Monty Python’s Flying Circus – “Working Class Playwright”

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• Love this.

  September 8, 2023 at 9:39 pm

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• One of my favourite Python sketches. Something about how the father mockingly exclaims *tungsten carbide drills!?* always makes me laugh.

  I think the only sketch I like more is [The Watch Smuggler](https://youtu.be/aCPRfA6W00k?si=cvSEjDl2UpqIp_WF) for how it starts off by twisting a decent premise, and then goes slowly off the rails silly in quintessential Python fashion.

  September 9, 2023 at 12:27 am

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• This was always one of my favourite Python sketches even though as a youngster I didn’t understand the class inversion it was based on. I still quote it. “You ‘ad to go poncin’ off to Barnsley! You and your coal-minin’ friends.” I like saying “Barnsleh”

  Edit: God, I’d forgotten how much of this I remember. “A Scotsman on a ‘orse” has lived with me forever. And I think this sketch must also be why my dad sometimes calls my mum “mother”. I bet he doesn’t remember either.

  September 9, 2023 at 1:19 am

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• One of my fav sketches

  September 9, 2023 at 1:53 am

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• TUNGSTEN CARBIDE DRILLS?!?!?;!;

  September 9, 2023 at 3:34 am

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• Classic reversal of a premise with very funny results. Great satire of dramatic cliches.

  September 9, 2023 at 5:02 am

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