{"id":22755,"date":"2019-07-24T00:04:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T05:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=22755"},"modified":"2019-07-22T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:38:57","slug":"undertaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=22755","title":{"rendered":"Undertaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This classic piece by everyone&#8217;s favorite comedy troupe <br>was more than a bit controversial when it first aired<br>on British television back in 1970.<br>It is widely considered to be the most tasteless of <br>all their sketches, it was actually erased from the master<br>tapes by the BBC after it was shown and was only able<br>to be offered at a later date because one of the Pythons had<br>taped it from the original broadcast.<br>It was a part of John Cleese&#8217;s eulogy when Graham <br>Chapman passed away, and it was part a running gag during<br>the actual episode&#8230;the joke was that the Queen was <br>going to be watching the show that evening and that<br>the programming should reflect that (now THAT&#8217;s funny!).<br>Here it is, from the 1987 Final Rip Off recording&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Undertaker\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LjtCc6DJTJ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This classic piece by everyone&#8217;s favorite comedy troupe was more than a bit controversial when it first airedon British television back in 1970.It is widely considered to be the most tasteless of all their sketches, it was actually erased from the mastertapes by the BBC after it was shown and was only ableto be offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22756,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22755\/revisions\/22756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}