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 [...]
Wecwassification!
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
Every Sperm is Sacred!
Clip of the Day!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8
Ripping Yarns!
[singlepic=65,320,240,,right]This is what Comedy Connections are all about - never mind fanciful canon-busting nonsense like The Liver Birds, as funny as a cold fish pie, give us more like this!
Next Friday sees the Michael Palin and Terry Jones spoof Boy’s Own adventure serial Ripping Yarns given the Comedy Connections treatment, pitting the superb Tomkinson’s School [...]
Dramatic Comics
[singlepic=46,320,240,,right]Catherine Tate’s recent success as Donna Noble in Doctor Who and her subsequent move to the land of high-profile theatre roles is just one ina series of examples of comics “going straight”.
We’ve got former standup Alan Davies who became Jonathan Creek and is now an ear-biting regular on QI; Peter Kay has appeared in Coronation [...]
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 [...]
