Wikipedia getting close to 2 million articles

[jj]

...according to Wiki's own statistics?
I hear three articles are even accurate :- )

[Jacques]

As many as that!!!!

[jj]

Well, there is some doubt as to the exact figure.

[Pervert]

Tarquin, old bean, where---and how---have you been?

[jj]

Thass the trouble with being a recent returnee- I didn't know the likes of
Olayetc. had even been away.

[Pervert]

He drops by for a few weeks, defends various bipolar celebs, then vanishes again. But you have to love someone who references the Pythons in his name.

By the way, I've trawled through all four series of Python that the Beeb recently released (series four is pretty poor, it has to be said), and there are some real gems that I'd forgotten (the pantomime Princess Margaret)---and some stuff I don't think I ever saw (the Cycle Tour episode is quite wonderful)

[jj]

Paramount recently re-ran the entire oeuvre, including the cycle
sketch [more like a whole episode], and the hit-rate was remarkably high
for something that was so experimantal.
Much higher than what passes for 'comedy' on Radio Four, say.

I particularly liked the Montgolfier sketches with Chapman's cameo as the
addled butler.

[Pervert]

How many other comedies of the time would have finished a show with a sketch about funeral directors eating the dead? Cutting edge at the time (apart from Spike) was The Two Ronnies.