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Episode 271 – David Melville on Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album

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David Melville returns!  To talk Monty Python for the first time on the show, how comedy ages (and doesn’t) and two bonus stories about his dad’s association with The Beatles and Star Wars.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
Guest: David Melville

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Episode 150 – David Melville on George Formby

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The Independent Shakespeare Company’s own David Melville returns, to again open up our comedy minds to the works of George Formby.  Still a respected name in English comedy, his work never quite traversed the ocean sufficiently, so it’s time for some mind expansion.  Formby’s double-entendre-laden ukulele tunes are played with an unusual skill on an instrument mistakenly seen as simple, especially given its current ubiquity.  Enjoy some fun tunes and, if you’re in LA, go see the Independent Shakespeare Company at Griffith Park this summer.

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Episode 70 – David Melville on Gerard Hoffnung – Hoffnung at the Oxford Union

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MelvilleDavid Melville is the co-founder of LA’s Independent Shakespeare Company.  I interviewed him just before an hilarious performance of As You Like It at this summer’s Griffith Park Festival.  It was a ton of fun, even if the audience got a bit rowdy toward the end.  Also, listen to the end of the episode for a clip of David as Touchstone.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: David Melville

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