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[calimac]

... is I hope contained in LJ.

I'm looking for a particular Monty Python sketch. I think it's from the Flying Circus TV program, and what I want to know is to confirm that that's so and learn which episode it is. I can take it from there. But I evidently don't remember enough about it to find it in an online search, even of the complete text of the program.

It features an elderly and extremely distinguished gentleman, played (I believe) by Michael Palin. He's being called upon to make a speech of some sort, but his brain keeps freezing up and he gets stuck. His nurse (?) has to whack him over the head (? or something) to jiggle it loose and get it going again - if briefly.

Can anybody find this one? Again: if it's in the Flying Circus, all I need is an identification, by number or some better-known sketch, of which program.

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

(If you need it, I have everything they ever did, on DVD. Don't actually remember this, but hours'n'hours of watching might discover it...)

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I have all the texts, both in print and electronic form; I have all the DVDs. I was hoping for some quicker solution than watching all 24 or so hours of it in search of one little sketch.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I thought that was probably the case. Sorry, can't help (unless I get sick over the holidays, and just decide to binge-watch the whole damn thing. In which case, I'll let you know...).

[sovay]

It features an elderly and extremely distinguished gentleman, played (I believe) by Michael Palin. He's being called upon to make a speech of some sort, but his brain keeps freezing up and he gets stuck. His nurse (?) has to whack him over the head (? or something) to jiggle it loose and get it going again - if briefly.

This isn't an exact match for, but sounds enough like a sketch from At Last the 1948 Show that I'm wondering if Monty Python reused or adapted it, as with the Four Yorkshiremen and the Bookshop sketches: Marty Feldman, "Sleep Starvation."

(And if it's not at all what you're looking for, enjoy anyway!)

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

That's not at all it, but thanks anyway. The "starting over without realizing it" aspect, which is actually only one small bit of that sketch, is more an ancestor of Python's déjà vu sketch, or even the man with three buttocks (see 2 minutes in).

There was nothing about going back to the beginning in the sketch I'm thinking of. The guy would simply run down and, when revved back up, would carry on from where he left off. (Nor did he fall asleep, I think. It was more a brain freeze, and he'd look blank.)

[westwind-mv.livejournal.com]

Search for "Monty Python mortuary hour".

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

That was it! Thank you.