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Baseball quiz: And now for something completely different ...

Let’s put statistics and trivia aside and see if you can name the author of these baseball quotes.

Chicago Sun-Times

John Cleese ridiculed for asking why BBC hasn’t shown Monty Python in 'two decades'

Monty Python's John Cleese seems to have forgotten the comedy troupe sold the rights to Netflix - where fans can stream much of the back catalogue including four series of Flying Circus and films including Holy Grail and Life of Brian

Daily Mirror

The Spanish island that has reinvented itself from the worst of mass tourism

BOTH Michael Palin and Lanzarote have come a long way since he notoriously dubbed the isle “Lanzagrotty”. I met Palin in London recently and I…

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Slapstick Festival 2023 announces full line up including Harry Shearer from The Simpsons

Several comedy legends have joined the full line up for the festival

Bristol Post

Monty Python star Eric Idle dismisses Dave Chappelle complaints on ‘cancel culture’

Idle also criticised Bill Maher for ‘moaning’ about his audience

The Independent UK

Jamie Lee Curtis had one request for her male co-stars in A Fish Called Wanda

Curtis starred in the 1988 crime comedy alongside John Cleese, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin

The Independent UK

Monty Python star Eric Idle dismisses Dave Chappelle complaints on ‘cancel culture’

Idle also criticised Bill Maher for ‘moaning’ about his audience

The Independent UK

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Stephen Merchant and Michael Palin billed for Slapstick Festival 2023 - how to get tickets

The festival will be taking over Bristol Old Vic for its final day

Bristol Post

Æthelstan, Duran Duran and a special Ron Pokémon – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

From Blackadder to Blackstuff to Blobby: 100 years of the BBC, part seven

Some of the greatest ever TV airs, Saturday nights get a Crinkley Bottom takeover – and the new comedy royalty are crowned

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Jeremy Paxman on Parkinson’s, dissecting brains and quitting University Challenge

A frank and funny documentary sees the TV host explore his diagnosis. Plus: Mexican goodies on Bake Off and Michael Palin in Iraq. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

‘I didn’t cry until I knew I was going to live’: Monty Python’s Eric Idle on surviving pancreatic cancer

Three years after being diagnosed, the 79-year-old has been given the all-clear. He reflects on losing his friends George Harrison and Robin Williams – and how he still manages to always look on the bright side of life

The Guardian - UK

Monty Python’s Eric Idle reveals he ‘survived’ pancreatic cancer

Doctors were able to diagnose the 79-year-old extremely early.

The Independent UK

Two Boys Whose Toy Pirate Ship Crossed Atlantic Ocean Now Launch Antarctic Mission

The account of the famous James Clark Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic from 1839 to 1843.

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Daily Record

Monty Python super fans go on the Holy Grail of honeymoons in Scotland

John and Gemma Wood, from Sussex, toured the country earlier this month scoping out locations from 1975 classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Evening Standard

Harry Potter’s James and Oliver Phelps on their new travel show - ‘Michael Palin is the greatest of all time’

The pair are branching out into the world of travel shows, though still with a bit of magic - and celebrity guests - thrown in

Wales Online

Michael Palin is celeb most of us want to holiday with as trips are about friendship

Harrison Ford and Adele also make the list of dream vacation pals

The Guardian - UK

Naked Cheggers, Rebecca Loos with a pig and Baftas for Jane McDonald: it’s 25 years of Channel 5!

It began life as the home of bare bums and strange truck-touching competitions. But 25 years on, Five has started winning awards for its programming. Is it growing up at last?

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The Guardian - UK

Denise Coffey obituary

Actor and comedian who invested her many stage and screen roles with incomparable zest and cheek

The Independent UK

Michael Palin ’emotional’ as he reunites with Ukrainian he first met 30 years ago

The Monty Python star first met writer Vadim Castelli in Ukraine in the early 1990s.

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