{"id":113110,"date":"2019-10-04T15:26:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/04\/monty-python-at-50-a-half-century-of-silly-walks-edible-props-and-dead-parrots\/"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:26:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:26:56","slug":"monty-python-at-50-a-half-century-of-silly-walks-edible-props-and-dead-parrots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=113110","title":{"rendered":"Monty Python at 50: a half-century of silly walks, edible props and dead parrots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this rare glimpse inside the BBC archives, we reveal the exasperated internal memos, the furious letters from wing commanders \u2013 and David Frost\u2019s bid to bring them downIn a memo sent in 1969, the BBC head of comedy seems to have lost his sense of humour. \u201cPlease will you have a word with the writers?\u201d said Michael Mills. \u201cI haven\u2019t reacted to the funny titles that have appeared on the scripts so far. I hoped that they would cease of their own accord.\u201dThe titles that irritated him included \u201cBunn Wackett Buzzard Stubble and Boot\u201d, apparently a spoof legal firm, which came to be shortened to Bunwackett. The show, meanwhile, had the working title The Circus. Now, though, Mills had had enough: \u201cThe time has come when we must stop having peculiar titles and settle on one overall title \u2026 Please would you have words with them and try to produce something palatable?\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2019\/oct\/04\/monty-python-at-50-a-half-century-of-silly-walks-edible-props-and-dead-parrots\" target=\"_blank\">Monty Python at 50: a half-century of silly walks, edible props and dead parrots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this rare glimpse inside the BBC archives, we reveal the exasperated internal memos, the furious letters from wing commanders \u2013 and David Frost\u2019s bid to bring them downIn a memo sent in 1969, the BBC head of comedy seems to have lost his sense of humour. \u201cPlease will you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}