DU Monty Python fanatics, help me identify a sketch:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

If anyone can remember the name of the sketch or episode I'd appreciate it.

Two of the cast members (pretty sure Terry Jones was one) played middle aged ladies.

John Cleese, dressed as a proper gentleman with bowler hat and umbrella, comes into the house - I believe he is the son of one of the women.

The women dote and coo over him as if he were a baby. "Gootchy-goo!" etc.

One of the things the women say is "Oooo can baby talk?" or something like that, to which Cleese replies "Of course I can talk, I'm the Undersecretary for Rhodesia" or something similar.

Can anyone help me out?



Thanks in advance. Bonus clips for your time and trouble!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtmaPm9nHz8#t=0m25s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPSzPGrazPo

[JVS]

1. Here is the sketch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN5rqMxmmpM

[KatyaR]

2. Arg, I remember that sketch, but I don't know the name of it.

Here's a website where you might be able to find it:

http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/justthewords.htm

[pokerfan]

3. "Minister for Overseas Development"

From their fourth album, "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" released in 1973. It's on one of the two grooves on Side 2. One or the other of these two series of tracks will play, depending on which groove the stylus is cued on.

Side Two: Groove One
1. "The Background to History"
2. "First World War Noises"
3. "Boxing Tonight (Fight Of The Century)"

Side Two: Groove Two
1. "Minister for Overseas Development (aka Mrs. Niggerbaiter explodes)"
2. "Oscar Wilde and Friends"
3. "Buying A Cat"
4. "Phone-In"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Ahh thanks, because of this I was able to find it on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT-JIJTSpF0

[mockmonkey]

5. Isn't that the LP that had 3 sides?

Depending on what groove the needle landed on one of the sides. I remember thinking I was going insane when I played the album a few times.

[pokerfan]

6. Yes

...two grooves on Side 2. One or the other of these two series of tracks will play, depending on which groove the stylus is cued on.

I still have a copy.