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Author: AgProv

Jan 19th 2013 at 11:47:46 AM

During a live stage performance in New York, an over-excited Monty Python fan let a firework off in the theatre. This ruined Eric Idle and Graham Chapman's delivery of lines until the smoke and noise and audience alarm faded away.As burly security guards hustled the hapless amateur pyrotechnician up the asile and out of the theatre, Graham Chapman reminded everyone that they were doing the Argument sketch by going into the  bit where you walk into the office and the man behind the desk starts abusing you. "Snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings!" was the ''least'' of it, as an angry Chapman really went to town with some of the most fulsomely obscene insults ever heard, even in New York.

On another New York performance, the Pythons were in the middle of the Bruces sketch when an eighteen-inch long sex aid was thrown onto the stage. John Cleese picked it up, examined it from every angle, and said in an Australian accent:

--> What the bloody hell's this, Bruce?

To which Michael Palin (Bruce) ad-libbed

--> I think from the look of it, it's one of those tiny American penises, Bruce!

--> You could be right, Bruce. Blooody small, isn't it?