The Best of Not The Nine OClock News (2006)

Attention comedy fans NOT THE NINE OCLOCK NEWS is the real thing This is scathing noholdsbarred Brit humor at its best Rapidfire skits starring Rowan Atkinson Mr Bean are as politically incorrect as they are sidebustingly funny sparing no one as they take on the British Royal Family Margaret Thatcher Scotland Yard country music Christianity devil worship punk rock and bathroom etiquette NOT THE NINE OCLOCK NEWS is so irreverent that when the pilot was due to air in April 1979 the BBC cancelled it due to its incendiary political content When at last it aired the greatest comedy group to hit England since Monty Pythons Flying Circus stormed the airwaves and revolutionized British and American television alike Discover the show that set the standard for the anarchic cynicism that defined the alternative comedy of the 80s