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Monty Python
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A television series by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.
45 episodes of the sketch based, anarchic show were broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974.
Often not very funny but lurking between shit skits was humour that frankly had the same effect on comedy as the Beatles had on music.
Sketches like Dead Parrot, Cheese shop, Lumberjack song, Spanish Inquisition and Spam spam spam etc changed the way that humour was perceived forever and paved the way for much funnier comedians than Jimmy and Brucie.
