In my teens Python was all the go. You could buy records of the sketches and learn them to recite with your friends.
One of the records had two grooves instead of one so that you couldn't tell which of two opening sequences you'd hear. That drove us mad for a while!

To this day I know most of The Holy Grail, having learned it from endlessly repeating the soundtrack record.
If I hear the word 'blessing' I have to say 'A blessing! A blessing from the Lord! God be praised!'
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 10:16, Reply)