Britain, Britain, Britain, your comedy how I love thee. With your bollocks and your bloody this and that, you get me every time. There’s no finer a way to coerce laughter from the pit of my belly. So when The Secret Policeman’s Private Party crossed my desk, I may have gotten a little silly in the knickers. Combining the major forces of British comedy, ranging from Monty Python to Rowan Atkinson to Hugh Laurie (House M.D.) and Stephen Fry, should be a United Kingdom laugh factory. Note I used the world “should.”
This article appears in Feb 17-23, 2010.