Spam (Monty Python) Spam (Monty Python) "Spam" is a Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970 and written by Terry Jones and Michael Palin. In the sketch, two customers are lowered by wires into a greasy spoon café and try to order a breakfast from a menu that includes Spam in almost every dish, much to the consternation of one of the customers. The televised sketch and several subsequent performances feature Terry Jones as the Waitress, Eric Idle as Mr. Bun and Graham Chapman as Mrs. Bun, who does not like Spam. The original sketch also featured John Cleese as The Hungarian and
The Colonel (Monty Python) keep-left signs. The Colonel effectively ends the episode, by staring straight into the camera and saying “Now for a complete change of mood.” The Colonel has made appearances in "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl", at Pink Floyd's 1975 concert at Knebworth UK, and in a May 1982 episode of "Saturday Night Live" in which the character is used to comment on NBC's earlier refusal to air a commercial (featuring Chapman as the Colonel) for the Amnesty International benefit "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball". Archive footage of the Colonel was used in "Monty Python Live (Mostly)" for 2014. The