Yet Mr Bush's week from hell actually contained two important bits of good news.

ECONOMIST: George Bush at bay

Mr Varney played the perky Cockney survivor making life hell for the lugubrious Blakey, the bus-inspector, a Hitler lookalike who swore at the end of every episode to get even with him, and never did.

ECONOMIST: Jack Scott and Reg Varney

Mr. Cosby says he was afraid to say "hell" on stage when his mother was in the audience.

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