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Boxing Commentary is a sketch that appears in "Hamlet," the forty-third episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Synopsis[]

A group of doctors and nurses in a hospital ward are listening to the return fight between The Killer and The Champ. Just as a patient begins to have a heart attack, the doctors yell at him to be quiet as the match begins.

Everyone is listening to the radio as the commentary describes brutal details of the match, including how The Killer is mutilating The Champ. Everyone cheers when his head comes off in the 31st second, and celebrates when it is revealed the Killer has been disqualified.

The ward calms down when the fight commentary abruptly changes to an episode of The Robinsons, introduced by Terry Jones.

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