Dead Ringers

Dead Ringers (BBC Radio 4, 4 January 2000 – 20 October 2005; BBC Two, 18 November 2002 – 2007) is a UK radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC2. The programme was devised by Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. It stars Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwell, Kevin Connelly and Mark Perry. The principal writers are Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain. The other writers are John Finnemore, David Mitchell, Simon Blackwell, Richard Ward, Colin Birch, Carl Carter, Tony Cooke, Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens.

Harry Potter:
I need your advice, kindly old Dumbledore.

Gandalf:
No. What you need, Potter, are new glasses. I'm not Dumbledore, I'm Gandalf. The wise old wizard that guides a youthful hero on a journey of discovery.

Harry:
Yes, that's right, Dumbledore.

Gandalf:
Frodo, tell him that I'm Gandalf.

Frodo:
You're not Gandalf, Gandalf's here! [Points at Obi-Wan Kenobi ] The wise wizard that guides a young hero on a brave quest!

Obi-Wan:
No, young acolyte, I'm not Gandalf. I'm the old master who schools a young hero in a mystic art.

Harry:
Dumbledore!

Obi-Wan:
I'm not bloody Dumbledore. I'm the one who sacrifices himself in the first part of the trilogy, then comes back from the dead to help the hero!

Gandalf:
You've nicked that bit off me!

Frodo:
Harry, Dumbledore doesn't appear in this film because the actor who plays him is dead, but he will return played by somebody else.

Obi-Wan:
Like me, they've nicked that bit too!

Gandalf:
Look, it's my movie that's breaking all box office records, not your piss poor effort!

[Obi-Wan and Gandalf fight. Darth Vader enters.]

Gandalf:
Oh, that's all we need. (!) The evil villain who dabbles in the Dark Side of the mystic realm.

Frodo:
Saruman!

Obi-Wan:
No, that's [Vader] the villain who kills the father of the hero!

Harry:
That's Lord Voldemort!

Vader:
I'm not Voldemort! Anyway, that's just a story they tell the hero. The truth is I'm really his father.

Harry:
You're my father?

Vader:
I am. [Beat] Oh, bugger! That's really spoilt the ending of the fifth book, hasn't it?


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