Live from the Grill-o-Mat Snack Bar, Paignton

As featured in the Flying Circus TV Show - Episode 18

The cast:

VOICE OVER

Michael Palin

LINKMAN

John Cleese

The sketch:

(Sketch opens with the BBC world symbol)

Voice Over: Monty Python's Flying Circus tonight comes to you live from the Grillomat Snack Bar, Paignton.

(Interior of a nasty snack bar. Customers around, preferably real people. Linkman sitting at one of the plastic tables.)

Linkman: Hello to you live from the Grillomat Snack Bar, Paignton. And so, without any more ado, let's have the titles.

lt's Man Voice: It's...

(Animated titles. Back to the snack ban)

Linkman: (with rather forced bonhomie) Well, those were the titles. And now for the first item this evening on the Menu - ha ha - the team have chosen as a little hors d'oeuvres an item - and I think we can be sure it won't be an ordinary item - in fact the team mid me just before the show that anything could happen, and probably would - so let's have ... the item.

(Cut to the word 'Blackmail' in letters)

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