Not Nine O Clock News is a comedy satire programme that I have only seen as my boyfriend had a video tape of the series. Itwas the launch pad for some very successful careers in comedy espcially as it starred Rowan Atkinson who went on to do Mr Baen and Blackadder.

The show was a series of clips featuring four new wave comedians, as well as Atkinson there was Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones who went on to have their own show togather and also Pamela Stevenson who married Billy Connolly.

Many of the clips were very satirical and picked on topical news items of the time while some were really surreal, either way the show was fast paced. Perhaps my favourite sketch is the interview where Mel Smith is a scientist and Atkinson plays a talking gorilla who keeps answering all the questions and contradicting what Smith says. They also used to do some songs as well and the Trucking Song and the homage to punk "I like bouncing" are both hilarious.

The scripts are very intelligent in this show and it is very funny indeed. Needless to say all of them have gone on to other things hence it is no longer on TV these days.