{"id":72772,"date":"2025-08-16T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72772\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T13:15:08","slug":"australian-comedy-duos-next-project-promises-monty-python-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72772\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian comedy duo&#8217;s next project promises Monty Python chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Umbilical Brothers are Australian comedy gold.<\/p>\n<p>The comedy duo has had fans in stitches for more than 35 years with more than 1600 performances in 40 countries.<\/p>\n<p>David Collins and Shane Dundas have peformed for the Queen, at Woodstock and on America&#8217;s most popular late night talk shows.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ddb34433-e98c-4150-8e4e-99883a7e4d6d.png\"   alt=\"The Umbilical Brothers\"\/>The Umbilical Brothers have had fans in stitches for more than 35 years with more than 1600 performances in 40 countries. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n<p>Now the Umbilical Brothers are starring in The 39 Steps, an Alfred Hitchcock classic spy thriller with a sprinkle of Monty Python chaos as the cast describes it.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story in the video player above.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Umbilical Brothers are Australian comedy gold. The comedy duo has had fans in stitches for more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-72772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}