PBS To Air Six New Monty Python Specials 219
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."
fr1st NI pr0st (Score:3, Funny)
Frist NI pr0st for the Knights who say "Ni"!
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Ickyickyickynerfanerlpmphfp
You mean ickyickypaKANGzooOOOwong!
Re:AAAARRRRGHH! (Score:2)
"Facking?" Looks like it's getting to you....
Re:AAAARRRRGHH! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:AAAARRRRGHH! (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, now you know how we felt in the '80s. Wall-to-wall Cagney & Lacey, Thorn Birds and Falcon Crest.
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Re:AAAARRRRGHH! (Score:2, Informative)
Nova, Frontline, and BBC documentaries are on maybe once a week each!
No surprise there; Nova and Frontline are weekly shows. In fact they're on tonight. Tonight's Nova is all about Neutrinos. It should be interesting.
Re:AAAARRRRGHH! (Score:2, Funny)
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Score:4, Funny)
Fanatical devotion (Score:2)
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as... fear, surprise, fanatical devotion...
Re:No one really expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:No one really expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Score:5, Funny)
French Lumberjack Song (Score:2)
Re:No one really expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Score:2)
Fine. Nobody expects the French inquisition. Amongnst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: cowardice, marxism, decapitation, and an almost fanatical devotion to appeasement...
Personally, I don't find it terribly amusing. Humor lies not in meanness, but in foibles or quirks. You found only positive things to say about Canada, after all...
Re:No one really expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Score:2)
Then again, it wouldn't be slashdot without someone taking something badly and arguing something to the point of mirthlessness. I've certainly been guilty of that before. Damn those geek genes to hell.
Re:No one really expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Score:3, Informative)
There is a big difference between hating and not respecting. We don't hate the French, we just have a complete lack of respect for them.
Just to be clear since mods have been a little harsh on me recently: it is a joke, laugh.
Re:No one really expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Score:2)
(Back on topic here) And we for you, you silly Amerrrrican Ki-niggits.
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You had me at (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:You had me at (Score:5, Informative)
In the past they had an urn on a chair which they claimed were his ashes. I don't recall if they had an animatronic lid or not.
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Re:You had me at (Score:5, Funny)
He's not dead, he's pining for the fjords.
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*wink wink* (Score:1)
All I have to say is: (Score:1, Offtopic)
Another set of DVD's for my wall of Cool Stuff (Score:1, Offtopic)
obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
BBC? (Score:5, Interesting)
Maybe PBS approached them?
Re:BBC? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:BBC? (Score:2, Informative)
I was first exposed to the Python when MTV aired episodes of Flying Circus, at midnight I think, in the mid-1980's. I seem to remember them being unedited and commercial-free, but I was a wee lad at the time so I may be wrong about that. But I'm CERTAIN it was MTV.
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Python -> Young Ones -> Comic Strip Live. All commercial free.
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Audience Size? (Score:4, Interesting)
Even though Python is known for being British Comedy, their films and shows are still purchased everywhere in the United States--they possibly have more sales in the United States than Britain just because of the population sizes. Perhaps they want to maximize exposure?
I caught the Kids in the Hall on tour in Minneapolis once and it was packed, I was deafened by laughter. Whether you believe it or not, foreign comedy like Monty Python or The Kids in the Hall are greatly appreciated by Minnesotans. I assume it's similar in other places around the United States.
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KITH (Score:2)
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I still can't believe the NHL has failed to get Don Cherry on American airwaves, but I digress...
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Parrot Routine with Chapman's Body? (Score:5, Funny)
No no no. He's just asleep.
Their humor (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Their humor (Score:2)
Oh, come on! Call this what it is... (Score:2)
OK I'll bite (Score:2, Funny)
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A good reason to watch TV for a change... (Score:5, Interesting)
Are we getting less funny? Or is familiarity part of the enjoyment? Or are they really just uniquely brilliant?
Re:A good reason to watch TV for a change... (Score:3, Funny)
Prediction: It'll turn out that they've gotten less funny. (Except Cleese.)
Re:A good reason to watch TV for a change... (Score:2)
Re:A good reason to watch TV for a change... (Score:2, Informative)
I would agree with this except for Faulty Towers. It's a pity they only made twelve episodes.
Re:A good reason to watch TV for a change... (Score:2)
British humour is unique and not everyone "gets" it. Its nice to see though that the material these guys did was really founding to the rest of TV comedy. Its all really good, classic, clean comedy.
Re:A good reason to watch TV for a change... (Score:4, Insightful)
You may now die a horrible, painful, agonizing, terrible, excrutiating, cruel death.
Re:A good reason to watch TV for a change... (Score:2)
If you're talking about Scary Movie Wayans, then no.
Re:A good reason to watch TV for a change... (Score:2)
No arguing taste! I wish I found another group that captured that wonderful sense of tweaked properness, of just barely concealed rage, or pure self-loathing - I
Re:A good reason to watch TV for a change... (Score:2)
very little, so literary allusions don't work any more.
The Simpsons can manage literary allusions. If The Simpsons can manage literary allusions without fear, anyone can. (Mind, The Simpsons are, or were, fantastic but in a different way to Monty Python.)
Of course... (Score:2)
Just the 5 minutes (Score:2, Funny)
(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
Re:Just the 5 minutes (Score:2)
(If you want it spoiled for you: A guy (guy A) pays someone (guy B) to have an argument with him, but it shortly turns into a simple matter of negation on the end of guy B and a monotonous conversation for guy A. Guy A argues that this isn't an argument because there's no actual opinion being put forward but Guy B simply negates this too in order to lengthen the argument. It's a lot funnier than it sounds, and the wording's similar to the grandparent post.)
hoping to catch "spamalot" (Score:2)
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Also helps to know a lot about Broadway shows, "The Song That Goes Like This" isn't really funny unless you've see some Andrew Lloyd-Webber stuff.
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It was actually a good friend's birthday so we bought a block of tickets in the nosebleed section. We laughed our ass off while the rest of the audience kind of just sat there.
It got so bad that we noticed that when the cast would do a good joke they'd glance up to see if we got it because they knew the rest of the crowd wasn't going to.
My only regret was that while we had one of the stuffed fake de
Different from DVDs? (Score:2)
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I'm getting skeptical here... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I'm getting skeptical here... (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe the first season of Saturday Night Live came close, and certainly the individual talents of all the guys that came out of Second City have to be considered, in a slightly different, more North American fashion, to be the equals of the Pythons, but seeing a sweaty John Belushi lose his marbles, while funny, doesn't seem nearly as funny as seeing John Cleese go bananas and start shouting "DON'T MENTION THE WAR!" I think you'll find most of the guys from Second City and SNL will pretty much pay homage to Python as the real Holy Grails of sketch comedy.
Let's face it, Englishman are funnier to mock than Americans, and it's even funnier when it's an Englishman.
"Don't mention the war!" was not Monty Python (Score:3, Funny)
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!"
Slashdot "humour" logo (Score:3, Insightful)
Just a flesh wound (Score:2, Funny)
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
Old? (Score:3, Informative)
Graham Chapman Sketch (Score:5, Funny)
Clerk: Yes, what's wrong with it?
Customer: It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.
Dead? So? (Score:2)
Hell, as long as Lucas is at the helm, put in Jar-Jar--"Meesa think thissa dead parrot!" OMGLOLZ!!!!!11one
Re:Dead? So? (Score:4, Funny)
And in his final paragraph, he obviously wants Jar-Jar inserted into George Lucas as well.
45 or 47? (Score:5, Funny)
Methinks the PBS public relations team should spend more time watching Sesame Street and practicing numbers. =p
I work with a Brit (Score:2)
Re:I work with a Brit (Score:5, Insightful)
The operative word here isn't "Brit", but "she". Python's humour has traditionally appealed more to men than women. In fact, BBC America ran a promo for Monty Python's Flying Circus that consisted of a clip of a sketch (I don't remember which), and the tagline: "If your girlfriend laughs at this, marry her."
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Episodes Air Feb 22nd (Score:5, Informative)
You'll have to check your local listings for the exact time. For all you MythTV users in Chicago it will be Channel 11 WTTW at 9pm CST.
where is the Carol Cleveland episode? (Score:2, Funny)
Carol Cleveland [Wiki] [wikipedia.org]
DVDs of this already available... (Score:4, Informative)
Eric Idle's Personal Best [amazon.com]
John Cleese's Personal Best [amazon.com](coming soon)
Graham Chapman's Personal Best [amazon.com](coming soon)
Terry Jones' Personal Best [amazon.com](coming soon)
Terry Gilliam's Personal Best [amazon.com](coming soon)
Michael Palin's Personal Best [amazon.com]
The two that are released are already available on Netflix (with four to be available 28-Feb).
A better link (Score:5, Informative)
He's Stone Dead (Score:3, Funny)
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As I was saying Monty Python was the best most wond..
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I cannot say enough good things about Monty Python. In fa...
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Titles (Score:3, Funny)
Nice timing... (Score:2)
Oh... Life would be fine, if we'd all just 69... (Score:2)
Must... Resist... Python... Joke... (Score:2)
I, for one, am really looking forward to this. I'm a fan from the Flying Circus days...
One must always keep Python in perspective (the people, not the language or the reptile)... They're not the messiah... they're very naughty persons!
excellent (Score:2)
Re:*Yawn* (Score:5, Insightful)
Time Bandits & Brazil & A Fish Called Wand (Score:2)
Terry Gilliam's 1981 Time Bandits & 1985 Brazil were both lots of fun.
Well, Time Bandits was fun; <SPOILER>Brazil is something of a tragedy.</SPOILER>
And of course there was John Cleese's 1988 classic, A Fish Called Wanda.
I'll reply in Hungarian (Score:3, Funny)
Re:*Yawn* (Score:2)
But, the young comedians today, they just won't believe you....
(If having it tougher than your kids isn't a
Re:*Yawn* (Score:2)
But you try telling that to young Monty Python fans, and they won't believe you. Maybe they'll believe Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]?
Re:Nah, don't need the Pythons any more (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wow - My Dad is Cool (Score:2)
I only have one father...He never made slashdot... Should I be sad?
Re:Awesome... (Score:2)
Is that and ex-parrot, or is it just pining for the fjords?