Whither Canada

Whither Canada is the initial Monty Python's Flying Circus episode from Series 1. It was recorded on September 7 and aired on October 5, 1969. The episode featured several sketches including "Whizzo Butter," "It's the Arts," "Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson," and "The Funniest Joke in the World." This is the most frequent title used to refer to a Monty Python sketch, also known by two other phrases that appear within it, "joke warfare" and "killer jok... more

Whither Canada is the initial Monty Python's Flying Circus episode from Series 1. It was recorded on September 7 and aired on October 5, 1969. The episode featured several sketches including "Whizzo Butter," "It's the Arts," "Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson," and "The Funniest Joke in the World." This is the most frequent title used to refer to a Monty Python sketch, also known by two other phrases that appear within it, "joke warfare" and "killer joke". The premise of the sketch is that the joke is so funny that anyone who reads or hears it dies laughing. The sketch appeared in the first episode of series 1, Whither Canada?, and was later remade in a shorter version for the film And Now For Something Completely Different; it is also available on the CD-ROM game of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. The sketch is set during World War II, when Ernest Scribbler, a British joke writer (Michael Palin), creates the funniest joke in the world and then dies laughing. His mother (Eric Idle)... less