Bruces sketch

The Bruces sketch is a comedy sketch that originally appeared in a 1970 episode of the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 22, "How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body", and was subsequently performed on audio recordings and live on many occasions by the Monty Python team.

Their boss, a fourth Bruce (John Cleese) arrives with a new staff member, a "pommie" (Englishman) named Michael Baldwin (Terry Jones).

The department appears to be situated in nothing more than a simple wooden building somewhere near Uluru/Ayers Rock (which is visible in the distance behind them) in Australia's Northern Territory.

[2] The Bruces share a fondness for lager beer and a dislike of "poofters" (a derogatory Australian and English slang word for a homosexual).

The sketch appeared on the Matching Tie and Handkerchief album and in many of the team's stage shows, where it would be capped with a performance of "Bruces' Philosophers Song".