British comedy, when it's good, is really intelligent and deep. Monty Python were marked by a certain level of intelligence. They went to Oxford and Cambridge universities. These are really intellectual guys who decided to mix this kind of intellectual rigor with sort of ridiculous comedy. That's why I love it so much,. that it's fun, it mocks everything, and yet at the same time, they come at these subjects from a very intelligent place.
[The Constitutional Peasants Scene] Here's another episode about Monty Python's Flying Circus, and in this one we're going to be covering some very interesting topics, such as medieval history, old myths legends & folklore, the British monarchy, marxism and radical politics. In terms of language we're going to look at some old fashioned formal poetic language, some political vocabulary and also some intonation and sentence stress, and we'll be doing all of that while understanding and hopefully enjoying a funny scene from a classic British comedy film. So, you really are getting everything in this episode (well, maybe not
everything but you know what I mean). A lot of this is transcribed at teacherluke.co.uk. If you find this episode on the website you'll also see a video, a script for that video and more information. So let's get started. Click here for transcripts & videos
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