John Cleese in conversation with Eric Idle at Live Talks Los Angeles
The group's creative strength lay in their collective ability to edit and refine material; they would discard weak sketches or repurpose small funny bits from larger pieces.takeaway“There was no better group I've ever come across to give material to get feedback from it was very honest too... there's a great honesty in writing comedy you really do want to know when it stops being funny”quote“We were basically six writers or five writers who used to perform our own own material... we never squabbled about who was going to play What role it's very strange you know if we'd been actors primarily that's what we quote
