Subj : Re: Do you remember the first time you saw Monty Python, movie or TV se
To   : Guilbert
From : George Kincaid
Date : Fri Aug 12 2005 01:23 am

From: "George Kincaid" <george.kincaid@worldnet.att.net>

Wow, an orginial Pythonite! That's a new one. I understand the show was a bit 
of a sleeper, and took a while to catch on-- was that true? It must have been 
something to catch the first series. "Guilbert" 
<guilbert@nospax.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:pWMKe.6466$3N4.6166@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Here in the UK I started watching Python from the very first episode.
>
> I had heard of John Cleese from other radio and TV shows he had done,
> such as "I'm sorry I'll read that again" on the radio, or "At last the
> 1948
> show" on TV.
>
> I had not heard of any of the other pythons, although I found out later
> I had watched three of them (Palin, Jones and Idle) in a UK children's
> TV show called "Do not adjust you set".
>
> I loved Python from the start (I have always loved that sort of zany
> comedy), but the sketch that made me fall off the chair in laughter
> was a short sketch of Mr Gumby flower arranging.
>
> He proceeded to turn the flowers upside down, stuff them in a vase,
> and hit them with a hammer.
>
> I cried with laugher and slid off the armchair on to the floor.
>
> Alan
>
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