# Quetion about "Not the Nine O'Clock News" Sketch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2018, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quetion-about-not-the-nine-oclock-news-sketch/816017 "2018-06-13T12:01:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quetion-about-not-the-nine-oclock-news-sketch/816017/1 "2018-06-13T12:01:59Z")
At the very end: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjiH4wSF3Rk) “Hedgehog”??? :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quetion-about-not-the-nine-oclock-news-sketch/816017/2 "2018-06-13T13:27:06Z")
I think the context is missing to know for sure, but I imagine it’s [a running joke](https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1099520/not-the-nine-o-clock-news-hedgehog-sandwich/). ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quetion-about-not-the-nine-oclock-news-sketch/816017/3 "2018-06-13T13:37:39Z")
It’s an in joke referring to the controversy caused when, in the previous show: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9lmCpIzhFo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9lmCpIzhFo) ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quetion-about-not-the-nine-oclock-news-sketch/816017/4 "2018-06-13T13:44:07Z")
Great sketch. I loved the songs as well, a particular favourite was Pamela’s love song for everyone’s favourite Islamic revolutionary. ["Ayatolla…Khomeini closer, and I will fall for your charms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iPgOBoqsaQ)" ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quetion-about-not-the-nine-oclock-news-sketch/816017/5 "2018-06-13T14:55:29Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > It’s an in joke referring to the controversy caused when, in the previous show: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9lmCpIzhFo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9lmCpIzhFo) Perhaps this belongs in the “obvious things about a creative work” thread, but it was quite a while before I realized that Mel Smith was also the albino in _The Princess Bride_. To be clear, I knew him from TPB first. I was dimly aware of _Not the Nine O’Clock News_, but had seen Gerald the Gorilla and Monty Python Worshipers. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quetion-about-not-the-nine-oclock-news-sketch/816017/6 "2018-06-13T16:04:08Z")
Couldn’t find the clip but IIRC after a number of complaints about the squashed hedgehog, the following week they pointed out that the hedgehog was stuffed, “ **And we would like to point out that we exhibited less cruelty to hedgehogs per se that whoever it is who goes around stuffing them** ”. They also invited anyone with info on this to write in to “We want to know who stuffs hedgehogs” c/o the BBC