Monty Python's Flying Circus (disambiguation)
Monty Python's Flying Circus is a British comedy sketch television series originally broadcast by the BBC between 1969 and 1974.
List of recurring Monty Python's Flying Circus characters
The Nudge Nudge man, Arthur Nudge (played by Eric Idle) was seen in one of the earliest episodes of Monty Python. He is an annoying man and pub frequenter who speaks in a more or less inscrutable small talk. He is seen conversing with a gentleman (Terry Jones) who is initially unable to pick up on the obscure sexual innuendos of his interlocutor and then becomes quite angry when he does. His conversation is laced with knowing smiles and the phrase “nudge-nudge,” accompanied by a slight elbow nudge to his interlocutor. An example: “Does your wife ‘go’? Is she a ‘goer’? Nudge-nudge - know what I mean? Say no more?” (The sketch's punch line "What's it like?" reveals Nudge's total lack of sexual experience.) A similar character, most likely the same character, appears later in the first series in the sketch "The Visitors." In a later episode, he makes a very brief (seconds-long) cameo appearance as “Archbishop Nudge” in a sketch about Crackpot Religions.