and it was on p.b.s. they showed flying circus on p.b.s. i think it was wednesdays or thursday nights. and i remember, like, setting up a tv in my room just to watch that. and i really don't think we understood every-- we didn't understand a lot of the jokes or a lot of what was going on. but it was like, "what is this? this is new; this makes me"--you know. as a kid, you're intrigued by it. you don't want to be given this, you know, sitcom kind of--you know, like today's sitcoms that's just ring-the-bell humor and everything's the same. you know, kids want to be-- have this sense of discovery of, like, "i don't understand what's going on here, and i want to know what's going on." and that's, you know, watching python at ages five and six. in fact, you know, i thought that the way-- they talked that way because it was funny, not because there is an actual place that they came from. and i finally realized that there was this country that--you know, they talk like that. i figured it out about two years ago. now, larry, i have to ask you. are

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he spoke to producers of an upcoming documentary by the p.b.s. program "frontline", with the on-line news organization "pro-publica" and the "times- picayune" newspaper. >> what appears to me to have what appears to me is that the officers, based upon the admitted statements, immediately decided to not tell the truth. that's just disgusting. it's an insult to everybody who does this work. it's an insult. it's an insult to the community, obviously. >> warner: in may, serpas' boss -- the city's newly inaugurated mayor, mitch landrieu-- asked the justice department to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the department, saying he feared he'd inherited "one of the worst police departments in the country." there are additional probes underway into the killings of nine other civilians in the first week after hurricane katrina, including henry glover. he was found shot, then incinerated in a car just a few hundred feet from a police station. five officers were indicted last month in his death. some of the footage and still for more, we turn to a.c. thompso