British Comedy Guide

NJ: Marriage stats

ROMESH:
This week, I discovered that I, Romesh Ranganathan, am a minority. That's right... I'm a married man!

ATMOS. OFFICE

WOMAN:
Is it just me, or is this place a bit male, pale and stale?

MAN:
Well, YOU work here.

WOMAN:
Yes, but where are all the other minorities?

MAN:
Well, there's limpy John, bi-curious Dave, and a whole bunch of us with wives.

WOMAN:
Err, since when have married people been a protected group?

MAN:
Since we became only forty-nine per cent of the population.

WOMAN:
What, and that makes you oppressed, does it?

MAN:
Well, put it this way... my wife wouldn't be allowed to enter Miss World, would she?

WOMAN:
But you get tax breaks!

MAN:
Which were imposed upon us without our consent.

WOMAN:
And what about all your extra legal rights?

MAN:
Ah, but are they rights... or are they wrongs?

WOMAN:
Listen, if I didn't know better, I'd say you were grasping at straws in order to preserve an old boy's network.

MAN:
Well, it's not gonna preserve itself, is it?

END

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