USS Clueless - The Complete Python

Den Beste on Monty Python, two of my favorite things together. I've bought all the DVDs except for the fourth season set; there's really only one good show from that season, "Michael Ellis". I just want to reinforce his statements about Cleese and Palin together; they were something special. They'd do this wonderful sketch, and all it would be would be Cleese on one side of a desk and Palin on the other. (By the way, most of those were written by Cleese with Chapman; generally, they did the more verbal humor. My favorite is "Argument Clinic".)

As the Captain says, you couldn't do Monty Python on American network TV today, but then you couldn't have done it in the early seventies either. Python was a product of a peculiar era in British TV, when the old standards had broken down and the new hadn't yet arose. That never really happened in America, at least not to the same extent. HBO might do something like it, I guess.

Oh, and a "Discworld" reference too! Terry Pratchett is my favorite author, or at least my favorite living author.