Game for a Daimler
with Dame Edna Everage
Hello Possums!
I rather adore the crooked little face on this increasingly 'visible' media person. I knew him first many moons ago when he got the first beverage stain on his crew-necked, oatmeal, Shetland jumper, and he's one of the few people I know who seem to get nicer without mellowing. I f it hadn't been for Dick (an adverb used only by his oldest friends) my uncalled-for Sydney newphew Barry Mackenzie's adventures might never have been chronicled in the increasingly popular Private Eye back in the rock and rolling 60s. Frankly, however, possums, I was relieved when one of Dick's top aides, also called Barry — spookily enough — put the kibosh on that seminal, widely-liked, but fundamentally elitist, comic strip, without which Monty Python and Clive James' autobiography would have been impossible. Over the years organist Richie always gives me a nice little plug whenever he can, and his wife and I adore each other too.
Here's a question from your second favourite pioneer of the satire movement — no prizes for naming the first; and if you don't guess it, Ingers tells me he just might sue you.
Question No. 7
Set by Richard Ingrams
In 1977 I proposed in my Spectator column a 'Society for the Extermina- tion of Russell Harty'. Which well- known working class playwright and which distinguished cartoonist ap- plied for membership?
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Name Address
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I Answer Form 7 I Answer:
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Tick if student.
Keep this answer form — only send it in at the end of the competition.
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