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Post by nine on Nov 1, 2008 9:54:50 GMT -5
I'm not.
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Post by mrjinks on Nov 1, 2008 10:59:11 GMT -5
...then apparently you've answered your question. Discussion closed.
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Post by sayne on Nov 1, 2008 11:46:49 GMT -5
Oh, yeah! I am. I know "what is funny" is subjective, but I think it's possible that there are things that are universally funny, just as there are things that are universally sad. "Man slips on banana peel", "Lucy and Ethel on the candy factory assembly line", and "Monty Python's 'The Argument'" sketch" just might be.
It's difficult for me to imagine how anyone who laughs does not think Monty Python is funny. To each his own, I guess. It's funny how funny works.
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Post by winstonoboogie on Nov 1, 2008 13:21:45 GMT -5
I'm a big Python fan. We know at least George Harrison was, as well. I find that Python tends to be a "guy thing", a la Bob Dylan's music/singing. Women in general tend not to understand it, or find it "stupid". Although something tells me scousette is an exception to that rule.
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Post by anyoneanyhow on Nov 1, 2008 14:57:21 GMT -5
Splunge for me
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Post by Sir Frankie Crisp on Nov 1, 2008 17:06:46 GMT -5
I always enjoyed Monty Python but I preferred Fawlty Towers with John Cleese. It’s a wickedly funny show that came out in the mid 70’s and I seem to remember an interview with John (Lennon) where he remarked how much he enjoyed the show too. As luck would have it I found a dvd of the complete collection of all the episodes (there were only 12) for a measly $6 in a reduced bin. I bought it immediately and was curious to see how it had aged over the years. If anything it's even funnier than I remember....probably because I'm older now and I can appreciate Basil's crotchety behaviour with a new zeal.
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Post by OldFred on Nov 1, 2008 17:24:48 GMT -5
A favorite Python bit I enjoy and perhaps, just perhaps, a tongue in cheek response to certain posters on the board? (Hint: I'd be the one with the big fish)
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Post by Joseph McCabe on Nov 1, 2008 18:48:35 GMT -5
Ah Freddie, you break me up man. Trawling youtube, morning, noon and night, rain or shine, busy, busy busy.
I just love the way you said:
You HAD to tell us you were the one with the big fish, didn't you? Because we might have thought otherwise! Classic ;D
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Post by kc on Nov 1, 2008 18:54:31 GMT -5
I'm a fan, but not a fanatic. I especially like the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch. (I think that is the correct title). You know, the one where four old rich guys are laying about in their club and reminiscing about how hard they had it backin their younger days. Hilarious! ;D
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Post by sayne on Nov 1, 2008 19:30:41 GMT -5
. . . I preferred Fawlty Towers with John Cleese. Did you see John Cleese on Keith Olberman's show a night or two ago? He was quite funny. John McCain CRACKS him up. He buckled up with laughter everytime he thought of something McCain had said. I don't know which was funnier, what John McCain said to make him laugh or John Cleese's reactions. They played a very brief clip of Fawty Towers - the one where Cleese is doing election night reporting.
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Post by JMG on Nov 1, 2008 20:31:13 GMT -5
I like some of Monty Python, not a huge fan but I like 'em. Just haven't gotten round to buying 'The Meaning of Life' and 'The Life of Brian' DVD's yet.
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Post by sayne on Nov 1, 2008 21:02:45 GMT -5
. . . 'The Life of Brian . . . For the one or two here who don't know, George appears for a split 2 or 3 seconds.
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Post by OldFred on Nov 1, 2008 21:40:41 GMT -5
Not Python, but here's George Harrison as Pirate Bob on Eric Idle's 1975 Rutland Weekend Television show doing 'The Pirate Song'. Not a bad days trawl, eh? Nice to share a bit of fun.
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Post by JMG on Nov 1, 2008 22:33:13 GMT -5
. . . 'The Life of Brian . . . For the one or two here who don't know, George appears for a split 2 or 3 seconds. Thanks for the heads up sayne. I saw 'The Life of Brian' when it first hit the theaters a long time ago. Haven't seen it in years and I think it's about time to revisit this movie along with 'The Meaning of Life' on DVD.
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Post by nine on Nov 1, 2008 23:00:53 GMT -5
...then apparently you've answered your question. Discussion closed. That was just my spin on "You are all individuals." "I'm not'"
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Post by nine on Nov 1, 2008 23:08:30 GMT -5
I'm a big Python fan. We know at least George Harrison was, as well. I find that Python tends to be a "guy thing", a la Bob Dylan's music/singing. Women in general tend not to understand it, or find it "stupid". Although something tells me scousette is an exception to that rule. Oh Lennon loved them. They were sort of sons of Goon. Ringo was in an episode of Flying Circus so he must have enjoyed them.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Nov 2, 2008 4:56:07 GMT -5
Not a fan.
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Post by vectisfabber on Nov 2, 2008 5:47:31 GMT -5
I'm a fan, but not a fanatic. I especially like the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch. (I think that is the correct title). You know, the one where four old rich guys are laying about in their club and reminiscing about how hard they had it backin their younger days. Hilarious! ;D Based on Josiah Bounderby, a character from Charles Dickens' Hard Times. Just thought you'd like to know.
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Post by superhans on Nov 2, 2008 7:00:28 GMT -5
I'm a big fan. Not all their stuff was good....and the early TV series look quite dated now. I watch the odd re-run occasionally and am quite struck by how much dross each episode contains -- but their best sketches are timeless classics.
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Post by OldFred on Nov 2, 2008 19:23:56 GMT -5
A fun little bit with Ringo and Lulu, who packs quite a wallop. ;D
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Post by kc on Nov 3, 2008 4:30:00 GMT -5
I'm a fan, but not a fanatic. I especially like the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch. (I think that is the correct title). You know, the one where four old rich guys are laying about in their club and reminiscing about how hard they had it backin their younger days. Hilarious! ;D Based on Josiah Bounderby, a character from Charles Dickens' Hard Times. Just thought you'd like to know. Thanks Vectisfabber, enlightenment is good.
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Post by OldFred on Nov 3, 2008 6:11:59 GMT -5
George was a huge fan of the Python's and he gave his blessings to Eric Idle's Beatles' parody, The Rutles. Here's George's cameo in The Rutles with Michael Palin and Ronnie Wood.
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Post by vectisfabber on Nov 4, 2008 4:17:33 GMT -5
Based on Josiah Bounderby, a character from Charles Dickens' Hard Times. Just thought you'd like to know. Thanks Vectisfabber, enlightenment is good. I only know this because I played Bounderby in a theatrical dramatisation, and as soon as I saw my first line, "I was born in a ditch" I thought "I recognise this stuff! It's the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch!"
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Post by kc on Nov 4, 2008 19:01:22 GMT -5
Thanks Vectisfabber, enlightenment is good. "I was born in a ditch" We were evicted from our hole in the ground!
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Post by winstonoboogie on Nov 4, 2008 20:48:55 GMT -5
We were evicted from our hole in the ground! ...and had to go live in a lake!
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Post by johnpaulharstar on Nov 5, 2008 12:41:15 GMT -5
My favorites are "How not to be seen" and "Self-defense against people who attack you with fresh fruit"
I feel that a few of the scenes from MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR seem very Python like-especially the spaghetti, the race, the sergeant, and all the people going into the little tent. I do think I remember reading that some of the Beatles lunacy inspired some of the members of Python.
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Post by winstonoboogie on Nov 5, 2008 20:46:12 GMT -5
I always thought "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" was very Pythonesque, especially John's falsetto "you love me number one" etc. as well as his "hump-day" mumbling at the end. Of course , both the Fabs and the Pythons were influenced by the Goons, so that could explain it as well.
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Post by vectisfabber on Nov 6, 2008 4:27:32 GMT -5
I feel that a few of the scenes from MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR seem very Python like-especially the spaghetti, the race, the sergeant, and all the people going into the little tent. I do think I remember reading that some of the Beatles lunacy inspired some of the members of Python. And, of course, the spaghetti waiter sequence. George was on record, I think, as saying that he felt Python, who started at around the same time The Beatles finished, were the natural sucessors to The Beatles.
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Post by Sir Frankie Crisp on Nov 7, 2008 20:27:03 GMT -5
How could anyone resist the nimble John Cleese and his Ministry of Silly Walks? Pure lunacy.
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Post by Joseph McCabe on Nov 7, 2008 22:33:48 GMT -5
you love me number one" etc. as well as his "hump-day" mumbling at the end. You love me number ...? LOVE?! Know, surely. Not every Beatle song was about love! But I'll agree with your Python comments.
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