Friday, 13 June 2014

Old Harry's Game


Old Harry's Game

Andy Hamilton's win-win radio comedy.

Win #1: the idea, the setting. A sit-com in hell. No need for expensive sets, make up, any of that. The beauty of radio. All that stuff's in the listener's head.













Win #2: casting himself as an eternity-fatigued, other-world weary Satan. Genius from Andy Hamilton. Perfect.















More running gags than you can shake a (very sharp, with metal pointy bits) stick at:

The Popes pit. All kept 8.5 months pregnant for an eternity of varicose veins, backache and diabetes.

Torturing Robert Maxwell and Richard Nixon.

Unexpected inhabitants. Elvis. Florence Nightingale.

Pubic hair hornets.

Torturing estate agents, lawyers, and the like.

Finding ways to pass time, when time is meaningless.










One of the funniest things, ever.

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