Maybe Michael Palin could help him
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiBWHHqK7W8
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
He has a video about cheese, too.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
(Although it seems the a youtube search for "John Cleese cheese" only turns up the obvious.)
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
you guys must get in touch w/ him and tell him what a breeze it is to make a million a year in Hollywood at 70.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
he has to make it in hollywood? that's a strange stipulation to throw on to a divorce settlement.
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I have not seen the man's bank balance, but I would be surprised if he didn't have a million a year to spare for a good while. Judges can be bastards, but they don't tell people to pay their exes a million a year unless they have many, many millions.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
no, it has to be new money he earned that year in hollywood i think.
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
That does seem to be his side of the story.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway, if the judgement enraged him with its unfairness then hurrah cos that's when he's at his best. we should break all his windows and put a potato in his exhaust pipe imo.
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
eagerly awaiting the divorce-induced Zach Braff remake of Fawlty Towers
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
(Although it seems the a youtube search for "John Cleese cheese" only turns up the obvious)
heh heh...what, the "cheese shop" sketch or the fact that his grandfather's surname was originally "Cheese"?
(Oh wait, YOUTUBE search not google...never mind.)
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/a-night-of-round-table-with-monty-python/
Responding to a question about how to tell which Pythons wrote which sketches, Mr. Cleese said that his work with Mr. Chapman was fairly clean and “finished short,” while Mr. Palin and Mr. Jones’s skits were “prolonged,” and Mr. Idle’s were “highly verbal” and “disappeared up their own funnel.” (Mr. Palin said his material could be recognized because it produced laughter.)
Other exchanges were downright bizarre, even by Python standards. Mr. Cleese read a card that asked, “What about that very funny thing that happened at Auschwitz?” This yielded an anecdote about the troupe’s visit to Germany when they traveled a concentration camp — recollections differed as to which one — only to discover that it was closed to visitors. Mr. Chapman suggested they say that they were Jewish, but the group was still denied entry.
The format also yielded a couple of authentically touching moments. Mr. Gilliam read a question submitted by 10-year-old Talia Lindner, asking if she could perform her version of the Spanish Inquisition skit for the Pythons. Mr. Gilliam accepted, and up to the front of the theater strode little Talia, in glasses and blue jeans. After a deep breath or five, she rapidly performed all the characters in the scene in just under a minute (“I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition”; “Hold on, I’ll come in again”), drawing roars of laughter from the troupe followed by enthusiastic handshakes.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 October 2009 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd heard that Auschwitz story before, forget where...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 October 2009 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha visualizing that ten year old girl has me chuckling out loud
― a╓by's (╓abies), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmWN9fwmOKM
― Yutte Hermsgervørdenbrøtbørda (Eisbaer), Sunday, 16 January 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Chapman would have approved
― zappi, Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Heh :D
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Huh.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
But on another note.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
When did Gilliam turn into Orson Welles?!
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/06/27/arts/JPPYTHON3/JPPYTHON3-articleInline.jpg
― Whitey G. Bulgergarten (Phil D.), Monday, 27 June 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
No, no, no. He is clearly Sigmund Freud.
― Aimless, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
I would rather see a docfilm about the LoBrian contretemps.
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 June 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Comedian Steve Punt will star as Eric Idle
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 27 June 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
especially for rhyming verses
― Chunks on strippers is the game of my frog (darraghmac), Monday, 27 June 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
um
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 13 August 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome news. that's kind of what i'm after tbh nv.
― sbgorf (stevie), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
"...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 (thirteen years ago) link
"jesus h christ: lust for glory"
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
"not a funny building" tbh
― Looking for Mrs Nutbar (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Great clip.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 14 August 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link