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Monty Python Shattersconventions december 1, 1977 page 6 ad lib thursday, British Monty Python shatters conventions and that is By Marc Mushkin show has a free structure, part British humor has a way of crossing the of its attraction. of the show hardly does Atlantic through television. Two of Quoting parts visual-verb- al na- America's most television justice to the complete popular when comedies, All in the Family and Sanford ture of their comedy, but writing it's irresistable: and Son, are directly modeled on the about Monty Python BBC's Till Death Do Us Part and Michael Palin, in And Now For Something Steptoe the Lumber- and Son, respectively. In the last two and a Completely Different, sings half years another British television import jack song: a and I'm has had an immense impact on American ". .I'm lumberjack okay, culture. I sleep all night and I work all day. I six-ma- I lunch. The n comedy team, Monty chop down trees.' eat my Python, through its television series, I like to press wild flowers. Monty Python 's Flying Circus, has shatter- I put on women's clothing, ed a number of conventions about the And hang around in bars." limits of satire and the medium of tele- But the show really must be seen to be vision itself. enjoyed. The sight of Cleese doing his "stlly walks," or Gilliam's finventive anima- tions is crucial to the group's success. Holy Grail success That success was greatly heightened I their film, Monty Python and the Holy profile Grail. The more narrative structure of the film provided plenty of material for the wide range of characterizations that each group member performed. Monty Python's high energy comedy With the release of Holy Grail, Monty transferred to the movies with And Now Python fever virtually exploded across the For Something Completely Different, a United States. An almost cultish following collection of TV skits, and Monty Python for the group developed with devotees of- and the Holy Grail, and original full-lengt- h ten claiming to have watched the film half feature, in 1975. a dozen times or more. Youth seemed par- Soon Circus was a; after Flying carried by ticularly susceptible to Python-mani- American public in the late 1974, it be- around UNL Holy Grail showings still draw PBS came the most popular series on across packed houses. the country. Photo courtesy of Cineasta Symptoms of the fever include spon- The members of the group and some of magazine Left to righ: Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Michael Cleese taneous recitals of the dialogue from entire their characters are: Graham Chapman, Palin, Terry Jones, John and kneeling, Terry Gilliam scenes by groups of the infected. And even King Arthur in Holy Grail and often seen now it is not uncommon to have one's as a scatter-braine- d housewife or a humor- lynch interrupted by outbursts of "Nil" less officer that-th- at's army (Stop silly!) different entertainers including David Frost. tion and Gilliam's animation. The skits (the potent weapon of the Knights of Ni in Minister on Flying Circus; John Cleese, the When offered his own show he didn't merge with each other by coming to logical Holy Grail) frorrvan adjacent table. of Sijly Walks, or the French Knight in want to take on all the writing himself, so conclusions, or making unexpected jumps, But Python fans must settle for what Eric a David Frost he asked Holy Grail; Idle, usually Jones, Idle, Palin, and Gilliam or simply by being abandoned by the ac- the team already achieved because last year Jones, the house- were type interviewer; Terry (who writing for a children's show, tors because it's getting "too silly." after an immensely live perfor- wife with a "new brain" or Prince Herbert popular Do Not Adjust Your Set) to join him. So in Fluid structure mance in New York City, the of group split Mudswamp Castle; Terry Gilliam, the late 1968 their show. Flying Circus, was This fluid structure lends itself perfect- up. animator and the American in the only born. ly to the way Python sketches often reap- Cleese is now performing in his own and Michael Palin, the transvetite group; The Python humor has its roots in a pear later in a program. Perhaps the best show, Fawlty Towers (9:30 p.m., Satur- lumberjack. 1950's BBC series, The Goon Show, star- example of this is the hilarious "Spanish days, NETV) Gilliam and Palin made a combination red-cape- d Unlikely ring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Inquisition" episode where Palin disappointing Pythonesque film. Jabber-wock- y, are an combination- -a They unlikely Secombe, and Michael Bentine. The Goons keeps bursting into different scenes de- with a cameo by Jones, and Idle a an a candle- lawyer, doctor, historian, were the first to develop a "manic flow" manding confessions. "No one expects the made some short films for George Harrison stick maker, and an artist. Most are Oxford type of comedy. This abandoned the con- Spanish Inquisition!' he proclaims. And a and has appeared on Saturday Night. and but for set-u- p e Cambridge educated, (except ventional to punch-lin- structure in character from a previous skit will occa- Their years together provided some of GUIiam) all come from they stirctly favor of continuous skits based on comic sionally show up in another sketch grumb- the freshest, wildest, most unpredictable middle-clas- s families. working concepts instead of jokes. ling about how he didn't get very funny humor ever seen on TV. And Cleese became interested in at considering comedy Monty Python's distinction was in the lines. what else television has to offer, it's a Cambridge where he started writing for a clever use of the advances in electronic Sometimes, however, an entire program pleasure to be able to watch Monty Py- campus revue. 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