Space Virgins from the Planet Sex

Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,484MI6 Agent
edited April 2009 in The James Bond Films
I recalled seeing this Comic Strip episode a while back in the early 1990s I think, and have rented it out from lovefilm. For any who don't know, Comic Strip was a famed series on Channel 4, the edgiest of the four channels in the UK back then, with a host of alternative comedians of the time.

This episode is a fine James Bond spoof that is remarkably prescient in that it spoofs 007's sexist attitudes in a way very similar to GoldenEye, in particular talking about how his car is said to be a penis extension (and it's an Aston Martin DB5 like in GE). Peter Richardson, who plays James Blond, does a fine brooding Connery impersonation, looking down his nose like in the scene with Q in GF. Miranda Richardson is a bossy feminist lecturer and the Space Virgins, who include French & Saunders, are like the fembots from Austin Powers. Robbie Coltrane, who of course went on to be in GE, is the M figure and Adrian Edmondson is Q.

It's on Disc 7, which you can hire independently. Keith Allen, a Comic Strip regular and strangely handsome with a full head of hair back then, is in the first episode in it, which also features Kate Bush of all people. It's odd seeing these 1980s episodes, a real blast from the past.
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  • thesecretagentthesecretagent CornwallPosts: 2,151MI6 Agent
    Haven't seen that one, but the Comic Strip were great - real film quality to them, though they quite often ended poorly. I remember the Bull****ters - a spoof of the Professionals with Peter Richardson doing a brooding Bodie. And Supergrass with Robbie Coltrane going at that yaght with a chainsaw. Great stuff!
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    edited May 2009
    Currently the episode can be found on YouTube, split into four sections.

    Peter Richardson was a great writer of satire / impressionist. Here, I particularly like the parody of the Q / Bond exchange, which ends with Blonde asking, "What's this?": Adrian Edmondson's Q replies, "It's an egg. Try not to break it, Blonde!" One wonders if this anti-climactic gag wasn't the source for the later comic line between the official Q and Pierce Brosnan: "Don't touch that... it's my lunch!"
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