Rowan Atkinson Sketch circa 1980

[wordy]

Hi

You are my best hope in 1980 or thereabouts RA came to Bryanson School
in dorset and did his one man show. in the course of this he did a
version of the school register sketch with the name BENDER

Anyone heard this know it have a recorder

[Ian F.]

Post by wordy
You are my best hope in 1980 or thereabouts RA came to Bryanson School
in dorset and did his one man show. in the course of this he did a
version of the school register sketch with the name BENDER

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School Roll Call

Right. Quiet!

Ainsley. Babcock. Bland. Carthorse. Dint. Ellsworth-Beast-Major.
Ellsworth-Beast-Minor. Fiat. German. Haemoglobin. Have-a-nut. Jones, M.
Jones, N. Cossigan. Loud-haylark. Mattock. Nancyboy-Possum. Nibble.
(noise)

Come on, settle down.

Orifice. Plectrum. Poinse. Sediment. Soda. Te. Te? Undermanager. Wicket.
Williams-Wicket? Williams-Witcheley. Witcheley-Wicket. Witcheley-Williams.
And Witcheley-Williams-Wocket. Zob. Absent.

All right, your essays. Discuss the contention that Cleopatra had the body
of a roll-top desk and the mind of a duck. Oxford and Cambridge board all
over paper 1976. Don't fidget, Bland! The answer? yes.

Jones, M, Orifice, Sediment and Undermanager, see me afterwards. Most of you
of course didn't write nearly enough. Dint, your answer was unreadable.
Put it away, Plectrum! If I see it once more this period, Plectrum, I shall
have to tweak you. Do you have a solicitor, Plectrum? You're lying,
Plectrum, so I shall tweak you anyway. See me afterwards to be tweaked. Yes,
isn't life tragic! Don't sulk, boy, for God's sake. Has matron seen those
boils? Horrid little twerp.

Bland, German, Nancyboy, Potter, Undermanager, Cribbing. Undermanager: Your
answer: "upside down". Do you do it deliberately, Undermanager? You're a
moron, Undermanager. A carbuncle on the backside of humanity. Don't snigger
Babcock! It's not funny. Antony and Cleopatra is not a funny play. If
Shakespeare had meant it to be funny, he would have put a joke in it. There
is no joke in Antony and Cleopatra. You'd know that if you'd read it,
wouldn't you, Babcock? Pest! What play of Shakespeare's does have a joke in
it? Anyone? The Comedy of Errors, for God's sake. The Comedy of Errors has
the joke of two people looking like each other. Twice. It's not that funny,
German. And the other Shakespearean joke is? Nibble? NIBBLE! Leave Orifice
alone! What a lot...

Right, for the rest of this period you will right about Enobarbus.
Undermanager, just try and write Enobarbus. Either way a boil, a boil. Usual
conditions, no conferring, no eating, no cheating, no looking out of
windows, no slang, no slide rules. Use ink only, via a nib, if possible. You
may use dividers, but not on each other. Kosygin, you're in charge.

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HTH,

Ian

[Janet]

Post by Ian F.

Post by wordy
You are my best hope in 1980 or thereabouts RA came to Bryanson School
in dorset and did his one man show. in the course of this he did a
version of the school register sketch with the name BENDER

++++++++++++++++++
School Roll Call
Right. Quiet!

Snip great sketch

While we're on the subject, there's Rowan Atkinson sketch I'm interested
in. I'd love to see it again, but don't know whether it would be available
on video. In it, Rowan played a performer about to sing Beethoven's 'Ode to
Joy' - until he realised he'd forgotten his music. So, hoping the audience
wouldn't notice, he proceeded to sing every German word or phrase he could
think of - all to the well known tune: 'Achtung, Liebfraumilch in Porsche'
etc.

Since you seem pretty knowledgeable, you may know where I could find it.
Please can you help?

Janet

[Ian F.]

Post by Janet
While we're on the subject, there's Rowan Atkinson sketch I'm interested
in. I'd love to see it again, but don't know whether it would be available
on video. In it, Rowan played a performer about to sing Beethoven's 'Ode
to Joy' - until he realised he'd forgotten his music. So, hoping the
audience wouldn't notice, he proceeded to sing every German word or phrase
he could think of - all to the well known tune: 'Achtung, Liebfraumilch in
Porsche' etc.

Google brought up this site: http://www.indyworld.com/comics/atkinson.html

Looks like that item may be on the "Live For Peace" (1995) video.

HTH

Ian