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A DVD of all of the sketches featured in the show was released in 2009. However, the Kinky Sex episode is taken from a home video source as the original could not be found. Some of the sketches appear to be edited longer and slightly shorter than others. Music edits have also been made, of which some
137:, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir Adrian Dangerous". Originally appearing on stage in London at the comedy club The Comic Strip, the characters were well developed before appearing on TV. First appearing on television on a one-off 1980 BBC TV show 172:- two low-life loser perverts hitting each other in spectacular slapstick ways. It was arguably more hazardous than much of the material which was to follow in later incarnations - stage props in the brief run included a live 316:
are obvious if you have seen the video. The laughing in the unseen audience is also different, where the video used the real studio audience laughter and also canned laughter. The DVD just uses the original studio audience.
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who banned it, getting the duo banned from Saturday Live for being "too sexy and too violent". They responded by apparently hijacking the programme and blowing up the wall on which the show's
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art along appearing on a "flower arranging dance" sketch with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. The sketch, which by modern standards seems fairly tame, was finally released on a compilation video
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The act was, in essence, a prototype of the career which the pair were to forge over the next 20 years in such shows as
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One of the final sketches prepared for Saturday Live was entitled Kinky Sex. This supposedly fell foul of
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version is a different performance with a slightly different conclusion, and features swearing)
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Crocodile Snogging (which featured a live crocodile) and featuring
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How To Get Off With A Lady - featuring Edmondson's wife
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