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"When people say it's undergraduate humor I think they're wrong," Jones says of the Python style. "It's postgraduate humor." (Like MP&HG, which grew out of Jones' study of Chaucer.) Yet the adolescence factor can't be dismissed. Squint a little, and you could see the Pythons...
Until the late '50s, popular British humor came from the working class. Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, the Goons whose wild radio comedy enthralled all classes (Prince Charles was a particular fan), had never gone near a university. That changed with Beyond the Fringe, a comedy revue written...
In the writing room, he was head boy, and possibly a stern one, in the minds of the two youngest members, Palin and Idle. "In an odd way he always still looks on us as if we're still just junior people coming around," Idle says in the book. "But...
(5 of 6) Idle's charisma and social ease were ever a source of wonder to other Pythons. "I first saw Eric on stage in Edinburgh doing a revue," Jones recalls in the book. "I just remember seeing this very beautiful young man on stage, with very blue eyes." Palin...
And now he's 63. When the show opened, Idle was exactly twice as old as he was when MP&HG was shot back in '74. If the old saying is true - that we become what we once mocked - then the Idle of Spamalot isn't too far from the...