Transcript: 25th Anniversary of `Monty Python's Flying Circus'

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NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
Article date:
October 2, 1994
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LIANE HANSEN, Host: And now, for something completely different - 25 years ago, on the first Sunday in October, BBC Television broadcast the premiere of a new show with the odd title of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a group of British zanies who brought absurdity back in vogue. We took an informal poll here at NPR to find out what everyone's favorite Python routine was. Boy, there was so many - the Parrot Sketch, the Ministry of Silly Walks, the Piranha Brothers, the Argument Clinic. Well, see if you can guess which-

1st MAN: -Excuse me, Liane.

HANSEN: What?

1st MAN: What poll was this? I mean, I've been around all week, and no one asked ...

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