A still from Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-1974), in which a formal, suited John Cleese sits behind a desk, newsreader style, on a beach with the tide coming in, and utters the immortal lines: “And now for something completely different.”
Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) pitches wildly to BBC Chief Commissioning Editor Tony Hayers (David Schneider, off screen) over a lunch which includes increasingly desperate terrible programme ideas (such as ‘Monkey Tennis’). From I’m Alan Partridge S1 E1, ‘A Room with an Alan’ (1997).
Rex: “Adam reckons we might be better forgetting about cricket and doing something completely different.”
Eddie: “Monkey Tennis?” #TheArchers #MontyPython #AlanPartridge #AccidentalPartridge