Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)

It's a Living (1970)

Eric Idle: It's a Living Compère, Second Bishop, Policeman, Timmy Williams, Registrar, Gerald, Second Officer, Various

Quotes 

• First Man : Excuse me, I'd like to get married.

  Registrar : I'm afraid I'm already married.

• [first lines] 

  Announcer : Hello, good evening, and welcome to, "It's A Living." The rules are very simple. Each week, we get a large fee. At the end of that week, we get another large fee. If there's been no interruption at the end of the year, we get a repeat fee, which can be added on for tax purposes to the previous year, or the following year if there's no new series. Every contestant, in addition to getting a large fee is entitled to three drinks at the BBC or, if the show is over, seven drinks - unless he's an M.P., in which case he can have seven drinks before the show; or a bishop, only three drinks in toto. The winners will receive an additional fee, a prize which they can flog back, and a special fee for a guest appearance on "Late Night Line-up." Well, those are the rules, that's the game. We'll be back again same time next week; 'til then, bye-bye!