Here are a few scans from the Other Ball book, thought they might be of interest to someone! (The programme notes from Palin and Jones scattered throughout the book are priceless: "Sorry, but this is the 13th time John Cleese's name has been mentioned, and we're only on page 3!")
Let me know if there's any other pages you'd like scanned... I think it's safe to assume we're all fans of the many talented comedians that performed at these shows. :)
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mrsCutout: WHere the He;; did you get that???
From a secondhand bookstore! I don't think these books are terribly hard to come by, they pop up on eBay occasionally...
the_thina: btw, just noticed that its not just mke and john who has gone for the godfather cotton-in-cheeks-look, looks like neil did it as well. seems a bit hard to sing with cotton in your cheeks, but then again, he is a mad-man. :P
Paute: WOW!!!!!! Amazing!!!
Thanks a lot for this!!!!
thewastelandr: Very good photos!! Thank you for adding them!
Not that late: This was hilarious!
There is soooo many things I haven't seen (or read)!
Thanks for posting.
Here Comes Another One: Those liner notes REALLY made me laugh. Though I'm pissed off as well as laughing at the 'history of beekeeping sketch' bit because I wrote something very similar some time ago. Yet again people are stealing my ideas before I've thought of them, damn them. Thanks for posting!
The book was worth getting just for the liner notes; "Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - Performers of such international repute that John Cleese thought they came from a car hire firm". Too funny about the stolen ideas, the nerve of it! Atkinson's little verbal tics remind me of Marty Feldman on the train, think that was on '1948', too?
Yes, I love that sketch! The first Marty Feldman thing that I remember really cracking me up. He's not my favourite comedian but bits are funny. He's awesome in Yellowbeard, and it's so sad that he died before they finished it.
Was that before you wrote that epic comedy about the guy who's mistaken for the Messiah during the Roman occupation of Judea or after? ;)
The Beekeeping Sketch has been around a lot longer than that. I'm sure I've seen a version in which Mr. Cleese plays the interviewer but here's a version from At Last The 1948 Show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcZYRu1svt8