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Monty Python's SPAMalot Wins 5, no 3 Tony Awards
acreman writes "Monty Python's SPAMalot, a musical lovingly ripped off from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, won 3 of the 14 Tony Awards it was nominated for. The 3 awards given out were for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (Sara Ramirez), Best Direction of a Musical (Mike Nichols), and Best Musical. "
It's a bastardized and paraphrased line from the Spanish Inquisition sketch.
No it isn't!
It's from the Holy Hand grenade sketch:
Brother Maynard:
And then the Lord spake, saying: "First, shalt thou take out the holy pin.
Then shalt thou count to three.
No more, no less.
*Three* shall be the number of the counting, and the number of the counting shall be three.
*Four* shalt thou not count, and neither count thou two, excepting that thou then goest on to three.
Five is RIGHT OUT. Once the number three, being the third number be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade to-wards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight,shall snuff it.
Amen."
All: Amen.
Arthur: Right! (pulls pin)
One!
Two!
Five!
Bedevere: Three, Sire!!
Arthur: Three! (throws hand grenade at the Killer Rabbit)
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
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If you were planning on catching "Spamalot" this summer, you can pretty much either pay a scalper or forget about it. As I found out last night, it's more-or-less sold slam out through Labor Day.
Yes, even if you are Arthur, King of the Britons.
To all of you who haven't watched the movie recently enough to get the title, see if this rings a bell:
"And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
Amen.
Right! One... two... five!
Three, sir!
Three!
[boom]
PS: Don't sue me.
Just to clarify, "lovingly ripped off" is a Python-esque slogan, even posted prominently on the side of the theatre. :)
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It was the best Broadway show I've been to...
David Hyde Pierce is the perfect Sir Robin, Hank Azaria is the perfect Lancelot, Sara Ramirez was a wonderful Lady of the Lake, and we all know John Cleese is pretty close to being God anyway. My main problem was Tim Curry as King Arthur. While he was excellent, he did seem a bit...old.
Overall, a fun night...it will be revisited, if I can get decent tickets again, which probably won't be the case for another year at least.http://kansieo.com
As some of the other posters pointed out, it's a reoccuring gag throughout the movie. The scene you're talking about is with a bridgekeeper where they knights have to answer 3 questions correctly to cross. The gag about the air velocity of a swallow is another one like this. How do you know so much about swallows?
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
You do realise that "this kind of humour" was invented over here. Monty python is British; it's humour doubly so. I'm just supprised that you get it over there.
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actually, he mistakenly says 5 instead of 3 several times in the movie, that was only the most notable.
Actually, through the entire movie, Arthur says 5 when he means 3. For instance, he tells Lancelot to just answer the 5, no 3, questions the bridgekeeper asks him.
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