Looking into prehistory here. Well pre-Monty Python history at least. This is from At Last the 1948 Show, which the BBC ran in 1967 and I trust I don't need to explain that. It features Tim Brooke-Taylor―who I'm not much familiar with―and Marty Feldman―who I know mostly from Mel Brooks movies. But Graham Chapman gives the most placid performance of the 3/6 contestants. A bold choice, and it works out. He and Cleese might have a future together.
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While Graham Chapman and John Cleese were working on the At Last the 1948 Show the other Pythons were performing with the Bonzos on Do Not Adjust Your Set. The lot of them (plus Terry Gilliam) were considered the most talented comedy writers in England. Then came Monty Python's Flying Circus and international comedy fame. It seems like an awful lot happened in a very short time in that decade. Maybe that's always true when we recall our youth.. probably. Still, it was fun and they were all (except for Terry Gilliam) very well educated. Graham Chapman was actually a doctor and didn't just play one in The Meaning of Life.
'Pork' is always the correct answer. Great clip.
I've seen a little of Do Not Adjust Your Set too. I mean, hard not to be interested in it when about half the future Pythons were appearing on it and the Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band were providing songs. And Terry Gilliam was involved as well, in interstitial animation. He was educated, but at Occidental College, which might be considered a safety school. Barack Obama went there a couple of years before transferring to the Ivies. (Sadly he would not go on to do anything as cool as Time Bandits.) I believe Cleese and Chapman met when one was in the medicine program and the other law. Cleese never actually became a barrister, though. Wonder if Chapman ever saw patients.
It always pays to remember pork.
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