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A Bit of Fry & Laurie 1989 Season 1 Episode 3

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

An Open University lecturer makes a tiny numerical slip, and his colleague finds it impossibly funny.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A presenter introduces what he considers a classic television blooper. In the supposed archive clip, a lecturer explains a complicated calculation at a blackboard until a floor manager interrupts him. The disaster is merely two digits in a decimal being reversed, but both men dissolve into laughter as though it were the greatest outtake ever recorded. The presenter returns, still delighted by the spectacle.

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