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1st Announcer (Eric Idle) : And now it's time for 'Novel Writing' which today comes from the west country from Dorset.

2nd Announcer (Michael Palin): (we hear the sound of a crowd in the background) Hello and welcome to Dorchester where a very good crowd has turned out to watch local boy Thomas Hardy write his new novel 'The Return of the Native' on this very pleasant July morning. This will be his eleventh novel and the fifth of the very popular Wessex novels. And here he comes! Here comes Hardy walking out toward his desk, he looks confident, he looks relaxed very much the man in form as he acknowledges this very good natured Bank Holiday crowd. And the crowd goes quiet now as Hardy settles himself down at the desk, body straight shoulders relaxed, pen held lightly but firmly in the right hand, he dips the pen in the ink (the announcer becomes excited) and he's off, its the first word, but it is not a word... oh no it's a doodle way up on top of the left hand margin. It is a piece of meaningless scribble, and he's signed his name underneath it. Oh dear what a disappointing start, but he is off again and here he goes the first word of Thomas Hardy's new novel, at 10:35 on this very lovely morning, it's three letters it's the definate article and it's THE, Dennis

Dennis (Graham Chapman) : Well this is true to form, no surprises there. He started five of his eleven novels to date with a definite article. We've had two of them with 'IT', there has been one 'BUT', two 'AT's, one 'ON' and a Delores. Oh that of course was never published.
 
"Well, while we're waiting to take you back to Lords, we play you a recording of Alistair Cooke being attacked by a duck."
 
'OH, DON'T GROVEL! ONE THING I CAN'T STAND, IT'S PEOPLE GROVELING!"

"Sorry."

"AND DON'T APOLOGIZE! EVERY TIME I TALK TO SOMEONE, IT'S 'SORRY' THIS, AND 'FORGIVE ME' THAT, AND 'I'M NOT WORTHY' -- WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW?!"

'I'm averting my eyes, O Lord."

"WELL DON'T! IT'S LIKE THOSE MISERABLE PSALMS, THEY'RE SO DEPRESSING! NOW KNOCK IT OFF!!"
 
And furthermore I suggest that you are none other than Ron Higgins, professional Cardinal Richelieu impersonator.
 
"Bloody Catholics! Filling the bloody world with bloody people they can't afford to bloody feed!"
 
One day Ricky the magic Pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumbledown cottage. He found her in the bedroom. Roughly he grabbed her heavy shoulders pulling her down on to the bed and ripping off her... Old Nick the Sea Captain was a rough tough jolly sort of fellow. He loved the life of the sea and he loved to hang out down by the pier where the men dressed as ladies... Rumpletweezer ran the Dinky Tinky shop in the foot of the magic oak tree by the wobbly dumdum bush in the shade of the magic glade down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives and ... discipline?... naked? ... With a melon!?
 
One day Ricky the magic Pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumbledown cottage. He found her in the bedroom. Roughly he grabbed her heavy shoulders pulling her down on to the bed and ripping off her... Old Nick the Sea Captain was a rough tough jolly sort of fellow. He loved the life of the sea and he loved to hang out down by the pier where the men dressed as ladies... Rumpletweezer ran the Dinky Tinky shop in the foot of the magic oak tree by the wobbly dumdum bush in the shade of the magic glade down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives and ... discipline?... naked? ... With a melon!?

I love that sketch! Thing is, you have to watch Eric Idle's face to really get the joke. :D
 
The BBC would like 'to announce that the next scene is not considered suitable for family viewing. It contains scenes of violence, involving people's heads and arms getting chopped off, their ears nailed to trees, and their toenails pulled out in slow motion. There are also scenes of naked women with floppy breasts, and also at one point you can see a pair of buttocks and there's another bit where I'll swear you can see everything, but my friend says it's just the way he's holding the spear. (pulling himself together) Because of the unsuitability of the scene, the BBC will be replacing it with a scene from a repeat of 'Gardening Club' for 1958.
 
"I don't think anyone tonight has truly encapsulated the intricacies of Proust's masterwork, so I'm going to award tonight's prize - to the girl with the biggest tits!"
 
"I'd like to welcome the Pommie bastard to God's own Earth, and remind him that we don't like stuck-up sticky beets here!"

"HERE HERE! WELL SPOKEN, BRUCE!"
 
I'd like to ask Bruce for the reading of the rules

Rule number one, no poofters
 
#4: I don't want to catch anyone not drinking in their room after lights out.
 
This here's the wattle
It's the symbol of our land
You can stick it in a bottle
You can hold it in your hand
 
Bruce here teaches classical philosophy, Bruce there teaches Haegelian philosophy, and Bruce here teaches logical positivism, and is also in charge of the sheep dip.
 
Is your name not Bruce then? That's going to cause some confusion 'round here. Mind if we call you Bruce just to keep things clear?

(My oldest friend from University days still greets me with "G'day Bruce")
 
"Democracy stems from a mandate from the masses--not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."
 
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