Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)

Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror (1972)

Eric Idle: Hamrag Yatlerot, Mr. Man, Adrian

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• 'BDDWH' Presenter : Hello, good evening and welcome to another edition of "Blood, Devastation, Death, War & Horror". And later we'll be talking to a man who DOES gardening. But our first guest tonight is a man who talks entirely in anagrams.

  Hamrag Yatlerot : Taht si crreoct.

  'BDDWH' Presenter : Do you enjoy this?

  Hamrag Yatlerot : I stom certainly od. Revy chum so.

  'BDDWH' Presenter : And what is your name?

  Hamrag Yatlerot : Hamrag, Hamrag Yatlerot.

  'BDDWH' Presenter : Well Graham, nice to have you on the show. Now where do you come from?

  Hamrag Yatlerot : Bumcreland.

  'BDDWH' Presenter : Cumberland?

  Hamrag Yatlerot : Staht sit sepreicly.

  'BDDWH' Presenter : And I believe you're working on an anagram version of Shakespeare?

  Hamrag Yatlerot : Sey sey, taht si crreoct, er. Ta the mnemot I'm wroking on "The Mating Of The Wersh."

  'BDDWH' Presenter : "The Mating Of The Wersh". By William Shakespeare?

  Hamrag Yatlerot : Nay, by Malliwi Rapesheake.

  'BDDWH' Presenter : And, erm, what else?

  Hamrag Yatlerot : "Two Netlemeg Of Verona", "Twelfth Thing", "The Chamrent Of Venice"...

  'BDDWH' Presenter : Have you done "Hamlet"?

  Hamrag Yatlerot : Be ot or bot ne ot, tath si the nestquie.

  'BDDWH' Presenter : And what is your next project?

  Hamrag Yatlerot : Ring Kichard the Thrid.

  'BDDWH' Presenter : I'm sorry?

  Hamrag Yatlerot : A shroe! A shroe! My dingkome for a shroe!

  'BDDWH' Presenter : Ah, King Richard, yes... but surely that's not an anagram, that's a spoonerism.

  Hamrag Yatlerot : If you're going to split hairs, I'm going to piss off.

  [he leaves]