Shelly Goldstein recognized the second bit I just asked about and it wasn't from Monty Python. It was in the first Rutles movie — a lawyer who said…
Suddenly, everyone became amazingly litigious. I remember I'd get up in the morning. Sue someone. Check in the papers that I hadn't been fired. Go to the office. Sue someone. Pick up the morning's writs. Sue the bank. Go out for lunch. Sue the restaurant. Get back in, collect the writs that had been received that afternoon. Read the papers. Phone the papers. Sue the papers. Then go home. Sue the wife.
I said it felt to me like Michael Palin or maybe Eric Idle. Actually, it was Michael Palin reading lines that were probably written by Eric Idle.
Okay. One down, one to go…