Vocational Guidance Counsellor
The chartered accountant who wants to be a lion tamer.
Vocational Guidance Counsellor is a Monty Python sketch first shown on 21 December 1969 in episode 10 of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It is credited with fixing the stereotype of the boring accountant, which the Financial Times said four decades on still dogged the profession.
Quick Facts
- First aired
- 21 December 1969 (episode 10)
- Cast
- Michael Palin, John Cleese
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Background
Herbert Anchovy (Michael Palin) asks the counsellor (John Cleese) for a career change, only to hear that his aptitude test says he is best suited to chartered accountancy, the job he already has and finds dull. He wants to be a lion tamer, but it emerges he has mistaken an anteater for a lion, and a picture of a real lion terrifies him. The sketch was re-used in the 1971 film And Now for Something Completely Different and at Monty Python Live (Mostly).
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