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Monty Python live (mostly), review: poignant and predictable, but tremendous fun
Telegraph UK ^
| 20 Jul 2014
| Ed Power
Posted on 07/20/2014 5:53:47 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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Had a great time except for a 20 minute satellite outage at the beginning due to local weather. Theater was only 1/3 full at most. Crowd was fun. I don't know what it says about me as I know tons of people, it was the only showing in the area, and I knew nobody.
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Did they drop Graham Chapman’s ashes again?
To: Focault's Pendulum
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posted on
07/20/2014 6:08:11 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
I saw it when they did that on stage. It was a strangely humorous tribute.
minute 9:13
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
I’m not dead ,yet. I’m getin’ better!
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posted on
07/20/2014 6:24:07 PM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Growing up - every Sunday night was reserved for Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Dad’s Army. Nothing funnier then, and nothing funnier now.
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posted on
07/20/2014 6:37:57 PM PDT
by
FlJoePa
To: Focault's Pendulum
I’ve seen most everything Python. At the end of today’s show, David Rappaport was on stage with the cast. He wasn’t in any sketches. Many remember him from “Time Bandits.” I always liked the intro John Cleese gave him in “The Secret Policeman’s Ball.” Not the smallest man in the world
but f’ng close.
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posted on
07/20/2014 6:46:37 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Seeing the Pythons without Graham is like seeing the Beatles without John.
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posted on
07/20/2014 6:50:20 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
One of my earliest tv memories was staying up late with my older brothers on the weekends and watching Monty Python. I’m sure at least half of it flew right over my head, but I caught enough that I would be doubled over with laughter most of the time.
I also liked Benny Hill and Dave Allen At Large, though I didn’t “get” Allen at all until I was a bit older. Also remember another comedy show on around the same time as Python called The Goodies. Much more slapstick and juvenile compared to MP IIRC, but I still laughed.
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posted on
07/20/2014 6:55:25 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
At the end of todays show, David Rappaport was on stage with the cast.Thought he died?
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posted on
07/20/2014 6:55:48 PM PDT
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: dfwgator
That was always the reason Cleese gave (or something similar) for why there would never be a reunion. They might work together on projects, but they didn’t think that they could do a Monty Python reunion. (That was then, of course.)
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posted on
07/20/2014 6:56:25 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: DemforBush
Dave Allen At Large was great. Usually it came on after Benny Hill.....Good times.
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posted on
07/20/2014 6:57:04 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Starstruck
I was wrong. He did die. Have to search to find out who the little person was on stage with them. Had to be somebody important to the Pythons.
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posted on
07/20/2014 7:02:41 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: dfwgator
"Seeing the Pythons without Graham is like seeing the Beatles without John." True but I bet Graham is smiling when he sees the name of the show. Monty Python Live (Mostly) One Down, Five to Go" that is sooo Python! It makes me giggle each time I read it!
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posted on
07/20/2014 7:12:42 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Mad Dawgg
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posted on
07/20/2014 7:16:11 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: DemforBush
“One of my earliest tv memories was staying up late with my older brothers on the weekends and watching Monty Python....
I also liked Benny Hill and Dave Allen At Large, though I didnt get Allen at all until I was a bit older. Also... The Goodies.”
You just described my greatest TV childhood memories!
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posted on
07/20/2014 7:42:13 PM PDT
by
melsec
(Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
All I can say after watching that is, What a drag it is getting old.
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posted on
07/20/2014 8:14:03 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Focault's Pendulum
I thought they should have done a fifty-foot-long dead Graham.
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posted on
07/20/2014 8:16:14 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(“Right! Stop that! Silly! And a bit suspect, I think.”)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
One theater sold out well in advance (I learned of it last week and bought tickets online from a second theater, different chain). The theater took awhile to fill up but by showtime it was mostly sold.
There seemed to be some sound jitter (brief snips pausing) during the pre-show and even the opening fanfare but by the time their performance began, things were good.
Also, only the front channel sound was on (fairly low) in the theater. Diminished the power of the songs/music and would’ve had me straining even more to hear the dialogue if I’d been seated any farther back (I was at the front third mark).
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posted on
07/21/2014 5:53:51 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Starting with a half hour behind-the-scenes broadcast presented by stand-up Dara Ó Briain, Gold's coverage was brash and boisterous. Emanating turbo-charged avuncularity, O Briain chinwagged with actor Martin Freeman and comedian Eddie Izzard (he'd already seen the comeback six times). It was a nice appetizer though things got a bit farcical as comic after comic squeezed alongside Ó Briain, vying to sing their Python praises in the heaving VIP Lounge. I did NOT get this pre-show, by the way.
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posted on
07/21/2014 5:54:59 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
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