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Thursday, January 25, 2007

JUKE BOX - THE FOUR YORKSHIREMEN

"We never had a cup. We used to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper..." One reader was a mite perplexed by my reference to a handful of gravel yesterday. So, to enlighten him, here's the original black-and-white version of the classic sketch about deprived childhoods, as performed on At Last, The 1948 Show. Two Pythons-to-be, John Cleese and Graham Chapman, swap tall stories with Tim Brooke-Taylor and the magnificent Marty Feldman.

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