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Why were Gerry and Paul laughing at the prosecutor?

posted 9 years ago by Karnage2015
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Was it because of the wigs or his accent?

or both?

[–] Karnage2015 9 years ago

Could be. I only started laughing because they started laughing, lol. Didn't see anything inherently funny with the "lawyers", for a lack of a better term.

[–] mikeyg24 9 years ago

Barristers.

I've had a lot of sobering thoughts in my time Del Boy, it's them that started me drinking!

[–] fairy_depp 8 years ago

I think they were laughing at the absurdity of being accused of something they knew they hadn't done.. They didn't realise they would be found guilty

[–] spank-my-17 8 years ago

Yes, didn't they laugh the loudest when the prosecutor was reading the offenses of his aunt, dad and the others as the bomb makers and distributors? I just think they found the whole thing absurd.

[–] Gwasgray 8 years ago

I think it was mostly nerves, but his extremely posh voice probably threw them too. They'd probably never ever seen anyone speak like that in real life.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

That was odd but perhaps because this is a true story it was what they really did. I took it as nerves combined with immaturity and rebelliousness.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

They were both working class blokes who were very straight forward they were probably laughing for a lot of reasons but among them would have been how different these people were to them and the world they came from.