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15 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’

6. The Anti-Punchline

When they were developing the series, the group (obviously) looked to popular sketch shows of the day. While they revered their predecessors, they still wanted to overcome a perceived flaw of the format: the need for a finishing punchline. So, rather than try to build to a crescendo, the troop simply stopped writing a scene when they ran out of jokes. Then, one of their heroes — Spike Milligan — beat them to the punch, and the anti-punchline needed renovation.

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