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My memory had Beachcomber being out before Python but they were contemporary. Perhaps that shows just how refreshingly new Python was when it came out.
Wasn't the t.v. show based on a newspaper column? I only vaguely remember reading it , (collected articles released as a book) but I am sure that most of the characters originated in the column. Of course my memory could be having an "off" decade....
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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing
Just thinking back. I had a book titled 'Laughter in then Air' written by Barry Took when I was in the UK. It came out late 1970s'/early 1980s but I left it behind when we came back home. The book was a history of BBC radioo comedy from start - really Arthur Askey and perhaps Richard Murdoch through to the late 1970s'. I'm not sure if 'The Burkiss Way' got a mention. Good read it was and very informative.
I seem to recall that Barry took had the position of 'head of Comedy - other than management decisions' in the Beeb and was involved in the creation of Monty Python as well as Beachcomber.
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