Monty Python
Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:39:15
Thu Jun 01 2000 at 17:53:57 The story of Monty Python begins in the hallowed halls of Britain s most illustrious seats of learning - the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
All of the British Pythons began their comedy careers in the revue shows put on by university societies, such as the Cambridge Footlights. Beyond the Fringe star Jonathan Miller
Undergraduate revues attracted an audience beyond the college walls in the 1960s - thanks in part to the success of Oxbridge old boys Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett. The quartet s celebrated 1960 show Beyond the Fringe had concentrated attention on the comic talents yet to come down from the two respected institutions.
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Iain Pattinson, scriptwriter on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, ‘the antidote to panel games’ – obituary
A purveyor of what Humphrey Lyttelton called ‘blue-chip filth’, he left a high-flying career behind to join the anarchic radio show
Iain Pattinson
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Iain Pattinson, who has died from leukaemia aged 68, was the scriptwriter behind I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, the anarchic “antidote to panel games” on Radio 4, famous for its smutty jokes that have made it cult listening for nearly half a century.
Hired in 1993 by a new producer, Jon Naismith, Pattinson furnished the show’s chairman with a weekly script bookended by a discursive introductory monologue and an ornate final farewell, interlaced with the show’s regular features like One Song to the Tune of Another and the impenetrable round known as Mornington Crescent.