I cannot
wait to watch this, seriously.
I was looking for some L&L footage recently, as me and a friend share similar childhood memories of nearly hyperventilating at their stuff and I wanted to see if it had stood the test of time.
Suffice to say, it hasn't. But it is, as you said, fascinating.
There's sadly very little up on YouTube that I could find, but what there was I found really interesting. I've always been annoyed that Sid Little has become an easy punch line and thought it was just "only 10% of Python was any good"-style received wisdom that he didn't have much to offer.
As a kid, I honestly thought he was
cool because he played the guitar.
However, watching back, he was
rotten. There's a sketch where they imitate Status Quo, that they obviously don't trust him to say or do anything, so they bring in that comedy stalwart, er, Bob Holness, to do the banter with Eddie. No idea why they thought anyone was needed, as surely there's only two members of Quo anyway.
There's also a Royal Variety performance knocking about somewhere, where Eddie seems
terrified that Sid will get as much as a single word in edgeways.
In wrestling, it would be called a "carry job" - Sid honestly doesn't say more than 'hello' and 'goodbye'. Eddie just dominates the act for 10 minutes. It's not even cross-talk. It's just talk. Eddie interrupts
himself with more hilariously bad impressions, and then when their slot is up just says "ok, that's our time, I don't think we've got time for your song after all. Better say goodbye, Sid" - "goodbye, Sid" - and they shuffle off.
Anyway, if it was up to me, I'd be watching this after Christmas dinner. Sadly though, I think my family prefer Downton.