Los enredos de Wanda

In 1969, a sketch from the television show Monty Python’s Flying Circus joked about the idea of a gag so funny it cost the life of all those who heard it. Twenty years after the broadcast of that historic episode, tragedy overflew A Fish Called Wanda—according to the colleagues who saw him, a Danish doctor laughed himself to death during a screening of the film. The irony? This hilarious comedy was written by John Cleese, a member of Monty Python. The film –the last in director Charles Crichton’s extensive career– tells many stories rolled into one. Even though the excuse is to follow the adventures of a gang of criminals after a successful job at a jewelry, the plot hides a collection of absurd love affairs, betrayal, fights and, above all, some of the best gags in British comedy history. As good as they are lethal.