On of the most wonderful bits of comedy dialogue I’ve ever come across is the wonderfully constructed Monty Python sketch by Eric Idle, Travel Agent.

While the best interpretation of this is probably the live version (most notably the one performed at The Hollywood Bowl) the version in the second series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus is perfectly good. It concerns a potential tourist, Mr Smoketoomuch, (Eric Idle as a man who cannot pronounce the letter “c”) which enters a travel agent’s and embarks on a superbly frank monologue about foreign holidays. Despite being recorded in 1970, it seems nothing has changed…

Essentially a two hander, Mr Bounder is the travel agent, played by Michael Palin. The following exchange is particularly memorable: (more…)

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