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The Fish-Slapping Dance is a comedy sketch written and performed by the Monty Python team. The sketch was originally recorded in 1971 for a pan- European May Day special titled Euroshow 71 . [ 1 ] In 1972 it was broadcast as part of episode two of series three of Monty Python's Flying Circus , which was titled "Mr & Mrs Brian Norris' Ford Popular".
"Romantic Interlude" (S1, E5): Brian and Elspet (Jones and Cleveland) begin ravishing each other on a bed, and several suggestive images are shown (an industrial chimney collapse shown in reverse, a train entering a tunnel, a torpedo being fired, etc.), but the images are actually only films being played by Brian, on a projector propped on the ...
Children's Stories Idle starts reading children's stories that become increasingly sexual. Restaurant Sketch; Seduced Milkmen. the woman seen is often said to be Carol Cleveland, but it is actually Thelma Taylor, [8] who is uncredited. Cleveland does appear in a version of this sketch, made for the film And Now for Something Completely Different.
When Monty Python's Flying Circus was shown in the U.S. by ABC in their Wide World of Entertainment slot in 1975, the episodes were re-edited to allow time for commercials, thus losing the continuity and flow intended in the originals. When ABC refused to stop screening the series in this form, the Pythons took them to court.
His catchphrase is: "I throw the fish away, and it comes back to me!" Lew appears on The Muppet Show from season three onward trying to promote his Boomerang Fish act. He is also able to play a fish organ (a line of fish that, when squeezed, each gargle a different note). The sketches he appears in usually end with the entire stage in an uproar.
Eric Idle was born on 29 March 1943 in Harton Hospital, in South Shields. [1] His mother, Norah Barron Sanderson, [2] was a nurse, [1] and his father, Ernest Idle, [2] [3] served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, only to be killed in a road accident while hitchhiking home for Christmas in December 1945.
Neil James Innes (/ ˈ ɪ n ɪ s /; 9 December 1944 – 29 December 2019) was an English writer, comedian and musician.He first came to prominence in the comedy rock group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later became a frequent collaborator with the Monty Python troupe on their BBC television series and films, and is often called the "seventh Python" along with performer Carol Cleveland.
"The Lumberjack Song" is a comedy song by the comedy troupe Monty Python. The song was written and composed by Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson. [1] [2] [3]It first appeared in the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Ant: An Introduction" on BBC1 on 14 December 1969.