Tag: Monty Python
John Cleese and his new show “The Dinosaur Hour” – Media
When John Cleese complains that he doesn’t like the world anymore, long-time Monty Python admirers feel like fanatical Swifties are watching Taylor Swift perform “Shake it Off” with the Wildecker…
Musical “Spamalot” on Broadway: Please be as silly as possible – culture
How shamelessly silly this musical is. There are the fart jokes, delivered in a grotesquely exaggerated French accent. There is the black knight who, at the end of a sword…
Michael Palin turns 80: The nicest person in the world – culture
Michael Palin has pointed out more than once that he never claimed to be the nicest person in the world. With such a denial, one is usually met with the…
“Monty Python” Eric Idle turns eighty. – Media
Eric Idle, the lowling of the British comedy troupe “Monty Python”, turns eighty. From Susan Vahabzadeh It is perhaps the greatest triumph of the past over the present that it…
John Cleese makes a show for right-wing populist broadcaster GB News – Medien
Of Alexander Menden When the art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon was declared persona non grata by the Cambridge University Debate Club last November because he had imitated Adolf Hitler’s style of…
Lottery win: American finds her luck in the spam folder
Spam has long since ceased to be just canned spiced meat, but is more familiar to most as a flood of unsolicited advertising emails. An American woman actually found a…
Terry Gilliam and Monty Python woke debate: not funny. – Culture
from Michael Neudecker When cancer ripped Graham Chapman out of life early in 1989, at 48, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle and the others stood at the funeral singing…