The Stephen Fry theme song.
Watch the original flash.
The Cambridge Footlights Revue (1982)
Starring (in their younger student days): Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer, Tony Slattery, and Paul Shearer.
Come join us in the noblest of causes
The battle for national improvement
The creaking of leather and uniforms
Is the hymn of our British movement
We promise you riches and prosperity
Employment for the British working man
We promise you holidays in America
On exchange with the Ku Klux Klan
Eliminate the Paki, exterminate the Blackie
Pull out this disease by the roots
A British Movement government would repatriate the immigrant
To the tramp of Union Jack boots
Children in football grounds and classrooms
Are paraded in tiny rank and file
Incited to multi-racial aggro
Exalted by the war cry “Sieg Heil” (“Sieg Heil!”)
Imagine a society with skinheads roaming wild and free
And not a pair of thick lips in sight
Fumigate the Underground and sterilize the cricket grounds
White coat and white elephant
Whitewash and White Christmas
White horse and white rich and white poor
White dirt and white licorice
White helmets, white truncheons
White face and white Willy Whitelaw
A parody of course, of The British Movement, which was essentially a neo-Nazi political organization advocating a fully white Britain. If that wasn’t obvious.
I’ve been meaning to read these for a long time. I loved the show, and appreciate that the two comments on the cover of the book are indeed from Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
You don’t analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. - Stephen Fry
The funniest writer ever to put words to paper. - Hugh Laurie.
Woo woo.
I just can’t believe it’s almost 20 Francs.
