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Monty Python ScriptsLiving Room on PavementThe cast:
The sketch:(A working-class lounge is arranged on the pavement. There are no walls, just the furnishings: settee, two armchairs, sideboard, table, standard lamp, a tiled fireplace with ornaments on it. There is also a free-standing inside door. Mr. and Mrs. Potter come out of the cinema and go straight to their chairs and sit down. Passers-by have to skirt the living-room furniture.) Mrs. Potter: (settling into her chair) Oh, it's nice to be home. Mr. Potter: (looking round) Builders haven't been then. Mrs. Potter: No. (A trendy interviewer with hand mike comes into shot.) Interviewer: These two old people are typical of the housing problem facing Britain's aged. Mrs. Potter: Here! Don't you start doing a documentary on us, young man. Interviewer: Oh please ... Mrs. Potter: No, you leave us alone! Interviewer: Oh, just a little one about the appalling conditions under which you live. Mrs. Potter: No! Get out of our house! Go on! (Interviewer turns, motions to his cameraman and soundman and they all trail off miserably) Cameraman: Oh all fight. Come on, George, pick it up. Mrs. Potter: Why don't you do a documentary about the drug problem round in Walton Street? (Cut to the camera crew. They stop, turn and mutter 'a drug problem!' and they dash off.) Mrs. Potter: Oh, I'll go and have a bath. (She goes to the free-standing door and opens it. Beyond it we see the furnishings of a bathroom. In the bath is Alfred Lord Tennyson, fully clad As she opens the door we hear him reading...
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