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Monty Python’s Flying Circus, The Benny Hill Show or Morecambe & Wise — what is Britain’s greatest sketch show? TV Insiders Jimmy Mulville and Peter Fincham rank the best British sketch shows, from That Mitchell and Webb Look and The Two Ronnies to The Fast Show, Spitting Image, French & Saunders, Goodness Gracious Me! and more… In this episode: Morecambe & Wise’s incredible castings The Two Ronnies, Four Candles and the “dull in Hull” weather forecast How Not the Nine O’Clock News made Rowan Atkinson a star The Fast Show, Caroline Aherne and sketches made for the YouTube age A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the privatised police sketch That Mitchell and Webb Look’s “Are we the baddies?” Why Benny…