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Friday funny: Four Lions

by Sam Roggeveen - 19 March 2010 3:34PM

It's a two-fer today. First, Chaser writer Dominic Knight has this passive-aggressive letter to President Obama about his postponed visit to Australia.

And second, Four Lions is the name of a movie released in the UK in May about a group of hapless terrorists plotting an attack on London. Director Chris Morris describes the film as a 'farce' exposing the 'Dad's Army side to terrorism'. Here's the trailer:

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