<-- back to film clips <-- back to Bennett clip Alan Bennett was raised in the Anglican church. In the seven minute "sermon" from which this video clip is taken, Bennett satirizes sermons he had sat through which seemed to be about nothing, though they were dramatically delivered, and which contained endless tangents. The bit was part of a comedy revue performed at Oxford with a few fellow Oxford students. At least two future members of Monty Python (coming from Cambridge) were in the audience and were smitten with Alan Bennett. When interviewed decades later about what his reaction had been to Bennett's bit, Eric Idle said, "I didn't know anyone was allowed to be that funny." <-- back to Bennett clip <-- back to film clips |