Pleasure At Her Majesty's
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Pleasure At Her Majesty's was the name given to the filmed release of A Poke In The Eye With A Sharp Stick, the first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit shows. The title is a play on the phrase At Her Majesty's Pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London). This show is considered part of the Secret Policeman's Ball series of shows, although it pre-dates the original ball by three years.
The event, organised by John Cleese and featuring the cream of comic talent of the time, set a precedent that would inspire many more Amnesty gigs, as well as Comic Relief.
The film consists of both on-stage and back-stage footage, taken from all three nights of the run (April 1 - April 3 1976)
Running Order
- John Cleese, Michael Palin - Pet shop (aka the Parrot Sketch)
- Alan Bennett - T E Lawrence
- Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage - Spunk
- John Fortune, Eleanor Bron - Happy Darling
- Peter Cook - Miner
- Monty Python (Guest appearance, Peter Cook) - Courtroom Sketch
- John Fortune, John Bird - You Say Potato
- Neil Innes - Protest Song
- John Cleese, Jonathan Lynn - The Last Supper
- The Goodies - Funky Gibbon
- Alan Bennett - Telegram
- Desmond Jones - Hamlet (mime)
- Peter Cook, John Fortune - Asp
- Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland, Bill Oddie, John Cleese - The Japes Lecture
- Eleanor Bron - Appeal
- Beyond The Fringe (guest appearance, Terry Jones) - So That's The Way You Like It (Shakespeare Sketch)
- Monty Python and the entire cast - Lumberjack song