Nudge Nudge

Idle asks Jones a series of questions about his romantic relationships that seem odd and cryptic, but that are eventually revealed to be complex double entendres.

In its original airing on Monty Python's Flying Circus, the sketch was preceded by a short link in which Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin portray schoolboys being interviewed for television by John Cleese.

In And Now for Something Completely Different, the sketch is followed by a cut to a scene in a gym, where Terry Gilliam dressed as a nun on an ergometer replies (dubbed by a female voice), "I think it's overrated."

Originally written by Eric Idle for Ronnie Barker in another comedy show,[1] the sketch was then rejected as a script.

[7] A reference to this is clearly heard on Monty Python Live at Drury Lane, where Idle mentions the product.