NTNOCN: "American Express" (1980)

They should have done one where he tried using it in a pub in Glasgow.

they did. scene 3 in the sketch. ffs

This was a favourite with my husband, sometimes I would whip open my top and say "American Express"?

At which point he turns to camera and says,

"Put Your Head Between Them and Go 'BBL BBL BBL' with American Express"

Pamela Stephenson has to be one of the most amazing triple threat women of all time. Gorgeous/sexy, intelligent and funny. A high point.

Which begs the question, what the hell happened to her? D'you know?

She married Billy Connolly and has written a few books. I'm not sure she performs anymore.

Actually it just occurred to me that the last thing I saw her doing was that therapist-style show Shrink Rap where she infamously did a "session" with kiddie-porn downloader Chris Langham.

That sounds like an interesting interview for all the wrong reasons. Yes, she got well into her psychology, and that's pretty much to the exclusion of everything else. Whatever makes you happy I suppose, but I do tend to suspect people who get too into certain ways of thinking.

Uh, yes, I would generally agree with that suspicion but would expand upon it slightly by noting that too many "ways of thinking" are by design all-absorbing, have a very nasty habit of spreading beyond personal space and with them come an inherent quality that demands everyone else adopt them too. So for those reasons, I find myself departing from the "whatever make you happy" camp.