Why was Monty Python so successful? Was it really so very different? Of course it wasn’t. People seem to think that it somehow sprang full-blown from the head of some mad media Medusa, but that’s not true at all. In the mid-Sixties, there were a host of similar shows all evolving, banging into each other and disintegrating: The Frost Report; I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again; Twice a Fortnight; Broaden Your Mind; How to Irritate People; The Complete and Utter History of Britain… All of the eventual Pythons were involved with all of the eventual Goodies in one show or another.
