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...memory, not self-analysis, though they rightly pay tribute to comic forebears such as Spike Milligan. The launch of Python was certainly a tribute to the laissez-faire latitude of the BBC's comedy department, which cheerfully commissioned 13 shows from John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin and Terry Jones - Oxbridge graduates working on the hit satirical shows of the day - who had no idea what they would be like except there were to be no stars, no musical interludes and no punchlines. "One of the great executive decisions," says Cleese in The Pythons Autobiography, "and something that...