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sleezsisters 10-07-14 04:14 PM

Help! Can anyone identify this sketch?
 
A friend's father was quizzing me about this, but I got nothing... Thought it might ring a bell for someone here.

"Ten years or more ago (likely 20 years or more) I saw a satirical program on TV that I thought was supposed to be "Olympics for the Dead". Just a short skit, very funny and outrageous. There was a swimming race, where dead bodies (obviously, not real dead bodies) were thrown into a swimming pool for the swimming contest. I feel almost certain that another event was a high jump, where the bodies were thrown over a bar. It's the sort of thing you'd expect from Monty Python. I doubt that my title for the skit is correct, since I got no hit that way. I just can't believe that there's no trace of that skit somewhere accessible on the Internet, if only a mention of it."

Does anyone know what this might be?
Thanks in advance...

rw2516 10-07-14 04:20 PM

Re: Help! Can anyone identify this sketch?
 
Sounds like Monty Python's Twit Olympics.

Kmical 10-08-14 02:44 PM

Re: Help! Can anyone identify this sketch?
 

Originally Posted by rw2516 (Post 12261561)
Sounds like Monty Python's Twit Olympics.

The Upper Class Twit of the Year competition

"Oh, he's a magnificent ... he doesn't know when he's beaten. He doesn't know when he's winning, either. He has no sort of sensory apparatus known to man."

sleezsisters 10-09-14 04:27 AM

Re: Help! Can anyone identify this sketch?
 
A great sketch, but - alas - not the mystery one. I guess the swimming pool thing is a key part of it and the Python bit doesn't have a pool part. Thank you, though...

Crocker Jarmen 10-09-14 05:26 AM

Re: Help! Can anyone identify this sketch?
 
Sounds like the Silly Olympics from Live At The Hollywood Bowl. Swimming and high jump.

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