Monty Python Scripts'Blood, Devastation, Death, War, and Horror' / The Man Who Speaks in AnagramsThe cast:
The sketch:(Stock color film of vivid explosive action for fifteen seconds: dog fight RAF style; trains crashing; Spanish hotel blowing up; car crashing and exploding; train on collapsing bridge; volcano erupting; Torrey Canyon burning; forest fire blazing. From this we zoom the following words individually:) CAPTION: 'BLOOD, DEATH, WAR, HORROR' (Cut to an interviewer in a rather dinky little set. On the wall there is a rather prettily done sign, not too big, saying 'Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror', as if it were a show's title.) Interviewer: Hello, good evening and welcome to another edition of Blood Devastation Death War and Horror, and later on we'll be meeting a man who *does* gardening. But first on the show we've got a man who speaks entirely in anagrams. Man: Taht si crreoct. Interviewer: Do you enjoy it? Man: I stom certainly od. Revy chum so. Interviewer: And what's your name? Man: Hamrag - Hamrag Yatlerot Interviewer: Well, Graham, nice to have you on the show. Now, where do you come from? Man: Bumcreland. Interviewer: Cumberland? Man: Stah't it sepricely. Interviewer: And I believe you're working on an anagram version of Shakespeare? Man: Sey, sey - taht si crreoct, er - ta the mnemot I'm wroking on "The Mating of the Wersh". Interviewer: "The Mating of the Wersh"? By William Shakespeare? Man: Nay, by Malliwi Rapesheake. Interviewer: And what else? Man: "Two Netlemeng of Verona", "Twelfth Thing", "The Chamrent of Venice".... Interviewer: Have you done "Hamlet"? Man: "Thamle". 'Be ot or bot ne ot, tath is the nestquoi.' Interviewer: And what is your next project? Man: "Ring Kichard the Thrid". Interviewer: I'm sorry? Man: 'A shroe! A shroe! My dingkom for a shroe!' Interviewer: Ah, Ring Kichard, yes... but surely that's not an anagram, that's a spoonerism. Man: If you're going to split hairs, I'm going to piss off. (Exit)
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