The Thick of It (TV Series)

Episode #4.7 (2012)

Chris Addison: Oliver Reeder

Quotes 

• Oliver Reeder : Well, who says I even want to be you, Malcolm? Who says that?

  Malcolm Tucker : Nobody says that.

  [pauses] 

  Malcolm Tucker : Except every screaming atom of that etiolated stick of fuck you call a body says that. Every fibre of your being, every stamen... says that.

• Malcolm Tucker : I knew Malcolm F Tucker, sir. And you are not Malcolm Fucking Tucker. You're not even fucking Manchester's top Malcolm Tucker tribute band. And trying to be me, you? Trying to be me will fucking kill you. I give you 18 months before you're a washed-out, weeping alcoholic with no fucking bladder control. Sleeping on your brother-in-law's sofa.

  Oliver Reeder : And so on and so on, it doesn't have to be like that now, Malcolm, politics has actually changed.

  Malcolm Tucker : Oh?

  Oliver Reeder : Right. Yeah, yeah. And you probably haven't noticed because you've been on transmit for the last fucking eight years Waa-waa-waa-waa-waa! And whilst you've been doing that, everybody else has been changing, and it's all a bit softcore now, it's all a bit algorithms now. You don't have to be Malcolm Tucker to sit in that chair.