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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. I don't care how good the writing is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    .... it's not a Monty Python sketch unless the original troupe is performing it. End of story.

    That said, I wouldn't mind checking this out. :)

  2. Yuck by HiQ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Being a great Monty Python fan, and not knowing the comedy group 'Sketch Club', I am very much afraid that it will be something like Backstreet Boys singing a few newly found Beatles songs. It can never be as good as the Python boys doing Python, however hard they will try.

  3. I dunno ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What if some lost Three Stooges scripts were found, who would want to see some latter day
    imitators?<P>
    Interesting as a curio, perhaps.

  4. Re:going to the Edinburgh fest. by TooMuchCoff3E · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I went to the festival last year. It is mainly a bunch of actors putting on shows for other actors. The military tattoo was worth checking out. Going to see the city of Edinburgh itself is worth it, it is abolutely amazing.

  5. Re:Important Work? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My impression, after watching the BBC documentary, is that at each meeting, there were many ideas from each member that were not used, simply because they needed to make room in the show for someone else's ideas. Further impressions from the documentary are that it would have been rare for Chapman to write whole sketches by himself.

    That said, I can't believe all the people who are wishing for things they've already seen to be in these sketches! Why not wish for something new and shockingly different? That is what made the whole thing so amusing in the first place.

  6. what about the others? by luciensims · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Now if only John Cleese, Eric Idle and Co. would perform them. Apparently a comedy group called Sketch Club will have such honor

    you know, i would've thought that monty python, as a group, would get more respect form the people of slashdot than to reference them as cleese, idle, and co.

    terry gilliam, anybody? terry jones?

    bah...

  7. Re:bad news for Linux!! by chaidawg · · Score: 3, Insightful
    You are one of the unfotunates that believe this site is devoted to linux and linux users. You are wrong. As the tag line reads "News for nerds, stuff that matters." THough linux does play a large role in this site, not all nerds care about it, and it doesnt always matter.

    I'm sure that there are some nerds and techies that read /. that think Python stories matter more than linux.

    If you don't care about a story, fine, don't read or comment on it. Just don't say it shouldn't be here because it would harm the reputation of Linux.

  8. Don't get so excited by chegosaurus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't it true that most lost songs, lost sketches, lost stories etc. are lost for a reason?

    Even hard-core Python fans must surely admit that a lot of crap made it into a lot of episodes, and these sketches obviously weren't good enough even to get in ahead of those.

    Face it chaps. It will suck harder than those lost Beatles songs that kept turning up. And that's HARD.