bunch – old-fashioned-looking Oxbridge graduates without a tie-dyed
acid casualty among them. Appearances can be deceiving, but because
they were satirists, they weren't necessarily counter-cultural by
inclination. The key to the British idea of comedy was people not being
afraid to be ridiculous – everything didn't have to have a higher

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was also a lucky chemical balance between me bringing a bit of fresh
brashness and brutality to people who, while not exactly old lags, had
certainly done their time in the satirical trenches with David Frost.

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