The third series found Bremner perfecting his impressions of new Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith and new England football coach Sven-Goran Eriksson.
A Jubilee special celebrating the Queens Golden Jubilee.
The comedy trio Bremner Bird and Fortune bring their viewpoint on the Iraqi crisis in their own unique way We're about to invade Iraq. Again. We invaded in 1917… and 1941… and 1991. This time though, we're dealing with Saddam Hussein. But then, we've been dealing with Saddam for years. Why now? The Americans see the chance to bring traditional Western values to the Middle East (aka the guys with the diapers on their heads): democracy (from the people who brought you George W Bush); freedom (from the people who brought you Guantanamo Bay) and economic prosperity (from the people who bought you Enron). Starring George W Bush, Tony Blair, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and a cast of… well, Rory Bremner, flanked by John Bird and John Fortune as Foreign Office mandarins, convinced that this time they have got it right, and that above all the one thing this is not about is oil…
The comedy trio Bremner Bird and Fortune bring their viewpoint on the Iraqi crisis in their own unique way We're about to invade Iraq. Again. We invaded in 1917… and 1941… and 1991. This time though, we're dealing with Saddam Hussein. But then, we've been dealing with Saddam for years. Why now? The Americans see the chance to bring traditional Western values to the Middle East (aka the guys with the diapers on their heads): democracy (from the people who brought you George W Bush); freedom (from the people who brought you Guantanamo Bay) and economic prosperity (from the people who bought you Enron). Starring George W Bush, Tony Blair, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and a cast of… well, Rory Bremner, flanked by John Bird and John Fortune as Foreign Office mandarins, convinced that this time they have got it right, and that above all the one thing this is not about is oil…
Rory Bremner and the two Johns return for a one-off special. President Bush is in town, and Tony Blair sees the Special Relationship as a potential means of upping his credibility on the home front. One party conference, a public enquiry, a state visit and a mass demonstration after the war in Iraq supposedly ended and it's time for Tony Blair to submit himself to trial by comedy once more, at the hands of Bremner, Bird & Fortune. With illusionists in the news this year, Tony's ability to get out of seemingly impossible situations will need to be even more impressive than ever. After all, in the words of Alastair Campbell, ‘there is this huge stuff about trust'. With Campbell gone to sharpen his pencil, our PM looks an ever-more isolated figure, out of touch with Cabinet, Parliament and the people. According to an unidentified former Minister, to whom we refer only as ‘Clare Short', Tony Blair is now making an increasing number of decisions in private with his small coterie of co
-Advert for Churchills -Rory Bremner on Tony Blairs Holiday John Prescott getting into Number 10 Security in Buckingham Palace -Tony Blairs Holiday at the President of Italys Silvio -Lib Dem Advert-Funny Names -Conservative Advert-Michael Howerd proving he's human -BBC News-Political Correspondant (Jeff Randell) trtying not to go Cockney -Gordan Brown in spoof of Money Advert -Meal- and reporter called Steve -Chief Constable Meeting-Security in Buckingham Palace and Binge Drinking -IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:New Tracking system introduced for Protesters at Westminster -Rory Bremner on The Iraqi Government -Jeff Randell tells us how excited he is -Princess Diana Memorial Fountain Security Plan -Parkinson interviews George Parr -Terretorial Army Advert -Rory Bremner on Jack Straw losing his Glasses -Blair and Cherie in Bedroom- Cherie tells Blair about her new case that involves him -John on being a Hunter -Richard Branson secrets about Virgin -Ro
For months and months we have all known that the election will take place on the 5th May 2005. Whenever Blair finally got round to officially announcing it, the election campaign kicked off and quickly we found ourselves on the eve of polling.
With Hawkeye at the ready, and Simon Hughes and Geoffrey Boycott providing the ball-by-ball analysis, it's time to put Tony Blair to the test. In Whitehall, David Blunkett has spent the summer on set as an extra hoping for a line on 'Westminster', a new disaster movie starring John Prescott. In America, George Bush has finally returned from the ranch and is ready to take up arms against bird flu, and here at home Tony Blair has returned from holiday, only to pick up a clean shirt, and jet off again, to China to fight the bra wars. Meanwhile Rory and the Two Johns have returned to the studio for a new series casting their impression of the world about them.
Rory Bremner and Messrs Bird and Fortune bring another week to a close with more comment, comedy and crookery. With party conference season started it's off to the coast for sand and sea and satire while music comes from the inimitable George Bush quartet.
His master's voices, Rory Bremner and Messrs Bird and Fortune, bring another week to a close with more comment, comedy and crookery. With party conference season started it's off to the coast for sand and sea and satire while music comes from the inimitable George Bush quartet.
The two Johns use their "George Parr" sketch to explain the mindset of investment bankers "Everybody asking all sort of difficult questions...nit-picking like 'Where the money gone?'... as if I'm supposed to know," "Stupidity and incompetance...that's something we can be very proud of" and there is even a sketch based around the South Sea Bubble, showing how little we had learnt since the early 1700's. Rory Bremner spoofed Gordon Brown, Robert Peston, Dr Rowan Williams, and George Bush, and he has some good lines in his standup (or desk-bound) comedy, laughing at bankers around the globe while explaining the insanity of it all: "Stan O'Neil left Merrill Lynch with a heavy heart, but a heavier wallet." "I happen to know the White House is going to be repossessed any day now." There are apt comparisons with 1929 and the cautious 1950's as well.
The final part of the satirical series in which the trio have played the current financial crisis for laughs, but have also conducted a crash course on the head-in-the-sand mindset of the world’s highest-paid bankers as they traded in large amounts of debt.
