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Monty Python Olympiad

Monday, August 11th, 2008

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…

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Tags: eric idle, graham chapman, hollywood bowl, john cleese, michael palin, monty python, silly olympics, terry jones
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Ripping Yarns!

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

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 Days and Roger of the Raj against the various other post-Python projects.

Ripping Yarns is a rarity - classic comedy that is rarely repeated (unlike Fawlty Towers, for instance) . For those unfamiliar with the works - which featured Palin in starring roles and but left Jones firmly behind the cameras - here’s a brief episode list.

First Series

1.”Tomkinson’s Schooldays” (1913) (repeat of pilot with series title sequence added)
2.”The Testing of Eric Olthwaite” (1934)
3.”Escape from Stalag Luft 112 B” (1917)
4.”Murder at Moorstones Manor” (1926)
5.”Across the Andes by Frog” (1927)
6.”The Curse of the Claw” (1926)

Second Series

1. “Whinfrey’s Last Case” (1913)
2. “Golden Gordon” (1935)
3. “Roger of the Raj” (1914)

Comedy Connections airs Friday 8th August 22:35 - 23:15 BBC One, and repeated Saturday 9th August, 23:00 - 23:40 on BBC Two.

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Are they the greatest?

Monday, July 7th, 2008

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…

Dipping back to the past, remembering the things we saw and did is almost always done through rose-tinted glasses. The same is certainly true of comedy. Looking back at popular sitcoms of the day such as Please Sir! or Man About the House leaves a bitter taste in the mouth, and while Love Thy Neighbour might be a true depiction of the age, it’s modern revisionism to claim that it was cleverer than anyone ever knew at the time. (more…)