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Letter: A funny Canadian

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20031130
Author:Steve Pound

The "Four Yorkshiremen" may well be one of the most enduring Monty Python sketches ( "And now for something completely similar", 23 November) but it is not as funny as the 90-year-old original version, nor is its true author acknowledged. Stephen Leacock, a Canadian humourist who was also a professor of economics, deserves credit for the story of the four self-made millionaires telling ever taller tales of early days in the Yukon. Leacock died in 1944 but a new generation could do well to read him and to appreciate some truly original humour.

Steve Pound

MP for Ealing North, by email

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