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After turning "Jeez Wayne" into a national catchphrase with their hit series A Week of It, comedy duo David McPhail and Jon Gadsby continued their TV dream run with weekly sketch comedy show McPhail and Gadsby. This first episode from the first series chooses religion as the object of satire, which gives the pair a chance to dress up as angels, devils, monks, nuns, priests and Moses. The thematic approach to the series was soon abandoned in favour of the better-remembered style of topical news satire. 

Background

The producer/director's perspective by John Lye 31.03.2010

Preceded by a series of one hour, single subject sketch comedy programmes in 1980 and by the earlier and hugely successful A Week of It, the political satire McPhail and Gadsby began its ...

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 John Lye
 John Wansbrough
 David McPhail

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