The Reckoning (the BBC Savile drama starring Coogan)

It's just such an awful yet perfect bit of casting. I'm dreading it and can't wait to watch it... It's a weird feeling!

Coogan has made a living out of having a very keen eye for spoofing the ridiculousness of media so I'd be surprised if he doesn't know what he's doing with this.

I'm kind of hoping he just goes all in with a spitting image style impression though. Hows about that then.

I was surprised that nobody in Cleveland knows who he is, but then I realised you probably mean Cleveland Ohio.

Johnny Rotten knew what was going on, there was an unaired BBC interview from back in the day where he said he'd like to kill Saville.

Went off and watched the Johnny Rotten thing again, still found his smug shit eating grin annoying, which is beside the point. It is shocking how long he got away with it being common knowledge.

Watched a couple of other vids as well while I was there, including one where he's reading out letters on JFI,and some kid wrote in and said "something, something, something, please don't tickle me" To which Saville replied "I don't usually tickle little boys, but if you've got a sister...."

This was a strange chapter. I can't find the footage of Merton ripping into Savile anywhere. I remember seeing it, as do dozens of others online yet they're saying it was a hoax and for the life of me. A hoax that contained next to no comedy, it was Paul Merton Drilling Savile in a really pretty nasty, yet on the nose manner. 

I feel like it's has been scrubbed by the beeb. Here's a thing about it, and I'm chinny about the whole hoax angle. 



Here is the transcript of the part they're omitting.

DEAYTON: You used to be a wrestler didn't you?
SAVILLE: I still am.
DEAYTON: Are you?
SAVILLE: I'm feared in every girls' school in the country.
(Audience laugh)
DEAYTON: Yeah, I've heard about that.
SAVILLE: What have you heard?
DEAYTON: I've...
MERTON: Something about a cunt with a rancid, pus-filled cock.
(Huge audience laugh; Awkward pause)
SAVILLE: I advise you to wash your mouth out, my friend...
MERTON: That's what she had to do! (Audience laughs)
HISLOP: Weren't you leaving money in phone boxes or something?
(Saville glares at him) Or have I got completely the wrong end of the...
SAVILLE: (To Deayton, heavily) The question you asked was about wrestling.
DEAYTON: Yes. And then you mentioned girls' schools. I don't know whe...
SAVILLE: Well I understood this was a comedy programme. I realise now how wrong I was. (Audience laugh)
DEAYTON: So were you a professional wrestler?
SAVILLE: Yes I was.
DEAYTON: (To audience) Glad we got that cleared up.(Pulls face; audience giggles)
HISLOP: Feared by every girls' school in the country...
SAVILLE: That's right.
MERTON: Due to having a rancid, pus-filled cock.(Huge audience laugh)
DEAYTON: Erm...
HISLOP: You're on top form tonight, Paul...
SAVILLE: (Strangely) I'm...this is not what I...
FLOOR MANAGER: (OOV) OK, do you...(inaudible section)...shall we, for pick-ups...
MERTON: I'm terribly sorry. I don't know what came over me.
SAVILLE: A pus-filled cock, I imagine. (Shocked audience laugh)
MERTON: Oh, it's nice to see you joining in. We'd been waiting for you, you sad senile old shitter. (Audience appears to do double-take)
DEAYTON: I think we...d-d-you you want to apologise to our guest, Paul?
MERTON: Sorry, I do apologise. Sir senile old shitter, is what I meant to say.
(Audience laugh; pause) Sir senile old shitter...who fucks minors.
(Audience unrest)
HISLOP: Sorry, I'm just looking at our lawyer again. (Waves) Hello!
(Audience laughs)
DEAYTON: Shall we get back on course with this, or sha...
SAVILLE: I do fuck miners, that's quite correct. I have always done so. They can do the most wonderful things with cigars. The coal...
MERTON: What, they stick them up your senile, pus-filled arse?
(Audience laughs)
FLOOR MANAGER: (OOV): Come on...I'm getting an ear-bashing here. It's...
MERTON: Oh they want to continue. Sorry, I'll contain myself. Carry on...
DEAYTON: Right (Pause) You used to be a professional wrestler didn't you?
(Huge audience laugh)
SAVILLE: (Calmly) I did.
DEAYTON: You didn't have a nickname or anything?
SAVILLE: Yes - 'Loser'. (Audience laughs)
___________________________________

Out-take 4: 21'20

Following a discussion about caravans:

DEAYTON: Last month, Roger Moore sold his luxury caravan in Malta. Asked by the...
MERTON: I visited your caravan the other week, Jimmy.
SAVILLE: Did you really?
MERTON: Oh yes. Interesting what you can find, if you have a bit of a poke.
(Audience laugh)
HISLOP: He just told you, it was twelve years ago...
SAVILLE: No, I lived in it for twelve years.
MERTON: And fucked twelve year olds. (Audience laugh)
DEAYTON: Here we go again...I'll be backstage if anyone wants me.
MERTON: (Indicating Saville) That's what you said to the kids on your show, wasn't it?
(Audience laugh)
SAVILLE: No, they never did want me.
HISLOP: Not even Sarah Cornley?
SAVILLE: She was an exception.
DEAYTON: Who's Sarah Cornley?
SAVILLE: Sarah Cornley is...
HISLOP: About fifteen grand in damages, wasn't she?
(Uncertain audience laugh)
SAVILLE: That's right.
HISLOP: So if I was going to mention that you threatened to break her arm if she said anything...
SAVILLE: You'd be very wrong. (Pause) I said I'd break both her arms.
(Audience unease)
MERTON: Fucking hell. I mean, you're just sitting there, all shell suit and cigar wearing those fucking...I don't know what they are.
SAVILLE: Chrome-plated SC-700 sun-visors, these are. Sent to me by...
MERTON: We don't give a shit. Ladies and gentlemen, Sir James Saville OBE. Jim has fixed it for me to have my arms broken. Meet this depressing old fucked up cunt of a fucker on television who's riddled with cancer and fucking pubic lice.
HISLOP: (To lawyer again) Hello! (Audience laughs)
MERTON: Christ, I mean ha ha, big fucking joke - the fucking lawyers are involved, tee hee. It doesn't change anything.
DEAYTON: (Visibly out of character) Do you wanna stop, or...?
MERTON: No I don't fucking want to stop. It's all shit! You'll expect a comedy walkout in a minute, won't you? I mean, big bloody joke - I'm going to quote Shakespeare in a minute, how fucking out of character. And Ian knows about football - oh my fucking sides.
SAVILLE: You've never fucked anyone in your life, boy.
MERTON: Oh fuck off...
FLOOR MANAGER: (OOV) ...About five minutes, just to...(Phil Davey enters)
PHIL DAVEY: OK, well top that as they say. You're looking troubled by that, aren't you mate? I tell you, I came back from Amsterdam recently...
RECORDING PLACED ON STAND-BY; CUTS BACK TO CLOSE-UP OF DEAYTON
AWAITING HIS CUE
DEAYTON: OK. Second time lucky. (Pause) Last month, Roger Moore sold his luxury caravan in Malta. Asked by the New York Times about his relaxed acting style...

Ed: here's one such guy who saw it. The pus-filled cock part stuck in my mind.
www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/22840/#P822120

Am I suffering from some Mandela effect shit? Did anyone else see it?

I didn't read any transcript until today.

I feel like the beeb had it scrubbed from youtube and they're going with this hoax story instead to reduce their blame on the open secret thing. It simply didn't make sense to have an outtake from a comedy show at that time that isn't funny and completely on the nose, which might fly now in a meta comedy sense, but that wasn't a thought process in 2007 or whenever it aired.

And I fucking saw it.

Also here's Johnny talking about how open the secret was. youtu.be/V4wNH2tQQog?t=75

Seems a little odd to hoax such an obvious and open secret. And that it was the only "manufactured" outtake on HIGNFY.

Where did you see this unaired outtake from HIGNFY

It's 100% a hoax. The blog linked to a little further up goes into great detail of it. The Mandela effect is heightened here by the transcript partially matching an actual recorded show, but that's about it.

In this day and age if it existed, it would be on one of the video sites that don't give a shit about takedowns.

That Merton transcript feels fake just from reading it to me. Although I think there was some near the knuckle stuff.

I think Lee & Herring dropped stuff into Fist of Fun too but it was all about not leaving Saville alone in a morgue.

Mrs Hermit suffers from the Mandela effect all the time. She's always giving me shit about stuff that she swears blind I've said or did or would do that I haven't, although on reflection that might be down to me not remembering that I said or did or would do those things. It's all so confusing.

Was there a clip of Gary Glitter shhing someone on a TV show when they were talking about him with school kids or is that also made up? I can't find it on YT

I did find this video of Gary and Jimmy brazenly parading themselves about on TV together though

I vaguely remember the same discussion about that transcript on EG back in 2012. It probably did the rounds on Twitter at the time.

I just can't see Paul Merton thinking pus filled cock is the bit to keep drilling down on.

It's all I dreamed off.