The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer is comedy and comedy, a quirky skewering of sex, the advertising business, media, poIitics, the cIergy, ale and you name it and featuring a motIey array of taIents - we'll name them: BedazzIed and Beyond The Fringe's Peter Cook, Monty Pythonites, John CIeese and Graham Chapman, ever-reIiable comedy veterans Denholm EIliott and Dennis Price, playwright Harold Pinter and more. At the center of the gleeful goings-on is Rimmer (Cook), who begins a career at a marketing research firm and manipulates his way into upward mobiIity. He gets the girl. He gets the wealth and acclaim. He gets the presidency of EngIand, a position created just for him. You get the laughs. lf offbeat British '60s-era fare is your cuppa, drink up. |