Swearing at the Queen
The Bugle
The Bugle
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2008
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The 21st ever Bugle podcast, from 2008. Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle Audio Newspaper for a Visual World |
| 0:17.9 | Hello Bugleers, welcome to issue 21 of the Bugle The World's only audio newspaper |
| 0:25.3 | as far as we're concerned for the week beginning Monday the 17th of March 2008 with me and |
| 0:31.7 | his ultimate in London and in New York City USA John Oliver good morning afternoon or evening |
| 0:37.7 | Bugleers delete as appropriate I'm back I've cheated death I shook hands with the devil |
| 0:43.6 | now I'm stronger than ever I could never be defeated I think this means I'm technically |
| 0:47.3 | immortal now apologies go out if any of you had problems getting last week's Bugle apparently |
| 0:53.9 | we had server problems now there is a reason for this and that is that the British and American |
| 0:58.7 | governments fear the Bugle and the power of its satirical comedy and not only have they |
| 1:04.5 | been trying to stop the Bugle being broadcast via iTunes but they also kidnapped me last |
| 1:09.0 | week chain me to radiator and stole all of my jokes but we are back as always some sections |
| 1:16.6 | of the Bugle go straight in the bin this week a home electronic section including why |
| 1:21.4 | buy a dog when a plasma screen television gives you so much more in return does the internet |
| 1:26.9 | chat room in the end of the traditional stand-up argument and does the camera spell the |
| 1:32.0 | end of traditional painting and also in a special history pull out in the bin if Henry |
| 1:37.6 | 8th have been alive today would have been dead by now top story this week and be proud |
| 1:55.0 | to be British go on try harder even if you're not at least try it you might like it prime |
| 2:01.2 | minister Gordon Brown suggested this week a new holiday celebrating Britishness and on |
| 2:06.0 | top of that encouraging school children to swear allegiance to the country every morning |
| 2:10.9 | to combat a perceived slide in national pride there is no national pride in Britain anymore |
| 2:17.0 | Andy but for good reason we've lost everything we are the shell shocked man walking away from |
| 2:23.3 | the casino at five in the morning rehearsing what he's going to tell his wife we collectively |
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