Everyone has their favourite hot take on Monty Python – Dead Parrot sketch (‘isn’t Cleese just hysterical?’), no traditional punchlines (‘just incredibly radical’) and cartoon segues (‘so surreal!’) – but ‘Ripping Yarns’, a short-lived television series which Michael Palin and Terry Jones put together in their post-Python incarnations, is really fascinating in its own right, a rich creation as funny as Flying Circus and far cleverer than Fawlty Towers.