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- From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
- Subject: Re: Tastes in comedy (was Re: Hyphening)
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:15:06 GMT
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- In article <C1EqDt.CyD@cck.coventry.ac.uk> gdg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Ridley McIntyre) writes:
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- >Maybe it's just me, but I wasn't even born when Monty
- >was first shown and I love it. However, there is a great deal of formula
- >to be found in Monty gags. For example, what I call the Thesaurus formula,
- >where they reel out about twenty different ways of saying the same thing,
- >yet it's still funny. eg. the Parrot Sketch and the Cheese Shop Sketch
- >(hundreds of ways of saying "dead" hundreds of different kinds of cheese).
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- Hundreds of versions of the same sketch...
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- Guy (avowed Python-hater)
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