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Colin "Bomber" Harris vs Colin "Bomber" Harris is a sketch from Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus. It was later performed live, included on the album Live at Drury Lane and in the concert film Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. The sketch was known as a specialty that Python member Graham Chapman could do while sober. Cover of the VHS release of Monty Pythons Fliegender Zirkus. ...
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a 1982 film in which the Monty Python team perform many of their greatest sketches and skits in the Hollywood Bowl, including a couple of pre-Python ones. ...
Graham Chapman (8 January 1941—4 October 1989) was a British comedian and writer. ...
The name is a reference to Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet (April 13, 1892 - April 5, 1984), commonly known as Bomber Harris, and often within the RAF as Butcher Harris[1], was commander of RAF Bomber Command and later a Marshal of the...
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The sketch is about a wrestling match, in which Colin Harris (Graham Chapman) fights himself. As Colin fights himself, a narrator (John Cleese, with Michael Palin as MC in the Hollywood Bowl version) hastily reports the events. The match ends with Colin beating himself by knocking himself out, but will meet himself again in the finals. Graham Chapman (8 January 1941—4 October 1989) was a British comedian and writer. ...
John Marwood Cleese (born October 27, 1939 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England) is an English comedian and actor best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for co-writing the TV series Fawlty Towers in which he played Basil Fawlty. ...
Michael Palin (1999) Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born May 5, 1943 in Broomhill, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England) is an English comedian, actor and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. ...
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