Episode originally transmitted on Channel 4 on 29 April 1988
Ben Elton hosts and introduces the acts throughout. He opens this final
episode of the run with a topical humorous rant ranging over the Thatcher/Edwina
Currie plans to fund the NHS with lottery money and have commercial companies
sponsor operations; a union dispute about ferry workers and the then newly
announced ban on smoking on internal flights also provide fuel for his ire.
Featured band Was (Not Was) perform 'Everybody Walk the Dinosaur' and then
regular Harry Enfield appears as Stavros, his mock-Cypriot Arsenal-loving kebab
vendor. A brief Outside Broadcast follows to allow a snatch of Dame Edna Everage
(Barry Humphries), who is due on set later.
Next up is Australian comedienne and former journalist Wendy Harmer, whose
act pokes fun at Australian men, and then regular duo Moray Hunter and Jack
Docherty as Donald and George lampoon the public gallery audience of the House
of Commons. Music follows, with Enfield in character as Loadsamoney with a band
including Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse performing their just released
Loadsamoney rap ('Doin' up the House') with audience involvement and
interspersed cue cards everytime the word 'Dosh' is repeated.
Josie Lawrence appears as Florence from Cradley, spoofing the Channel 4 Video
Box, before Enfield premieres a new character, 'Bugger All Money,: the
antithesis of Loadsamoney, he is a Viz comic-influenced, stereotypical Geordie,
complete with mullet hair, multiple cigarettes ('tabs') and white T-shirt with
boastful slogan. Les Bubb, a mime artist, gives a change of pace and emphasis,
and then Dame Edna makes her main appearance.
The final sequence brings the Australian Doug Anthony Allstars, a
musical-comedy trio. Ben Elton rounds off the comedy with an extended piece
about language, beach culture, nudity and sex. Was (Not Was) close the show with
'Out Come the Freaks'.