Monty Python on Poetry

In case, like me, you may have been taking yourself a bit too seriously lately, please enjoy what may be one of the strangest Monty Python sketches in history, featuring three of the big six of Romantic poetry, ants, the queen, and lots of sherry–all conveniently subtitled in Spanish:

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  • http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/ Jim Murdoch

    Christ, it’s been a while since I’ve seen that. And for some inexplicable reason our cockateil got all excited when Chapman began his speech.

  • Robert

    No doubt the shrill overtones of the inebriated gender-bender struck a primal chord in the brain of the bird.