By necessity, the latest episode of Comedy Is …, which explores British topical satire TV shows, had to skip over a lot of really good things. One of those things was the decades long partnership of John Bird and John Fortune. Here they are on a South Bank Show special, deconstructing the looming financial collapse of 2008.
In a similar vein, here’s John Clarke and Brian Dawe (it does play, in spite of the lack of preview image).
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