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Monty Python


Monty Python's Flying Circus

The first season was so poorly received in the UK that it was replaced in the Midlands by a farming programme.

The Pythons broke all the rules and their favourite targets included pompous bureaucrats, upper-class twits, lower-class twits in knotted handkerchiefs and, of course, accountants.

The programmes were made up of sketches that did away with punch lines and instead blundered from sketch to sketch with the help - or should it be hindrance - of bizarre animations by resident cartoonist Terry Gilliam.


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