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Monty Python To Bid Farewell In a Simulcast Show
dacarr writes "The five remaining members of Monty Python will be performing in the O2 Arena, and their last show as a comedy troupe will be simulcast across hundreds of theaters in the UK, and roughly 1,500 more across the world, according to the Guardian. Michael Palin says this is really going to be the last time before the Pythons cease to be. Well, at least, before Monty Python, as a comedy troupe, runs down the curtain and joins the bleedin' choir invisible."
The only absent member will be Graham Chapman, who died in 1989 at the age of 48.
They could dig him up and have him fall out of cupboards, and other visual gags.
The audition would be a mere formality.
John Cleese wants to go back to making physics classroom videos. Eric Idle will be a singer-guitarist in a George Harrison tribute band, etc.
Why not? I kind of get the "old guys can't be rock stars" thing, but I don't understand why you don't think old guys can't be funny.
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Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition, so does that mean we can expect them to put in an appearance?
...I'll probably catch this for old time's sake. Amazing that they parlayed one season on BBC into...hell, I can't think of a word to describe their status.
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Your references are out of control.
May I suggest BibTex for that?
-hint- he'll be the one in the urn.
The show will feature no new material and all the classic sketches you have all already memorized.
When I'm out riding on my touring bike - Monty Python Is mixed into my cruise music.
This might be their last "Visit before the chorus Invisible" But their classic and awesome humor will live on far past their "bring out yer dead" bell clanging.
Thank you from the bottom of my humor warped heart, Monty Python is and was one of the greatest entertainment shows on the planet.
And if anyone disagrees, It's fishes on the wharf at dawn.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
WOW! like they say though nothing lasts forever.
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Penguin Reference
I was thinking the C++ standard library should take care of it.
This is when I get all nostalgic for the 'old' Slashdot and wish they'd never replaced the Monty's stamping foot for this sort of thing. :/
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
Loved them when I was a kid, and have to watch their stuff from time to time (my wife, of course, finds them mostly unbearable).
Funny though ... the world that they were spoofing was largely gone (outside of rarefied circles) even in their prime, and now it is really ancient.
In a turnabout, it is today the hipsters and the snark-meisters who are the establishment at which you must not poke fun.
Why not? I kind of get the "old guys can't be rock stars" thing, but I don't understand why you don't think old guys can't be funny.
Because they won't be doing anything new.
It will be like those later "Rocky Horror Picture Shows" where the entire audience will be chanting out in unison "It is an ex-parrot" at the appropriate moment. We've seen it all a thousand times and now it's just not that funny anymore. Yes it was at first but there has been nothing new in decades.
How you remember it.
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Standing
I can see that but what's it doing there?
How should I know I'm not Doctor Bloody Bronowski
"The penguin on your television set will blow up in 5 seconds"
***kaaboom***
Well....how about that!
How it actually was
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Second Pepperpot I can see that!
First Pepperpot If it lays an egg, it will fall down the back of the television set.
Second Pepperpot We'll have to watch that. Unless it's a male.
First Pepperpot Ooh, I never thought of that.
Second Pepperpot Yes, looks fairly butch.
First Pepperpot Per'aps it's from next door.
Second Pepperpot Penguins don't come from next door, they come from the Antarctic.
First Pepperpot Burma.
Second Pepperpot Why did say Burma?
First Pepperpot I panicked.
Second Pepperpot Oh. Perhaps it's from the zoo.
First Pepperpot Which zoo?
Second Pepperpot How should I know which zoo? I'm not Doctor bloody Bernowski.
First Pepperpot How does Doctor Bernowski know which zoo it came from?
Second Pepperpot He knows everything.
First Pepperpot Oooh, I wouldn't like that, that'd take all the mystery out of life. Anyway, if it came from the zoo, it would have 'property of the zoo' stamped on it.
Second Pepperpot No it wouldn't. They don't stamp animals 'property of the zoo'. You can't stamp a huge lion.
First Pepperpot They stamp them when they're small.
Second Pepperpot What happens when they moult?
First Pepperpot Lions don't moult.
Second Pepperpot No, but penguins do. There, I've run rings around you logically.
First Pepperpot Oh, intercourse the penguin.
On the TV screen there now appears an announcer.
TV Announcer It's just gone 8 o'clock and time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode.
The penguin on top of the set now explodes.
First Pepperpot How did he know that was going to happen?!
How about a "Not The Nine O'Clock News" reference then?
"In the words of John Cleese, whenever two or three are gathered together in one place, they shall perform the parrot sketch."
Political Science eh? They really pay you not just to be this stupid but to teach others your stupidity?
The problem there is context. If you are told by an authoritarian figure that something is funny and forced to watch it against your will you are not going to find it funny.
This. It's quite boring. The only people I know that like that type of base humor are Republicans.
You need to broaden your social circle. Having said that, even Michael Palin has said a lot of their TV show was crap. When it does hit the mark, though, it can be very funny.
My English teacher used to show Monty Python and the Holy Grail in class. She gave extra credit to the people that could stay away and were also paying attention. No one got the extra credit.
Granted, it's no Gilligan's Island.
Because Cosby. Robin Williams. Jonathan Winters. David Letterman. Elizabeth Warren.
To be fair, Letterman wasn't funny when he was younger.
wait wait wait, you mean the shutdown that was over delaying the implementation of obamacare... which obama delayed as soon as the shutdown was over anyway? and you blame the republicans for this?
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MP comes from a different time. Is Spike Jones funny? Are the stooges? The Marx brothers? Personally, I don't "get" either of them. They're just not funny. Stupid, yes, odd, maybe, but funny, no.
I'm fairly sure in their time they were a riot. MP humor is one of absurdity. And that is of course dependent on a society that puts a lot of emphasis on "normality" and conformity, something that certainly was the case with Britain back in those days.
Of course that loses its effect today in a far more "permissive" society.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.