{"id":21381,"date":"2016-10-05T06:12:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T10:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21381"},"modified":"2016-10-24T04:50:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T08:50:20","slug":"october-5-1969-monty-pythons-flying-circus-debuts-on-bbchow-did-one-of-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21381","title":{"rendered":"October 5, 1969&#8230;&#8221;Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus&#8221; Debuts On BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477162344_417_October-5-1969...Monty-Pythons-Flying-Circus-Debuts-On-BBC-How-did-one-of-t.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>October 5, 1969&#8230;&#8221;Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus&#8221; Debuts On BBC<\/p>\n<p>How did one of the most beloved comedy shows of all time come to be? After hearing how the pitch went, it&#8217;s hard to believe that the show ever came to be&#8230;but it did! At 4 minutes into this fun trip down memory lane, John Cleese tells the story. SPAM! -Bobby Ellerbee <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W6xXcoVCKp0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W6xXcoVCKp0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Cleese On How They Sold Monty Python To The BBC\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W6xXcoVCKp0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>Living legend John Cleese stops by to talk about his book &#8220;So, Anyway,&#8221; how he and his fellow Pythons pitched their show, and why fish are funny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1101581333212748\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 5, 1969&#8230;&#8221;Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus&#8221; Debuts On BBC How did one of the most beloved comedy shows of all time come to be? After hearing how the pitch went, it&#8217;s hard to believe that the show ever came to be&#8230;but it did! At 4 minutes into this fun trip down memory lane, John Cleese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[809],"class_list":["post-21381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}