The Saturday Night Armistice
The Saturday Night Armistice was a British satirical television comedy programme presented by Armando Iannucci with Peter Baynham and David Schneider, which ran from 1995 to 1999. The programme took an irreverent and often surreal look back at topical events, and featured studio discussions, sketches and setups. Like many 1990s British comedy series it included appearances and writing contributions by a large number of UK comedians including amongst others Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan, Simon Pegg, Andy Riley, Kevin Cecil, Kevin Eldon, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Omid Djalili, Al Murray, Ben Moor, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins.
David goes on a course to learn about marriage, Michael Howard gets put in prison, we spy in on the England football team during the Euro '96 championships and Armando meets the man who does the drums for the end of Eastenders.
The team go through John Major's bin, go out with one of the loudest teen fan clubs around and introduce us to the new rapid reaction force from the west - the UN Irish Dancers!
It's an "All Action" show this week, as the team find ways of solving the troubles in Northern Ireland, experiment with school class sizes, demonstrate a democratic approach to firefighting and investigate executive pay rises. There's also a look at the new "Better Fights 2" video, Sue Perkins helps the team get their own back on the French and Peter Baynham gets sold off!
This week the team try seeing what tourists are willing to pay for by opening "Brown World" - a museum dedicated to the colour brown - and look at ways to solve the country's traffic issues. Elsewhere Armando surprises Bob Monkhouse, Mr Tony Blair trys to eat Peter and we get a listen to a preview of the Pope's new record.
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| Language | English |
| Release | 1995-06-24 |
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