billwill
Friday 28th August 2009 6:10am
North London
6,162 posts
Quote: Mr Richard @ August 27 2009, 8:31 PM BST
The New Statesman is one of my all time favourite comedies ever, and it's still very much relevant today I feel. Rik Mayall is absolutely superb in it, but when he's on form he's one of the finest comedians/actors ever. I love most of the things he's done - Comic Strip/Rik Mayal Presents/Bottom/Young Ones/Filthy Rich and Catflap and this.
'We can't dump the waste here, Alan, it runs under a school'
'It's only a council school, Norman'
'You were with Mrs Thatcher!'
'Come on, you don't think she gets that warm glow of sexual satisfaction from Dennis, do you?'
Classic show! Could quote it all day. I only wish they'd release a DVD of the stage play.
Rik, being Rik, I expect that each performance of the stage show was slightly different. The script was also polished a bit after each performance and there were of course two rather different versions of the stage show, due to the Gordon Brown's accession to the PMship during the run of the show.
I've not heard of any recordings made of the show, so I think they might have to re-do a performance with a recording to make a DVD, which would be expensive... and may not be possible with the cast now dispersed.
I'll try to remember to ask Laurence, next time I speak to him, if a recording was made of the show.