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Troublemaker, and im like, oh, man, yeah. >> eat my shorts. >> all right, eat your shorts? >> you could have looked at tv guide, any issue during the 60s, and i was watching that episode of the flintstones or the jetsons. i always thought that those tv shows could have been better. they were disappointing to me. i said some day if i have my own tv show im going to do it different. >> in the 80s there was a young crew of animators and a young crew of writers who didnt have preconceived notions of...

He just told me to come in here and say top of the mill. thats all. i didnt expect a kind of spanish inquisition. ♪ >> nobody expects the spanish inquisition. >> we were just stunned by that. its as if they had come from the future. >> we just discovered it was quite adequate to cut away from someone saying thats enough of that, and then another sketch would start. >> you two, stop that sketch, its silly. its silly. >> its on film. >> that doesnt make any difference to the viewer at home, does...

And i was watching that episode of the flintstones or the jetsons. i always thought that those tv shows could have been better. they were disappointing to me. i said some day if i have my own tv show im going to do it different. >> in the 80s there was a young crew of animators and a young crew of writers who didnt have preconceived notions of what animation should or should not do. so there was a lot of breaking out of the three camera sitcom that you could do in animation, to quote monty pytho...

Comedy show. >> hello. im dr. sammy, beverly hills psychoactualist and author of the book "old lady, biker, gay guy, japanese man, the four voices within." >> the structure of "mr. show" was very influenced by monty python of wanting to have a show where sketches would bleed in and out of each other. >> it was one of the most fun parts about it. youd have all this stuff and then wed start putting shows together. what opening, this goes here, and there were little puzzles we put together. >> well...

To borrow from monty python is not dead yet. >> the reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. >> our thanks to senator hatch for that and a little more fun with that later. but we begin with the president. he speaks to veterans later this hour in kansas city, a most patriotic of settings at a moment of a debate that rings anything but patriotic. maybe its a serious proposal. maybe its a trumpian shiny object meant to steer the conversation away from the presidents helsinki disaster or ...

And "mr. show" is like the deconstruction of a sketch comedy show. >> hello. im dr. sammy, beverly hills psychoactualist and author of the book "old lady, biker, gay guy, japanese man, the four voices within." >> the structure of "mr. show" was very influenced by monty python of wanting to have a show where sketches would bleed in and out of each other. >> it was one of the most fun parts about it. youd have all this stuff and then wed start putting shows together. what opening, this goes here, ...

People become dentists, and they also become improv artists. >> with sketch comedy its the immediacy of it. its the daring of it. going back to like sid caesar on the beach with imogene coca getting buckets of water thrown in his face or you think "saturday night live" and julia childs bleeding to death or the dead parrot sketch on monty python. >> paulie. >> its very ephemeral, its over quickly, but if it was great and it really worked you get this nice little memory, maybe a little piece of vi...

Espionage. subtitled in english but great show. >> "billions," "goliath." anything that is not about what we do every day. >> "the americans." >> yes, i love "the americans." >> wow, okay. >> i started watching that before this current news cycle. >> im a huge fan of "monty python." up next, the democrats think the climate is just right for a big blue wave come november. question is, can they get out of their own way? and home insuran. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of...

Being surprising. and mister show is like the deconstruction of a sketch comedy show. >> hello. im dr. sammy, beverly hills psychoactualist and author of the book old lady, biker, gay guy, japanese man, the four voices within. >> the structure of mr. show was very influenced by monty python of wanting to have a show where sketches would lead in and out of each other. >> it was one of the most fun parts about it. youd have all this stuff and then wed start putting shows together. what opening, th...

Spanish inquisition. nobody expects the spanish inquisition. >> we were just stunned by that. its as if they had come from the future. >> we just dis covered it was quite adequate to cut away from someone saying thats enough of that, and then another sketch would start. >> you two, stop that sketch, its silly. >> its on film. >> that doesnt make any difference to the viewer at home, does it? >> the thing with monty python, theyre the beatles of sketch comedy, the comedic periodic table of elemen...