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Where’s the Line in Comedy? Monty Python’s Eric Idle Has an Idea
On with Kara Swisher
Is There a Difference Between American Humor and English Comedy?
I think the thing about comedy is it's disastrous when you want to be liked. And you're much more of the mercy of executives in that form. They edited us hardly at all until about, they hardly watched it, actually - which was good. Until about the third series, and they cut one or two things, but only small things by today's standards. Such as? They cut out a sketch, which was a wine tasting sketch. It was completely a urine joke.
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