# Most famous comedy skit of all time

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 1, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-comedy-skit-of-all-time/231975 "2004-03-01T21:20:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-comedy-skit-of-all-time/231975/61 "2004-03-02T21:54:35Z")

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The Credibility Gap would have been the other name I’d have suggested if my brain hadn’t frozen.

And you’re right, but you’re wrong.

You can find an audio file of the bit on [www.harryshearer.com](http://www.harryshearer.com) and that’s certainly his voice doing the concert promoter.

It’s from their later album _The Bronze Age of Radio_, as obscure a piece of vinyl as ever issued.

Ironically, none of the three famous people you mention were part of the original Credibility Gap, which may be why I didn’t stumble across this in my earlier searches.

Thanks, though. It’s been driving me crazy for days. (A short trip, yes, I know. :rolleyes: )

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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-comedy-skit-of-all-time/231975/62 "2004-03-02T23:05:22Z")

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> [@Exapno Mapcase](#):
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> I was watching a tape of the Monty Python 30th anniversary show last night, which showed people all over the world doing the Spam bit. If they get remembered for nothing else, spam will still be their legacy. That’s got to put them in contention for most famous.

Well, maybe, but I was in the library a few weeks ago and thumbing through their Reference section copy of _Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations_. Monty Python had one entry, the long ranting sentence from Dead Parrot (The one ending in, “This is an ex-parrot!”).

‘Spam’ as a term may well be their legacy, but how many will associate it with MP fifty years from now?

DD

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-comedy-skit-of-all-time/231975/63 "2004-03-02T23:34:49Z")

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Who’s on First, Dead Parrot and a whole slew of Marx Brothers’ stuff Hooray for Captain Spaulding! jumped into my mind all at once in a mental log jam of zaniness.

Nudge-Nudge Wink Wink is also one of my favorites.

Candy gram has far ranging appeal.

" I live in a van down by the river." has given me more laughs than I rightly deserve and I miss Chris Farley still.  
Of them all, the Marx Brothers and Monty Python are simply are the best.

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**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-comedy-skit-of-all-time/231975/64 "2004-03-03T00:13:13Z")

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> [@photopat](#):
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> I’ve heard a recording of the Credibility Gap doing that bit. (Michael Mckean and David Lander, in this case. Harry Shearer wasn’t in this one.)

:smack: It’s been a while since i heard it.

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