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 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: )
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?
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.