The Bishop is a sketch that appears in "The Buzz Aldrin Show", the seventeenth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A dramatic animated opening plays, introducing a production 'in association with The Sunday Schools Board' starring Reverend E. P. Nesbitt (Terry Jones) and F. B. Gromsby-Urquhart-Wright as the voice of God. It cuts to an English church with a choir singing. A car drives up ...
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View history. Monty Python's Flying Circus is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam, who became known as "Monty Python", for BBC1. The series stands out for its use of absurd situations, mixed with risqué and innuendo-laden humour ...
Peter Gunn music. Hand-held shots of the bishop and the four vicars running through crowded streets. He reaches the office block, rushes in. Interior: a stair well. Right at the bottom we see the bishop and the vicars. Close-up hand-held shot of bishop running up stairs. Shadows running up the stair well. The bishop arrives on the top landing.
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He is usually seen rehearsing his single line "Oh, Mr. Belpit, your legs are so swollen" in numerous accents, expressions, tones, and emphasis on different syllables.
In Déjà Vu, he says he is appearing in show eight, but that Flying Circus is show five. He appears three more times in the episode. In Live from the Grill-O-Mat, he is singing his line in a falsetto register when the members of the Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Thingsask him directions to the school hall, but tells them he doesn't know...
He was originally going to make an appearance in the Crackpot Religions Ltd. sketch from How Not to Be Seen. His appearance was filmed but was cut from airings. His appearance was eventually found...
Apr 12, 2021 · Episode: Intermission (1970) TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy. 7.9. Rate. Among "historical" impersonations are Cardinal Richelieu as Petula Clark and Julius Caesar as Eddie Waring. Also: a police fairy tale; a vegetarian restaurant's menu, featuring a naked man with an apple in his mouth. Director: Ian MacNaughton | Stars: John Cleese, Graham Chapman ...