Real difficult to reunite without Graham Chapman.
The reason for the concerts is ironic. Wasn't their one of their last albums the "Contractual Obligation Album?"
Sorry, this would be like going to a Rolling Stones concert. You’ll probably have a good time at it, but wonder if someone is going to croak on stage.
As an aside, Keith Richards has been on my dead pool list every year since 1978.
New material or “greatest hits”?
Old jokes aren’t so much like old songs.
I saw them at City Center in NYC in the late 70s or early 80s, I forget. But Graham Chapman is dead. Who is taking his place?
Real difficult to reunite without Graham Chapman.
I have been a Python fans for a long time, but the last time I saw a Python routine, it was on Saturday Night Live when Michael Palin and John Cleese did the “Dead Parrot Sketch”. It fell flatter than a pancake and simply wasn’t funny anymore.
I has friends in college that absolutely loved Monty Python, they had all the movies and bootlegged episodes and would watch them over and over, laughing so hard they had tears in their eyes, and then they would endlessly quote the various punch lines and catch phrases. Personally, I never "got" it, I found some of it to be mildly amusing, perhaps a chuckle here and there, but nothing that I would consider side splitting funny.
Personal taste I guess....
“As in....?”
“Lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, yeah.”
There are other British comedy shows that kept the ball rolling, there were never as popular in America.
Probably the leader in surrealistic humor along the lines of Monty Python is ‘A Bit of Fry & Laurie’, with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. (IMDb rating 8.5)
Then there is the “abrasive madcap” shows like ‘The Young Ones’ and ‘Bottom’.
Television show takeoffs like ‘Brass Eye’, ‘The Day Today’, ‘The Fast Show’.
There are so many more.
Just looked and found tickets on sale now at a local theater.
All the remaining members, anyway.
Unfortunately, John Cleese says that due to surgery, he can no longer do “The Ministry of Silly Walks”.
Excellent. Fathom Events, I assume? When and where?
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?
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