First, there’s Donny Osmond, who turns 51 today.

Now before you get any funny ideas, let me just be clear that I’m posting this for the benefit of my eight year old.  She has the soundtrack of Osmond’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat production and is positively infatuated with both it and with him.

Heck, I can think of an awful lot worse things.

Then there is the great Neil Innes, born this day in 1944.   His birthday wishes are off of my own bat, so to speak.

Innes is sometimes known (by many people, including himself) as the “Seventh Python”, appearing in numerous sketches and writing a good bit of music for the Team.  (Casual viewers might remember him best as the chief of Sir Robin’s minstrels in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.)  His contribution to The Rutles was also outstanding, IMHO, and he’s done various other bits and pieces over the years.

Owing to the magic of YouTube, this year in honor of Innes I can repost one of my very favorite Flying Circus closings (which is at the end of one of my very favorite Flying Circus episodes), contributed to the Team by him.  Enjoy!