I was wondering if anyone was such an avid fan of Monty Python that they could tell me the name of one of the characters from Monty Python and the search for The Holy Grail.
The character I’m looking for isfrom the Castle of Anthrax, there is Zoot who is the actual character, I’m looking for the name of her twin sister…dunki? dinku? Something like that. I’ve tried a few search engines with no result…
I’m only asking because it will bug me until I know.
Thanks,
Princess
Dingo. At least that’s what the screenplay says.
I don’t know the answer, but I really liked zoot’s suit.
You can’t like zoot, she’s been very naughty. In fact I think she needs a spanking.
I agree 
And then…
According to IMDB, Carol Cleveland played Zoot/Dingo.
oh, naughty, naughty zoot…
and not only spanking, but there was also the sketch about the Tudor porn shop that sold Shakespeare’s latest play “gay boys in bondage”.
Which provides the segue to my question:
Did any other comedians dare to mention forbidden sexual issues in 1971.? (yes, I know Lenny Bruce said “fuck” on stage 2 decades earlier , but that was a small nightclub act, not prime time TV.)
But back in 1970, when the world was still innocent, ( example: Yale University was still hesitant to allow women on its campus), did anybody else in Britain or America use open sexual language on the air?
Ah, but while you’re distracted spanking her, Dingo will eat your baby.
We got an answer to this thread in the nick of time. You were in great peril.
Off to Cafe Society.
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I’m willing to face the peril.
No, it’s too perilous.
Ooohh, I bet you’re gay!
Well, when Monty Python was first shown on network TV (in 1974, in the absolutely terrible summer replacement series The Dean Martin Comedy World), the bleeped out the words “naughty bits.” Not the bits referred to, but the actual phrase “naughty bits.”
Back then, a prime time network show was 100% clean. There were a few cracks: All in the Family premiered in 1971, and it slowly added sexual issues to the mix.
I think you mean first shown on **US **network TV. I do not think it was censored on its origianl British showing.
Knight: Maybe just a little peril? I can handle them easily!
Beautiful maidens of Castle Anthrax: Yes, let him handle us easily!
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chappachula:
Ayone notice that in Terry Gilliam’s animated bit for Gay Boys in Bondage there’s an abvoius cut? A couple of nude photographic model cutouts a delivering Shakespearian lines, then suddenly one of them has apparently fallen down a hole. I wonder what was cut.
No, but a reference to cancer was censored from a Terry Gilliam cartoon and replaced with “gangrene.” None of the Pythons had or have any idea why that was done.
Because the completely incongruous male voice jumping in and saying “GANGRENE” was way funnier than the cancer reference could possibly have been?
I had no idea that wasn’t deliberate. I thought it was completely intentional and hilarious.
It was done against the Python’s wishes. The version included in And Now for Something Completely Different (produced beyond the Beeb’s clutches) has the original “cancer” narration intact.