Monty Python's Flying Circus - Classic or Dud?

John Cleese says, familiar sketches like “Dead Parrot” and “Crunchy Frog” won’t be done in “a predictable way,” but rather be given a “modern, topical, Pythonesque twist”

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Yeah, no.

this is going to be very shit isn't it.

i mean, at least with rocky horror, people can enjoy the songs, and shout at the appropriate times turning the show into a mass gathering 'event'.

if they try and be clever and make their so called classic sketches different who fuckin' wins from that ?

nah, they shd do a show of nothing but misanthropic spite where they shit on every fond memory their audience has, that wd be legit lol

would still be crap though.

that said, i have never fallen for the MP groove - too many of my school classmates used to recite the classics every f*ckin' day ..

so, with that in mind, anyone want a full set of the reissued expanded albums i have in the archive ?

(could be good time to check ebay to see if they are worth posting at long last !)

“Dead Parrot” and “Crunchy Frog”

sigh

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25031520

but reiterated that there would also be "some new material".

the sad thing is i always thought it was awesome that these guys went out at the top and refused to get back together, and that they went out on such an uncompromising, nihilistic, fuck-you note -- 'meaning of life' is one of the most disturbing and upsetting comedies i've ever watched. i guess everyone gets around to doing that tedious reunion that everyone wants but no one actually likes.

plus there are about a billion sketches and bits on the original python show that aren't tired at all because no one ever remembers or recites them, but i somehow doubt many of them will make their way into this.

not everyone

xp

I'd rather they appear in a film together than a stage show frankly; and maybe not a 'python' film, more along th elines of fish called wanda. What's going on with Absolutely Anything (terry jones film that was supposed to have them all but idle didn't wind up in it)?

They need to just re-create confuse-a-cat as a web series or something.

Could happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvhdWBBuBpA

there's going to be screens and such so the film aspect could mean a revival of such relative unknown classics as..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5fGSBsfq8

Hard to recreate Confuse-a-Cat and the Philosopher's Football match live on stage :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcsVz6jo5MM

decent new 90 minute Yentob doc for the Britishers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b048ry6w/imagine-summer-2014-4-monty-python-and-now-for-something-rather-similar

they bleeped them, they bleeped out the swearing omg

The fuckers.

friend went to one of the O2 shows and said a guy in front of him was aggressively shouting the punchlines before the team got to them, which was, tbh, exactly what I would have expected.

http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2014/07/john-cleese-wrote-this-amazing-letter-to-a-14-year-old-monty-python-fan/?utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_article

anyone read Cleese's book? goes up to start of MP, i think?

I haven't yet, but Palin's diaries are an absolute joy to read.

I'd be surprised if there's much joy to be had from the Cleese book.

The boys were back in town, being interviewed after a fashion by John Oliver.

https://tribecafilm.com/stories/tribeca-film-festival-2015-monty-python-holy-grail-reunion

Oh no :(

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37451043

Monty Python star Terry Jones has been diagnosed with a severe variant of dementia.

The 74-year-old is suffering from primary progressive aphasia, which affects his ability to communicate.

As a result, Jones "is no longer able to give interviews", his spokesman said.

The news was confirmed as Bafta Cymru announced the Welsh-born comedian is to be honoured with an outstanding contribution award.

The National Aphasia Association describes primary progressive aphasia as a neurological syndrome in which language capabilities become slowly and progressively impaired.

"It commonly begins as a subtle disorder of language, progressing to a nearly total inability to speak, in its most severe stage," their website states.

grievous

awful

Wow. I could have sworn Jones was active and busy even recently. Dementia is the worst. Once it's been diagnosed you often realize it's been going on for some time, and that you've already been living with the steady decline.

:(

That is sad. Terry Jones rules.

It's a little weird realizing that 'Python' as a loose group has now existed for notably longer without Graham Chapman than it did with him -- it almost seemed like they'd live forever as a result, I was just used to the five of them celebrating the occasional anniversary and all. Hope Jones has got the good care he needs.

As a result, Jones "is no longer able to give interviews", his spokesman said.

Our hairdresser's husband died of logopenic progressive aphasia & apparently the later stages involve daily inarticulate screaming fits.

Such sad news.

My aunt just died after a year of progressive dementia (ultimately diagnosed as vascular dementia); it was very bad. Unlike the perception of a happy, senile person living their life in a bizarre reality, she was angry, confused, and resentful of not being allowed to drive or, say, walk out of the house with no clothes on. She finally was unable to swallow. It was all very fast and intense.

Long ago I had a friend describe the cheerful sort of interaction mentioned a few posts up. The aphasic would sit on a porch and say things such as "In there, but not anymore" and their companion would say "Walter Cronkite?" to which they would smile and nod.

In fact my mom is now a cheerful aphasic. A few months ago she told me she was wearing purple "because of the guy, something happened to him."

Just noticed that TJ has a seven year old daughter.

TJ's general lustiness is a recurring joyous theme of Palin's v enjoyable diaries

so am not surprised he fathered offspring so recently

So did anyone watch the DVD of the 2014 reunion show? Will it make me sad?

It's on the Netflix now. I'm about 6 episodes in but have to admit I've been generally unimpressed. The racist skits haven't aged well, suffice to say.

it's very much of another time. If I were to watch it now I doubt I would laugh at all

comedys job to age well for americans alright

comedys job is to annoy lex and calzino afaict

I would laugh.

The movies are still brilliant though! The one that I watched anyway!

thanks to this show, whenever somebody says "not guilty," i think not gillcup

The records (apart from the first one) are better than the TV show too. Think it's just the pressure of putting together three hours of sketches, you could edit the first series down to a much better single hour.

I bought the complete Flying Circus on DVD with bar mitzvah money but probably the last time I watched any was sometime in college. I'm pretty sure even adult woke me would think much if not most of it is still good. I remember the ratio of unmoored absurdity to racism being pretty high?