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Lost Python Sketches Will See The Light
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."
Hopefully, they'll wheel Graham Chapman's urn out so he can be present for the premiere.
.... it's not a Monty Python sketch unless the original troupe is performing it. End of story.
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That said, I wouldn't mind checking this out.
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.
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
I heard his last words were "I'm not dead." or was it "I feel happy, I feel happy!" I can never remember.
My impression is that the Pythons wrote many sketches that never saw the light of day. In a Vanity Fair interview several years ago, they said that while producing the show, many sketches were presented but weren't accepted, often because they weren't funny. Does this mean that those discarded skits should rate alongside the Python's best work? The article is a little vague about when these were written.
It's nice that Chapman's work is still considered important enough for this kind of treatment, but in the end, what we have is the work done by the group. And that work is why we love Monty Python so much. Together they were so much more than the sum of their parts, and I think these skits should be viewed in that light.
That said, I can't wait to see the Gay Budgie skit!
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Nobody expects the Sketch Club!
For thoses now planning to go and are new to it. The fest is actually consists of around 7 festivals going on at the same time, everything from military performance, book festival, comedians, music, opera, etc.
The place is just packed with performances in every available building, from government offices to local churches. Most of the rooms are small places with just enough room for the performers and the small audiance.
Usally good shows, and during breaks between show you can tour Edinburgh.
Graham Chapman was - IS - a complete hero of mine. Not only did he write much of the Python material (in collaboration with Eric Idle and John Cleese), he starred in The Life of Brian and the Holy Grail films whilst suffereing from a chronic alcohol problem (multiple bottles of gin a day.) He was also one of the first celebrities to come out as gay, and helped found Gay News when sexual relationships between two consenting adults was still illegal in this country.
I strongly recommend his wonderful "A Liar's Autobiography" for a painfully candid (and very funny) story of his life.
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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.
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...
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I remember seeing an interview with Eric Idle where he performed about thirty seconds of a sketch that was deemed too rough for the BBC. It involved a pretentious wine tasting where the taster would attempt to guess the name of a wine after tasting it, "Chateu LaFite '45, from the south of France?" And then the host would announce, "no, that is wee-wee."
I obviously can't do it justice here, but I laughed my butt off.
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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.
"Lost Python Sketches Will See The Light"
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No they won't!
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i would prefer the "lost" german episodes to be transferred to dvd. they were available on video for some time now (from guerilla-films.com) and they are hilarious (especially the first episode. it ist in german, even the guys didn't know german ;-).
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.
What if some lost Three Stooges scripts were found, who would want to see some latter day
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imitators?
As long as the three guys performing the sketch were boy-band members, and none of the punches were pulled, I would!
But what does my opinion matter, I just vote here. It's not like I have any money or anything.
I have them in the 2 disk best of set I got for Christmas.
Yup, sounds like Graham.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
"Now if only John Cleese, Eric Idle and Co. would perform them."
once, they where offered a 10 million gaurentee for a 6 week tour, they turned it down.
somehow, I don't think they'll be back.
If they ever did come back, I truly pray they write new stuff. I think it would be interesting to see how there writing has change, and how they view current affairs.
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