Summary
Tracey Ullman stars in this one-off comedy special first aired in Great Britain in 1992, and subsequently in the United States in late 1993 on the American cable network HBO. A Class Act served as the follow-up to her American HBO comedy special Tracey Ullman Takes On New York, which aired a month prior in 1993. A Class Act studies and skewers the British class system. The show is broken up into three sketches. Ullman, accompanied by Monty Python alum Michael Palin, play the majority of the sketch characters.
The show introduced Trevor Ayliss, Virginia Bugge, and Janie Pillsworth. Two of Ullman's characters would go on to appear in Tracey Ullman Takes On New York HBO special, and then all three would appear regularly in the latter, Tracey Takes On....
The special was produced for ITV in the United Kingdom. The show would go on to make its American television debut on HBO in 1993, after the success of Tracey Ullman Takes On New York.
The show opens aboard "Class Air", a British airline that seats passengers according to social class: lower, middle, upper. Airline steward, Trevor Ayliss, explains to an American passenger the seating arrangement.
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