The third episode of 'Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee' starts with a short sketch in which a group of soldiers write poems amidst all the fighting and bombing. Two of the soldiers write profound poems about meeting their fate whilst the other seems more interested in writing a dirty riddle before the bomb drops.
An alien race known as The Nimmons land on earth in search of trendy clothing as opposed to the tacky garb they currently wear. Finding a bag of designer label clothing, the quartet start brawling over the items, with the leader emerging victorious. Finding a bike, the leader mounts it and tries to cycle off, only to be strangled to death when the scarf he is wearing gets tangled up in the back wheel!
Edgar Bloodlusten ( in what appears to be a sketch linking to the Nimmons demise ) tells a tale of a group of people who were brutally murdered: ''In their search for clues, Scotland Yard noticed a chilling similarity between these victims and the victims of Jack The Ripper, they were all dead!''
Bob the bar room fascist from 'A Kick Up The Eighties' appears here with his friend Alec ( who never speaks ), telling him of how his wife has recently passed away. He further explains that as he couldn't afford to give her a funeral, he performed one himself by cooking her on a barbecue and serving her up to his friends: ''It's what she would have wanted. She spent most of her life making people sick!'' he says.
A young woman tells a moving story of how she fell in love with a floorboard, only to have her heart broken when the object began a sexual affair with a rocking horse!
A catchy musical number entitled 'My Boyfriend' appears to be a parody of 'You're The One That I Want' from 'Grease' which has a young woman singing the praises of her sports car obsessed boyfriend.
A spoof of 'Angels With Dirty Faces' sees a priest visiting a death row prisoner. The priest begs the prisoner, whose name is Cookie, to break down and plead for mercy as he is led to the electric chair, just so he can say ''that's the way the cookie crumbles!''.
This week's 'Master Of Dundriech' sketch sees the vile Murdoch attempting to bump off his young nephew so he can swindle him out of his inheritance, each attempt ending in disaster. Sitting up in a tree, Tom spots an old crone in the woods gathering sticks for firewood and offers to assist her, which she gratefully accepts. Tom then jumps down from the tree, unaware that Murdoch has set a deadly trap...
After the let down with the previous episode, 'Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee' got back on track again with this fine episode, boasting some very funny stuff, most notably with the Nimmon and Bob the fascist sketches. Louise Gold is the stand out for the most part in this episode, even if it is mainly for how sexy she looks ( look at her in the 'My Boyfriend' sketch if you don't believe me ).
Iain McColl, later to play Tam in 'City Lights' and Dodie in 'Rab C. Nesbitt' appears here as one of Murdoch's ill fated slaves.
Funniest sketch - without doubt the Bob the fascist sketch. Truth to tell he was actually funnier here than he was in 'A Kick Up The Eighties'.
An alien race known as The Nimmons land on earth in search of trendy clothing as opposed to the tacky garb they currently wear. Finding a bag of designer label clothing, the quartet start brawling over the items, with the leader emerging victorious. Finding a bike, the leader mounts it and tries to cycle off, only to be strangled to death when the scarf he is wearing gets tangled up in the back wheel!
Edgar Bloodlusten ( in what appears to be a sketch linking to the Nimmons demise ) tells a tale of a group of people who were brutally murdered: ''In their search for clues, Scotland Yard noticed a chilling similarity between these victims and the victims of Jack The Ripper, they were all dead!''
Bob the bar room fascist from 'A Kick Up The Eighties' appears here with his friend Alec ( who never speaks ), telling him of how his wife has recently passed away. He further explains that as he couldn't afford to give her a funeral, he performed one himself by cooking her on a barbecue and serving her up to his friends: ''It's what she would have wanted. She spent most of her life making people sick!'' he says.
A young woman tells a moving story of how she fell in love with a floorboard, only to have her heart broken when the object began a sexual affair with a rocking horse!
A catchy musical number entitled 'My Boyfriend' appears to be a parody of 'You're The One That I Want' from 'Grease' which has a young woman singing the praises of her sports car obsessed boyfriend.
A spoof of 'Angels With Dirty Faces' sees a priest visiting a death row prisoner. The priest begs the prisoner, whose name is Cookie, to break down and plead for mercy as he is led to the electric chair, just so he can say ''that's the way the cookie crumbles!''.
This week's 'Master Of Dundriech' sketch sees the vile Murdoch attempting to bump off his young nephew so he can swindle him out of his inheritance, each attempt ending in disaster. Sitting up in a tree, Tom spots an old crone in the woods gathering sticks for firewood and offers to assist her, which she gratefully accepts. Tom then jumps down from the tree, unaware that Murdoch has set a deadly trap...
After the let down with the previous episode, 'Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee' got back on track again with this fine episode, boasting some very funny stuff, most notably with the Nimmon and Bob the fascist sketches. Louise Gold is the stand out for the most part in this episode, even if it is mainly for how sexy she looks ( look at her in the 'My Boyfriend' sketch if you don't believe me ).
Iain McColl, later to play Tam in 'City Lights' and Dodie in 'Rab C. Nesbitt' appears here as one of Murdoch's ill fated slaves.
Funniest sketch - without doubt the Bob the fascist sketch. Truth to tell he was actually funnier here than he was in 'A Kick Up The Eighties'.