A Time Before Monty Python's Flying Circus

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1. I remember seeing another documentary on the Pythons

Where Palin talked more (like at the end) of Gwen Dibley. It was when he was visiting his in-laws in some small town, and he would read the local very small newspaper, and there would be little notices of events that would end with, "and organ music was provided by Gwen Dibley," and the name always stuck with him. The BBC wanted to call it, "John Cleese's Flying Circus," but the guys didn't want to single any one of them out over the others. So they started throwing out names they liked, and someone said, "Monty," which made them laugh because that's how General Bernard Montgomery was affectionately known, and then they said they wanted something slimy-sounding because it was television, and that's how they got the Python, and according to Idle the studio had trouble finding an audience for the first show and got a bunch of "pepperpots" (like the old ladies applauding in the clip they often used), who thought it was going to be an actual circus.

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