Three great things about Funny Business, a New Zealand sketch comedy show from the late '80s which probably doesn't stand up very well anymore if I ever actually watched a whole episode again -
* It gave some outrageously talented young local actors their first screen time - including the great Lucy Lawless
* It also had this one five-second sketch that I haven't been able to find online, where a crowd of people are standing around someone who has collapsed on the pavement, and a man with a briefcase comes up and says 'Let me through, I'm a doctor!', and the crowd parts for him and he just carries on, stepping through over the prone figure and carrying on his way in arrogant glory, and when I was 12 years old I thought that was the funniest fucking thing I had ever seen.
* And also the above song about Norman. Norman the Mormon. That song has been a personal earworm for many, many years, and I only actually listened to it again for the first time in decades this morning and I still remembered every word.
No comments:
Post a Comment