• Miles O'Brien
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    473 months ago

    “You can cut that out, right?”

    “We can… But we won’t.”

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      3 months ago

      I’m seeing John Cleese carrying a clipboard, alongside some hapless customer or client or something, in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but am unable to remember which sketch it was: “Ah! Yes. Can do… but won’t!”

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          3 months ago

          Imagine that… someone made a clip of that exact line - and nothing else - on YouTube five years ago! Amazing. And thank you!

          Ok, he’s saying it to Graham Chapman, when my glitching memory saw Michael Palin or Terry Jones hazily… and erroneously.
          From what I recall, Cleese is a sketch assembly supervisor or something meta like that, after the sketch is over he is denying giving a lift back to Chapman, having transported him to the sketch location in the first place.

          And that’s as far as my memory will take it. I can’t remember what the sketch was, what comes before or after… zip. Nada. Zilch.