Life of Python Page #2
- Year:
- 1990
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The Sun And Splendour,
in Notting Hill Gate.
writing some jokes
off the newspapers,
send them in the taxi.
The next day, I'd come in
and hear my jokes
being told at the bar.
Gilliam wasn't alive then.
He was still in America.
He hadn't made the great odyssey
across the atlantic.
Then Eric and Terry were
asked to do a show
called Do Not Adjust Your Set
by Humphrey Barkley,
And I think they asked,
"We'll do it if my
friend Mike can do it."
Mrs. Johnson, I wonder
if your husband's in.
What do you want him for?
Can he come out and play?
He's just had his dinner.
He's got to sit down an hour
while the food goes down.
But we've got to go in soon.
I can't help that. He was late.
Do Not Adjust Your Set
was a way of doing what you wanted
because nobody was
looking at kids' shows.
The executives weren't
watching this stuff.
You could get away with murder.
I was doing that sort
of thing in the states
and getting nowhere.
When I came to England,
this was like finding people
on the same wavelength.
They spoke the language
better than I did,
but as far as the way the mental
processes were working,
it was-- "We're home."
He came to us on
Do Not Adjust Your Set
with some sketches he brought.
Michael and Terry were
very sniffy to him.
Who is this awful American with
And I liked him.
He wore this sort of Afghan coat.
It was like a woolly old sheep.
It was love at first sight.
I fell in love with his coat.
I love you.
Ugh!
Indians!
Aah!
The Complete And Utter
History Of Britain,
Which nobody saw at all,
was a series Terry
Jones and I wrote.
complete and utter histories
was to look at history
As if television
had existed at the time,
so we were reporting
on historical events
as if it was modern television.
There'd be an interview
with the victorious Normans
in the showers after
the Battle of Hastings.
"Boys, how did it go?"
When were you sure
you were going to win?
You can never be sure
of a thing like that,
when they were 2,000 down.
Great fun, these lads.
Well, now what about that incident?
You mean when Harold was knocked down.
Very nasty business, David,
but I think it was fair.
Certainly gave our lads a laugh.
That was the good bit.
in what must have been April of 1969,
and he said,
"Oh, I've seen The Complete
And Utter History."
He said, "Um,
"you won't be doing any
more of those, will you,
So why don't we do
something together?"
Meaning your lot and our lot.
Barry took, who was
then, you know,
and still is a highly
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