Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)

Dinsdale! (1970)

Michael Palin: It's Man, First Gas Man, Mr. Pudey, Silly Walker, Jean-Brian Zatapathique, Mrs. April Simmel, Luigi Vercotti

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• Luigi Vercotti. : I'd been running a successful escort agency, high class, no really, high class girls, we didn't have any of that. That was right out.

  [Phone rings] 

  Luigi Vercotti. : Hello? Not now, not now. Schtoom, schtoom! Right, we'll have the watch ready for you at midnight. The watch. The *Chinese watch.* Right, bye-bye. Mother.

  [Hangs up] 

  Luigi Vercotti. : So I decided to set up a high-class night club for the gentry at Biggleswade. With international cuisine and cooking and top line acts. And not a cheap clip-joint for picking up tarts, that was right out, I deny that completely. And one evening, Dinsdale walks in with a couple of big lads. One of whom was carrying a tactical nuclear missile. They said I'd bought one of their fruit machines and would I pay for it?

  Second Interviewer : How much did they want?

  Luigi Vercotti. : Three quarters of a million pounds. And they went out.

  Second Interviewer : Why didn't you call for the police?

  Luigi Vercotti. : Well I noticed that the fellow with the thermonuclear device was the chief constable for the area. Anyway, a week later, they came back, said that the cheque had bounced and that I had to see... Doug.

  Second Interviewer : Doug?

  Luigi Vercotti. : Doug.

  [Takes a drink] 

  Luigi Vercotti. : I was terrified of him. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug.

  Second Interviewer : What did Doug do?

  Luigi Vercotti. : He used sarcasm. He really knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire.