Pasquale Ventura wrote:This writer writes so negatively towards Python he's obvious not a fan so he feels a need to dig up every cliche' derogatory comment that's been used by others in the past.
His first sentence is all wrong. LIFE OF BRIAN is not a spoof about the life of Jesus Christ. It's about the life of Brian, hey wait....the title of the film is THE LIFE OF BRIAN. Some folks need to watch films before writing about them.
Yes Richard, this writer is a complete moron as you state. It's the tired worn out speculation because a comedian is older he not as funny as he was when younger.
I feel fortunate to have seen Monty Python live, yes little ol' me was one of those enthusiastic fans in the crowd of MONTY PYTHON LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL back in 1980, a night of laughter I shall always remember. They are just as funny live on stage as in their TV show and movies. Being up front close to the stage in a box seat was great! But you had to watch out, during the Bruce's sketch they purposely shook their cans of Australian beer and opened them toward the audience spraying them good. Lots of fun.
Pasquale Ventura
You had better seats than we had.
The Pythons are/were/always will be brilliant, and it was just brilliant silliness. not "subversive" whatever that means, nor "anti-establishment", these were Oxbridge graduates after all, just plain, wonderful, well-planned silliness, which is a breath of fresh air as opposed to all the unplanned silliness we see on the daily news.
I love it when one of the generally humorless that make up so much of our media and internet thought today dismisses some comedy they don’t get as just being “silly”, as if that is a minus of some sort. Silliness is one of the hardest things to pull off in comedy, reckless abandon playing to an audience not necessarily either in the same reckless or abandoned state of mind. The Pythons did it in every episode of their Television show, and made some deeper points in their movies about the silliness of things like organized religion, politics, and the meaning of life and that feeling of silliness has travelled well down through several generations. If they had never done anything but the fish-slapping dance, they would still remain the experts of their silly field.
RICHARD M ROBERTS