Monty Python’s ‘Dinsdale’ sketch:
Vercotti: I’ve seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug.
Interviewer: What did he do?
Vercotti: He used sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire.
Presenter: By a combination of violence and sarcasm the Piranha brothers, by February 1966, controlled London and the South East.