Our favorite 5 interviews of all time: British comedy!
Monty Python (and Red Dwarf, and Yes Minister) fans – this particular roundup of Tellyspotting’s best Q&A interviews of all time is for you.
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KERA celebrates 50 years of Monty Python with screening of ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ at the Texas Theatre – Nov 13!
The legend of Monty Python’s Flying Circus had its American beginning on KERA/Dallas as part of one seemingly uneventful Sunday evening 50 years ago.
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Pre-‘Monty Python’ sketch, thought ‘ceased to be’, discovered merely stunned after 50 years!
Four thought to be lost episodes of The Complete and Utter History of the British Isles, created in 1969 by soon-to-be Pythoners Michael Palin and Terry Jones, have been found by the ITV Archive team as part of a huge project to fully identify every archive asset ITV holds, “The series had been sitting in the ITV vaults […]
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The Rutles: A look back at Dirk, Stig, Nasty and Barry!
With the recent attention given to the 60th anniversary of The Beatles first ever appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, Tellyspotting turns its attention to another British rock group worthy of our collective attention. Sadly, the early 60’s were not especially kind to The Rutles. Languishing in the Rutland Cavern for years, it wasn’t until 1975 when this […]
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Happy 81st, George Harrison, 25 February 1943
Sometimes known as ‘the quiet Beatle’, George Harrison would have been 81 years young today. The Liverpool-born musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer and, oh yeah, lead guitarist of the Beatles passed away in November 2001 of lung cancer at the extraordinarily young age of 58. While most Beatles fans will immediately identify with songs written […]
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Norwegian Blue — Dead Parrot or Best Cheese of 2023…or both?
Monty Python’s “Dead Parrot Sketch”, one of the most famous of the sketches in the television comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus, was written by Graham Chapman and John Cleese and first performed by Cleese and Michael Palin in December 1969. Known for its beautiful plumage, the remarkable Norwegian Blue prefers ‘keeping on its back’ and, […]
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Day 2: KERA’s All Creatures Tour visits ‘Call the Midwife’ & ‘Grantchester’ filming locations
Following a brief stay in London on Day 1 of KERA’s All Creatures Tour of England where I do admit I was tempted, albeit briefly, to join the Gorilla Circus’ Flying Trapeze School in Hyde Park, we boarded the Transcendent Travel coach on Tuesday and headed to the Historic Dockyard in Chatham, the main filming location […]
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Happy 80th, George Harrison, 25 February 1943.
Sometimes known as ‘the quiet Beatle’, George Harrison would have been 80 years young today. The Liverpool-born musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer and, oh yeah, lead guitarist of the Beatles passed away in November 2001 of lung cancer at the extraordinarily young age of 58. While most Beatles fans will immediately identify with songs written […]
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‘Tom Jones’ (no, not that one) heads to PBS Masterpiece beginning April 30
The adaptation of Henry Fielding’s classic novel The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, long considered to be one of the earliest novels in the English language, tells the story of the title character’s complicated journey to find real love. Delighting readers since 1749, Tom Jones will continue to do just that in this 4-part television […]
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And Now For Something Completely Different — Silly Walks are deemed ‘vigorous exercise’ just in time for 2023!
A study by the BMJ found that a walking style made famous in a sketch by the Monty Python comedy troupe is actually vigorous exercise. Studies published in the annual holiday edition of the British Medical Journal, which traditionally highlights legitimate but offbeat research, indicate that a brief but brisk ‘silly walk’, similar to that made […]
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