Biography monty python spam

1970 British comedy short

"Spam" is a Monty Pythonsketch, first televised in 1970 (series 2, episode 12, "Spam") and written by Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

Biography monty python spam

Biography monty python spam

Biography monty python spam sketch

Monty python spam sketch

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In the sketch, two customers are lowered by wires into a greasy spoon café and try to order a breakfast from a menu that includes Spam in almost every dish, much to the consternation of one of the customers. As the waitress recites the Spam-filled menu, a group of Viking patrons drown out all conversations with a song, repeating "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam… Lovely Spam!

Wonderful Spam!".^[1]

The excessive amount of Spam was probably a reference to the ubiquity of it and other imported canned meat products in the United Kingdom after World War II (a period of rationing in the UK) as the country struggled to rebuild its agricultural base.

Thanks to its wartime ubiquity, the British public had grown tired of it.^[2]

The televised sketch and several subsequent performances feature T