Just discovered Monty Python Flying Circus is finally feee on Netflix. I never did watch the original, only clips here and there and the movies. Finally ready to remedy gap in my education.
What came before this in the British sketch comedy genre?
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Do Not Adjust Your Set, The Goon Show, The Frost Report, and some others I am sure but those are the one I know of that were precursors of Python.
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The Goodies were contemporary, and once killed a man. (A member or members of the Python squad may be implicated in the death.)
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Some of those Netflix shows are documentaries where the members share influences and early work
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The most direct precursor was probably "At last, the 1948 show". But agree with other that the Goon Show was absolutely foundational for this strand of humor (and also for the Beatles' style of musical tomfoolery.)







