Wee-Wee Wine Tasting is a lost sketch that originally appeared in "E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease," the thirty-sixth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Synopsis[]
An announcer (Michael Palin) describes "Is There?" as the third in a series of programmes which examine moral beliefs and is about to announce another item before he hears people coming, and climbs into a barrel.
Wine merchant Mr West Ruislip For Ickenham (Terry Jones) and Frenchman Monsieur Hounslow West (Eric Idle) are in a wine cellar. M. Hounslow West offers Mr West Ruislip For Ickenham a glass of wine, who tries to identify the taste. After Monsieur Hounslow West informs him it's 'wee-wee', Mr West Ruislip For Ickenham agrees enthusiastically. He fails to identify one more glass of wee-wee, succeeding on his third glass. Monsieur Hounslow tells him his life work is tasting wine, along with baby-sitting. Mr West Ruislip For Ickenham asks if he could babysit for him on Thursday. Monsieur Hounslow agrees, and Mr West Ruislip For Ickenham says he'll try and find a baby then.
The announcer, drenched in urine, comes out of the barrel and says that the next sketch will continue after some silly noises.
Censorship[]
The sketch was written by Eric Idle and Michael Palin but the toilet humour proved to be too much for the BBC, who ultimately cut it from the episode, with the support of John Cleese, who thought it wasn't "funny enough to justify what I thought was the slight tackiness involved". Furthermore, one of the glasses of wee-wee was pink, which the BBC believed to be menstrual urine