Absolute Power

Countries

United Kingdom

Original language

English

Companies

BBC Two

• 

  R. Nicholas Burns

• 

  Stephen Fry

• ZT

  Zoe Telford

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• Charles: (to his bank manager) How far will you extend my overdraft, for the exclusive, unrestrained, or possibly restrained, use of my body?

  Charles: You were going to spend your redundancy money on a pub.

  Martin: No…

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• Editor of The Sun: I am a plain man.

  Charles: Yes, yes, you really are, aren't you?

  Editor: I like bums on seats.

  Charles: I rather like them on bicycles.…

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• Martin: Ah, America, America, Land of the Arse.

  Charles: I do so very beg your pardon?

  Martin: It's true. They've all got them. Great big enormous ones. It's because they drink Coca Cola out of dustbins.

  Charles…

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• Bishop of Bath and Wells: I want you chaps to do what I believe you call a "product relaunch".

  Charles: You want us to relaunch God?

  Archie: The Prime Minister was returning from a speaking engagement in the North last…

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• Martin: (reading aloud while typing) "So, in conclusion," erm...

  Charles: Martin, it's no good typing "so, in conclusion" at the bottom of a blank screen.

  Charles: Cuff O, backwards.

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• To a public service broadcaster, ratings are like sex: when you're getting plenty, they don't matter; when you're not getting any, they matter lots.

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