Spam Song
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| Single by Monty Python | ||||
| from the album Another Monty Python Record | ||||
| Released | 8 September 1972 | |||
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| Label | Charisma | |||
| Songwriter(s) |
Michael Palin Terry Jones Fred Tomlinson |
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| Producer(s) |
Michael Palin Terry Jones |
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“Spam” is a Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970 and written by Terry Jones and Michael Palin. In the sketch, two customers are lowered by wires into a greasy spoon café and try to order a breakfast from a menu that includes Spam in almost every dish, much to the consternation of one of the customers.
The televised sketch and several subsequent performances feature Terry Jones as the Waitress, Eric Idle as Mr. Bun and Graham Chapman as Mrs. Bun, who does not like Spam. The original sketch also featured John Cleese as The Hungarian and Michael Palin as a historian, but this part was left out of the audio version of the sketch recorded for the team's second album Another Monty Python Record in 1971. A year later this track was released as the Pythons' first 7" single.
The term spam in the context of electronic communications is derived from this sketch.
The three and a half minute sketch is set in the fictional Green Midget Café in Bromley. An argument develops between the waitress, who recites a menu in which nearly every dish contains Spam (among them, "Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam"), and Mrs Bun, who does not like Spam. She asks for a dish without Spam, much to the amazement of her Spam-loving husband. The waitress responds to this request with disgust.
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