The Spam Sketch

. . . from the second series of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and "Monty Python's Previous Record"

(Spam = Spiced Pork And Ham, a sort of cheap luncheon meat)


  Scene:    A cafe.  One table is occupied by a group of Vikings with 
            horned helmets on.  A man (Eric Idle) and his wife (Graham
            Chapman in drag) enter.
 
  Man:      You sit here, dear.

  Wife:     All right.

  Man:      (to Waitress) Morning!

  Waitress: (Terry Jones, in drag as a bit of a rat-bag) Morning!

  Man:      Well, what've you got?

  Waitress: 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 sausage spam spam
            bacon spam tomato and spam;

  Vikings:   (starting to chant) Spam spam spam spam...

  Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked
            beans spam spam spam...

  Vikings:  (singing)  Spam!  Lovely spam!  Lovely spam!

  Waitress:  ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a
           Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with
           truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.

  Wife:     Have you got anything without spam?

  Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in
            it.

  Wife:     I don't want ANY spam!

  Man:      Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?

  Wife:     THAT'S got spam in it!

  Man:      Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?

  Vikings:  Spam spam spam spam (crescendo through next few lines)

  Wife:     Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?

  Waitress: Urgghh!

  Wife:     What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!

  Vikings:  Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

  Waitress: Shut up!

  Vikings:  Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

  Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon
           spam and sausage without the spam.

  Wife:     (shrieks) I don't like spam!

  Man:      Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it.
            I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam
            spam spam and spam!

  Vikings:  (singing) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

  Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.

  Man:      Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?

  Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late
            and the Vikings drown her words) 

  Vikings:  (singing elaborately) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful
            spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam!
            Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam
            spam spam!