Right, well aware of this, but that is more a proxy for the SNL/Michaels/Idle connection, it’s not like people came for the Rutles and stayed for the Idle.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link
The Rutles special legendarily the lowest rated program in the nation when it aired.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 January 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
but still, about same size as SNL audience
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 January 2020 09:01 (four years ago) link
p sure most of my high school class saw it
ha, did not know this. nearly everything famous about SNL is completely opaque to non-US humans.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Sunday, 26 January 2020 09:43 (four years ago) link
I saw it when it aired, as did some of my school friends, but it was more from a Beatles angle than a Python slant. Bought the album and studied it. There was a ton of stuff in the accompanying booklet so it was almost like watching the show again, which I was finally able to do when decades later I got the DVD at J&R Music World.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
People knew about the Pythons from PBS, in New York WNET/13, where the show aired on Sunday evenings, usually paired with various other British sitcoms or shows such as Rising Damp or The Two Ronnies and kids would talk about it in school on Monday morning. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/10/archives/monty-pythons-fully-different-new-series-plus-tom-mix-and-fellini.html
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
idle next worst, despite good turns and writing plenty of the good sequences. introduced innes and generally a shitty influence, and intrinsically unfunny in any post python effort
There was always Rutland Weekend Television, I don't think that's ever been repeated though, so it might be terrible, the Neil Innes bits are good. Also it's never been released on DVD, I wonder if that's Idle's decision? I've got the album though!
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
(xp) You got Rising Damp? Cool.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
at the time i loved rutland weekend TV bcz of this guy:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hU0QZQRTNr0/hqdefault.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 26 January 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Woolf
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/15/archives/bbcs-monty-python-surprise-hit-on-public-tv-serious-doubts-at-first.html
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
(xp) Harold Pinter's old mucker.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
...still alive, 90! And many more, Henry!
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
Have to admit at the time I never really got into Rising Damp, or The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin for that matter. It was only when I got to college (François Truffaut to thread!) and saw Billy Liar as well as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and rewatching A Hard Day's Night, the latter with the similarly named Norman Rossington, did I start wondering what this Leonard Rossiter guy was about.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
Hollywood should do a remake of "Rising Damp" with Ralph Fiennes as Rigsby.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
Just now learned that the common thread between Monty Python and Rising Damp was Ian MacNaughton.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
"Grrrrrrreat. We're losing the lion. Rewrite. Lose the lion everyone. That's fantastic!"
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
In my mind's eye I have over the years minimized Eric's contribution to the Rutles, extending his silencing from the epicenter of Ollie Halsall singing his character's vocals, preferring to think of them as an offshoot of The Bonzos (see my current controversial screenname) as well as Patto/Timebox.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
I used to have at least some of the Rutland Weekend Televisions as video files, assume they're still accessible on the Internet somewhere. It was OK, mark otm about Henry Woolf
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
Forgot to mention Fans of the Rutles and Rockpile, are you familiar with a band called Fatso?
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
since i'm declaring my teenage allegiance in the thread i shd also mention that as a loyal child of beatles fans i was hotly offended by the entire concept of the rutles, and also george h's enthusiasm (my favourite beatle why so treacherous!): i refused to countenance that any of the parodies were any good, and indeed anything but utterly point-missing -- however i loved the bonzos unreservedly (and still do)
no wonder i became a professional rock critic eh foax
― mark s, Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link
george h's enthusiasm balanced by the fact that, acc to Idle's autobiog, he listened to the rutles songs gruffly made sure that the beatles got a sizeable cut of the songwriting royalties
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
Is any Rutles song a pastiche of one of George’s? Can’t recall one.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
"Nevertheless"
― Miami weisse (WmC), Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
offsetting what he was going to lose in the "my sweet lord" debacle i guess -- that wd sharpen yr senses round such an issue
― mark s, Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
John told Idle "Get Up and Go" was too close to "Get Back" and Dick James would probably sue them if it was on the album (so they left it off).
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
Posted this on the Bonzos thread earlier today, perhaps it is relevant here as well:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9SQ7GeiGh8&feature=emb_logo
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
Start againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9SQ7GeiGh8
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
There was always Rutland Weekend Television,Radio 5 is also good and at least sometimes funny; shows Idle dedicating the same sort of attention to detail another medium as he did to the extremely dense & visual Python books.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
Actually the only thing I remember disagreeing with in dm's long post with Idle bringing along Innes as a negative.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
its a controversial take i admit but in particular i cant forgive urban spaceman
― Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
(xp) "Nausea" is not set in Paris, Neil. Tut tut.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that was a little, um, defensive or something.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
john cleese, 1972:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
john cleese, 2020:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/john-cleese-baffled-jk-rowling-105247414.html
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 19 June 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
I've always wondered what happened to his chin between Python and Fawlty Towers, let alone old age
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Friday, 19 June 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
tbh at this point I expected even worse from him
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 19 June 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
the other participant in the argument sketch is, of course, dead. however, in 1982 he said this:
https://youtu.be/nwOcc-buSsg?t=481
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 19 June 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
Trump's latest interview vs monty python parrot sketch pic.twitter.com/GKlpNF4ffB— Darren Dutton (@Darren_Dutton) August 4, 2020
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
Never knew about the origin of this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwJQQyF0yy0
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 February 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
wow! how great. never knew that either.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 February 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
as in you didn't know it was pre python?
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 February 2022 23:50 (two years ago) link
nope!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 February 2022 23:52 (two years ago) link
I often do the real version of that: mi bed was a bit of foam on't floor for 3 years in a mice infested slum in a box room wi' brother and sister and we had black mould on toast for breakfast...
― calzino, Monday, 7 February 2022 00:06 (two years ago) link
Also the bookshop sketch. Too bad it is not complete.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYlOV7K-xOU
― everything, Monday, 7 February 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
Cleese posted that "Four Yorkshiremen" video to honor the passing of Barry Cryer, who plays the waiter.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 February 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
easier to acknowledge a passing waiter than to get one to acknowledge you nest pas
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 02:30 (two years ago) link
*nudge, nudge, wink, wink*
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 02:44 (two years ago) link
Who else remembers first seeing Monty Python on The Dean Martin Comedy World?
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2024 22:12 (four months ago) link
Maybe I should start a summer replacement show thread.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2024 22:13 (four months ago) link