Pleasure at Her Majesty's (1976)

Directed by

Roger Graef, Jonathan Miller

Genre

comedy, documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a film of a live comedy benefit show for Amnesty International. Comedians and performers from the UK put on sketches and music to raise money for human rights.

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What happens

A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick) is the title of the first show in what later became the Secret Policeman's Ball series of benefit shows for human rights organization Amnesty International, although it pre-dated by three years the first show to bear that name. The film of the show was titled Pleasure at Her Majesty's which is sometimes mistakenly thought to be the title of the actual benefit show. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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