The Drug Search is based on a true incident of Stu being stopped by the Police at Elephant and Castle and searched.
"I didn't realise how ridiculous, confrontational and self-defeating my behaviour had been until I came to retell the story to Rich who just laughed at my own self-righteousness. But, all the same, I do hope the policeman who stopped me, took the piss out of me for being a comedian, said all new stand-ups were shit, and that he expected I'd be able to write something about being stopped by him... sees himself and recognises himself. It happened in January 1993." - Stu.
John Thomson, from The Fast Show, plays the grumpy policeman. There was a sub-plot about the cops putting a bag of cocaine in Stu's crate and then beating him up at the end, the just-desserts for Stu's anti-religious prejudice, but it got cut due to time and the course of events.
good shit :)
KINGROOSTER45 2 years ago