| Author |
Message |
|
|
 |
Post subject: Python 'most influential' comedy
 Posted: Aug 15, 2007 - 10:41 AM
|
|
Member
Joined: Mar 25, 2003
Posts: 7573
Location: 221B Baker Street London
|
|
Monty Python's Flying Circus has beaten Only Fools and Horses to be named the most influential television comedy series of all time.
The show, which featured John Cleese and Michael Palin, topped a poll of 4,000 TV viewers to scoop the accolade.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was first screened in 1969 and also starred Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Graham Chapman. The dead parrot sketch was named the best alternative comedy sketch by the readers of Radio Times in 2004.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6943775.stm
 |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Post subject:
Posted: Aug 15, 2007 - 11:00 AM
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 17, 2002
Posts: 7598
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
|
|
Good, and now we can go on with the roast....
 |
_________________
|
| |
|
|
|
|
RobertBernardo |
|
|
Post subject: Re: Python 'Most Influential' Comedy
Posted: Aug 16, 2007 - 04:10 AM
|
|
Member
Joined: Sep 25, 2004
Posts: 136
Status: Offline
|
|
| I see that my favorite, Benny Hill, is not in the top 10. It must be true then that the British deny knowledge of Benny. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject:
Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 02:51 AM
|
|
Member
Joined: Oct 24, 2002
Posts: 3528
Location: New Jersey USA
|
|
I agree completely, not to mention SPAM! |
_________________
Speaking as an enourmously unlikable person, I find it difficult to maintain grudges against all those that want to kill me, don't you? - Alan Shore
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject:
Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 03:52 AM
|
|
Member
Joined: Oct 24, 2002
Posts: 3528
Location: New Jersey USA
|
|
Sorry, couldn't help it, had to do SPAM.
Good night all. |
_________________
Speaking as an enourmously unlikable person, I find it difficult to maintain grudges against all those that want to kill me, don't you? - Alan Shore
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Jami |
|
|
Post subject: Re: Python 'Most Influential' Comedy
Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 04:48 AM
|
|
Member
Joined: Feb 27, 2005
Posts: 1603
Location: California
Status: Offline
|
|
| RobertBernardo wrote: | | I see that my favorite, Benny Hill, is not in the top 10. It must be true then that the British deny knowledge of Benny. |
Well, you have to admit when watching Benny Hill, the guy was fairly racist in his "comedy." Looking at it now through adult eyes, his "comedy" was rather horrible.
Not that Monty Python couldn't throw in stereotypes and stuff, but they did it in such a way that you could tell 100% they didn't believe that crap. They were just playing for laughs. |
_________________
~Jami JoAnne Russell~
www.jamisings.com
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Python 'Most Influential' Comedy
Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 09:49 AM
|
|
Member
Joined: Mar 25, 2003
Posts: 7573
Location: 221B Baker Street London
|
|
| Jami wrote: | | RobertBernardo wrote: | | I see that my favorite, Benny Hill, is not in the top 10. It must be true then that the British deny knowledge of Benny. |
Well, you have to admit when watching Benny Hill, the guy was fairly racist in his "comedy." Looking at it now through adult eyes, his "comedy" was rather horrible.
Not that Monty Python couldn't throw in stereotypes and stuff, but they did it in such a way that you could tell 100% they didn't believe that crap. They were just playing for laughs. |
Although to be fair, Benny in "character" did most of the time become the butt of his own jokes.Whenever he was "perving" over women, they always got the upper hand in the skit, and ended up chaisng him by the end of the show, and got there own back on him.He in fact was rather a shy man. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Python 'Most Influential' Comedy
Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 01:40 PM
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 12, 2004
Posts: 9205
|
|
| britstarfan wrote: | | Jami wrote: | | RobertBernardo wrote: | | I see that my favorite, Benny Hill, is not in the top 10. It must be true then that the British deny knowledge of Benny. |
Well, you have to admit when watching Benny Hill, the guy was fairly racist in his "comedy." Looking at it now through adult eyes, his "comedy" was rather horrible.
Not that Monty Python couldn't throw in stereotypes and stuff, but they did it in such a way that you could tell 100% they didn't believe that crap. They were just playing for laughs. |
Although to be fair, Benny in "character" did most of the time become the butt of his own jokes.Whenever he was "perving" over women, they always got the upper hand in the skit, and ended up chaisng him by the end of the show, and got there own back on him.He in fact was rather a shy man. |
And you shouldn't judge a person by the character he plays. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Register
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
