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longship

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19. Yup! I remember that.

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #18)

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 10:35 PM

Jul 2014

The question is whether the BBC TV show pre-dated the audio albums. I am not so steeped into Monty Python lore to say. I always thought that the TV pre-dated the albums.

And certainly, The Goon Show pre-dated, and was the inspiration for, Monty Python.

Here is British humor at it's nearly best (not the best episode):

And yup! That's Peter Sellers doing all those voices, and Spike Milligan doing all but one of the rest of them. Harry Seacomb does only Neddy Seagoon.

And, of course, the BBC grams department (the radio version of Industrial Lights and Magic).

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