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PBS To Air Six New Monty Python Specials
Freshly Exhumed wrote to mention a PBS release with good news for BritCom Fans. The Public Broadcasting Service is planning to air six new Monty Python specials. From the article: "Each of the exclusive-to-PBS six one-hour programs will focus on one member of the original Monty Python troupe - Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones - and showcase favorite clips from the group's television series and movies, mixed with new footage. The five living Pythons - Cleese, Idle, Gilliam, Palin and Jones - will each produce and write their own episode, with the five collaborating on a sixth special to honor deceased member Chapman."
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"new material".
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Any chance to see former Monty Ptyhon members with their favourite bits hanging out, with new material added, is a good thing.
Well, except for that dead guy - hope they don't trot out his moldy corpse, wire its jaw to a computer, and make him some kind of animatronic "I'm feeling better" kind of bit.
That would bring me down just a tad.
Care for a cup of tea? I hear Sartre's going to pop in today
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"I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?"
This Chapman is no more.
No no no. He's just asleep.
Their humor is not dead. It's just pining for the fjords.
Prediction: It'll turn out that they've gotten less funny. (Except Cleese.)
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!
This is a terrific idea really. It's too bad Graham Chapman can't be a part of it though. Quite a tragedy when he died. No doubt he thought it was only a flesh wound at the time.
PBS: "We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril."
Pythons: "We don't think we were."
PBS: "Yes, you were. You were in terrible peril."
Pythons: "Look, let us go back in there and face the peril."
PBS: "No, it's too perilous."
Pythons: "Look, it's our duty as comedians to sample as much peril as we can."
PBS: "No, we've got to find great ratings. Come on!"
Pythons: "Oh, let us have just a little bit of peril?"
PBS: "No. It's unhealthy."
Pythons: "We bet you're gay."
PBS: "Your point?"
Customer: I wish to lodge a complaint about this Chapman parody!
Clerk: Yes, what's wrong with it?
Customer: It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
The series' 45 episodes ran until December 1974. ... Beginning in Spring 2006, PBS stations will be able to introduce a whole new generation to the series when all 47 episodes will be available for broadcast.
Methinks the PBS public relations team should spend more time watching Sesame Street and practicing numbers. =p
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
14/15?? What kind of age is that? Why don't you just say you're one whole year old?
The (unofficial) member of team, that I remember most fondly at a young impressionable age, was Carol Cleveland. I hope we see plenty of her appearances!
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"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
You, sir, obviously lack taste. Pity.
Well then, why don't you call them up and tell them you are suspending your donations until they get content more to your liking?
Anybody want a peanut?
AC:
(exasperated) Oh, this is futile!!
(pause)
coaxeus:
I couldn't agree more
AC:
Agreement is an intellectual process. Affirmation is just the automatic declaration of anything the other person says as true.
coaxeus:
I couldn't agree more
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I think he meant he wanted Graham Chapman inserted into George Lucas.
And in his final paragraph, he obviously wants Jar-Jar inserted into George Lucas as well.
Just goes to show that don't get British humour, maybe if you search Google Video for 'banana skin' you'll find some simple American humour more to your liking.
doesn't seem nearly as funny as seeing John Cleese go bananas and start shouting "DON'T MENTION THE WAR!"
That wasn't a Python (Monty) sketch: that was Python cast member John Cleese in another series called 'Fawlty Towers'. Cleese plays Basil Fawlty, a right awful (and funny) b*st*rd of a hotel owner manager.
German Guest: "Will you stop talking about the war??!?"
Basil Fawlty: "You started it!"
German guest: "We did not!"
Basil Fawlty: "Yes, you did - you invaded Poland!"
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.