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New Monty Python movie to turn old jokes into new royalties
When legendary comedy troupe Monty Python staged “Live (Mostly): One Down, Five to Go” in 2014, its surviving members filmed themselves taking what they promised would be their final bows together. So how can we then speak of a new Python movie in the headline? Because, according to entertainment industry outlet Deadline, the …
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Tuesday 8th May 2018 07:42 GMT allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
Well, I'm a
golfermember of The Church of Python, so yes, I'll pay my dues. -
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Tuesday 8th May 2018 10:00 GMT VinceH
They should therefore extend the cycle more fully. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (and the other fillums) probably wouldn't have happened if there wasn't the original TV series, Flying Circus.
So the full cycle would actually be:
TV Show -> Fillums -> Musical based on one of them -> Fillum based on that musical -> TV show.
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Tuesday 8th May 2018 09:13 GMT TheProf
Been done before
The Mel Brooks film The Producers (1967) that led to the musical play based on the film The Producers (2001) that lead to the film based on the musical play based on the film The Producers (2005).
Good for the Pythons! If they (continue to?) make more money than the current
crapcrop of funny people then good on 'em.Of course I'm still waiting for the Marx Brothers revival.
Edit: Ah what @Jay 2 said.
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Tuesday 8th May 2018 09:40 GMT Bob Wheeler
When I was a lad...
... I had an evening job in the local cinema. I got to see the films, always in small parts, and out of sequence depending on actually doing some work. We had a double bill of "Blazing Saddles" and "Holy Grail" on for about three weeks - shows how popular the films were.
The jokes in Blazing Saddles got stale after the first week, but Holy Grail kept us laughing every night for three weeks.
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Tuesday 8th May 2018 13:58 GMT Arthur the cat
Re: When I was a lad...
The jokes in Blazing Saddles got stale after the first week,
Back in the 90s Channel 4 used to broadcast some films with subtitles for the deaf, one of which was Blazing Saddles. The bean eating scene started off with short onomatopoeic captions on one line which got longer and longer, eventually taking two entire lines, and ended around half way through the scene with a final caption that read "The farting continues …". That's stuck in my memory longer than the actual jokes in the script.
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Thursday 10th May 2018 20:46 GMT Intractable Potsherd
Re: I'M BRIAN!
I was fortunate enough to get tickets for "Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)" at the Royal Albert Hall in 2009. It was as brilliant as expected, but made all the better by someone coming up to the standing balcony right at the top (cheap) at the interval, and asking me and Mrs IP if we would like their tickets, as they had to leave. We saw the second half right down in the centre of the stalls, close enough to see the stubble on Eric Idle's chin!
(I just looked it up to be sure of the year, and discovered that the whole thing was recorded - I need to get that DVD!)
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Tuesday 8th May 2018 19:25 GMT TWB
Re: topical
A pal of mine who used to lecture on international politics used Life of Brian to illustrate many aspects of political theory to his students.
As a youngster (slightly underage) I went to see it when it was first released and loved it. When I saw it when I was older, the socio-politcial jokes made far more sense meaning that I got more out of it later.
Still love the "You're all individuals....." etc bit - best joke ever IMHO in so many ways.
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