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Information Desk

A Bit of Fry & Laurie
SKETCH-O-VISION
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The setup

An information-desk clerk knows startling details about a stranger's past, but advice on happiness proves harder to obtain.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A customer approaches an information desk without knowing quite what he wants to ask. The clerk offers ordinary trivia, then unexpectedly supplies intimate details about the visitor's schooldays and a long-forgotten acquaintance. Encouraged by this apparently limitless knowledge, the customer turns to questions about happiness and contentment, only to discover that the desk applies restrictions to its most useful answers.

The funny people

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

I never knew rabbits had an average weight.

I'm afraid that information is restricted.

Not to ask any questions.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The published script asks about a geography teacher; the performed version asks about an English teacher.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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