Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Colonel (Monty Python)
It's easy to find |significant coverage which confirms the character's importance in the structure of the show.  For example  "The Colonel is again acting as the arbiter of good taste, and also -- as a replacement for a punchline or a traditional link -- he is a transitionary tool.  His outbursts remind the viewer of the constructedness of the performance, of its artificiality, and of the fact that it can be directed and re-directed by the characters and elements within the diegetic world.  This narrative chicanery is the Pythons' tilting at Auntie BBC -- the ancien régime of Light Entertainment to be rebelled against -- and will come to characterize the narrative structure of ''Flying Circus
— user:Andrew, 17:26, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SIGCOV (Wikipedia:Notability)