Live from the Grill-O-Mat

Live from the Grill-O-Mat is a Monty Python's Flying Circus episode from Series 2. This show aired October 27, 1970 and was recorded September 10, 1970). The episode featured sketches including "Blackmail", "Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things", "Accidents Sketch (Prawn Salad Ltd.)" and "The Butcher Who is Alternately Rude and Polite". This sketch features Michael Palin wearing a leopard-print jacket as the host of a television show... more

Live from the Grill-O-Mat is a Monty Python's Flying Circus episode from Series 2. This show aired October 27, 1970 and was recorded September 10, 1970). The episode featured sketches including "Blackmail", "Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things", "Accidents Sketch (Prawn Salad Ltd.)" and "The Butcher Who is Alternately Rude and Polite". This sketch features Michael Palin wearing a leopard-print jacket as the host of a television show which attempts to blackmail its viewers by showing pictures and video of them engaging in compromising acts of a sexual nature. Eric Idle plays an innocent-looking but seemingly accident-prone man who enters an establishment called 'Prawn Salad Ltd', and is blamed for setting off a series of catastrophic events. During the course of about a minute of sketch time, Idle's character breaks an expensive mirror, knocks over an ornate bookcase, fatally stabs the maid, causes the handy man to fall out the window to his death, induces an... less