In praise of the comedy album

Mighty Boosh stars Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt are to host a radio series about Monty Python’s comedy albums.

The pair interviewed Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam for the two-part Radio 2 show Monty Python's Wonderful World Of Sound.

The programme will argue that in an age before video recorders, it was the albums helped make classics of sketches such as Dead Parrot, Nudge Nudge and the Lumberjack Song.

In the interviews, the Python team talk about making the world's first ‘three-sided’ LP; upsetting John Denver; and raising the bar for what comedy albums could achieve.

The first show goes out at 10.30pm on December 8.

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Published: 12 Nov 2009