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Lost Python Sketches Will See The Light

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the graham-crack-ups dept.

Beli writes: "According to this story over at BBC, 3 lost Monty Python sketches written by the late Graham Chapman have been found and are to be played this year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Now if only John Cleese, Eric Idle and Co. would perform them. Apparently a comedy group called Sketch Club will have such honor."

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  1. We can only hope... by asdfasdfasdfasdf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hopefully, they'll wheel Graham Chapman's urn out so he can be present for the premiere.

  2. Its Great! by idfrsr · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Edingburgh Fringe Festival is a fantastic place to show these sketches.

    My only wish is that there is a lumberjack in a dress, a dead parot, a minister with a walking problem and someone called "Bwian" in the skits

    --
    "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" -Tom Waits
  3. Graham Chapman, won't be the same without him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard his last words were "I'm not dead." or was it "I feel happy, I feel happy!" I can never remember.

    1. Re:Graham Chapman, won't be the same without him by trix_e · · Score: 4, Funny

      he's not dead... he's resting.

      --
      No man is an island, but Gary is a city in Indiana.
  4. As John Cleese would say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Now if only John Cleese, Eric Idle and Co. would perform them. Apparently a comedy group called Sketch Club will have such honor
    And now, for something entirely different...

    or

    Nobody expects the Sketch Club!

  5. Re:Yuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >> Sex Pistols sort of event (but without the spitting).

    Uh yeah. It's like daytime (but without the sun).

  6. Re:It is an ex parrot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Executive of VA software walks into an office. Behind the counter is Rob Malda ....

    VA: Excuse me miss.
    RM: Miss?
    VA: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint. It's about this news discussion site which I bought from you this very afternooon.
    RM: A yes, the Slashdot - beautiful site, lovely perl scripts.
    VA: The perl scripts don't enter into it. It's stone dead!
    RM: It's not dead, it's just pining for the WIPO Troll. Look, there - it moved.
    ....

  7. Reminds me of a "How to write unmaint.. code" by ManxStef · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cut-and-pasted from How To Write Unmaintainable Code (the "Naming" section):

    Obscure film references: Use constant names like LancelotsFavouriteColour instead of blue and assign it hex value of $0204FB. The color looks identical to pure blue on the screen, and a maintenance programmer would have to work out 0204FB (or use some graphic tool) to know what it looks like. Only someone intimately familiar with Monty Python and the Holy Grail would know that Lancelot's favorite color was blue. If a maintenance programmer can't quote entire Monty Python movies from memory, he or she has no business being a programmer.

  8. Misquotations all over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What a bunch of wannabes...

    #3900656: Everybody knows the true quote is "This is an ex parrot".

    #3900719: The correct quote is "And now for something completely different."

    #3900723: The original quote was "...sink in water."

    The only thing worse than a complete Python geek is a complete Python geek too lame to even get the quotes right.

  9. Might be a case of; by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm sorry I'll read that again.

  10. Complaint by tybalt44 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Sir,

    I must protest in the strongest possible terms the obviously pedantic turn that this thread has taken. I have served in the Navy for seventy-nine years, and have never seen a trace of cannibalism on Slashdot until this post. Why must the average British Linux user be subjected to this filth and depredation!?

    Yours etc.,

    Rear-Admiral Arthur Mellish Winstanley (Mrs.)

    1. Re:Complaint by VikingBerserker · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dear Rear-Admiral Arthur Mellish Winstanley (Mrs.),

      As a Slashdot editor I abhor the implication that the website is a haven for cannibalism. It is well known that we now have the problem relatively under control, and that it is ThinkGeek who now suffer the largest casualties in this area. And where do you think they get their caffeine from? Arabs?

      Yours etc.

      Cmdr. Taco in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic