Prince Charles celebrates his 60th birthday this year, and among various engagements Thursday November 13th was the date that The Princes’ Trust - an organisation setup by Charles to help young people - held an evening of A-list comedy entertainment in his honour at the New Wimbledon Theatre in London.
The performers were Rowan Atkinson, Robin [...]
John Cleese – Completely Different Emcee
Fawlty Reunion
You may have seen the brief reuniting of Andrew Sachs and John Cleese on Prince Charles’s 60th birthday celebrations thing last night on ITV1 - or even at the venue itself - in aid of the Princes’ Trust.
It was a slightly odd moment, but not without a feeling of nostalgia, and was completely at home [...]
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It’s virtually impossible to describe just how vital this sketch is to our comedy heritage without sounding like a total t*sspot and spouting phrases like “comedy heritage”.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus contained so many wonderful moments, so good in fact that it took me a while to settle on this clip.
In the end, however, an unwanted [...]
Wecwassification!
Almost 30 years after being banned by the local authority on grounds of blasphemy, Monty Python’s The Life of Brian will finally be screened in the Devon resort of Torbay this Sunday.
Back in 1979, Torbay Council said the films AA rating (for ages 14 and over) was unsuitable and wanted it reclassified for adults only [...]
Monty Python Olympiad
Let’s get one thing settled - the Olympics are always taken very seriously, but back in the day the Monty Python team showed the world just how silly they really are…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX-m0onbt-I
Are they the greatest?
At long last, the page you’ve been waiting for!
The original version of Quintessential Comedy featured the first in a series of articles and essays about comedy. Kicking it off was a piece on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which finally (!) I’ve reproduced here…
[singlepic=56,320,240,,right]Dipping back to the past, remembering the things we saw and did is [...]
Comedy Dialogue of the Week
[singlepic=21,320,240,,right]On of the most wonderful bits of comedy dialogue I’ve ever come across is the wonderfully constructed Monty Python sketch by Eric Idle, Travel Agent.
While the best interpretation of this is probably the live version (most notably the one performed at The Hollywood Bowl) the version in the second series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus [...]
