Well, what a lot of sexist, elitist, homophobic shite that was....Yes, October 5, 1969, saw the arrival to British television screens of the most important, most influential comedy sketch show in history. Monty Python's Flying Circus was, and always will be, FUNNY. Laugh out loud FUNNY. Hilarious EVEN. And that's the whole point - revisionist comedy historians, or 'cunts,' as we should more properly refer to them, often seem to miss this most important of facts. Monty Python successfully changed the landscape of comedy - in the case of Terry Gilliam's animations, often literally. The broadcast of their first series of shows - and their subsequent forays into performance and film (most famously), is to be celebrated as an important event in the cultural history of this country, this Britain.
And now....
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