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Welcome aboard Air Scotia – flying out of Scotland’s Prestwick Airport with the most useless cabin crew ever to push a drinks trolley…
Effete narcissist Sebastian and sex-obsessed Steve are junior cabin crew. Sharp, bitchy and witty, they flounce up and down the aisles bringing passengers and crew down to earth with a bump, but always managing to keep those plastic smiles in place. Sebastian and Steve long for promotion to the delights of Air Scotia's long-haul service, but standing in their path is "Hitler-in-tights" chief-stewardess Shona. Meanwhile, imperilling their lives is deranged pilot, Captain Duff, who frequently needs to be reminded who he is, where the cockpit is and exactly where he is flying to. Featuring song and dance, fabulously bitchy quips, a little surrealism and some out-and-out childishness, The High Life delighted viewers with its mix of Scottish sensibility and camp outrageousness. Series highlights included the hilarious opening titles and theme song; Shona presenting the Air Scotia’s in-flight video; the Eurovision Song Contest entry "Pif Paf Pof (I Want To Have It Off)" and a gorgeously camp Batman spoof.
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72 of 73 people found the following review helpful
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Format:DVD
Written and performed by Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson, The High Life tells of Air Scotia's most useless cabin crew twosome, camp alcoholic Sebastian (Cumming) and insecure sex-obsessed Steve (Masson), and their various escapades. This six-part series was a product of a pilot (pun intended) for Comic Asides, which was eventually reworked as Episode Four in the series (Choob). This is not everyone's cup of tea, but if your thing is pantoesque quickfire dialogue, bitchy quips and much alliteration aplenty you will LOVE it.
Highlights include the gorgeously camp Batman spoof in the final episode, the Eurovision Song Contest entry "Pif Paf Pof (I Want To Have It Off)", complete with black lycra cycling shorts, and the hilarious opening titles and theme song, also written by Cumming and Masson. Siobhan Redmond is also fabulous as head air steward Shona Spurtle - "Hitler in tights".
A truly original comedy gem that should have been given a second series, before Cummings went Hollywood-bound.
Dearie me!
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By qtvxzplr
Format:DVD
I saw this hilarious Scottish comedy around 10 years ago on BBC America. If I'd known I would never see it again (until the new release date), I would have recorded it then. It was never released on DVD in America and the discontinued British release was too expensive. So I've just kept checking for a new release. Huzzah! Words can't really describe the twisted hilarity and (for some) impenetrable Scottishness of this show. Too bad they didn't make more episodes, but at least it's finally available again.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By Ms. Felicia Davis-burden
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Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
There are many barmy moments of deranged genius in this series. I watched it both times it was aired on the BBC, loved it to pieces and was delighted to find it finally on DVD at a VERY low price.
Wonderful characters: Captain Hilary Duff - part-Volcan, lamenting his marital difficulties 'she didn't understand me, she's from Sri Lanka', and always having to be reminded that he's meant to be piloting the plane to Heathrow. Shona Spurtal - Chief Stewardess - aka Mussolini in Micromesh, Hitler in Tights or Goebals in a Gossard. Steve McCracken - ginger haired, sex-starved with a passion for finding ever elusive passion. Sebastian Flight - Bitchy fellow steward with Eurovision stardom pretension, composer of that fabulous null-point corker 'Piff Paff Poff'. Cameo roles by such luminaries as Guy Wersh - Scottish rock star 'Pushing 30.... Years in showbiz, babe!', composer of classic albums such as 'Badger Ma Tadger' by the Ganting Screechs. And so on.
Really hilarious, perfect viewing for those evenings when you need to recover from your soul-destroying job. Just think, it could be worse - you could be a trolley-dolly driven to cabin-aisle performances of Bolero in a cleaning pinny to liven up the early hours... Oh deary me!
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Still Love these two
Never forget this series. All episodes are magic apart from the last one, which feels as if its been cobbled together with no real idea behind it. Read more
Published 17 days ago by S. Aleppo
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent comedy
scottish comedy at its best great cast well written helps to know scottish may not be for kids [ adult themes]
Published 1 month ago by s henry
4.0 out of 5 stars
Camp as it gets!
I loved this in the 90s - very funny and silly.
If you like bitchy camp humour, delivered in Scottish accents, and dwelling on Scottish themes/names (ie tablet recpies,... Read more
If you like bitchy camp humour, delivered in Scottish accents, and dwelling on Scottish themes/names (ie tablet recpies,... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Pearly Queen
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Memories
First saw this show while visiting Britain in 1996. Had flown there with an airline whose livery was very similar to Air Scotia with an in flight magazine the "High Life"... Read more
Published 1 month ago by R M Bound
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The High Life
Brilliant DVD - Alan Cumming is hilarious and the whole DVD is funny. Shame they didn't make more - brilliantly observed details about passengers and the other crew members - you... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr N Bridger
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hahahah !
A true Scots comedy classic, so so so funny, the one liners just keep (Alan) Cumming - highly recommended !
Published 4 months ago by Stuart Davidson
4.0 out of 5 stars
Never quite as good as you remember
...having said that, The High Life, with all of its 6 (plus pilot) episodes, reminds us of how mid-90s comedies were: jaunty, colourful and somewhat repressed in terms of language. Read more
Published 4 months ago by phatboi
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent product
DVD arrived in quick time and was well packaged, Have not seen this series since the 90's and is just as funny now as it was then, shame there was not another series.
Published 4 months ago by ballackluft13
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you like Mrs Brown's Boys . . .
I think you would like this. It is the same kind of irreverent humour. This is hilarious. I thought the last episode was the weakest even so this is a keeper for the collection.
Published 7 months ago by Lulu Rosie
5.0 out of 5 stars
Oh, dearie me
I almost split my sides laughing when this came out out at the time, even when replaying the videos I had made. Read more
Published 8 months ago by L. E. Metcalfe
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