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"A Bit of Fry and Laurie", Staffel 1 (1989), Episode 1, Sketch "Censored".
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Stephen: Ladies and gentlemen, we were going to do a sketch for you ...
Hugh: But we're not now.
Stephen: No, we're not going to do it for you, now.
Hugh: Or ever.
Stephen: Or probably ever. Unless this country radically changes direction.
Hugh: Looks unlikely.
Stephen: Which does indeed look unlikely. The reason we're not going to do this sketch is that it contains a great deal of sex and violence.
Hugh: A great deal.
Stephen: Lots of sex and violence.
Hugh: That's right. During the sketch, Stephen hits me several times with a golf club.
Stephen: Which of course wouldn't matter except that I hit Hugh very sexily.
Hugh: That's the trouble, you see. He does it so sexily. I wish you could see it.
Stephen: And then the sketch ends with us going to bed together ...
Hugh: ... violently.
Stephen: Extremely violently. Now this raises problems.
Hugh: Not for me.
Stephen: Me neither, but Sir William Rees-Mogg didn't like it a bit, did he?
Hugh: Well there was one bit he liked.
Stephen: Yes, that's true. He did like it one bit. But he didn't like a lot of other bits.
Hugh: But I don't want you to think that Sir William's remit with the Broadcasting Standards Council is so sweeping as to be a kind of government thought police.
Stephen: No. The concern is primarily for standards.
Hugh: Standards.
Stephen: For the sake of our children.
Hugh: So, in a generous spirit of give and take, Sir William has taken our sketch.
Stephen: And we've given it to him.
Hugh: And he has written one for us to do instead. Which is free of any gratuitous sex and violence.
Stephen: And shows due and proper regard for decency and standards.
Hugh: Promoting family life and protecting our children.
Stephen: Sir William has called his sketch simply "Bitchmother, Come Light My Bottom".
Hugh: And we're going to do it for you now.
Stephen: "Bitchmother, Come Light My Bottom", by Sir William Rees-Mogg.