Help! Comedy Sketch ID - "Olympics for the Dead"

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A friend's father was quizzing me about this, but I got nothing...

"Ten years or more ago (likely 20 years or more) I saw a satirical program on TV that I thought was supposed to be "Olympics for the Dead". Just a short skit, very funny and outrageous. There was a swimming race, where dead bodies (obviously, not real dead bodies) were thrown into a swimming pool for the swimming contest. I feel almost certain that another event was a high jump, where the bodies were thrown over a bar. It's the sort of thing you'd expect from Monty Python. I doubt that my title for the skit is correct, since I got no hit that way. I just can't believe that there's no trace of that skit somewhere accessible on the Internet, if only a mention of it."

Does anyone know what this might be?
Thanks in advance...

Your Ribs are My Ladder, Saturday, 4 October 2014 19:27 (ten years ago)

Only thing I can think of is the armando iannucci sketch set in heaven, where heaven is littered with inanimate but sentient corpses, and at the end there's a big musical number where they all float in a pool

lool at the herrlich (wins), Saturday, 4 October 2014 20:12 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1fG1UFME2o

lool at the herrlich (wins), Saturday, 4 October 2014 20:17 (ten years ago)

It's not this one, but thank you (and I love that show)... it would have been something that aired on American TV, for what that's worth.

Your Ribs are My Ladder, Monday, 6 October 2014 14:41 (ten years ago)


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