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2.11.09'Your minds are clogged up with tea bags!'Let's face it. Who among us is not an angry young man, even now, in 2009?
From 'playlet' Look Back in Hunger (a parody of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger), broadcast as a sketch on the radio version of Hancock's Half Hour, 8 April 1958 (MP3 here): * * * mother: Would you like a cup of tea, Jimmy? jim: Tea? Tea?! Is that your answer to it all? Tea? The panacea of the middle class! The answer to all the problems facing mankind today? Have a cup of tea, Jim! You both make me sick. You're dead, both of you. You're both mentally dead. Your souls are drowned in tea. Your minds are clogged up with tea bags. You're like two slop basins swimming around in a sea of tea! Just like this country, the whole rotten system, stained in a tea of apathy! father: What's he mean, Mum? mother: I don't think he wants a cup of tea. mother: Would you like a cup of coffee, then? jim: Coffee? Coffee?! Is that your only alternative to the stagnant mess that's slowly choking you, a cup of coffee? mother: No. We've got some cocoa, I think. * * * Etc. If you don't understand why this is funny, that's okay, but something is wrong with you. Scads of episodes of this programme are available at the Internet Archive. |
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