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- The "Silly Olympics" sketch is from the first Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus episode, dubbed into English. The original version also featured the events "1500m for people and their mothers" and "Hammer throw to America", whereas the latter acted as a link to the next sketch.
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Both events had an obvious impact on the material created by the Pythons for their first episode, including the Silly Olympics skit, and the Anita Ekberg Sings Albrecht Dürer skit, thus situating their style of humour in a local cultural context.
Silly Olympics is a sketch from Episode 1 of Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus. At Munich, the 27th Silly Olympics is being held. First is the 100 metres for men with no sense of direction. The starter pistol is fired and the runners run off in all different directions.
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Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1971-1972)
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Monty Python’s Guide to Albrecht Dürer, Anita Ekberg Sings Albrecht Dürer, The Merchant of Venice as performed by a herd of cows, Doctor Breeder, Little Red Riding Hood, Silly Olympics, Stake Your Claim, The Lumberjack Song with The Austrian Border Police, The Bavarian Restaurant.
Monty Python's Flying Circus (also known as simply Monty Python) 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 collectively as "Monty Python", or the "Pythons".
After a compilation of Python sketches won a second place prize at the Montreux Festival in 1971, Alfred Biôlek, a producer from Bavaria Films, contacted Ian MacNaughton to propose a Python show for German television, launching "Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus." Episode Highlights.
The "Silly Olympics" sketch is from the first Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus episode, dubbed into English. The original version also featured the events "1500m for people and their mothers" and "Hammer throw to America", whereas the latter acted as a link to the next sketch.
