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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Remembering ‘Monty Python’ founder and ‘Life of Brian’ director Terry Jones
I’m re-posting this 2020 blog post to remember the greatness of Terry Jones. He passed away four years ago on January 21, all too soon. ======== January 23, 2020 — These R.I.P. posts seems to be coming at an alarmingly fast rate these days and while all of them are devastating to those of us […]
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Benny Hill turns 100!
While, clearly, a majority of my formative years were shaped by the greatness of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, there was a small amount quietly tucked away that I remember was reserved for The Benny Hill Show. On the surface, the slapstick, mime and double entendre sketches were definitely cringe-worthy but there was a underscored brilliance behind […]
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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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Royal Mail’s cunning plan to celebrate Blackadder’s 40th!
Marking the 40th anniversary of one of the greats of British comedy, Royal Mail has released a collection of 12 special stamps celebrating the brilliance of Blackadder. Eight of the stamps will feature some of the series’ most classic moments with four being reserved to track the evolution of Edmund Blackadder from series 1 through Blackadder Goes […]
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‘Two Ronnies’ comedy gold is money in the bank for this Norfolk garden shop
A garden shop in Norfolk recently sold out of fork handles after designing a special window display in tribute to a classic BBC comedy sketch courtesy of the Two Ronnies. While the shop has previously won awards for its displays, shop manager Sarah Colman said she thought it would raise a smile, but was a bit […]
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