David Niven's Fridge
The sketch:
Back to Dickie Attenborough at the awards ceremony. He now has bunches of
onions slung around his neck.
- Dickie (Eric)
- Ladies and gentlemen, seldom can it have been a greater pleasure and
privilege than it is for me now to announce that the next award gave me the
great pleasure and privilege of asking a man without whose ceaseless energy and
tireless skill the British Film Industry would be today. I refer of course to
my friend and colleague, Mr David Niven. (vast applause. Dickie applies
tears to his face from a dropper) Sadly, David Niven cannot be with us
tonight, but he has sent his fridge. (applause; `Around the World in Eighty
Days' music; the fridge is pushed down by the men in brown coats, and a
microphone is positioned in front of it. The fridge also has a black tie
on.) This is the fridge in which David keeps most of his milk, butter and
eggs. What a typically selfless gesture, that he should send this fridge, of
all of his fridges, to be with us tonight.
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- Fridge (?)
- (the same silly voice) The nominations for the Best Foreign Film
Director are: Monsieur Richard Attenborough, Ricardo de Attenbergie, Rik
Artenburg, Ri Char Dat En Bollo, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
- Dickie
- Before we hear the joint winner, let's see the one that came sixth. Let us
see Pier Paolo Pasolini's latest film.
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