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Spam
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
In this iconic sketch, a couple (Mr. and Mrs. Bun) are lowered by wires into the fictional Green Midget Cafe in Bromley. They attempt to order breakfast from a menu where nearly every dish contains Spam (the canned meat product). Mrs. Bun desperately doesn't want any Spam, much to the amazement of her Spam-loving husband and the disgust of the waitress. Throughout the sketch, a group of Vikings sitting in the restaurant repeatedly interrupt by loudly singing "Spam, spam, spam, spam... Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!" drowning out all conversation. The sketch satirizes the post-WWII British experience when Spam was ubiquitous due to meat rationing, and the public had grown tired of it. This sketch is the origin of the term "spam" as it relates to unwanted repetitive electronic content.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 6
Eric Idle
Mr. Bun
Graham Chapman
Mrs. Bun
John Cleese
The Hungarian/Announcer
Michael Palin
It's Man/Historian
Terry Gilliam
Che Guevara
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam; or Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Have you got anything without spam in it?
I don't want ANY spam!
Spam, spam, spam, spam... Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Graham Chapman
Writer

John Cleese
Writer

Eric Idle
Writer

Terry Jones
Writer

Michael Palin
Writer

Ian MacNaughton
Director
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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