The most funniest bunch of guys ever to come together....I live quite close to where Connie Booth ( John Cleese ex wife lives ) or maybe use to ,I was mesmerized by her as a kid in Forty Towers ......John Cleese was a very lucky and fool ish guy for letting her slip through his fingers...:)
I don't believe I've ever watched it.....I know, I know unbelievable but true. If I have I don't remember it. I do remember the name however. I just looked it up on U-Tube and I can confidently say I've never watched it.
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I was a big fan of it for a short time when I discovered it as a teenager in the mid- or late-1980s.
But I think that a lot of the material has not aged well. There are two possible reasons for this that spring to mind. One is that many of the sketches depended on ridiculing authority figures (policemen, judges, army officers, members of the learned professions, etc) which gave them a subversive or "naughty" quality that now seems naive. The other is that (as the team later admitted) they weren't good at writing parts for women.
I think the material that is strongest, and that has stood the test of time, would include, firstly, the sketches that use a mock-documentary format, and secondly, those that draw upon familiar real-life situations but exaggerate them and take them to an absurd conclusion.
B.H.Wilson 