A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick) Terry Gilliam of Monty Python (with "Python girl" Carol Cleveland); Jonathan Miller, Peter Cook and Alan Bennett of "Beyond The Fringe"; Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor of "The Goodies". Solo performers included: John Fortune, John Bird, Eleanor Bron, Barry Humphries in character as Dame Edna Everage. Neil Innes and mime artist Des Jones. The show consisted primarily of "greatest hits" of the various performers. Peter Cook and Alan Bennett performed iconic solo routines from their early 1960s revue "Beyond The Fringe". The Monty Python team performed several of their most famous skits including the Dead Parrot sketch, the
Bob Oliver Rogers for the BBC: including "Late Night Extra" (presented on different occasions by Keith Fordyce, comedian Barry Cryer, John Dunn, and Brian Matthew), "Frank Muir Goes Into" (starring Frank Muir and Alfred Marks), the topical satire "Week Ending" (which looked at the funny side of the past week's news, starring David Jason, Bill Wallis and Chris Emmett), and "Beat the Record" (a phone-in quiz show presented by Don Davis). He also produced the final series of the long running sketch comedy "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again" (starring John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie), the 1973-74