"Ohhh, intercourse the penguin."
Posted on 06/03/2014 10:07:58 AM PDT by MarkL
Everybody expects the Spanish Inquisition. And as with all things Monty Python, fans need to expect the unexpected, too.
Next month the surviving Monty Python members reunite onstage for the first time in almost 35 years — and, they say, the last time ever. Fans understandably want to see the anarchic comedy troupe's classic skits. They're hoping for Spam, lumberjacks, dead parrots and of course the red-robed cardinals who burst in to proclaim: "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
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My wife does the same thing.
I loved the trenches in WWII and. Laurie as king louie
Great! More power to her. Tell her most people won’t get it so it is safe to do it in public.
“And in any case this is an inadequate description of the sweetmeats! I shall have to ask you to accompany me to the station.”
“It’s a fair cop.”
“Don’t talk to the camera!”
I binge watched Black Adder a couple of years ago on Netflix. While visiting my son and his family for a week, he happened to have the first few years of House which I had never seen. I swear I watched a half a dozen episodes before I connected him to Louie.
To truly appreciate Monty Python, one must go back to “The Goon Show” on radio with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers.
Many of the skits and characters used by the Pythonites were fiendishly ripped off from the Goon Show. :)
The Gumby’s were the children of the Famous Eccles.
Where do I find a US movie theatre ticket link?
"I had to slim down to one and a half pounds to get into that costume..."
Thank you.
However, guess I have to wait for it to come out on DVD or sumpin', as for the past 25 I haven't gone to my local Bijous because they're generally filled with noisy teeny-creeps and weird fruits and nuts.
I loved the Python TV show with it's off-beat, dry humor and hilariously deadpan skits.
Today, when it comes to comedians, we're stuck with the likes of Maher, Letterman and other unfunny morons, both male and female. Crutches are more humorous than they.
Leni
I did not know Chapman was dead until someone mentioned it above, or homosexual until I had just now looked him up.
That a homosexual man would die of a malignant cancer which started in his throat is not surprising. The Wiki article blames his pipe smoking, but in my opinion it is far more likely to have been caused by a virus.
Again, I have to wonder, what happened to England? I am simply astonished at the pervasiveness of homosexuality in that country. I almost wonder if there was a German secret weapon or something.
Chapman was a gynecologist as well as a comedy writer and performer! And he was very, very funny in the tv series - still one of my favorite shows.
He came out, legend has it, at his bachelor’s party.
I watched the show on a tiny black and white tv with rabbit ears. I watched it secretly because I was convinced that my comedy writer relatives would have mocked me for watching a Brit Com. One day I came down into the family room and saw them openly watching it. It was at exactly the moment when the amazing Twit Race skit came on. From then on, I watched it openly.
Did you have the penguin on top?
Probably, I don’t remember. I did have tin foil crushed around the ears. My mother was a whiz at getting rid of static.
I wonder if Carol Cleveland and John Cleese’s ex wife will join them. I forget her name!
"Ohhh, intercourse the penguin."
Connie Booth, best known as "Polly" on Fawlty Towers.
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