A running gag in Monty Python’s Flying Circus found the show ... and “audience reaction could be pretty muted.” In some sketches, the audience was reportedly silent, with the only laughter ...

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The Monty Python sketch mined laughs from the absurdity that Catholic Inquistiors would exist in modern day Britain and torture people with furniture padding. More to the point, the first ...