Summary
[Clive Anderson] was a lawyer; another, Arnold Brown, was an accountant. Fellow performer Oliver Double thought that when a leader is 'very dogmatic and powerful and making radical changes to society' politics came to the fore. He thought [Margaret Thatcher] was 'nuts'. Alexei Sayle, who came from a communist background, thought she was 'very ogreish; she made a wonderful target as a very distinctive person.
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Comic Timing
How quaint the wave of alternative comedy of the 1980s seems now. It began at the Comedy Store in Soho just two weeks after Margaret Thatcher first became prime minister and was largely an attack on her and her government....
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