<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 Jul 2021, at 00:55, Adam Inglis (synthDIY) <<a href="mailto:synthdiy@adambaby.com" class="">synthdiy@adambaby.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="">On 30 Jul 2021, at 6:10 am, Ben Stuyts <<a href="mailto:ben@stuyts.nl" class="">ben@stuyts.nl</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Sorry for reviving a dead parrot:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rktk6rpj-vA" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rktk6rpj-vA</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Incredibly clever stuff: if you think about not just memorising the gobbledygook, but meshing it with enough proper grammar for effect, and then pacing it, adding emphasis and facial expressions… I doubt it was ‘improvised’!!</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Indeed! Mr. Cleese had this to say about it on his Facebook page (where I found that clip):</div><div><br class=""></div><div>“I actually memorized all of this joke. One of my appearances on Joker's Wild. This is from 1971. I delivered a mother-in-law joke but with a difference. Its how a nuclear scientist explains the danger of eating radioactive cabbages to a mother-in-law. In plain, simple English."</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Ben</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>