have a statement I would like to read.
07:12On Tuesday night, following a late meeting at party headquarters,
07:16I decided to go for a relaxing drive
07:19through the King's Cross area.
07:21Whilst there, I saw a young Rastafarian gentleman
07:25on the side of the road.
07:27As one of my constituents, I felt it my duty to stop
07:31and offer him a lift.
07:33During the journey, I pulled over into a nearby alleyway
07:37so that I could safely reach into the glove compartment
07:40and take out a Murray Mint.
07:45At this point, I fell on top of him.
07:49And I regret to say, a part of my body accidentally entered him.
07:54As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. Thank you.
07:58And sometimes they veered into more traditional sketch territory.
08:01To me, there's more than a whiff of the two Ronnies about this one,
08:05if you switch pirate memory games for a certain number of candles.
08:08Hello, are you looking for anything in particular?
08:11Yes, I was wondering whether you had any pirate memory games
08:14suitable for children between the ages of four and eight.
08:17I can't see any here, at one moment.
08:20Margaret?
08:23Yes?
08:24There's a gentleman here who wants to know if we've got any pirate memory games.
08:28Ages four to... Ages four to eight.
08:31We should have some. Up by the farm toys.
08:37Oh, yes. Here we are.
08:39Pieces of eight. A pirate memory game. Ages four to eight.
08:44Can I have a look? There you go.
08:48Have you got any other pirate memory games?
08:50Erm... It's not quite what I had in mind.
08:53Recurring characters like Daffod, the only gi in the village,
08:57live long in the memory for their audacious humour,
09:00outrageous costumes and exaggerated accents.
09:03That's a very skimpy little number you're wearing there.
09:06Mm, it's for my new job.
09:08Oh, yes? Yes, I've become a rent boy.
09:13Excuse me. Are you Scott?
09:16Oh, erm, yes.
09:18Not quite what I expected, but I've had a hard day.
09:22How much for a good hard shack?
09:25Margaret!
09:26While society was globally expanding in the noughties in terms of comms and tech,
09:31the lens of British TV comedy seemed to be narrowing.
09:35And there was no world smaller than Royston Vasey,
09:38the place you would never leave.
09:42Can I help you at all?
09:44Well, yes, actually. I was wondering how much this snowstorm was.
09:47Oh!
09:48What are you doing? Sorry.
09:52Don't touch the things!
09:55This is a local shop for local people. There's nothing for you here.
09:59Despite first hitting our screens in 1999,
10:02The League of Gentlemen got into its stride
10:05and was really the perfect sketch show for a new millennium.
10:08Except if you really want to nitpick,
10:10it wasn't really a sketch show in that it had a narrative of sorts.
10:14But the familiarity of recurring characters and catchphrases
10:17made it seem like a sketch show.
10:19Alice Clarke?
10:20Yes, Ross. It's a pen. One of Pauline's pens.
10:23Everything hunky-dory?
10:25Anyway, I make the rules round here. For once in me life.
10:31There was more than a nod to the women of Monty Python.
10:34In fact, you couldn't stop this lot from dressing up as women.
10:37It's like they jumped straight out of the seventies.
10:39All right! No need to be rude, dear!
10:41I'm not being rude, dear!
10:42You are rude, dear!
10:43I'm not!
10:44Showcasing the shape-shifting talents of Steve Pemberton,
10:47You owe my son!
10:49Rhys Shearsmith,
10:50We'll have no trouble here!
10:52and Mark Gatiss.
10:53Don't do anything I wouldn't do!
10:55It's hard to believe that all of these characters
10:57are played by the same three people.
11:00Who the frick are you?
11:01They wrote it along with their camera-shy fourth partner,
11:04Jeremy Dyson, seen here in a rare cameo.
11:07Hats off to Jezza for his work in the engine room of comedy.
11:12It's hard to choose one sketch,
11:13but this belter gives you a concentrated taste
11:16of their weird and wonderful comedy.
11:18Repulsive and compelling,
11:20if you like drinking your own urine.
11:23It seems Benjamin thinks there's something odd
11:26about drinking one's own pee-wee.
11:28Who doesn't?
11:29Something unnatural.
11:32Yes, I do!
11:33Well, there are plenty of precedents in the animal kingdom
11:36that demonstrate otherwise.
11:38My toads, for example,
11:40will consume almost three times their own volume of urine every day.
11:45Perhaps you would mock the toad, Mr. Shearsmith!
11:48What is good enough for him is not so for you!
11:51For the toad has been on this earth since the dawn of time!
11:55Millions of years before man saw fit
11:57to spread out crack among the trees.
11:59And I dare say he and his amphibian brethren
12:02have outlasted our own petty species
12:04in the great adventure of our lord.
12:06So join me, let them drink! Drink!
12:09So we may become more like him and his Petruchian friends!
12:22Or would you prefer tea?
12:25LAUGHTER
12:31Computer says no.
12:33As we've seen, the noughties brought us some blockbuster sketch shows.
12:37What a load of old shit!
12:39Catherine Tate blazed the populist trail on BBC One,
12:43but there were other female sketch shows if you looked further afield.
12:47The following two series originally aired on BBC Three
12:50as the corporation tried to reach an audience
12:52that wasn't catered for by the mainstream.
12:55Running for two series, Titty Bang Bang was uninhibited and outrageous.
12:59It was also bloody funny.
13:01Their recurring female dance team sketch
13:03with Debbie Chasen as the unforgettable Paula
13:05is so wide of the mark, it's almost spot-on, if you know what I mean.
13:09You look like you've been in a car crash.
13:11A multiple sex pile-up with me new boyfriend, as it happens, Diane.
13:16Can't keep his hands off you, then.
13:19He's like a human. I'm a gel, Diane.
13:22We've been going at it round the clock.
13:24We've only stopped for toilet breaks and deal or no deal.
13:27Oh, ain't it romantic?
13:29The great Lucy Montgomery worked with us on our radio show, Down The Line,
13:33and its TV can spark Bellamy's people.
13:36Her ridiculous Don't Look At Me Italian maid character
13:39became an instant hit.
13:41Seen here with a captive audience, Lucy playing it to perfection.
13:45Oh, don't look at me, hmm?
13:48I can still feel you looking at me, even through the bag and in the dark.
13:51It's not on. I hate attention.
13:53But I do love to laugh.
13:56But I love her astoundingly convincing impersonation
13:59of diminutive Hollywood heartthrob Tom Cruise,
14:02a-cruising round England with his bodyguards.
14:05OK, Jeff, Alan, Carl...
14:07I mean, she really looks like Tomboy,
14:10and the script is wonderfully preposterous.
14:12I am Goldstopper.
14:16Roger, your team is Man United.
14:18Yes!
14:21OK, Jeff, your team is Stratford-Upon-Avon.
14:28Excellent humour, boss.
14:29To be honest, boss, if we've got to be Stratford-Upon-Avon, I don't want to play.
14:33The whole thing starts off pretty bad and descends into pure chaotic nonsense.
14:38His static, well-weary bodyguards make it even funnier.
14:42So what team are we, then, boss?
14:45The Lake District.
14:49Cutting her teeth on the hidden-camera show Three Non-Blondes,
14:53Jocelyn G SEM pulled the public into a comedic world
14:56with pranks that showed she had no fear
14:58and was happy to push things that little bit too far
15:01in the name of comedy.
15:03If you could help me, I'm a virgin
15:05and I'm just looking for some meat.
15:11Things I can catch in my mouth, catch it between my breasts
15:14or stuff I can catch.
15:16I could pull my knickers down or stuff I can catch.
15:22Thank you very much.
15:24She was fearless and funny
15:26and unsurprisingly landed her own show in 2006.
15:30Now, here's a fact for you.
15:32In 50 years of sketch comedy on TV,
15:35no black woman had ever been given her own show.
15:38Not here, not in America,
15:40not until little Miss Jocelyn hit our screens in that year.
15:45Amongst Jocelyn's influences were The Real McCoy
15:48and French and Saunders.
15:50And sorry to name-drop again,
15:52but she's one of my pop-tastic black showbiz friends.
15:56Her sketches turn believably ordinary set-ups
15:59into something with totally unexpected, sometimes shocking pay-offs.
16:03And to be honest, you're the best candidate we've seen so far.
16:06So if you'd like the job, it's yours.
16:09Thank you.
16:10See you Monday.
16:11Thank you very much.
16:20I've got worms.
16:26I'll see you on Monday.
16:28She was just 27 when she landed this show
16:31and she wrote the whole thing herself,
16:33creating some properly original characters
16:35like the man-hating Miss Kingston,
16:37seen in this great sketch
16:39hectoring a bewildered classroom and pulling no punches.
16:42OK, shut your mouth, shut your throat,
16:44shut your stinking beaks.
16:46My name is Miss Kingston.
16:49Can anybody spell Kingston?
16:52You.
16:53K-A...
16:55Wrong!
16:56Didn't your father teach you how to spell?
16:58Or did he just teach you how to fuck a woman's life?
17:01Sorry about my language.
17:03The correct spelling for Kingston is...
17:07K, as in, mess with me, I'll go kill you.
17:11As in, I don't need no good for nothing shit
17:16of a tarot-ty wife-dumping run-off-with-a-slut
17:20hungry man.
17:24Running alongside these comedy grotesques,
17:27the more traditional sketches
17:29were still holding its own.
17:31One of the very best from the decade
17:33was that Mitchell and Webb look.
17:35They offered us comedy that was sometimes intellectual,
17:38sometimes daft.
17:39Watch the football, it's football!
17:41And sometimes both.
17:43Have you noticed that our caps have actually got
17:46little pictures of skulls on them?
17:48I don't...
17:50Are we the baddies?
17:52But always funny, except when they did sad,
17:55of which more in a bit.
17:57Here, the pair really don't muck about.
17:59In a reversal of 70s sketch comedy staple
18:02the double entendre,
18:04Bob Webb goes straight for the single entendre.
18:09Can I get you tea or coffee, darling?
18:11That's a lovely pair of jugs.
18:13Cheeky! Just keep your hands off and they're off.
18:16Tell me something I don't know.
18:19Do you want to rub them on my cock?
18:23Asquith!
18:25Asquith!
18:27Come with me.
18:29This is supposed to be a bawdy 1970s hospital.
18:32Please stick to using innuendo.
18:34I've never really understood the difference
18:36between double entendres and the stuff I say.
18:39Let me try to explain.
18:42If I say, would you like to grasp my rod,
18:45that's innuendo.
18:47Would you like to wank off my cock?
18:49That's not.
18:51Now to our old friend, Pathos.
18:53Sad old Greek bloke. No, Pathos.
18:55I looked it up.
18:57That which evokes sympathetic pity
18:59and is used to brilliant effect
19:01with this aging Holmes and Watson sketch.
19:03Morning, Holmes.
19:04Ah, Watson.
19:05I can see from the slight traces of mud
19:07on your right trouser leg
19:09and the fact that you're holding a bunch of geraniums
19:11that you're a retired cavalry officer
19:13who's just fallen in love with a Mexican.
19:16Extraordinary, Holmes.
19:18Your powers remain undiminished.
19:20John Mitchell deftly delivers the laughs.
19:25But it's the superb performance of Robert Webb
19:27that really brings on the tears.
19:30I know, John.
19:34I can't get the fog to clear.
19:40Just brilliant.
19:42Now this sketch would have slotted seamlessly
19:45into a two Ronnies episode from the 1970s.
19:47Parking's an absolute nightmare around here, isn't it?
19:49You have to reverse into the tiniest of spaces.
19:51Still, I managed it.
19:53I mean, parking's not exactly brain surgery, is it?
19:57And I should know.
20:00Why is that? Are you a doctor?
20:02Careful. Not a doctor.
20:03I'm a brain surgeon. Big difference.
20:05So, uh, what do you guys do?
20:08I'm an accountant.
20:09It's not exactly brain surgery, is it?
20:13Oh, Jack, they keep you late at the Space Centre.
20:16As always.
20:19So, Jeff, how do you earn a crust?
20:21Well, I'm a scientist. I work mainly with rockets.
20:25It's pretty tough work.
20:27What do you do?
20:29Well, I don't mean to boast, but I'm a brain surgeon.
20:33Brain surgery?
20:39Not exactly rocket science, is it?
20:41APPLAUSE
20:47Learning their craft at uni in the Cambridge footlights,
20:50like so many of the acts we've seen across the series,
20:53Armstrong and Miller first aired in the 1990s
20:56but really hit their stride in the new millennium.
21:01They set out their stall early doors
21:03with an inventively silly title sequence
21:05against increasingly unlikely backdrops
21:08as they dad-danced for their lives.
21:11Using mundane settings
21:12and playing subtly with the awkwardness
21:14of middle-class characters interacting with white men,
21:17their punchline's never disappointed.
21:19Um, I'm sorry about earlier.
21:21Oh, it's fine.
21:22It's just I thought your quote included that
21:24and when you said it didn't, I, um...
21:26Don't worry about it.
21:27Well, I was a bit rude to you. I was very rude to you.
21:29It's fine, honestly.
21:30I shouldn't have called you that.
21:42LAUGHTER
21:45This next sketch is literally iconic.
21:48HE TRUMPETS
21:49Oh, God, that was a cliché klaxon.
21:51This one has more than a passing resemblance
21:53to one that Harry and I do
21:55when we return to grace the noughties.
21:57But it's perfectly played and timed.
21:59Well, that's what the quack says.
22:01You know, horses for courses.
22:02Sorry, Simon, someone's just come into the shop.
22:05Look, if you're not going to buy that, fuck off.
22:08LAUGHTER
22:12Probably the boys' most famous returning characters
22:15are the street-talking Second World War RAF pilots.
22:18One of those ludicrous concepts that just land immediately.
22:22Basically, posh men speaking in modern street Argo.
22:25You know my legs? Mm-hm.
22:27You know how many I've always had in there?
22:29Like...
22:31Like two legs or some shit like that?
22:34Yeah, but I've only got one leg now.
22:36Random.
22:39I know, you should have seen my face when I woke up.
22:42Were you like, oh, my God?
22:44I was like, oh, my God, no way.
22:46The doctor's going, we had to take your leg off and all this.
22:49And I'm, like, really stressed out and cussing him bad.
22:52Here's my favourite sketch of theirs.
22:54Never has the entirely understandable desire to eat good food
22:57been so savagely and brilliantly lampooned.
23:00Despite being wryly filmed in a car park,
23:03the sketch has all the production values of a West End musical
23:07and its choreography and song craft are truly accomplished.
23:10Take me out to the ring road
23:12Down the side the laser quest
23:14A little slice of Arcadia
23:16Out the back of the Toys R Us
23:18Cos there the horny hands of toil
23:20Sell muddy veg and rapeseed oil
23:22Brought straight from the farm
23:24For people like us
23:26The farmer's market
23:28The farmer's market
23:30I drive here in the Volvo
23:32And I market
23:34The Tracer's market
23:36The farmer's market
23:38I find any old crap and sell it in a basket
23:42I market
23:44The farmer's market
23:46If we get twenty grand by lunch
23:48We've hit our target
23:50Cos here are some fools
23:52Here's how I do
23:53So easily parted
23:54You'll soon have enough
23:56To buy a farm
24:07Hi.
24:08Hi.
24:09Are you looking for anything in particular?
24:11Er, yeah.
24:12We've just bought a country cottage for weekends.
24:15It's more like a hovel, really.
24:17It's really humble.
24:19Right.
24:20So you're looking for something humble but ridiculously expensive?
24:23Yeah.
24:24See what I mean about similar territory and posh exploitation shops?
24:27Harry taking no prisoners in his brutally funny parody
24:30of West London poncy pretensions in I Saw You Coming.
24:34How much is it?
24:35Well, as I say, my parents threw it out.
24:38But I'm afraid I saw you coming.
24:40Yes, you did, didn't you?
24:41What does your husband do?
24:42Oh, he works in hedge funds.
24:44Oh, right.
24:45Yeah, he funds hedges or something.
24:49It's two thousand pounds.
24:51OK, fine. Thanks very much.
24:55That's right, it's me and Harry Enfield again.
24:58Here we are putting the old team back together for one last job.
25:02Just like a dodgy crime caper.
25:05The idea was not to just reprise our old shows from the 90s
25:09but reflect the fact that we were somewhat older, if not wiser.
25:13From the credit sequence onwards, we acted our age.
25:16I've actually come as you might have said news,
25:18haven't you, Charles?
25:19Poor old bunny Armstrong Miller popped his clogs last night.
25:23Oh, poor Joyce, she'll be at a total loss.
25:25I mean, after all, they've been married for what, 40 or 45 years?
25:2840 or 45 years.
25:3040 years, 45 years.
25:3140, 45 years.
25:34I top you up.
25:36Ooh, that's a very good brandy, Charles.
25:39How old is it?
25:4240 years, 45 years.
25:4440, 45 years.
25:48Interesting to think, isn't it, that when this brandy was cast,
25:50Bunny would have been what, 40, 45 years old?
25:53If it's 40 years old, he would have been 45.
25:55If it's 45 years old, he would have been 40.
25:5845 years.
25:5940, 45 years.
26:02Poor old bunny.
26:04CHEERING
26:07Well done, lads.
26:09That was brilliant, fantastic.
26:11I could kiss the lot of you.
26:13Another character that seemed to catch on
26:15was this take on the modern football manager,
26:17based on an idea by my old Fast Show mate, Simon Day.
26:21He's still kicking himself he let me do it.
26:23We've got our sights on Europe now.
26:25So I want you all to take it easy, especially you, Cherry.
26:45I think it was my idea to base him loosely on Harry Redknapp.
26:49The idea that Harry would bother to learn
26:51a load of different languages to get his point across
26:53added to the fun.
27:01And like most of us in this country,
27:03only a handful of footballers bothered to learn a foreign language
27:06when they went there.
27:07They just spoke louder.
27:08And who can blame them?
27:11LAUGHTER
27:18That's it, lads. Don't enjoy yourselves too much.
27:22And so we come full circle in our sketch show journey.
27:26Monty Python's Wicker Island sketch inspired this reimagining.
27:30Hello. I'm on an island.
27:33And not just any island,
27:35because this island is Clarkson Island.
27:39And unlike any other island,
27:41Clarkson Island has the greatest number of Clarksons in the world.
27:46In fact, Clarkson Island has a staggering 258 Clarksons
27:52per square mile in the world.
27:55I tried it out on the world's toughest audience, a couple of my kids,
27:59and got the nod of approval there.
28:01So I knew H would be up for it.
28:03Hello, Jeremy. Hello, Jeff.
28:06Now, I know you're interested in farming Clarksons.
28:09Well, if you look behind us here,
28:11you'll see a fresh batch of spring Clarksons.
28:14They're free range.
28:16And they're noisy beggars, aren't they?
28:19Come on now, Clarkson.
28:24You have to flip them twice a year,
28:26otherwise their woolly hair gets clogged up
28:28with all the shit that comes out their mouth, see?
28:36Well, that's your lot.
28:38Four and more glorious decades of the very best sketch shows ever.
28:41You are awesome.
28:44I like you.
28:46I've had a riot looking back at this embarrassment of comedy riches.
28:50At its very best, the sketch show really is a proper art form.
28:54I wouldn't go that far, Jeremy.
28:57I hope you've enjoyed my comedy curation as much as I did.
29:00Ta-ra for now. You've been...
29:02Brilliant! Fantastic! Brilliant!
29:06Thank you.