Defending Python

[Brett g Porter]

Jorey Bump wrote:
> 
> Monty Python's Flying Circus used to begin with "It's..." I had read at one 
> time that "It's" was one of the original names proposed for the 
> troupe/show, although I can't seem to find verification.  

"In fact, one of the titles of the show was 'It's', so he must have been 
in there fairly early on. On a list of titles I've got scribbled in a 
notebook was 'It's' and just 'It,' so that's probably where he came from."

   -- Michael Palin (referring to the "It's" man) in _The First 20 Years 
of Monty Python_ by Kim "Howard" Johnson (St. Martin's Press, 1989), p.20


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