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Let's Speak English
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Four bowler-hatted men demonstrate a tea party for an Italian television English lesson. Three introduce themselves as chartered accountants, while the fourth insists he is a gorilla. The narrator struggles to keep the lesson on track as familiar objects acquire increasingly unlikely names. A dispute over the gorilla’s pay turns the demonstration into a destructive protest, until a backstage intervention restores the men’s carefully rehearsed introductions.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 5
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
I am a gorilla.
King Alfred burnt the surgical trusses.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The upload’s “Ep. 2” label refers to a later compilation. The sketch originally appeared in series 1, episode 6, broadcast on 22 March 1967.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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