MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS
-John Cleese
-Michael Palin
-Terry Gilliam
-Eric Idle
-Graham Chapman
-Terry Jones
-featuring Neil Innes & Carol Cleveland
I love funny men. Correction: I love these funny men.
Whether you're watching the Ministry of Silly Walks, the Fish Slapping Dance, or visiting shops for pets and cheese with Dead Polly Parrot, you are going to be laughing. Monty Python humor is timeless, unlike Saturday Night Live or MADTV, where the writers and performers constantly draw material from present day life and pop culture.
For example, I was watching an episode of Laugh In once (a 1960s variety-type show featuring a very young Goldie Hawn) and there were four jokes I didn't understand, right in a row. This wasn't because I was an idiot, rather I just don't know what was happening in politics one random week in the 60s.
Now think about the Pythons' irreverent wit. Will there ever be a time when a sketch entitled "Judges Recess" that features four solemn British barristers exiting the courthouse to run frolic in a playground isn't funny? Nope. Never.
It took me about three years, but I finally managed to collect just about everything MP ever did, and many of the spin-off projects they were involved with. Expect reviews on them later, of course. But for now, just pop in a MPFC DVD and make merry.
It's good stuff.
Off in search of Polly,
M.
P.S. British humor is not for everyone. This was a hard lesson for me to learn.
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I think the Lumberjack song is perfect example of the humor they do because its start out about a weather man wanting to be a lumberjack to guy admitting he's a cross dresser.
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