Light Metal

Fry and Laurie introduce a new musical category for listeners who find heavy metal too heavy, promoting a compilation album and its star act, the Bishop and the Warlord. The performance pairs a solemn clergyman at a pulpit with a long-haired guitarist in leather. Amid smoke and dramatic lighting, the Bishop delivers the song's lustful rock boasts with the precise, measured diction of a church address while the Warlord supplies the guitar theatrics. The mismatch between the flamboyant music and the vocalist's clerical composure supplies the punchline.