I'd heard that Auschwitz story before, forget where...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 October 2009 12:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
Haha visualizing that ten year old girl has me chuckling out loud
― a╓by's (╓abies), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
nytimes:
Chapman suggested they say that they were Jewish, but the group was still denied entry.
wired:
"Graham (Chapman) said, 'Tell them we’re Jewish,' he recalled, to a now completely inconsolable audience. 'They let us in.'"
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Yutte Hermsgervørdenbrøtbørda (Eisbaer), Sunday, 16 January 2011 21:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
I remember being thirteen or so and seeing that on PBS...I had no idea wtf was happening. "When will they start speaking English?"
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
i only recently found out about German Python. Palin's and Cleese's German are actually quite good as far as i can tell.
― Yutte Hermsgervørdenbrøtbørda (Eisbaer), Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
This has been out on DVD for ages here. First ep is all German, second is all English. Fascinating stuff.
― goldenarsehat.jpg (Schlafsack), Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh god, a guy I was dating broght over the german python dvd once, back in 2002. I got rabidly drunk while watching it and so dont recall most of it.
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Chapman would have approved
― zappi, Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Heh :D
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
This has been out on DVD for ages here
it's been out on VHS here for longer
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Monday, 17 January 2011 00:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Huh.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 17:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
But on another note.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Eric Idle is basically like "can my part in this be me singing while fucking a large pile of money? no? then piss off"
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Monday, 27 June 2011 17:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
When did Gilliam turn into Orson Welles?!
― Whitey G. Bulgergarten (Phil D.), Monday, 27 June 2011 17:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
No, no, no. He is clearly Sigmund Freud.
― Aimless, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Excellent! I like the story about how he recorded this in one night at Nilsson's place. The usual schtick about that group of party fiends (Lennon, Moon, Nilsson, Ringo, Chapman etc) being on a years-long career-killing bender often overlooks some pretty creative stuff.
― everything, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would rather see a docfilm about the LoBrian contretemps.
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 June 2011 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Comedian Steve Punt will star as Eric Idle
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 27 June 2011 21:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
especially for rhyming verses
― Chunks on strippers is the game of my frog (darraghmac), Monday, 27 June 2011 21:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/13/monty-python-life-brian-bbc
Steve Punt has always reminded me a bit of Eric Idle.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Saturday, 13 August 2011 22:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
um
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 13 August 2011 22:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
would love to see the full-length version of cleese and palin's face-off with muggeridge one day. have only seen clips in docs, and it seems a corker.
― sbgorf (stevie), Sunday, 14 August 2011 10:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
getting repeated next month iirc? spods have compiled 45 minutes of it from all the excerpts in various docos over the years but this may be its first ever actual full rebroadcast
― generous loller at dollies (sic), Sunday, 14 August 2011 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's no "face-off" to speak of tho. muggeridge is an utter tool and the increasingly hurt and pissed-off cleese and palin just zing the senile old twat into oblivion.
― Looking for Mrs Nutbar (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 August 2011 15:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
awesome news. that's kind of what i'm after tbh nv.
― sbgorf (stevie), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
"...We thought about doing jokes about Jesus. Trying to book a table for 12 for the last supper. 'I can do you three 4s. Or you can come in tomorrow night?' 'No, it's got to be tonight'..."
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
"jesus h christ: lust for glory"
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
"not a funny building" tbh
― Looking for Mrs Nutbar (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Palin in partic claims to have been completely surprised by the vitriol directed at the movie. And tho I think they were being a little disingenuous when they said that they weren't laughing at Christianity, it should be pretty obvious to the feeblest feeb that the man-made fuckery of religious bureaucracy is the real target. Muggeridge, like a lot of late-convert Catholics, doesn't realise something that the church had sussed many years earlier: the best way to deflect satire is to pretend that the work is deeply religious at heart. (Obv it ain't)
― Looking for Mrs Nutbar (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jones said at the end of the one of those clip show thingys - "It was't blasphemous, it was heretical..."
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Rather more than a clip show thingy actually. This was on the Beeb a couple of years ago.http://youtu.be/eC5rhnuMPz8
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Great clip.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 14 August 2011 18:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
The new movie then:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/27/monty-python-film-reunion-absolutely-anything
Terry Gilliam cast doubt on whether a reunion would ever be successfully achieved. "We all have our own careers now … the BBC put us on 10 years ago, and it was an hour of mediocrity … the work wasn't what it should be."
He means that Monty Python Night thing hosted by Eddie Izzard, I presume. He's right, the new sketches in that were pretty mediocre.
― DavidM, Friday, 27 January 2012 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
watching series four atm, move towards making each installment a more complete episode with a theme or two running through it works very well i think
― less of the same (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
mm, where do you stand on 'The Cycling Tour' from Series 3? it's years since i saw it but i thought it worked pretty great; one long 30 minute sketch as it were. i think they put it into the 'failed experiment' box, or some of them did anyway as they never did that again.
― piscesx, Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think that was the first departure in that direction, yeah (tho 'ethel the frog' with spiny norman and the krays substitutes was probably close to it too). i didn't like that one iirc but i could revisit.
i think it maybe turned out a lot like one of palin's whatchoocallem tales?
― less of the same (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
rippin yarns, that's the one
Palin & Jones wrote Cycling Tour, also wrote Ripping Yarns
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Saturday, 24 March 2012 23:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
only caught the ripping yarns last year, varying quality but not bad at all
― less of the same (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 March 2012 00:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cycling Tour is one of my favorite episodes.
― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:28 (1 year ago) Permalink