Monty Python's Flying Circus - Classic or Dud?

awesome news. that's kind of what i'm after tbh nv.

"...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'..."

"jesus h christ: lust for glory"

"not a funny building" tbh

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)

Jones said at the end of the one of those clip show thingys - "It was't blasphemous, it was heretical..."

Rather more than a clip show thingy actually. This was on the Beeb a couple of years ago.
http://youtu.be/eC5rhnuMPz8

Great clip.

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.

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

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.

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?

rippin yarns, that's the one

Palin & Jones wrote Cycling Tour, also wrote Ripping Yarns

only caught the ripping yarns last year, varying quality but not bad at all

Cycling Tour is one of my favorite episodes.

"¿Su mujer se enrolla? ¡Seguro que sí, seguro que sí!"

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

Ok so

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24999401

"Idle went on to create spoof Beatles band The Rutles and wrote the hit Spamalot musical."

Neil Innes could not be reached for comment.

Eh, those reunion bits for the thirtieth anniversary special programming in the UK were pretty unspecial, and I can't imagine things being any better now. All feels like yet another Eric Idle attempt to keep functioning somehow.

the reunion sketches were dire yeah. supposedly it was always Palin who didn't fancy a reunion much, seems he's come round to the idea.
it must be the early 1980s since they all last performed together onstage.

Palin's diaries are really good value, apropos of nowt.

true say. got a bit of a shock in Volume 2 when his sister killed herself :/

NO SPOILERS!

The 3000 Year Old Men

Expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

The 3000 Year Old Sketches

The Dead Horse Sketch

Did Cleese get divorced again or something?

i've been watching these for the first time in yeeears, and last night i was thinking how awful it would be if they ever got together and tried to make it work again. and now this.

First it was the Pixies wo Kim Deal, now this. Ugh

don't tempt fate, they could recruit Gervais

talk about not tempting fate, sheesh!

He added on Tuesday: "Python meeting this morning. Can't wait. Press Conference Thursday will apparently be live on Sky News. I'll get you the online URL."

get us the offline URL you lazy shit

So, one show so far, at the O2 in London in July 2014.

At a press conference, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones said they wanted to see if they "were still funny".

good one

You aren't, go back to writing your memoirs

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”

O___0

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