The second outing of 'Naked Video'.
A young choir boy is singing soprano whilst being recorded by a television crew. However, problems arise when the young boy's voice starts to crack. In desperation, the director kicks him in the balls. His voice goes high pitched again.
Onto the news desk one of the items reads: ''Near tragedy struck when a helicopter crew discovered Anneka Rice was on board!''. We then see footage of a helicopter crew frantically jumping from a helicopter!
'The Funeral' sees Gregor Fisher as Desmond Wilcox, who is interviewing a family who have just lost their father. As Wilcox questions the family, they sit tearfully discussing the sudden death of their father. The camera pans out to reveal they are crying because Wilcox is peeling an onion!
The Baldy Man after emerging from a shower is seen admiring himself in a mirror as he combs the few strands of hair he has over his head. We then see him pulling huge strands of hair from under his arm and combing it over his chest like a comb over!
Tony Roper performs here the first in a series of sketches he would do as 'Taggart' from the STV show of the same name. We see him discussing with a barmaid a case in which he has discovered in the River Clyde a woman's severed head. ''Was she dead?'' asks the dippy barmaid! ''We won't know until we find the rest of her body!'' says Taggart!
A creepy musical item, 'E120', sees Elaine C. Smith and Helen Lederer as witches singing about the harm additives and artificial sweetners in food and drinks can do to people. The song was the first to be written by the late David McNiven ( who wrote all the music for the show and who briefly appears in this item as a three armed man ).
Siadwell appears this week telling a tale of how he took a trip to the zoo and was accosted by a group of monkeys who mistook him for a wino and gave him ten pence out of pity. ''Mam says I should write a 'thank you' letter!'', says Siadwell morosely.
A pair of animal rights activists break into a lab and vow to free dumb animals from captivity. However, they thoughtlessly break open a fish tank, ignorant of the fact they cannot survive without water.
A young man riding along in a Sinclair C5 is stopped by a man who asks: ''Why is your new Sinclair C5 called Richard?''. ''Because every time I go out in it, I feel like a complete dick!'' replies the young man.
Helen Lederer makes a character debut as 'The Drunk Sloane', a young woman who would appear propping up a bar and telling stories of her complicated love life. These sketches were never my favourites ( despite being a fan of Helen ), mainly for the fact that sometimes Helen spoke the lines far too fast, making much of the jokes unintelligible.
A not bad second episode, though sadly there was no 'Rab C.' this week. Some sketches, such as the spoof of 'Dempsey & Makepeace' or the sketch of a group of dossers performing 'Doss Aid' fell flat but most of the jokes hit the mark. The end credits of this episode parodied the popular police drama 'The Bill' in which we see two police officers walking along a cobbled road, one of which is a male sergeant wearing stockings and suspenders!
Funniest sketch - a dirty old man ( Gregor Fisher ) taking polaroid photos of a half naked woman whilst lecherously licking his lips. However, as the flash goes on the camera, we see the man's tongue painfully protrude from the photo dispenser! Ouch!
A young choir boy is singing soprano whilst being recorded by a television crew. However, problems arise when the young boy's voice starts to crack. In desperation, the director kicks him in the balls. His voice goes high pitched again.
Onto the news desk one of the items reads: ''Near tragedy struck when a helicopter crew discovered Anneka Rice was on board!''. We then see footage of a helicopter crew frantically jumping from a helicopter!
'The Funeral' sees Gregor Fisher as Desmond Wilcox, who is interviewing a family who have just lost their father. As Wilcox questions the family, they sit tearfully discussing the sudden death of their father. The camera pans out to reveal they are crying because Wilcox is peeling an onion!
The Baldy Man after emerging from a shower is seen admiring himself in a mirror as he combs the few strands of hair he has over his head. We then see him pulling huge strands of hair from under his arm and combing it over his chest like a comb over!
Tony Roper performs here the first in a series of sketches he would do as 'Taggart' from the STV show of the same name. We see him discussing with a barmaid a case in which he has discovered in the River Clyde a woman's severed head. ''Was she dead?'' asks the dippy barmaid! ''We won't know until we find the rest of her body!'' says Taggart!
A creepy musical item, 'E120', sees Elaine C. Smith and Helen Lederer as witches singing about the harm additives and artificial sweetners in food and drinks can do to people. The song was the first to be written by the late David McNiven ( who wrote all the music for the show and who briefly appears in this item as a three armed man ).
Siadwell appears this week telling a tale of how he took a trip to the zoo and was accosted by a group of monkeys who mistook him for a wino and gave him ten pence out of pity. ''Mam says I should write a 'thank you' letter!'', says Siadwell morosely.
A pair of animal rights activists break into a lab and vow to free dumb animals from captivity. However, they thoughtlessly break open a fish tank, ignorant of the fact they cannot survive without water.
A young man riding along in a Sinclair C5 is stopped by a man who asks: ''Why is your new Sinclair C5 called Richard?''. ''Because every time I go out in it, I feel like a complete dick!'' replies the young man.
Helen Lederer makes a character debut as 'The Drunk Sloane', a young woman who would appear propping up a bar and telling stories of her complicated love life. These sketches were never my favourites ( despite being a fan of Helen ), mainly for the fact that sometimes Helen spoke the lines far too fast, making much of the jokes unintelligible.
A not bad second episode, though sadly there was no 'Rab C.' this week. Some sketches, such as the spoof of 'Dempsey & Makepeace' or the sketch of a group of dossers performing 'Doss Aid' fell flat but most of the jokes hit the mark. The end credits of this episode parodied the popular police drama 'The Bill' in which we see two police officers walking along a cobbled road, one of which is a male sergeant wearing stockings and suspenders!
Funniest sketch - a dirty old man ( Gregor Fisher ) taking polaroid photos of a half naked woman whilst lecherously licking his lips. However, as the flash goes on the camera, we see the man's tongue painfully protrude from the photo dispenser! Ouch!