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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!
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
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.
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)
Too late, for now. It played in Chicago prior to moving to New York. It was a short run, the month of February if I recall correctly. I walked by the theater it played at a couple of times a week. Tickets were difficult to come by.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
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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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.
And you call yourselves geeks. You empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling! -- CBG, "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"
a big police car arrives and arrests the entire cast!
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.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2004580002-2005 260250,00.html
I just hope they get this kind of humor over there...
Dark Reflection
of awards won was three...
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.
... it's only a model.
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.
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.
I am officially gone from