I promise this will be my last post about Monty Python this week. (No I didn't!) If you'd like a giggle the scripts are online to read here. Here's a random bit from the second season:
Linkman (very excited): Hello and welcome to 'Election Night Special'. There's great excitement here as we should be getting the first results through any minute now. We don't know where it'll be from...it might be Leicester or from Luton. The polling's been quite heavy in both areas... oh, wait a moment...I'm just getting...I'm just getting a loud buzzing noise in my left ear. Excuse me a moment. (he bangs ear and knocks a large bee out) Uuggh! (cheering from crowd). Anyway, let's go straight over to James Gilbert at Leicester.Shot of returning officer in front of a group consisting half of grey-suited, half of silly-dressed candidates and agents. The silly ones are in extraordinary hats, false noses etc.
Voice Over Well it's a straight fight here at Leicester...On the left of the Returning Officer (camera shoes grey-suited man) you can see Arthur Smith, the Sensible candidate and his agent, (camera pans to silly people) and on the other side is the silly candidate Jethro Walrustitty with his agent and his wife.
Officer Here is the result for Leicester. Arthur J. Smith...
Voice Over Sensible Party
Officer 30,612...Jethro Q. Walrustitty...
Voice Over Silly Party
Officer 32,108.
Cheering from the crowd. Cut back to studio.
Linkman (even more excited) Well, there's the first result and the Silly Party has held Leicester. What do you make of that, Norman?Cut to Norman. He is very excited.
Norman Well, this is largely as I predicted, except that the Silly Party won. I think this is largely due to the number of votes cast. Gerald?