The Partial Monty
IFC is airing a six-hour special on Monty Python. To promote it, and related items, the surviving members of the troupe have been appearing on American television (shot in New York) in various permutations. Unfortunately, these interviews, with people like Jimmy Fallon and Regis Philbin, have bordered on the simplistic.
Here you've got a rare chance to ask the original troupe members anything you want, but we get questions like "How did you get your name?" The story is well-documented, and the group has been answering it for decades. This isn't just another interview, this is a meeting with five of the most briliant comic minds of the past 50 years. We can do better.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:34 AM
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Interesting Python sidenote- I was recently warned on a forum on a RPG game (an offtopic thread concerning funniest jokes ever)for posting the famous "My dog has no nose" joke (for the uninitiated, its the MP sketch about a joke so funny it killed). The warning was that it depicted cruelty to animals and was inappropriate to children.
I should have gone with the German version which uses a pig.
Your dog has no nose? How does he smell?
Awful.
Would Monty Python be as funny without the English accents (and I guess the character it represents)? Some bits yes, some no (the ones involving acute embarrassment and high dudgeon need the accent- the man with 3 buttocks, the Architect sketch- the lifeboat etc...) What do you think
I think Monty Python is classic, top of the line humor. They wrote from their perspective, just as Woody Allen or Neil Simon wrote from theirs. It's hard to separate them from their Englishness, though they built from a sound base that I think works in any language, thus their popularity around the world.
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