Drop the Dead Donkey

Drop the Dead Donkey1990

Drop the Dead Donkey is a British television sitcom that first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 1998. It is set in the offices of "GlobeLink News", a fictional TV news company. Recorded close to transmission, it made use of … more »



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Henry Davenport:
So hands up all those who agree with Tom. So there we are. Let me remind you that this week on Davenport's Dilemmas we're dealing with divorce. Now Leslie, uh, Leslie, your husband left you. How did you feel?

Lesley:
Shattered, Henry. For weeks I just cried and cried.

Henry Davenport:
Really?

Lesley:
I'd done nothing to deserve it and yet I was totally abandoned.

Henry Davenport:
Well, presumably, old father time heals all wounds.

Lesley:
No, I still feel totally wretched. If you're a forty-five year old divorcee, nobody is interested. You're totally on the scrapheap.

Henry Davenport:
Yes, yes, but on the other hand, you are a self-pitying winger.

Lesley:
Sorry?

Henry Davenport:
Well you might be-hand's up all those men in who here who wouldn't touch Leslie with a barge pole.

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