"Round the Horne" is described by Foster and Furst as "one of the seminal comedies to come out of the BBC". The programme continued the comedy vein of "The Goon Show" and provided an influential link, through "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again", to the work of the Monty Python writers and performers; at one point Monty Python was given the working title "Barry Took's Flying Circus" by the BBC. "Round the Horne" helped change the way the BBC dealt with broadcasting humour: "The ebullience of the ... comedy – not to mention the filth of the innuendos – swept away decades of insipid and paternalistic inhibition at the BBC", according to Richard Morrison, the chief arts correspondent of "The Times".