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Monty Python’s In-Studio Sketches Sometimes Played to Complete Silence

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 ...
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Monty Python comedy an acquired taste

To round out our look at comedians this month, I bring you the story of a television show that influenced generations of comedy. In October 1969, a new sketch comedy show aired on British television. ...
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Bob Odenkirk Calls Monty Python’s “Déjà Vu” Sketch “Brilliant” From Start to Finish

Not everyone can make comedy that stands the test of time as well as Monty Python did, and few people get this like Bob Odenkirk. That's because, before he ventured into more diverse genres like drama ...
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Monty Python’s fourth season: The terrible end of the greatest sketch show of all time

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 ...