Hancock's Half Hour - No. 61

"THE LIFT"

[ Available on B.B.C. video: "The Lift"; Catalogue No. BBCV4038 ]

HANCOCK ON HOW TO CALL A LIFT

AIR MARSHALL:

Well now, what's happening? What's wrong - trouble with the lift? Anybody pressed the button?

HANCOCK:

Do you know, we'd never thought of that! "Anybody pressed the button?" Dear oh dear, the military mind! Of course we've pressed the button - what do you think we've been doing? Trying to pull it up by the rope?

HANCOCK ON HOW TO COPE IN A STUCK LIFT

HANCOCK:

Doctor, what have you got in your little black bag there? Got any sleeping pills?

DOCTOR:

Yes.

HANCOCK:

Right, two each all round, let's forget all about it!

HANCOCK KEEPS SPIRITS HIGH

WOMAN IN LIFT:

I'm suffocating! I've got to get out of here!

MAN IN LIFT:

My wife's got claustrophobia!

HANCOCK:

Oh yes? That's a handy thing to have in a lift, init? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha .....