Monty Python was a British comedy group that formed in 1969. It created "Monty Python's Flying Circus," a British television comedy sketch show that aired on the BBC. Members of Monty Phython included Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry...
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Monty Python was a British comedy group that formed in 1969. It created "Monty Python's Flying Circus," a British television comedy sketch show that aired on the BBC. Members of Monty Phython included Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.
Some people may log on to this blog in search of obscure facts about individuals, places, and things, and are disappointed to see that there just ain't all the trivia they were expecting. So much for truth in advertising. Others may visit, looking for Dennis Miller style angry monologues loaded with obscure cultural references that need annotations at every juncture. They too find that its lacking in the "rants" presented in the title of this blog. So what gives? This is a blog that has minimal rants (usually involving political figures) and marginal trivia. So why the name? The answer is....I didn't know where ...
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In conjunction with Monty Python 's 40th anniversary, Universal CityWalk at Universal Studios Hollywood will become " SillyWalks " tomorrow night for a live event that will attempt to set the world record for the most people ever to do “silly walks” at one time in one place. The event, which is the first-ever SillyWalks for Hunger , will go to benefit the hunger relief organizations Feeding America, the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank, and the Global FoodBanking Network. Check in for participants begins at 5:30pm, with the event is scheduled to begin promptly at 7pm, and will be broadcast worldwide across television, radio and ...
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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Terry Gilliam's Personal Best ( DVD ) By Graham Chapman Buy new : $12.99 40 used and new from $0.30 Customer Rating: First tagged by Jonathan Doyle Customer tags: monty python (2), terry gilliam , bizarro , animation Review & Description The LORDS of LAUGHTER--The SAINTS of SATIRE--The HIGH PRIESTS of LOW COMEDY--have sold out once again. Terry Gilliam--the disturbed American animator who shifted Monty Python from "very strange" all the way to "totally bizarre"--has finally snapped. From Baron Munchausen to Time Bandits to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, no project has challenged Gilliam's unstable mind like this ...
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Browse > Home / FILM , PRESS RELEASE / And Now for Something Completely Different: Monty Python Uses New YouTube Channel to Increase DVD Sales 23,000 Percent July 27, 2009 John Goldstone, producer of Monty Python & the Holy Grail , Life of Brian , The Meaning of Life , tells story to Greg Jarboe, author of YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day SAN FRANCISCO ( RPRN ) 7/27/2009– And now for something completely different: A new paperback book by Greg Jarboe which will be published August 17, 2009, reveals how Monty Python used a new YouTube channel to increase DVD sales ...
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Now Available on DVD & Blu-ray Despite the fact that I grew up in the same state from which Python member Terry Gilliam hailed before a continental change found him joining up with the rest of the Flying Circus , Monty Python wasn't a big part of my introduction to comedy... at least not directly. Yet as I discovered in this incredibly thorough six part documentary celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the legendary comedy team, the influence of the men from The Ministry of Silly Walks who brought us a Fish Slapping Dance and "The Lumberjack Song" was everywhere. Although due to the fact ...
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Director: Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975. Forty years ago this October a group of 6 young men came together to form an awfully silly and awfully funny new comedy troupe. Brits John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and American Terry Gilliam created the now world-famous Monty Python for the BBC TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus. 45 episodes and 5 films later they called it a day in 1983. But their humor still lives on in DVD collections of compilations. Their first non-compilation film is a hilarious parody of the knights in shining armor quest genre. Mostly directed by ...
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I’m fully of the opinion that new media needs to be embraced rather than strangled. This goes for the movie industry, the television industry, print, music, you name it and new models are surfacing which could leave the old guard high and dry. At least if they choose to fight rather than fold. Everyone remembers Metallica’s stance against Napster, a stance which cost the group many long-standing fans. It also didn’t do a thing to solve the underlying problem of music piracy, just shunting it the the fringes rather than right there in front of the music industry’s face waiting to be used for ...
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Terry Jones in "Monty Python: Almost the Truth " PHOTO GALLERY John Cleese in "Monty Python: Almost the Truth " PHOTO GALLERY Eric Idle in "Monty Python: Almost the Truth " PHOTO GALLERY Terry Gilliam in "Monty Python: Almost the Truth " PHOTO GALLERY Michael Palin in "Monty Python: Almost the Truth " Box sets can be the perfect gift By MICHAEL ...
RULES: You’re eligible to win if 1) You have not won anything from me in 2009; 2) You have a U.S. mailing address; 3) You enter once and only once. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the very...
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It's not often you hear Elvis Presley and Monty Python mentioned in the same sentence, but apparently Elvis was a huge Python fan. It's a little-known pop cultural bombshell that even the Pythons weren't aware of, and when it comes up in this entertaining six-part, no-holds-barred series it sounds like a joke.
Then we cut to Jerry Schilling, The King's best friend, calmly explaining...
And now for something completely different: The dead parrot sketch with the "Norwegian Blue"; the funny walks; the Twit of the Year contest; men in mawkish dresses; disgruntled Canadian Mounties singing the gay chorus to I'm a Lumberjack; Terry Gilliam's savagely brilliant animation.
Early episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus would have been lost forever if BBC bosses hadn't landed a deal to air the TV show in the U.S.
The cult series, starring John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idle and the late Graham Chapman, was picked up by BBC network bosses in 1969.
But there would be no trace ...
New Zealand Herald“Monty Python's Flying Circus” turns 40TheCelebrityCafe.comThe documentary comes out in connection with the comedy group's 40th anniversary of their television show, “Monty Python's Flying Circus,” which played on ...'Flying Circus' hits 40Chicago TribuneMonty Python's 40th anniversaryThe Week MagazineMonty Python goes digital tomorrowPunchline MagazinePhiladelphia Inquirer -HeraldNet -Bostonistall 90 news articles »
Basil freakin’ Fawlty. Archie Leach from A Fish Called Wanda. The gentleman in that Monty Python sketch who’s irate about having purchased an ex-parrot. John Cleese himself will be silly-walking his way into Long Beach for a live, one-man, one-night show entitled A Final Wave at the World (or The Alimony Tour, Year One). Cleese [...]
Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table...
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, And Hobbes was fond of his Dram.