There was a rowdy reunion at the NFT last night when Sir David Frost chatted to Sir Gerald Kaufman, Christopher Booker and Lance Percival about their days on That Was The Week That Was 50 years ago.
Kaufman and Booker each lay claim to a famously savage lampoon of Harold Macmillan’s stuffy Home Secretary Henry Brooke.
Frost then interviewed a younger generation of satirists, Rory Bremner, John Lloyd and Ian Hislop, who chided the TW3 team for its “mawkish” tribute to JFK on the day after his assassination in November 1963.
“There is no way that degree of sentimentality would get through these days,” he said, and if the current US President was shot, he added, he would write: “You can’t shoot Obama; yes we can,” only to be shouted down by fellow panellists for being so crass.
