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And one well-illustrated by this little-known Monty Python bit:
"Well, this time you've crawled too far!"
"Oh, Jake, Jake! Why did you do it? You could have destroyed the tapes and none of this leftist would have happened!"
"An excerpt from Carl French's latest film. Carl, we're all a little mystified by your claim that your new film stars Marilyn Monroe."
"It does, yes."
"Who died over 10 years ago?"
"Uh, that's correct."
"Are you lying?"
"No, no, it's just that she'e very much in the public eye at the moment."
"Does she have a big part?"
"She is the star of the film."
"And dead."
"Well, we dug her up and gave her a screen test — a mere formality in her case — and..."
"Can she still act?"
"Well... well, she... she still has this... this enormous, ah... ah, kind of indefinable... uh... no."
"Was decomposition a problem?"
"We did have to put her in the fridge between takes."
"Ah, what sorts of things does she do in the film?"
"Well, we had her lying on beds, lying on floors, falling out of cupboards, scaring the children, ah..."
"But surely Miss Monroe was cremated?"
"Well, we had to use a stand-in for some of the more visible shots."
"Ah! Uh, another actress."
"Dead actress. But Monroe was in shot the whole time."
"How?"
"Oh, in the ash tray, in the fire grate and vacuum cleaner..."
"So, Marilyn does not appear in the film?"
"Not as such."
"Mr. French, you're one of the film world's most arrogant queens. I mean, not just 'homosexual' or 'gay' or anything, I mean you are a raving queen."
"Well, yes."
"I mean, a real screamer, a real 'Whoops! Get out! Don't mind me dear!' limp-wristed caricature."
"Is that not in order?"
"No, no, that's fine. And I understand that you married the beautiful black heiress Hueyna Tanoy partly for the publicity but mostly to cover up the fact that you prefer going out with little boys."
"Look, really!"
"Carl, you're an offending little poof, a mincing gay-bar loiterer, a winnet-covered walking perfume shop and an evil perverter of innocent little boys!"
"What!? Really! Is this part of the interview?"
"No, no. I just wanted a few contacts."
"Well... well, shouldn't we be talking about the film?"
"We've been off the air for ages. Now, where'd you find them?"
"Look, I think we are still on the air."
"Oh, sod the fucking air! I just still get locked up with that sort of thing."
"What about the film?"
"Just a few addresses, please."
"Look, we've got James Dean in it, in a box!"
"I... I can turn the microphone off if you..."
"And bits of Jayne Mansfield..."
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