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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. "
/applause
they had an award for the best spam messages, I think This would win first place. This stuff is just bad, nasty, and it is down-right scamming!
If we're going to do Monty Python bits - Can we send cmdrtaco to the "Being hit on the head lessons" room?
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Why is this "IT" instead of regular news?
It's a bastardized and paraphrased line from the Spanish Inquisition sketch.
'ripped off'? Didn't most of the living cast support Spamalot? And last time I checked, Eric Idle,Dead Collector/Peasant 1/Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot/Roger the Shrubber, was the driving force behind it...Yeah I guess it was ripped off!
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Spamalot ... lancelot .. camelot ..
.... auuughhh.
Well, I am Talkalot
And my favourite color is yellow, no blue
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
Spamalot? It should be called Camelot!
Peace out, homies.
The musical is based on the film _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. A running gag in that film is the king who constantly says five when he means three.
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Not the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion. Actually it's from the scene with the Holy Handgranade. King Arthur would begin continue to 3 and would always miss 3. As in 1, 2, 4. Then someone would say '3 sir'.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Now if I could only see the musical. Stuck in the Midwest... John
I thought it was from The Holy Grail, when Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad et al have to answer the questions from the Bridgekeeper, namely 'What is your favourite colour ?'
Actually it's a recurring joke from the original movie of The Holy Grail.
Arthur: Right! One!... Two!... Five!Galahad: Three sir!
Arthur: Three!
[angels sing]
[boom]
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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)
Now if only I could find a gang of topless ladies to chase me off a cliff my life would be complete.
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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.
It should have won more Tonys. It was a great show. They picked up on many small things from the movie and a bunch of completely new stuff.
Only thought they could have done better with the black Knight scene...
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.
Interesting how The Light in the Piazza won more Tonys, but not Best Musical.
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etc...
And of course see other replies to see the Holy Grail quote. Most people don't really know the sketches but can quote the Holy Grail. It frustrates me because when someone makes a Grail joke, I think they are a python fan so then I make a joke from one of the sketches and they just look at me funny. Oh well.
Iky iky putang zump boong un gouzin. And I didnt have to look that up....my wife would be so proud.
Blue! No! AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaagh
Wrong, it's from the bridge scene. Aurthur keeps saying they have to answer 5 questions, Galahad keeps correcting him saying it was 3.
ARTHUR:
He is the keeper of the Bridge of Death. He asks each traveller five questions--
GALAHAD:
Three questions.
ARTHUR:
Three questions. He who answers the five questions--
GALAHAD:
Three questions.
ARTHUR:
Three questions may cross in safety.
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I said it was a recurring joke. And gave one example. Yours is another.
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Um, isn't this a paraphrase of the discussion between the guy on the mountain and one of Arthur's followers when being asked about the quest and the grail? When he is asked the color and he says something like "blue...no, green" and is summarily cast into the gorge?
(Sorry for the vagueness of the above. I forget the names....)
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
a big police car arrives and arrests the entire cast!
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of ELDERBERRYS" NI!
To dare, is to do.
You're right - normally the editors would get around to posting this on Friday. Guess we'll just have to settle for leftover dupe spamALOT on Friday.
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
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2004580002-2005 260250,00.html
I just hope they get this kind of humor over there...
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I asked for a simple contradiction . . .
No, you didn't.
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of awards won was three...
Saying it was ripped off isn't fair. Yes they are still milking the Monty Python fame but many Python fans we eager to see a new twist on the old stuff. Spamalot wasn't just a cut an paste job. Things were adapted to live stage, dated content was updated and a good bit of new content was added. Some of my favorite sequences were the new material in fact. They were messing about with sacred materials and did a really good job.
Thank you - it's a running gag. Although it's most famously remembered for the hand-grenade bit, he says 5 when he means three throughout the movie.
Excuse my speling.
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I thought this was abuse.
You'll have to wait for The Meaning of Life-alot for that one. Wrong movie.
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Someone please mod this funny - I don't know if he meant to be but he sure made me laugh
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Apparently someone missed the intended humor of my previous post.
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What annoyed me were the condescending articles when the news came out about how this play was bringing the 25-35 male demographic in. The tone was always that this demographic was a bunch of culturally defective mouth-breathers, and it was a good thing they were finally getting exposure to high art. Ridiculous of course, Broadway musicals are definitely not high culture; the Broadway community used to recognize this, but now they seem to be getting inflated opinions of themselves.
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Tim Curry wasn't there, so understudy John Bolton took the part, and was pretty damn good. Hank Azaria has the standout performance, but everyone was terrific. I can't wait 'til they make it into a movie. ;)
But mostly, I just wanted to brag that my girlfriend took me to see it.
The latest Slashdot meme.
salesman: We've spam-burgers, spam-souflee, spam-dog, spam-cicles, spam omlettes, spam and eggs, spam and grits, spam and toast, spam and cheese sandwhiches, spam on rye...
...
old woman: I don't want any spam! I hate spam! I just want some eggs and toast.
salesman: i'm sorry, we don't have just eggs and toast.
on the otherhand, I love SPAMalot. (but i don't like spam a lot)
Just wait until George Lucas discovers theatre...
With the success of Spamelot, will we be seeing "Brian Cohen, Superstar" a few years from now?
Here's a simple version of it: |||
The starred version of this is: ***
In English texts you'll see it as: three
In German texts you find it as: drei
In French texts, look out for: trois
In Italian texts you'll find: tre
As roman numeral, it's: III.
This is the decimal form: 3
In base 2, it's 11
However, computers will usually use 00000011
Or rather 0000000000000011
Actually, most systems today will use 00000000000000000000000000000011
And some even 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Unless it's text, then they'll probably use 00110011
Which often is expressed as '\063'
Or as '\x33'
Seen enough of it?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
It takes a while to come up with a quality headline like that. And with headlines like this, who needs fark?
Your sig(k) has been stolen. There is a puff of smoke!
No, this is having grits poured down your pants lessons.
There they were, sitting in the van with all those dials, and the cat was dead. -V. Marchetti, CIA
actually, he mistakenly says 5 instead of 3 several times in the movie, that was only the most notable.
You see musicals work. The Hitchhiker movie should be a musical! Now, go back and fix it!
:T:R:A:N:S:
And they invariably quote the "Knights who say 'Ni'" which is arguably not the funniest moment in the movie. It's hard to beat Arthur "two sheds" Jackson or the RAF banter sketch- "Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your egg-and-fours and let's get the bacon delivered!"
Wow...once you have to explain a joke, it looses all its thunder. And this was FUNNY to start with. sigh.
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.
I am officially gone from
Hormel isn't going to like this one bit! Hope they've got a legal team...
...and could appreciate this as more than a funny movie. Oh well, I was just born the way I was meant to be, I guess.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
The bridgekeeper is also known as 'Tim the enchanter'
Ahh, no.
He's also known as "the old man from Scene 23" (as Sir Bedemere says "Look, it's the old man from Scene 23!" when they see first see him at the Gorge of Eternal Peril.)
He was played by Terry Gilliam, Tim was played by John Cleese.
Tim was played by John Cleese.
No, Tim was played by Scottish comedian Billy Connelly
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It was better than Cats. I want to see it again and again!
Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate.
Tim was played by Scottish comedian Billy Connelly
Not according to the IMDB and my DVD (which I got this weekend for my birthday.) It was quite apparent (even to my wife, who unfortunately doesn't share my love of Python) that Tim was played by John Cleese (or, as my wife put it - "Hey, that's the guy from Fawlty Towers!")
Billy Connolly was never in the movie.
My eyes and ears will have to disagree with IMDB, your DVD and your wife. Until I get home and watch my own DVD, I continue to claim that Tim the Enchanter was played by Billy Connelly. Come to think of it, isn't John Cleese actually in that scene, as Lanceleot?
Yes, I've done a quick google and found few references. I'll come back and eat crow tomorrow if I've had some kind of mental blackspot over this...
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And what an eccentric performance it was. Tim is the sorcerer who continuously discharges flames.
Ni
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theres only one thing worse than a bunch of geeks argung about a monty python reference...
a bunch of geeks on slashdot arguing about a monty python reference.
Noone writes jokes in base 13!
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Frankincense, Myrrh...
THREE kinds of aftershave lotion:
Frankincense, Myrrh, San...
FOUR kinds of aftershave lotion: Frankincense...
- Aftershave? Certainly sir, walk this way, please.
- If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need aftershave.
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You might want to get a headstart on that crow soup. I just watched the scene with Tim the Enchanter and no John Cleese beyond Tim. Also, no listing of Billy Connelly in the credits.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
But you forgot the most important language of the middle ages!
[The Elder Doctor Jones]But In Latin, Three is Tres.[/The Elder Doctor Jones]
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man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
...yaaay...
3 is the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be 3.
4 shall thou not count, neither shalt thou count 2 excepting that thou then proceedest to 3.
5 is right out!
-- it's ridiculous how many people misspell ridiculous... (damn, damn, damn...)
Until I get home and watch my own DVD
:o)
If you have the "Special Edition" DVD, put in disc 2 and check out the Cast directory - go to John Cleese, and it's right there - Tim is played by John Cleese.
isn't John Cleese actually in that scene, as Lanceleot?
Only in the shots where there is no Tim. (In the shots were we see Tim, we never see Lancelot.)
I'll come back and eat crow tomorrow if I've had some kind of mental blackspot over this
OK, I'll be waiting
Best...
Headline...
Ever...
...this crow is kinda tasteless. You know, this really is the darnedest thing. In my former reality, there was never any question that it was Billy Connolly (I mis-spelled his name earlier; double oops). All those countless times I saw HG in the *cinema*, never mind TV, video and latterly DVD, it *was* Billy Connolly. But today...
There can be only one explanation : the matrix has me.
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I take small comfort in knowing that I am not the sole person on this planet to suffer this delusion
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The pre-show speeches were as funny as the show. I was lucky to have been there for the first invited Dress rehearsal. Eric Idol came out to introduce show and said "Hello, I'm Eric Idol. If you expected Billy Idol, then F**k Off!" Mike Nichols appeared next saying the reason he chose such a talented production team was that he could do the least amount of work and still get paid. http://woodstockgen.blogspot.com/