It was OK, it had funny.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 May 2019 07:38 (five years ago) link
The final speech was just bad "Basil Fawlty with concussion", mind.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 May 2019 07:40 (five years ago) link
Fawlty Towers really not all that, the pompous useless husband + hyper efficient wife who stays with him for no reason set-up has been a bad influence on sitcoms in general and Manuel is the worst fucking character.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 23 May 2019 10:35 (five years ago) link
I saw Cleese perform as part of a comedy gala Maybe 10 years ago? went because of fond childhood memories of Python/Fawlty/Wanda and absolutely regretted it - half an hour of desperately unfunny and bitter material about his ex-wife with generous helpings of misogyny and a light dusting of casual racism
I guess it's just like seeing a past-it rock act, but the nastiness was such that it really soured that any warm feelings I might've once had for his work
Having said that I sat down to watch an episode of The Goodies with my kids the other day, it opened with a woman getting beaten up to a laugh track and then evolved into a fully-fledged anti-Arab laugh riot - so I guess that era's humour has dated pretty shabbily
― umsworth (emsworth), Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:00 (five years ago) link
I was listening to some very old ISIHAC episodes and the calypso songs with comedy accents should really remain buried.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:05 (five years ago) link
Every non-Caribbean calypso song ever has been done in a comedy accent.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:09 (five years ago) link
If it's good enough for Bill Oddie it's good enough for Van Dyke Parks.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:10 (five years ago) link
And Robert Mitchum
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:11 (five years ago) link
Of course, calypso is linked to satirical comedy in the UK, because of Lance Percival on That Was The Week That Was *pushes glasses up bridge of nose*
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:15 (five years ago) link
x-post!And Lance Percival (who I've just discovered had the middle name of 'Blades'!)
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:15 (five years ago) link
(lance percival one of my dad's weird pet hates, along with jim dale and bilko)
― mark s, Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:17 (five years ago) link
and mike read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOBZ3Seeio
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:18 (five years ago) link
Hating Lance Percival doesn't seem weird to me tbh.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, May 23, 2019 10:35 AM (eleven hours ago)
i love the show but this is still kind of otm. polly is the best character.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 23 May 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/1/23/1358954840656/Major-Gowen-Fawlty-Towers-010.jpg
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/1/23/1358954840656/Major-Gowen-Fawlty-Towers-010.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ac18ea5db4ccfb11dd4d529bdc9acc9e
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 23 May 2019 21:44 (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
with all due respect prime minister it is not otm
polly is the most believable character
but sybill and reilly are the best characters
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 May 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
Going full gammon this morning
Some years ago I opined that London was not really an English city any moreSince then, virtually all my friends from abroad have confirmed my observationSo there must be some truth in it...I note also that London was the UK city that voted most strongly to remain in the EU— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) May 29, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 06:33 (five years ago) link
I mean, it isn't even true.
But it wasn't, a short train ride south and you find the city of Brighton and Hove, we voted 69% in favour of remain to London's 60%Never mind Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Cardiff, Bristol and Manchester, all a higher % for remain than London.— Colibri (@StudioColibriUK) May 29, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 06:35 (five years ago) link
John Cleese: is he Morrissey?
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 07:20 (five years ago) link
Is this the first stage of you making it impossible to enjoy any of your work again, a la Morrissey?— Nick (@Mikowaj) May 29, 2019
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 07:55 (five years ago) link
we're well past the first stage and heading towards the terminal stage iirc
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 08:00 (five years ago) link
fawlty towers is a documentary, written by connie booth abt the inside of her soon-to-be ex-husband's absurd head: it is funny! connie booth is funny!
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 09:14 (five years ago) link
But what has Johnny Marr done since Fawlty Towers?
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 09:16 (five years ago) link
Fawlty Towers is the greatest comedy ever. Nothing else even comes close.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 09:20 (five years ago) link
yeah i think it's become increasingly obvious as time has gone on that connie booth was likely the real creative force behind fawlty towers
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 09:43 (five years ago) link
xp poll
yes minister beats it off top of head
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 10:19 (five years ago) link
counterpoint: yes minister did brexit
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 10:22 (five years ago) link
also her ex-husband
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link
the fawlt in the timeline
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 10:34 (five years ago) link
love that bit where he hilariously falls through a bar and then starts self-flagellating with a twig till he bleeds to death.
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 10:47 (five years ago) link
beating up the famine-thin oirish yokel is a classic
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 10:58 (five years ago) link
O'RLY
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 11:00 (five years ago) link
The contractor?
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 11:14 (five years ago) link
Orelly man.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 11:18 (five years ago) link
just spent a few minutes reading orly taitz's wiki page, thx for the reminder of a more innocent age of rightwing nuttery
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 11:21 (five years ago) link
So, what's those "all my friends from abroad" about, is that like "Coloured Brethren" or some such?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
he lives in the caribbean so maybe "abroad" means the uk
the phrase "i opined" rarely signals worthwhile content imo
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 12:38 (five years ago) link
"mused Cleese"
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
friends from abroad = the Americans, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle
(this is a joke, as Eric Idle has no friends)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:47 (five years ago) link
If some twitter japester hasn’t cunningly jiggled around the letters on the fawlty towers sign so it now reads ‘fucking cunt’ then I shall be sorely disappointed
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link
this guy's brain has been shit soup for more than 50 years
As part of the research I'm doing for the programme on woke attitudes, I'd like to ask this:Are wokes bothered by the lack of diversity in Putin's army ?— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) March 3, 2022
― mark s, Saturday, 5 March 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
i wouldn't go back that far but the past five years or so of him on twitter has been 75% unbearable. Eric Idle presents as a much more tolerant and likable person which surprises me because for years I thought he was a twat.
― akm, Saturday, 5 March 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
i checked my numbers and they're in fact correct
― mark s, Saturday, 5 March 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link
(xp) He is a twat but Cleese is a thousand times worse.
― Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 March 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
I had no idea woke was a noun now.
― the new sound in retro-prog (Matt #2), Saturday, 5 March 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
everything is a noun
― Nordle (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 March 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
Worst thing about Cleese's current steez is he still pretends he's exploring the issues with an open mind, the cowardly sniveling cunt
― Nordle (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 March 2022 18:45 (two years ago) link
Are wokes bothered by the lack of diversity in Putin's army ?
Just another open-minded guy askin' questions
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 5 March 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link