![]() ![]() TERRY JONES: Mike and I had done a little bit of work together when we'd been at Oxford. Recordings, and turned dead parrots and Spam into cherished comic Television comedy, launched a successful string of films, books, and The group together, and the result was a program that reinvented It was partly magnetism and partly luck which brought Similar tastes or aesthetics about how comedy should be written and Separately or in teams for several radio and TV shows at the BBCĪnd at independent television (ITV) companies. Of 1969, these five Cambridge/Oxford university grads were working Leading up to their first collaboration as Python in the spring Michael Palin-five-sixths of what would become the most successfulĬomedy group in film and television, Monty Python. Talent: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Raise the comedy standard, extending from stage to recordings, magazines,Īmong the many illustrious figures who began their careers inĬambridge Footlights or in revues at Oxford were Humphrey Barclay,ĭavid Frost, Tim Brooke-Tailor, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall,ĭavid Hatch, Jonathan Lynn, Tony Hendra, and Trevor Nunn.Īlso from this rich training ground came five writer/performers of deft They produced a flood of talented writers and performers who were to If a map were to be drawn of theĬomedy universe in the late fifties and early sixties, its center wouldĪssuredly comprise the halls of Cambridge and Oxford between them, Miller, Alan Bennett, and Dudley Moore), and the television series That Was the Week That Was and The Frost Report.īut while The Goon Show demonstrated how broadcast comedyĬould bend convention, it was the passionate satire of the rising talentsįrom university revues that forced satire-typically a literary exercise-into Internationally successful cabaret featuring Peter Cook, Jonathan To light in Britain in the sixties, such as "Beyond the Fringe" (an Matched, its fast-paced celebration of illogic and its penchantįor satire opened the doors for some of the edgier comedy that came Although its surreal nature could not really be The artistic and popular success of The Goon Show inspired It was a modern, dramatized version of Lewis CarrollĪnd Edward Lear-fast-paced and hip, its language a bit blue around The hero being turned into a liquid and drunken) which moved the The illogic of the character's actions bordering on the fantastic (i.e., Stories that did not rely on straightforward plots or punchlines it was Mindscapes showed how the medium of radio could be used to tell Milligan's deft use of language and sound effects to create surreal ![]() Sunken treasure, or flying the Albert Memorial to the moon. Everestįrom the inside, drinking the contents of Loch Lomond to recover a (such as they were) might concern climbing to the summit of Mt. Marvelously anarchic mixture of nonsensical characters, banterish word-playĪnd weird sound effects all pitched at high speed. Harry Secombe and (briefly) Michael Bentine, The Goon Show was a Spike Milligan, author of such pithy memoirs as Adolf Hitler-My Part in His Downfall, created the revolutionary BBC Radio series The Goon Show, which was to radio comedy what Picasso was to postcards.Īired between 19, and featuring Milligan, Peter Sellers, North Africa, before wrestling his fervent notions of humor onto paper Spent his young adulthood playing the trumpet for British troops in Manic-depressive Irishman, born and raised in India, who Screens on their ends, one need look no further than a tall, undisciplined, Innovative and surreal comedy group that turned the BBC and cinema If there is a progenitor to credit (or blame!) for Monty Python, the In the Old Days We Used to Make Our Own Fun ![]()
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