Bremner, Bird and Fortune

Season 14

2008 · 4 episodes · 4h 0m in all

Episodes

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   1. Where Did All The Money Go?

   2 Nov 2008 · 60 min

   The two Johns use their "George Parr" sketch to explain the mindset of investment bankers "Everybody asking all sort of difficult questions...nit-picking like 'Where the money gone?'... as if I'm supposed to know," "Stupidity and incompetance...that's something we can be very proud of" and there is even a sketch based around the South Sea Bubble, showing how little we had learnt since the early 1700's. Rory Bremner spoofed Gordon Brown, Robert Peston, Dr Rowan Williams, and George Bush, and he has some good lines in his standup (or desk-bound) comedy, laughing at bankers around the globe while explaining the insanity of it all: "Stan O'Neil left Merrill Lynch with a heavy heart, but a heavier wallet." "I happen to know the White House is going to be repossessed any day now." There are apt comparisons with 1929 and the cautious 1950's as well.

2. 2

   2. The China Syndrome

   9 Nov 2008 · 60 min

3. 3

   3. Till Debt Do Us Part

   16 Nov 2008 · 60 min

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   4. A Modest Proposal

   18 Nov 2008 · 60 min

   The final part of the satirical series in which the trio have played the current financial crisis for laughs, but have also conducted a crash course on the head-in-the-sand mindset of the world’s highest-paid bankers as they traded in large amounts of debt.