Macmillan Gets Roasted at the Comedy Show | The Crown (Claire Foy, Anton Lesser, Richard Lintern)

[@martin13145]

Fun fact: Harold Macmillan did in fact go to see "Beyond the Fringe" in 1962, and the performers did realise he was in the public. The actor who portrayed MacMillan on stage ad-libbed: "When I’ve a spare evening there’s nothing I like better than to wander over to a theatre and sit there listening to a group of sappy, urgent, vibrant young satirists, with a stupid great grin spread all over my silly old face"

[@CCNYMacGuy]

I don't understand how anyone could rise to such a senior political rank and not realize that you need to be prepared with witty comebacks, quips, or similar in these types of situations. I'm by no means a fan of Reagan, but he's an example of a guy who always had crack ready to go in that kind of situation.

[@starguy321]

@@CCNYMacGuyAt the time in Britain it was seen as the gentlemanly thing to not rise to it. He could hardly heckle from the middle of the theatre. When appropriate, he was amongst our wittiest Prime Ministers

[@Brenda-ny1gw]

I like the interpretation of Macmillan, he was a nice guy and people could see through it and felt it gave them an opening to be rude and unkind with him. From his wife, to the comedians and ending with the Queen who called him a weak man to his face! Had he had the pride of Winston and Anthony, he'd have resigned when he first wished to and most likely, the Queen wouldn't have insulted him

[@starguy321]

Eden didn’t resign out of choice, but because his health was faltering. Macmillan just pretended his health was so he could go. He was an old man who’d been working at senior levels of Government and the Conservative Party for over 20 years, during the extreme stress of the Second World War and the early Cold War. He did a 6 year stint in an extremely stressful job, and despite the cool air of public unflappability was a nervous man. He did his time

[@BatmanHQYT]

It's okay, he found his true calling as a mad scientist working for Cersei Lannister.

[@lordpeterwimsey851]

I thought he became a Superintendent for Thames Valley Constabulary

[@MrWingull]

And a major in the ISB

[@merlinthomi]

@@MrWingull I knew I knew him from somewhere!

[@michaelmccomb2594]

Not before serving as Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII

[@87krull]

“They took my chain, but cowardly men will always be chained…”

[@jonathaneugene2582]

Keep it up with the crown videos of any season. My favorite show on Netflix

[@bridykes9986]

Poor guy his wife made him a fool couldn't take the pressures of the job when he was doing it for years prior It I guess got to him

[@thebernice6062]

I really like the prosecutor's closing argument in this scene. It feels so full of cold, menacing, spite for the old British upper class. Combined with the satirists, the scene is very effective in condemning the old British class system.

[@Publicenemy85]

The Profumo scandal was in a way the UK’s much less dramatic version of the Kennedy assassination. In that it was a turning point where the British general public started distrusting the elites and ruling class. My grandfather was stationed in the UK at the end of his career in the US Air Force and he told me how the British press, political satire and distrust in the elites really took off right around that time.

[@anothersoul1881]

CURSSEE YOUUU BAYLLEEE

[@s.henrlllpoklookout5069]

I miss Peter Cook

[@GustavoFV2024]

Who is the person being sentenced by the Judge?

[@catzenhouse]

Stephen Ward.

[@melissamarsh2219]

Stephen Ward

[@dnorfed]

Stephen ward, who would commit suicide over the scandal a few days after

[@katymagnets]

Stephen Ward, the definition of a scapegoat.

[@drparnassus2867]

Peter Cook had massive cojones; Stephen Ward was innocent, OK