Upper Class Twit of the Year
Given what the Telegraph is like now one might think that 55 years ago it would have roundly condemned the irreverence and anti-authority p-takers of Monty Python. It didn’t. An interesting index of changing times
Daily Telegraph 6th October 1969
Script Men Clowns Too by Norman Hare
Described by the BBC as a nutty zany comedy show, Monty Pythons Flying Circus came into town last night on BBC1 television .
Occupying the late night spot the show replaces the repeat of the religious programme which has been moved to Tuesday afternoon.. It could be that Messrs Cleese, Chapman, Jones, Palin and Idle, the writer-performers involved will prove less soporific than Mr Muggeridge, if not as intelligent.
The comedy was sopisticated and had much of the delightful absurdity which has not been on television since the Marty shows. It, took toll of interviewers and other features of television that need the sending up process. Well worth stopping up late to see
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