He felt he had been through a long and tough apprenticeship in Cambridge Footlights productions and working on the fringes of the Monty Python set-up.

他觉得自己已经走出了漫长和艰苦的学习路程，包括在Cambridge Footlights剧团制作群打下手，还有在Monty Python剧组的外围工作。

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He has just started on a story about how he only chose Cambridge in order to be in the Footlights, but was refused entry because his humour didn't chime with the tradition set by John Cleese et al ("there were lots of jokes about cricket matches, " he says), when he picks up a glass of cola and takes a drink.

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