We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

He spent much of his childhood with his parents and older brother Iain in post-war Germany during his Scottish father's military assignment as a warrant officer. Neil James Innes (born 9 December 1944) is an English writer and performer of comic songs best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles. He co-wrote the "Most Awful Family in Britain" sketch and played a humorous stilted guitar version of the theme song The Liberty Bell March during the credits of the last episode "Party Political Broadcast".