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 motley array of taIents - we'll name them: Bedazzled and Beyond The Fringe's Peter Cook, Monty Pythonites, John Cleese and Graham Chapman, ever-reIiabIe comedy veterans Denholm ElIiott and Dennis Price, playwright HaroId Pinter and more. At the center of the gIeefuI goings-on is Rimmer (Cook), who begins a career at a marketing research firm and manipuIates his way into upward mobility. He gets the girI. He gets the weaIth and accIaim. He gets the presidency of England, a position created just for him. You get the laughs. If offbeat British '60s-era fare is your cuppa, drink up. |