John Cleese Presents Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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John Cleese & Eric Idle
JOHN CLEESE & ERIC IDLE TOGETHER AGAIN AT LAST…FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME Mesa, AZ • November 21 Tickets On-Sale Friday, June 17 at 10 a.m. June 15, 2016 (Mesa, AZ) – Still together again, Britain’s living legends of comedy, John Cleese and Eric Idle, announce their must see show John Cleese & Eric Idle: Together Again At Last…For The Very First Time in Mesa at Mesa Arts Center on November 21 at 7:30 p.m.! Tickets go on-sale to the public Friday, June 17 at 10 a.m. In Together Again At Last…For The Very First Time, Cleese and Idle will blend scripted and improvised bits with storytelling, musical numbers, exclusive footage and aquatic juggling to create a unique comedic experience with every performance. No two shows will be quite the same, thus ensuring that every audience feels like they’re seeing Together Again At Last… For The Very First Time, for the very first time. And now you know why the show is called that, don’t you? Following a successful run last fall in the Eastern US as well as a sold-out run in Australia and New Zealand this past February, their tour, John Cleese & Eric Idle: Together Again At Last…For The Very First Time will once again embark on some of the warmest (and driest) territories the US (and Canada) has to offer. The tour will take place from October 16 to November 26 and will see the British icons perform unforgettable sit-down comedy at premier venues in Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Spokane, Salem, Santa Rosa, San Francisco, San Jose, Thousand Oaks, Santa Barbara, Escondido, San Diego, Las Vegas, Mesa, Tucson, Albuquerque, El Paso with additional markets to be announced soon. -
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
SPOOFS The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash In the 1970s, Eric Idle, a former member of the legendary British com- edy team Monty Python, featured a Beatles parody song called “It Must Be Love” on Rutland Weekend Television, his own television show on BBC-2. The song had been written by Neil Innes, who had previously worked with Monty Python and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. The song was performed by ‘The Rutles’, a Beatles look-alike band featuring Neil Innes as the John Lennon character, and Eric Idle as the Paul McCartney character (vgl. Harry 1985: 69). In October 1976, the parody was shown on America’s NBC TV’s show Saturday Night Live as a se- quel to the running gag of a Beatles reunion for $3,000. The parody went down so well that Eric Idle and Neil Innes decided to produce a feature program about The Rutles for television. Idle, who was a close friend of George Harrison, was allowed to watch Neil Aspinall’s unreleased do- cumentary about The Beatles, called The Long and Winding Road. Aspi- nall’s film featured a bulk of famous footage of The Beatles, from their first televised performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last group performance on the roof of their Apple business building. Idle u- sed The Long and Winding Road as a model for his fake-documentary about The Rutles and basically re-told the history of The Beatles pro- jected upon this imaginary rock band, adding essential elements of par- ody and the Pythonesque sense of surreal humor. -
Monty Python's SPAMALOT
Monty Python’s Spamalot CHARACTERS Please note that the ages listed just serve as a guide. All roles are available and casting is open, and newcomers are welcome and encouraged. Also, character doublings are only suggested here and may be changed based on audition results and production needs. KING ARTHUR (Baritone, Late 30s-60s) – The King of England, who sets out on a quest to form the Knights of the Round Table and find the Holy Grail. Great humor. Good singer. THE LADY OF THE LAKE (Alto with large range, 20s-40s) – A Diva. Strong, beautiful, possesses mystical powers. The leading lady of the show. Great singing voice is essential, as she must be able to sing effortlessly in many styles and vocal registers. Sings everything from opera to pop to scatting. Gets angry easily. SIR ROBIN (Tenor/Baritone, 30s-40s) – A Knight of the Round Table. Ironically called "Sir Robin the Brave," though he couldn't be more cowardly. Joins the Knights for the singing and dancing. Also plays GUARD 1 and BROTHER MAYNARD, a long-winded monk. A good mover. SIR LANCELOT (Tenor/Baritone, 30s-40s) – A Knight of the Round Table. He is fearless to a bloody fault but through a twist of fate discovers his "softer side." This actor MUST be great with character voices and accents, as he also plays THE FRENCH TAUNTER, an arrogant, condescending, over-the-top Frenchman; the KNIGHT OF NI, an absurd, cartoonish leader of a peculiar group of Knights; and TIM THE ENCHANTER, a ghostly being with a Scottish accent. -
• Includes the Best and Most Frequently Quoted Moments • Each Disc
Each of these six discs contains a cornucopia of Monty Python’s best, most famous, and most frequently quoted songs and sketches as selected and introduced by the very lunatics who made Monty Python the world’s premier comedy troupe. Indeed, it’s the perfect package for all of your comedy consumers, from the newcomer to the fanatic, and everyone in between.* • Includes the best and most frequently quoted moments from the groundbreaking Flying Circus series to give new fans a primer on everything Python—that will have them reciting Python like their Megaset™-purchasing brethren in no time! • At under $8 per disc, THE PERSONAL BEST OF MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS opens the best-selling Flying Circus DVD franchise to new, Python-curious audiences. • Each disc includes new footage with the present-day Pythons, plus all of the naughty bits that were edited out of the PBS broadcasts and never-broadcast, DVD-exclusive bonuses with the cast. • Monty Python’s Spamalot on Broadway is still sold out—and touring North America—continuing to bring new fans with deep pockets into the Monty fold. • All of the Pythons’ best sketches are represented, including: “Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit,” “The Upper Class Twit of the Year,” “The Lumberjack Song,” “Spanish Inquisition,” “Fish Slapping Dance,” “Silly Walks,” and “The Man Who Wrestles Himself,” plus Terry Gilliam’s best animation sequences. DVD PREORDER AUG 1 RELEASE AUG 29 special features: Behind the Scenes of John Cleese’s Personal Best a Terry Gilliam’s Featurette: A Retrospective of Python’s Animation a Eric Idle’s Personal Second-Best a Terry Jones’ Personal Second-Best a Michael Palin’s Personal Second-Best a Graham Chapman’s Personal Second-Best a Six 15-Question, 15-Ton Megaquizzes—One for Each Python a Biography and Selected Credits for Each Python a Interactive Menus a Scene Selection $44.95 srp U.S., $59.95 srp Can. -
Reagan Defends Military Strikes on Iranian Targets Associated Press No Illusions About the Cost of Irresponsible Behavior," WASHINGTON -- President Reagan Said
Back In the fifties I IACCENT: Bitter 'Beetlejuice' again Mostly sunny and cool Tues day, high 45 to 50. Clear and /VIEWPOINT: Respond to the Task Force cold Tuesday night, low 30 to VOL XXI, NO. 125 TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1988 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Reagan defends military strikes on Iranian targets Associated Press no illusions about the cost of irresponsible behavior," WASHINGTON -- President Reagan said. Reagan said Monday he or "They must know that we dered military strikes against will protect our ships, and if Iranian targets because of "ir they threaten us, they'll pay a responsible behavior" toward price," Reagan said. The pres U.S. ships, and served notice ident told his audience that "a that Tehran will "pay a price" more normal relationship with for such aggression in the Per Iran is desirable -- and we're sian Gulf. prepared for it." Defending attacks on Iranian But Reagan said that "such military platforms in the south a relationship is not possible so ern gulf, Reagan said: "we aim long as Iran attacks neutral to deter further Iranian aggres ships, threatens its neighbors, sion, not provoke it." He supports terrorism and refuses renewed the U.S. call for Iran to end the bloody war with to accept a United Nations Iraq." resolution demanding a cease Besides destroying the two fire in the Iran-Iraq war. offshore Iranian oil platforms Reagan used an appearance used for military purposes, the before a business audience to U.S. Navy either sank or comment on U.S. -
What Lies Beneath Continued from Page 1 of the Town for Burial of Their Dead
THE TM 911 Franklin Street Weekly Newspaper Michigan City, IN 46360 Volume 35, Number 14 Thursday, April 11, 2019 What Lies BBeneatheneath by William Halliar, with research by Brady Vanes and Fern Eddy Schultz Graveyards. graves. The decorative fence that surrounds the A link to those who came before us. cemetery is broken down in many places. Animals On the one hand, we are fascinated by their sto- graze on the weeds growing over long-buried dead. ries and legends. On the other, we shiver at the re- Perhaps most disturbing is the fact that many of minder of our own mortality. the gravestones have been vandalized by lawless Nonetheless, cemeteries are an integral part of “marauders,” as the locals called them: young peo- our lives and landscapes. More than 100,000 cem- ple with no respect for property or the dead. eteries exist in Indiana, with more than 85 in La- A small group of citizens makes the trek from Porte County alone. Michigan City’s old burial Michigan City’s town center, near the lakeshore, to ground is a forgotten plot, a memorial to our earli- the public burial ground. The terrain between the est citizens. It has been paved and built over by a city built on the lakefront to what was referred to as modern city, yet what remains buried there is part the “City of the Dead” located southeast of the city who we are. Though mostly forgotten, it was one of center is diffi cult, blocked my many a high sandhill Indiana’s oldest cemeteries. -
ANDREW GOSLING 26Th October 1944
! " ANDREW GOSLING" 26th October 1944 - 11th May 2016" A PERSONAL APPRECIATION OF HIS LIFE BY IAN KEILL" I first met Andrew Gosling in 1970 when he edited a less than reverential film I made about William Wordsworth for “Late Night Line-Up”. After that he collaborated with me on many productions - first as film editor, then as director - for over twenty-five years. We became a sort of Ant-and- Dec-Behind-the-Camera." He was a man of great talent and enormous charm. Someone who could be relied on to come up with the goods with the least amount of fuss. In all the time I worked with him we rarely had a disagreement. It was a very happy and fruitful partnership." Andrew was educated at Eton - a fact that he played down all his life. He never used his school- ing as a stepping stone to anything … he made his way in life the way he wanted. Simply. Gen- tly. However, during his time at Eton he directed a stage production of T. S. Elliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral”. This was well received, and it resulted in him securing a place at the Oxford Play- house. There then followed work at the Century travelling theatre - an incredible set-up present- ing plays from a set of lumbering wagons trailing from town to town all over the North of England. Here he did anything and everything associated with being an ‘Assistant Stage Manager and Small Parts’." In the 1960s he decided to change course, and became a film editor at Associated Redi$usion. -
The Examples of Doctor Who and Monty Python's Flying Circus
AN00240X The British cultural background between 1969 and 1974: the examples of Doctor Who and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Agathe AZZAOUI Student Number: 21202177 1/37 Table of Contents: Introduction I- The social context in Britain after World War Two: men and their authority within a conservative Society 1. The emergence of social complaints in the postwar era 2. The division of tasks within the household and Conservative Women as seen in the Monty Python's Flying Circus 3. The male authority began to be challenged and the emergence of censorship: Doctor Who and the Flying Circus as evidence II- Between the 1960s and 1970s: going towards more sexual freedom and equality 1. The youth fought for equal rights between men and women: both the Flying Circus and Doctor Who support this idea 2. A wave of new reforms in favour of women 3. New social movements gave a different view on society III- Male gaze still present in the British society in the 1970s; a different form of power over women 1. The conservative ways still had an important place within society and male figures were still somehow dominant 2. The Monty Pythons supported women's sexual freedom but some men enjoyed it 3. Men, like in Doctor Who and the Flying Circus, promoted gender equality whereas others would use the same arguments in order to discredit women Conclusion Bibliography Acknowledgements 2/37 Introduction: Between 1969 and 1974, two television programmes reflected the British social background; the Monty Python's Flying Circus and Doctor Who. The Flying Circus was shown between 1969 and 1974 on the BBC and was created by five men coming from Cambridge and Oxford Universities, or Oxbridge. -
John Cleese on Creativity from His 11991 Speech Given to Visual Arts
John Cleese on Creativity from his 11991 speech given to Visual Arts When Video Arts asked me if I’d like to talk about creativity I said, “No problem. No. problem!” because telling people about how to be creative it’s easy. It’s only doing it that is difficult. I knew it would be particularly easy for me because I spent the last 25 years watching various creative people produce their stuff and being fascinated to see if I could figure out what makes creative people, me included, more creative. What is more, a couple of years ago I got very excited because a friend of mine who runs the psychology department at Sussex University, Brian Bates, showed me some research on creativity done at Berkeley in the 70s by a brilliant psychologist Donald MacKinnon, which seemed to confirm in the most impressively scientific way, all the vague intuitions that I had heard over the years. So the prospect of settling down for quite serious study for the purpose of tonight’s gossip was quite delightful and I, having spent several weeks on it, I can say, categorically, that what I have to tell you tonight about how you can all become more creative is a complete waste of time. So I think it would be much better if I just told jokes instead. You know the light bulbs you know. How many Poles does it take to change a light bulb? One to hold it and four to turn the table…. You see the reason it is futile for me to talk about creativity is that it quite simply, cannot be explained. -
MONTY PYTHON at 50 , a Month-Long Season Celebra
Tuesday 16 July 2019, London. The BFI today announces full details of IT’S… MONTY PYTHON AT 50, a month-long season celebrating Monty Python – their roots, influences and subsequent work both as a group, and as individuals. The season, which takes place from 1 September – 1 October at BFI Southbank, forms part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the beloved comedy group, whose seminal series Monty Python’s Flying Circus first aired on 5th October 1969. The season will include all the Monty Python feature films; oddities and unseen curios from the depths of the BFI National Archive and from Michael Palin’s personal collection of super 8mm films; back-to-back screenings of the entire series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus in a unique big-screen outing; and screenings of post-Python TV (Fawlty Towers, Out of the Trees, Ripping Yarns) and films (Jabberwocky, A Fish Called Wanda, Time Bandits, Wind in the Willows and more). There will also be rare screenings of pre-Python shows At Last the 1948 Show and Do Not Adjust Your Set, both of which will be released on BFI DVD on Monday 16 September, and a free exhibition of Python-related material from the BFI National Archive and The Monty Python Archive, and a Python takeover in the BFI Shop. Reflecting on the legacy and approaching celebrations, the Pythons commented: “Python has survived because we live in an increasingly Pythonesque world. Extreme silliness seems more relevant now than it ever was.” IT’S… MONTY PYTHON AT 50 programmers Justin Johnson and Dick Fiddy said: “We are delighted to share what is undoubtedly one of the most absurd seasons ever presented by the BFI, but even more delighted that it has been put together with help from the Pythons themselves and marked with their golden stamp of silliness. -
Flip, Dip Dry, Serve the Big Match
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{Download PDF} the Monty Pythons Flying Circus: Complete and Annotated: All the Bits
THE MONTY PYTHONS FLYING CIRCUS: COMPLETE AND ANNOTATED: ALL THE BITS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Luke Dempsey | 880 pages | 13 Nov 2012 | Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc | 9781579129132 | English | New York, United States Monty Python's Flying Circus, Season 1 on iTunes It What can I say about the comic genius of Monty Python? I can only offer my homage …. It came out of nowhere. Now my grandmother — MAN. Can you tell me the fastest way there? Uh, Bolton, yes. The M61 through Blackrod, the A or the A Which is fastest? I am not the least bit peckish for fermented curd. Well, then you want to take the M Take this road about 20 kilometers, then take a left at the crossroad. Then take a right and follow it to Khartoum. Are you — are you suggesting I go to Africa? No, no, no — well, yes, yes. Oh yes, fires, and pitchforks and men with horned heads. Horned heads? Oh yes, and nasty sharp, filed teeth and forked tails running about — naked! Are you by chance describing hell? No, no, no — well, yes. I am describing hell. I was just wasting your time. Ah, I see. Can you do me one more favor? Please lay down in front of my car. Whatever you say, squire. Cut to humorous cartoon. Jun 09, Stewart Tame rated it really liked it. This is a huge book. But that's to be expected from a collection of the complete and annotated scripts from all four seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus. To be honest, the annotations are rather underwhelming.