"Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses" is a sketch from Episode 31 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, 'The All-England Summarize Proust Competition'. This sketch features Graham Chapman as a television interviewer and John Cleese in drag as a palaeontologist, Anne Elk, appearing in a television talk show titled Thrust. The plot of the sketch is that the interviewee, Anne Elk, can hardly describe the basis of her supposed new paleontological theory on dinosaurs, specifically Brontosauruses. After several false starts during which she repeatedly and noisily attempts to clear her throat, Miss Elk spends most of the interview circuitously leading up to the 'theory by A. Elk. Brackets Miss, brackets.' It turns out that in the end Miss Elk's new theory on brontosauruses is rather shallow: 'All bron