01 Wednesday Aug 2018
Posted in Comedy, Performance, Writing
Tags
comedy, Hugh Laurie, Monty Python, performance, silly names, Stephen Fry, writing, Your Name Sir
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Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in one of their funniest and most Pythonesque sketches, a sketch of which John Cleese himself would be proud.
Thanks to YouTuber onestepcloser06
16 Tuesday May 2017
Posted in Comedy, Life, Performance, Writing
08 Saturday Apr 2017
Posted in Comedy, Life, Performance, Theatre, Writing
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Shredding the notion of a Golden Age in their own old age, it’s Monty Python with the Four Yorkshireman sketch.
Thanks to YouTuber Music Train and Marilyn Vogt-Downey for the suggestion.
24 Tuesday Jan 2017
Posted in Comedy, Life, Performance
Tags
argument, comedy, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Monty Python, performance, sketch
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Not every Python sketch stands the test of time—they were too seat of the pants and careless for that—but even with its non-ending, this sketch featuring John Cleese is still one of my very favorites.
29 Sunday May 2016
Posted in Comedy, Life, Performance, Theatre, Writing
Tags
Che, comedy, John Cleese, Lenin, Mao, Marx, Monty Python, performance, theater, theatre
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Monty Python in a great sketch done live in 1982 at the Hollywood Bowl. I particularly like John Cleese’s understated Lenin portrayal.
Fun fact: John Cleese’s father’s original last name was Cheese, but his father changed it as a young man. Somehow that explains a lot to me. Cleese is correctly pronounced to rhyme with Cheese.
Thanks to YouTuber Haunting Europe
22 Thursday Jan 2015
Posted in Comedy, Performance
One rainy night in the 1970s, I ducked into a local bar. There was the usual crowd of cops, firemen, and unemployed ex-graduate students. Their eyes were glued to the television over the bar. But they were not watching football or baseball, but the strangest–and maybe funniest– comedy show ever to hit the American shores. I was an instant fan. We were not in Kansas anymore.
