Monty Python member and writer Terry Jones remembered how the studio audience reacted to the first episodes of the comedy group's program "Monty Python's Flying Circus." "For the very first show, the audience consisted of a lot of old-age pensioners who actually thought they were coming to see a real circus," Jones said. "They were a bit puzzled. By the end of the second and third series [the British term for seasons], two years later, we actually had to take a lot of clapping and laughter out of the show. We had to speed up the shows. I think people got used to it by the end of the first season."
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