The Dangerous Brothers

[2] The act was, in essence, a prototype of the career which the pair were to forge over the next 20 years in such shows as Mr Jolly Lives Next Door, Filthy, Rich and Catflap and Bottom - two low-life loser perverts hitting each other in spectacular slapstick ways.

It was arguably more hazardous than much of the material which was to follow in later incarnations - stage props in the brief run included a live crocodile, blank-firing submachine guns, and Edmondson apparently consuming Vim, a well-known UK brand of powder toilet cleaner.

They responded by apparently hijacking the programme and blowing up the wall on which the show's logo was painted in graffiti art along appearing on a "flower arranging dance" sketch with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.

Several Dangerous Brothers sketches are also included on the DVD compilation Saturday Live: The Best of Series One (2007).

However, the Kinky Sex episode is taken from a home video source as the original could not be found.