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Post by Charles Bronson on Sept 15, 2017 21:50:20 GMT
I came across this Sketch in a YouTube video featuring some of the Monty Python members and made about two years before they made the Monty Python series.
I believe it's from an ITV series made about 1967 called ' At Last The Nineteen Forty Eight Show'
I found it quite funny myself. I'm not really a massive Monty Python fan, but I do like some of their stuff. This video is in black and white, there are some later colour versions of the sketch on YouTube, but I thought this was the funniest one.
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Post by Del Boy on Sept 16, 2017 21:32:51 GMT
That is a good find Charles I watched Monty Python the other day on BBC Four i think ? Had me and my lad laughing like no modern comedy of this day and age.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Sept 16, 2017 22:33:02 GMT
That is a good find Charles I watched Monty Python the other day on BBC Four i think ? Had me and my lad laughing like no modern comedy of this day and age. As I said, I noticed a few other versions of this sketch, one of them with Rowan Atkinson. After watching about 30 seconds I switched them off, for one thing the timing of the lines wasn't as good as the black and white sketch. I don't suppose the Python team will ever perform live again. The must be in their late seventies by now.
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Post by Del Boy on Sept 16, 2017 22:55:39 GMT
They did a weeks run at the O2 not so long ago. I think the general consensus from the team was that was the last time.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Sept 16, 2017 23:24:53 GMT
I've not seen this clip before though I have seen clips of 'At Last The 1948 Show' & another pre Python show 'Do Not Adjust Your Set'. Tim Brooke Taylor & Marty Feldman are the non Python members in this sketch. I think the popularity of Monty Python in America as a 'brand' is largely responsible for their reputation today, people in general are mostly unaware of the earlier shows that shaped it.
The first time I became aware of Monty Python was seeing the film 'And Now For Something Completely Different' on channel 4 in the 80's. I saw repeats of the original shows later. Hit & miss as well as maybe overrated but they paved the way for modern 'alternative' comedy. I like a lot of alternative comedy but at the same time I think the university educated comedians have a lot to answer for in terms of how 'traditional' comedy became persona non grata. I think John Cleese was early to recognise this when he appeared with Les Dawson on 'Sez Les'.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Sept 17, 2017 10:52:16 GMT
You've made a very good point there Arthur I was only thinking around two weeks ago that most of the comedy served up to us today is mostlly middle class, or am I wrong there ?
Years ago we seemed to get more "Working Class" comedy ( I'm not all that comfortable with that label, besides I don't want to get political.) These days we seem to get loads of these panel shows where upper middle class people laugh at each other's jokes presumably with a middle class audience or taped laughter ? Of course there's a place for middle class comedy, but I miss traditional comedy.
I remember reading David Jason's autobiography a few years ago and he said he had worked with some of the early Python guys in a show. I'm pretty sure it was 'At last The 1948 Show' David wasn't really bitter, but he said he was sort of sidelined by the university guys and left out of a lot of things. He was saying it was one of the times he had missed out on breaking through.
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Post by Vienna on Sept 17, 2017 13:31:29 GMT
I remember reading David Jason's autobiography a few years ago and he said he had worked with some of the early Python guys in a show. I'm pretty sure it was 'At last The 1948 Show' David wasn't really bitter, but he said he was sort of sidelined by the university guys and left out of a lot of things. He was saying it was one of the times he had missed out on breaking through. Charles. Charles, the show that David Jason appeared on was Do Not Adjust Your Set, which was transmitted by ITV in the late 1960s. I saw a rediscovered episode from 1968 last year in Birmingham. The Pythons did some really funny sketches at the time, such as one of my favourites 'The Fish Licence'.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Sept 17, 2017 15:04:16 GMT
I enjoyed that fish license bit Vienna. The Python team were very talented there's no doubt about it. One of the sketchs thats sticks in my mind is the one in which Eric Idle goes to the Travel Agent and goes on a non stop rant.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Sept 17, 2017 16:47:53 GMT
I quite like a bit of Python, indeed in 1990 I bought the complete episode dialogue book with all the sketches, although much funnier when you watch them. Some sketches are better than others but it was ground breaking stuff in some ways and some episodes are absolute laugh fests, with others being a bit silly and maybe getting boring if the sketch drags on too long! I got into them from repeat showings on BBC2 Autumn 1990 but they stopped them mid way through the 2nd series of 1970.
But they were all good, Graham Chapman sadly no longer with us since 1989 and now Terry Jones I understand sadly has dementia.
I remember some sketch shows in later years appeared to have taken inspiration from Python sketches; Russ Abbot more or less did a remake of the "Free Dung delivery" sketch (Free with the Book of the Month club!) aswell as dressing almost the same as the "Gumby" character the team created (Tank top, moustachied round glasses wearing dim wit with a knotted hanky on his head and shorts and hobnail boots).
Fry and Laurie took used a similar sketch plot involving people falling from buildings...........
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Post by Charles Bronson on Sept 18, 2017 21:27:01 GMT
Further to an earlier post I made in this thread about David Jason working with three members of what would later be the Python team. I wrongly said that David wasn't bitter.
I was in a bookshop today and noticed a copy of the David's autography, so I had a quick look at what David had to say about working with three of the future Python members in the very succesful TV show they'd made together in the sixties 'Don't Adjust Your Set.' In the book, David said among other things, that he was pretty bitter at the way he and a femail cast member were treated by the guys.
It's nice that David made the big time in the end though.
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