It’s virtually impossible to describe just how vital this sketch is to our comedy heritage without sounding like a total t*sspot and spouting phrases like “comedy heritage”.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus contained so many wonderful moments, so good in fact that it took me a while to settle on this clip.
In the end, however, an unwanted [...]
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Wecwassification!
Almost 30 years after being banned by the local authority on grounds of blasphemy, Monty Python’s The Life of Brian will finally be screened in the Devon resort of Torbay this Sunday.
Back in 1979, Torbay Council said the films AA rating (for ages 14 and over) was unsuitable and wanted it reclassified for adults only [...]
Monty Python Olympiad
Let’s get one thing settled - the Olympics are always taken very seriously, but back in the day the Monty Python team showed the world just how silly they really are…
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Ripping Yarns!
[singlepic=65,320,240,,right]This is what Comedy Connections are all about - never mind fanciful canon-busting nonsense like The Liver Birds, as funny as a cold fish pie, give us more like this!
Next Friday sees the Michael Palin and Terry Jones spoof Boy’s Own adventure serial Ripping Yarns given the Comedy Connections treatment, pitting the superb Tomkinson’s School [...]
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At long last, the page you’ve been waiting for!
The original version of Quintessential Comedy featured the first in a series of articles and essays about comedy. Kicking it off was a piece on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which finally (!) I’ve reproduced here…
[singlepic=56,320,240,,right]Dipping back to the past, remembering the things we saw and did is [...]
