The original television show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, aired on the BBC from 1969 to 1974 and the sketch group – Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Graham Chapman ...
In a monty python sketch from 1969, the middle-aged Mr Anchovy, played by Michael Palin, wants to give up what he calls the desperately dull world of chartered accountancy in order to become a ...