Category: Monty Python
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Mrs BJ Smegma
What’s your favourite comedy name? In my more formative years, I remember being told by someone whom I respected that the use of comedy names was the last resort of the desperate. This person of course, was very, very wrong. Re-watching Bottom, I’m appreciating some of the peripheral character names a great deal. Mr Sex,…
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Monty Python’s Viewer Discretion
Here’s how MTV introduced that night’s episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. And here’s a specially filmed intro with Chapman and Jones for WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago.
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Contemporaries Of The Summer Wine
Let’s have a quick look at what else was on the BBC channels the same night that the pilot for Last Of The Summer Wine aired – 4th January 1973. At 8 o’clock on BBC One, as part of the Comedy Playhouse, Roy Clarke introduced us to Compo, Clegg, and Blamire in The Last Of…
