Originally Posted by
oldboots
You missed "Do Not Adjust Your Set", allegedly a kids programme but another direct ancestor of Monty Python (Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Terry Jones).
It also starred David Jason, who possibly could have become a Python, Neil Innes (Rutland Weekend Television with Eric Idle) and the rest of the Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band including the very weird Viv Stanshall (the announcer on Tubular Bells). Most importantly I believe it was the brainchild of Denise Coffey the sadly now forgotten god-mother of that kind of comedy.
Cleese of course was in TW3 in the famous class sketch with the Two Ronnies (before they were the Two Ronnies), not really a MP ancestor though.
Someone's already done this on TV in a show called "Comedy Connections" or something similar.