The comedian Norman Wisdom has died aged 95. I thought he was one of the funniest things, as a boy. It is difficult to see at this stage why anyone would find him that funny but so much has changed since the fifties and sixties that without a feeling of the period a lot of the humour is lost.
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Yes, we bought a set of Monty Python DVDs. It's so dated. Fautly Towers is a little more timeless.
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I've had the Monty Python experience too. I would guess that a lot of the material never was brilliant but even some of the best stuff does seem rather tired and out of date, somehow. One you explain humour it loses something somehow.
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