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A running gag in Monty Python’s Flying Circus found the show occasionally cutting away to old stock footage of an audience of elderly women tepidly applauding. Well, it turns out that this joke may ...
Writers (L-R) Ian MacNaughton, Michael Palin, unknown, Graham Chapman, and Neil Innes in a script conference for BBC television show ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, 1974. (Photo by Chris Ridley/Radio ...
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise during a rehearsal for The Morecambe & Wise Show in 1981 - Peter Bolton/TV Times via Getty Images While no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition, we always anticipated our ...
Monty Python is a comedy troupe of 5 Brits and 1 American who re-wrote the rules of comedy with their TV show "Monty Python's Flying Circus". The group includes Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle ...
Michael Palin of British comedy troupe Monty Python was held at gunpoint by armed Venezuelan guards until showing them a 1971 sketch from the show. He said the stop, while filming a new travelogue TV ...
Three decades ago, a corporate miscue changed comedic history. It put episodes of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” into the eccentric hands of the guys who created it. Now all of those episodes are ...