Bruces sketch, the Glossary
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.[1]
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37 relations: Acacia pycnantha, Australian English phonology, Australians, Beer in the United States, Bruce Beresford, Bruce Dickinson, Bruces' Philosophers Song, Cork hat, Eric Idle, Foster's Lager, Glossary of names for the British, Graham Chapman, Hard rock, Homosexuality, Iron Maiden, John Cleese, Khaki, Lager, Live at Drury Lane, Michael Palin, Monty Python, Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Northern Territory, Notting Hill, Ocker, Samson (band), Sidney Nolan, Sketch comedy, Stereotype, Sydney, Terry Jones, The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, The Sydney Morning Herald, Uluru, University of Wollongong, Woolloomooloo.
- 1970 in British television
- 1970 introductions
- Australia in fiction
- Cultural depictions of Australian people
- Monty Python sketches
- Uluru
Acacia pycnantha
Acacia pycnantha, most commonly known as the golden wattle, is a tree of the family Fabaceae.
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Australian English phonology
Australian English (AuE) is a non-rhotic variety of English spoken by most native-born Australians.
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Australians
Australians, colloquially known as Aussies or Antipodeans, are the citizens, nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia.
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Beer in the United States
In the United States, beer are manufactured in breweries which range in size from industry giants to brew pubs and microbreweries.
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Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford (born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director, opera director, screenwriter, and producer.
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Bruce Dickinson
Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
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Bruces' Philosophers Song
"Bruces' Philosophers Song", also known as "The Bruces' Song", is a Monty Python song written and composed by Eric Idle that was a feature of the group's stage appearances and its recordings. Bruces sketch and Bruces' Philosophers Song are Australia in fiction and Cultural depictions of Australian people.
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Cork hat
A cork hat is a type of headgear with corks strung from the brim, to ward off insects.
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Eric Idle
Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English actor, comedian, songwriter, musician, screenwriter and playwright.
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Foster's Lager
Foster's Lager is an internationally distributed brand of Australian lager.
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Glossary of names for the British
This glossary of names for the British include nicknames and terms, including affectionate ones, neutral ones, and derogatory ones to describe British people, Irish People and more specifically English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish people.
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Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British actor, comedian and writer.
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Hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars.
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
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Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris.
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John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter.
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Khaki
The color khaki is a light shade of tan with a slight yellowish tinge.
Lager
Lager is a type of beer brewed and conditioned at low temperature.
Live at Drury Lane
Monty Python Live at Drury Lane is a live album released by Monty Python in 1974.
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Michael Palin
Sir Michael Edward Palin (born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter.
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Monty Python
Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.
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Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a 1982 concert comedy film directed by Terry Hughes (with the film segments by Ian MacNaughton) and starring the Monty Python comedy troupe (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) as they perform many of their sketches at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python's Flying Circus (also known as simply Monty Python) is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, who became known collectively as "Monty Python", or the "Pythons".
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.
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Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Ocker
The term "ocker" is used both as a noun and adjective for an Australian who speaks in Strine, a broad Australian accent, and acts in a rough and uncultivated manner.
Samson (band)
Samson were a British heavy metal band formed in 1977 by guitarist and vocalist Paul Samson.
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Sidney Nolan
Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (22 April 191728 November 1992) was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century.
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Sketch comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians.
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Stereotype
In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.
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Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, popular historian, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.
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The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief
The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief is the fourth album by the comedy group Monty Python, released in 1973.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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Uluru
Uluru (Uluṟu), also known as Ayers Rock and officially gazetted as UluruAyers Rock, is a large sandstone monolith.
University of Wollongong
The University of Wollongong (UOW) is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately south of Sydney.
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Woolloomooloo
Woolloomooloo is a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1.5 kilometres east of the central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney.
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See also
1970 in British television
- 1970 in British television
- 1970 in Scottish television
- Albatross sketch
- Bruces sketch
- Colour Strike
- List of Coronation Street characters (1970)
- Piranha Brothers
- Sinatra in Concert at Royal Festival Hall
- Spam (Monty Python sketch)
- The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in conversation with Kenneth Harris
- The Ministry of Silly Walks
- The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python)
- United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970
- Upper Class Twit of the Year
- World Forum/Communist Quiz
1970 introductions
- Adhocracy
- Afrihili
- Annabelle (doll)
- Asano contraction
- Bruces sketch
- DNA sequencing
- Green Cross Code
- Historian's fallacy
- KFC in Japan
- Legal Education Certificate
- Page 3
- Quantum decoherence
Australia in fiction
- Australian literature
- Beneath Hill 60
- Blinky Bill
- Bruces sketch
- Bruces' Philosophers Song
- Nim's Island
- The Big Lez Show
- The Devil Makes Sunday
- The Last Continent
Cultural depictions of Australian people
- Alan Freeman Days
- At Home with Julia
- Bodyline (miniseries)
- Bruces sketch
- Bruces' Philosophers Song
- Caroline (musical)
- Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly
- Cultural depictions of Tom Wills
- Curtin (film)
- Dangerous Remedy
- Dawn!
- Edith Cavell Memorial (Melbourne)
- Evil Angels (film)
- Friday on My Mind (miniseries)
- Greg Norman's Golf Power
- Greg Norman's Shark Attack!: The Ultimate Golf Simulator
- Hawke (film)
- I Am Woman (film)
- INXS: Never Tear Us Apart
- Interrupted Melody
- Keating!
- Legit (2013 TV series)
- Lindy (opera)
- Media portrayals of Indigenous Australians
- Midnight Son (opera)
- Molly (miniseries)
- Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted to You
- Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door
- Shane Warne: The Musical
- Sir William Glasgow Memorial
- Statue of Emma Miller
- Statue of Glenn McGrath
- Statues of Dorothy Tangney and Enid Lyons
- The Boy from Oz
- The Dismissal (miniseries)
- The Eternity Man
- The First Kangaroos
- The Sapphires (film)
- Tom Wills portrait
- True Believers (miniseries)
- True Spirit (film)
- Yaariyan (2014 film)
- Yabba
Monty Python sketches
- Albatross sketch
- Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses
- Architects Sketch
- Argument Clinic
- Bruces sketch
- Cheese Shop sketch
- Colin "Bomber" Harris vs Colin "Bomber" Harris
- Crunchy Frog
- Dead Parrot sketch
- Decomposing Composers
- Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
- Election Night Special
- Fish Licence
- Four Yorkshiremen
- How Not to Be Seen
- Kilimanjaro Expedition
- Lifeboat sketch
- Marriage Guidance Counsellor
- Mr Creosote
- Nudge Nudge
- Patient Abuse
- Piranha Brothers
- Romani ite domum
- Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"
- Seduced Milkmen
- Spam (Monty Python sketch)
- The Dirty Fork
- The Fish-Slapping Dance
- The Funniest Joke in the World
- The Lumberjack Song
- The Ministry of Silly Walks
- The Mouse Problem
- The Philosophers' Football Match
- The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python)
- Undertakers sketch
- Upper Class Twit of the Year
- Vocational Guidance Counsellor
- World Forum/Communist Quiz
Uluru
- Arkose
- Australia: Land Beyond Time
- Baraka (film)
- Black Tears
- Bruces sketch
- Buster Bros.
- Death of Azaria Chamberlain
- Dingo ate my baby
- Ernest Gustav Brandon-Cremer
- Evil Angels (film)
- Field of Light
- Henry Ayers
- Horn expedition
- Lasseter Highway
- Leyland Brothers World
- Leyland brothers
- Lindy (opera)
- Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
- Michael Chamberlain
- Nipper Winmarti
- Race to the Rock
- Raining on the Rock
- Solid Rock (Goanna song)
- Swerve (novel)
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- The Dead Heart
- The Rescuers Down Under
- The Southern Spirit
- Tietkens expedition of 1889
- Uluru
- Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park
- When the Rain Stops Falling
- William Gosse (explorer)
- Window of the World
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruces_sketch
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