#The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 1969-1974

#The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus #Graham Chapman #Eric Idle #Terry Jones #Michael Palin #Terry Gilliam #John Cleese #Carol Cleveland #John Hughman #Monty Python #Ian Davidson #The Fred Tomlinson Singers #Frank Lester #Bob Raymond #Connie Booth #Lyn Ashley #Rita Davies #Maureen Flanagan #Peter Brett #Donna Reading #Stanley Mason #David Ballantyne #Katya Wyeth #Sandra Richards #Julia Breck #Nicki Howorth #Marie Anderson

[baptizedinbloodd]

non horror edit : > but i luv them <3

#monty python #monty pythons flying circus #john cleese #michael palin #eric idle #graham chapman #terry gilliam #terry jones #monty python and now for something completely different #british tv #not horror im sorry

[catabasis]

Graham Chapman as the Colonel

#graham chapman #the colonel #monty python #monty python's flying circus #and now for something completely different #monty python live at the hollywood bowl #there aren't enough gifsets or posts about the colonel so i had to do something about it #*blows a kiss* for graham #mygifs #mygifs:montypython #mygifs:grahamchapman

[divinegrump]

#ao3 #fanfic #bees? #lol #funny #and now for something completely different #monty python's flying circus

[rararatigan]

I love me some Monty Python’s Flying Circus

“And now, for something completely different.”

#calligraphy #my calligraphy #hand lettering #monty python #monty python’s flying circus #and now for something completely different

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I was wondering if anyone would be interested in me posting Monty Python themed oneshots on here! I think I’ll mainly work off requests but I just want to broaden my writing a bit!

I’ll write

-Character x Character

-Character x reader

-Fluff

-Angst

-Maybe some smut? If anyone wants it?

(Note: I’m not too comfortable writing for actual actors since they have their own partners)

It could be from any movie or TV show, even if it isn’t directly linked to Monty Python (e.g Ripping Yarns or A Fish Called Wanda)

Can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!! 😊

#monty python #monty python’s flying circus #graham chapman #eric idle #michael palin #john cleese #terry jones #70s #life of brian #monty python and the holy grail #the meaning of life #and now for something completely different

[leela-small]

Do you like Monty Python? Are you yearning for a fun-filled podcast that focuses on Monty Python? Well, look no further — Spot the Looneys is the podcast for you! Tune in every week to listen to my good pals @androgynous-fox and @lazy-brown posit their views on everything Monty Python-related: from Flying Circus to each of the films, and everything in between

#Podcast #Spot the Looneys #Spot the Looneys podcast #Monty Python #Flying Circus #And Now for Something Completely Different #Life of Brian #Holy Grail #The Meaning of Life #Spamalot

[flusendieb]

TAG GAME: EIGHT SHOWS TO GET TO KNOW ME

I got tagged by @lovecanbesostrange

Good Omens

My Life is Murder

MacGyver (OG one from the 80s)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Firefly

Jonathan Creek

Agents of SHIELD

21 Jump Street

tagging: @famburasch-sohn-des-partram, @jkme6v8, @counsellormurdock

#only went for longer shows #otherwise I would have had way too many half hour formats to choose from #like Black Books; The Young Ones; The Goes Wrong Show; Monty Python's Flying Circus; Red Dwarf; Derby Girl; Galavant and so many more #with the exception of Agents of SHIELD I've watched every mentioned show to completion #and have watched all of them several times or at least partially several times #I mean I did watch some parts of Agents of SHIELD over again whenever I tried to finally watch it all #so far I've made it to season 5 and some day I will trick my brain into letting me finish watching it

[popentertainment-moviereviews]

WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (2023)

Starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Joanna Scanlan, Gemma Jones, Malachi Kirby, Lolly Adefope, Eileen Atkins, Timothy Spall, Alisha Weir, Paul Chahidi, Hugh Skinner, Richard Goulding, Tim Key, Jason Watkins, Krishni Patel, Nikita Elle Jakobsen, Adam Treasure, Susie Fairfax, Jamie Chapman, Vinodini Patel, Amy Lee Ronaldson and Grant Crookes.

Screenplay by Jonny Sweet.

Directed by Thea Sharrock.

Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. 100 minutes. Rated R.

There can be something wonderfully freeing about the use of profanity, particularly for someone who is caught in a repressive lifestyle. However, there is a cost in completely letting loose as well.

That is the moral behind this slight-but-amusing “based on a true story” British period piece.

Perhaps the most shocking part of Wicked Little Letters is that it was ever shocking. Of course, the world of small-town England about a hundred years ago is long gone. It’s interesting to look at what happened through a post-Twitter lens. Which is probably why this story of a serial poison pen letter writer in the quaint little village Littlehampton, England is portrayed somewhat comically, almost as a bit of a farce, even though at the time it was highly scandalous.

Olivia Colman plays Edith Swan, a highly repressed and highly religious spinster living in a small house with her domineering father and her proper, subdued mother. Edith’s life is a dull affair – she goes to church, spends time with some of the local women in things like sewing circles and playing card games, and spends much of her time passive-aggressively looking down on other people.

Suddenly, she starts receiving the foulest anonymous letters in the mail. Eventually, the letter writer spreads out and starts to send correspondence to other villagers, but Edith remains the main target of the profanity-strewn screeds.

Immediately suspected is her next-door neighbor, Rose (Jesse Buckley), an Irish immigrant, a widowed mother and a woman of somewhat loose morals for the time. (She works at a bar and is living with a Black man. And she is known to have a very salty vocabulary.)

Little things stood out to make Rose’s involvement in these letters a bit suspicious. The writer was obviously not really fluent in profanity – although filled with curse words and sexual innuendo, the insults really made no sense and the curses were usually used incorrectly, almost like someone was doing a Mad Libs book in which each blank space read “insert curse word here.”  

Also noticed, but mostly ignored, was the fact that the handwriting on the letters was obviously different than Rose’s.

Still, the police are determined to blame Rose, even though the head constable acknowledges that from early on they did suspect someone else. However, it would keep up appearances to blame Rose, so she is jailed and put on trial.

Her case is taken on by Gladys Moss, the first woman police officer in the town. (In fact, every time she tells people she was a gendarme, she has to specify “woman” police officer.) She is also not taken seriously by the men in her station, who just expect her to write tickets and get them coffee.

Gladys and some of the women of the town feel that someone else is sending the letters, and they get together covertly to prove it.

Of course, the audience is clued in to the identity of the letter writer relatively early in the movie. (As a viewer, if you haven’t figured out who wrote the letters from the very beginning of the film, you’re not really trying.)

The rest of the film is an odd, but mostly funny, mixture of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Law & Order: Victorian Unit.

Wicked Little Letters won’t win any awards or change anyone’s life, but it’s an enjoyable way to spend an afternoon.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2024 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: April 4, 2024.

#Wicked Little Letters #2024 #Movie Review #Olivia Colman #Jay S. Jacobs #Youtube

[chernobog13]

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT...

Sorry, this is not a Monty Python's Flying Circus-related post, much as I would like to do one.

This is actually the hardest post I've ever had to write, because I'm asking for help.

I don't want to regale you with a sob story, but I suppose some background is necessary.

I have been unemployed for the last three years, having been fired at the height of the pandemic. Not for any violence or malfeasance on my part, but still justified.

Understandably, that made my depression, PTSD, and other mental health issues (undiagnosed and untreated at the time, and the root cause for the behavior that got me fired) extremely worse. My already nonexistent self esteem plunged into the negative numbers.

(And just to be clear: I am not a danger to myself or others. It's just near impossible for me to keep my mouth shut when I get triggered. The technical term for it is Intermittent Explosive Disorder.)

I've been living off savings since then, trying to get a job and work on my mental health, with no success. But it's a vicious circle: I can't afford medical insurance because other bills have to be paid, so I can't get treatment for my mental health issues, but without getting them addressed I'm afraid if/when I get a job the same thing that got me fired will happen again.

Now the savings are gone. And I've sold off almost everything I can to try to cover bills, but that soon won't be an option for me.

So here is where the request for help comes, and I apologize for that.

I have started an Etsy shop to try to make some money to keep me afloat until I can get employment and, hopefully, medical insurance. I can't afford to pay to advertise the shop, but everyone says promote the shop on social media.

Well, Tumblr is the only social media I use, so here I am!

Below are just some samples of what I've got in my shop, NuadaSama. Please visit at https://www.etsy.com/shop/NuadaSama and look around.

I hope you might find something in my shop that interests you, or know someone who might like one of my items. Every item has free shipping, and I add new ones every day.

I apologize for interrupting your day with my sob story. Thank you for your time.

That name again is Mister Plow NuadaSama: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NuadaSama

And let me know what you think. Constructive criticism is always welcome, and I could use all the help I can get.

#NuadaSama #Etsy store #stuff I sell

[iamstartraveller776]

So...the scene that prompted you to write the fic. Hmm. I'm going to go for two fics. My fave of your lokane fics, The One. And also for Text Alert.

I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to answer this. (We have had a stomach bug going through our house. Bleh. I really need to cancel my subscription to Common Human Ailments. It's really not what it's cracked up to be.)

First of all, I am absolutely tickled that your favorite is The One. I happen to enjoy writing the darker, more dramatic stories, but my comedies tend to be far more popular. This one is a personal favorite of mine.

Anyway! The concept of this story was the bigger inspiration: Soulmates but Dark. However, in the very beginning of writing it, I got the picture of that scene where Loki's been beaten badly by the Hulk and Jane puts a knife to his throat. I wasn't sure if she would kill him or not until I wrote it. I still love what Loki says to her in that pivotal moment: "Tell me what you've done to earn the ire of the Norns." It's a throwback to something he told her earlier, but this time it's more...sincere. Less menacing? (Earlier words: "Make no mistake, Jane Foster. You are not my redemption. I am your curse.")

Text Alert. (I feel like I need a gif here of John Cleese a la Monty Python's Flying Circus saying, "And now, for something completely different!") I think I was more excited about the idea of creating the fake chats themselves. You see, I started this story many years ago before there were templates online for fake messages. The first 11 chapters, I painstakingly made in photoshop myself. Yahoo Instant Messenger was all the rage back then, which is what I based it on. When I lost my stories in a hard drive crash a few years ago, I also lost the templates I'd made for Text Alert. Thankfully, when I was ready to pick this story back up, there were plenty of templates online. And extra fortunately, the story was in a place to a natural switch to cell phone texts and FB messenger—oh, and Twitter (before it become X).

Thank you so much for asking!!

Send me the title of one of my stories, and I'll tell you which scene inspired it.

#star replies #idreamofspring1 #ask games

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

Stand-up show I watched this week: Monty Python – Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

It’s weird that I’d never seen this before, as I grew up with Flying Circus and the Monty Python movies. In 2015, I went to the cinema with my parents to see the Monty Python reunion live. When I was a teenager and went to England for two weeks, I saw Spamalot live and loved it. I think I tend to gloss over Flying Circus when remembering the British TV shows I watched over and over as a kid, but that was definitely in there, as were Holy Grail and Life of Brian and Now for Something Completely Different. My dad wouldn’t let me watch The Meaning of Life because it was too sexual, so I watched I on my own when I was 19 and was surprised that this got banned, given the other shit my dad let me watch. I’m pretty sure it was the Every Sperm is Sacred song that made me dad not let me see it as a young kid, which I guess is reasonable, or would be if there weren’t dick jokes in at least every couple of Flying Circus sketches as well.

I re-watched Flying Circus and the four movies in 2020, and it struck me that as a kid, I remembered and repeated and recited the best bits. I hadn’t realized before that there is quite a lot of filler in Flying Circus, definitely not every sketch was funny. And there was a fair bit of “funny for the time” humour. Not even because of the stuff being offensive (I mean, there was some of that, but let’s not get into that right now), but because it was a much simpler form of humour that’s been taking so much farther and in so many other directions since then. Stuff that was funny because it hadn’t been done before in the early seventies. There are a few Flying Circus sketches that I’m pretty sure would bomb my local open mic nights. But there are also a lot that were still absolutely hilarious today.

I tried, while I was watching their Hollywood Bowl recording for the first time, to imagine what it would be like if someone did one of those sketches at a new act competition somewhere in 2023. Would the judges instantly recognize it as the greatest work of genius in a generation and be shocked that some ordinary person could do something so funny? Or would it place, like, third? Or would it do badly – not because comedy has gotten better since then, but because the type of comedy that’s in fashion has changed, so it’s not unfunny but it’s just not what judges (or fans) look for these days.

Obviously this hypothetical scenario would have to exist in a world where Monty Python never happened (because otherwise all the judges would just say “You’ve plagiarized this”). But I don’t know if we can imagine how that would go, because if Monty Python never happened, maybe large parts of the comedy industry as a whole would have developed differently, and Python-esque stuff that seems overdone would actually seem fresh in that hypothetical 2023, because all those Python influencees wouldn’t have made that stuff over and over again in the intervening years. Or maybe that’s buying way too much into the Python mythos, the idea that no one on Earth except for these six absolute geniuses could possibly have ever worked out that men in frumpy dresses look funny (again, let’s not get into whether the Pepper Pots are misogynistic and/or transphobic right now).

Anyway, all that aside, whether they’re good because they influenced a generation or whether they could also objectively hold up today even without the mythos and nostalgia (personally, I think lots of what they’ve made holds up great… but definitely not every single sketch holds up), I do have nostalgia from growing up on Python and I enjoyed nostalgically reliving some of that. From childhood hours spent memorizing all the cheeses in the cheese shop so I could recite that whole sketch, to the time I took a philosophy course in university would sing the drunk Philosopher’s Song to myself and giggle during exams.

Incidentally, I recall thinking, when I was a kid, that the fact that they make lowbrow jokes about highbrow things like philosophy means they’re geniuses who are great intellectuals as well as comedians. Now, I see their sketches about philosophers the same way I see Bo Burnham’s poetry about William Shakespeare. It sounds like students learned some basic stuff in English class and then wrote a thing to make fun of it. The Pythons probably know exactly as much about ancient philosophers as I knew from that one university course I took that one time. But it’s still funny. Writing silly songs to puncture the importance of the highbrow stuff you’re taught in school is always funny.

During the Hollywood Bowl show, Graham Champman kept saying “skit”, which I found funny, because surely American audience members who have gone to a Monty Python show know what a sketch is. Or at least could work it out from context.

It’s especially funny because they picked that as the only British thing to translate into American for their audience, and that’s definitely not their most opaquely British thing. They did the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, which requires understanding of what regional accents means. When I was a kid, watching the Four Yorkshiremen sketch was actually the first time I learned about the concept of British regional accents. I remember watching it with my dad and he asked me if I noticed their voices were different, which of course I didn’t, because I didn’t learn to recognize Northern English accents until 2021. But my dad told me they were putting on accents from the North of England, and it’s funny because people from the North of England are more likely to be poor, so then when they grow up, they may talk about how poor they were, but exaggerate the extent of it. And from thence the humour arose.

(Let’s also not get into whether there’s something classist in a group of extremely successful people writing a sketch about how weird it is that all those Northerners reminisce about difficult childhoods, rather than reminiscing about growing up in private school and Oxbridge the way normal people do. But fun fact: The Four Yorkshireman sketch was inspired by a short story by Canadian writer Stephen Leacock. So I guess it isn’t entirely a British story that Americans cannot understand, because socioeconomic inequality exists everywhere, and exaggeration that escalates into absurdity is funny. Fun fact: My dad went to a school called Stephen Leacock Institute when he was a kid.)

It's also interesting to see Monty Python with a live audience, which I’d rarely seen before. A bit weird and at times annoying, the frequency with which they’d whoop and cheer. But I also find that interesting, just as a bit of history. Seeing how wild American crowds went for Monty Python in 1982. It’s interesting to see that Python was so big they transcended the rule that music fans want to hear the old stuff when they go to gigs, but comedy fans want to hear the new stuff. Monty Python wasn’t making new stuff at the time, but if they were, and had done it instead of their classics, I’m pretty sure this crowd would not have liked that. They were very happy to see the classics.

Oh! Here’s another thing I realized while watching it. I have seen that argument sketch so many times, it was one of my favourites when I was young. As kids, my brother and I used to recite it to each other. We’d get into real arguments that would devolve into quoting those characters. But in all that time, I never realized until today that the customer was right. This has nothing to do with comedy analysis or whatever, I’d just missed that part of the sketch before. I’d thought it was a story where a customer tries to get extra time for which he didn’t pay, when John Cleese says his time is up and he argues that it hasn’t been five minutes. But I realized on this watch that it hadn’t. I don’t think the whole sketch lasts five minutes, the argument certainly doesn’t. John Cleese is, in fact, scamming the customer by saying it’s been five minutes and he has to pay again.

So that's my main takeaway from that show. Americans in 1982 went really wild for Monty Python, and John Cleese was scamming the customer in the argument sketch. I've downloaded their 1998 live show too, I'll probably watch that soon and I'll let you all know if I learn anything else important.

[fabaceous]

i was tagged by @thenelse to do 8 shows to get to know me better...ok honestly i dont watch a lot of tv. i mostly watch the same shows over and over so i actually could barely list 8. fyi the first 4 are probs my favorite shows but the rest are just shows that have impacted my life in some way. please dont judge me i swear i have good taste in other things 👍

1. yellowjackets obviously because it has literally everything i could ever ask for in a tv show. it irreparably alters my brain chemistry on a weekly basis

2. always sunny in philly. i can always bond with my girl friends’ boyfriends over this one LOL. ive seen every single episode a truly embarrassing number of times and i dream of being randomly thrust into a trivia situation where there is a question about always sunny because i have an obscene amount of knowledge on always sunny lore and am 100% confident i would nail it.

3. arrested development. second only to always sunny in the making lanie laugh category. tobias funke character of all time

4. haunting of hill house. winner of the making lanie cry category. great autumnal watch, i love rewatching around halloween. bent neck lady reveal had me legitimately in shambles

5. i mean the office i guess. i watched it in high school or maybe college,  mostly because my friends were always referencing it and i wanted to get the jokes...and lol i rly thought jim/pam was peak romance. luckily now im older and wiser and know jackieshauna is peak romance

6. back in college i watched all of friends because of a vaguely homoerotic bestie situation that later imploded and the one perk of losing her was that i was finally free to admit that show fucking sucks especially ross fuck that guy fr. me and my friends would have killed ross with hammers i can tell you that much

7. i used to watch bones with my parents when i was probably a little too young to be watching it. perhaps this is the origin of my fascination with morbid things

8. another childhood nostalgia show is monty python’s flying circus which i always watched with my dad. to this day we are capable of annoying everyone else in the room by having an entire conversation made up of monty python quotes (complete with bad fake accents)

EDIT BECAUSE I FORGOT THE MOST OBVIOUS ONE I KNEW I WAS MISSING SOMETHING: DARK (the german time travel one) thats actually a legit favorite of mine, took me on so many emotional journeys and made me laugh and weep and theorize and ponder. and it was good german practice 👍

well now you know, for better or worse...probably worse...anyway i nominate @chel-c-fsea @jamesv-t @movingtoparistoshootheroin @excluded-from-the-narrative ummm ermmm ehhhm... i would also say @teabookgremlin but you already got tagged...but...get double tagged i guess? lol ok i wont be offended if any of you guys dont do this but i didnt want to be boring and not tag anyone hehe <3

#theres lots of other shows ive started and enjoyed but never finished... #ive seen a little bit of most of the popular tv shows but im just not really a tv show girlie #also not really a movie girlie #but more so a movie girlie than a tv show girlie #like i think a list of 8 movies would've been a lot easier for me #and i think i wouldve made decent picks that actually reflect my personality lol

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How would you rank all 4 of the Monty Python movies, from 4 (still amazing), 3 (really amazing), 2 (spectacular), and 1 (absolute PERFECTION).

(ok, trying to name what each ranking means because all the Monty Python movies are really great and tightly written, so did the best I can with this)

(This may be a bit controversial)

4. And Now For Something Completely Different- Ahhh. This movie is so good. It reshot all of the best sketches and made them all so much better! That being said, they are still reshot sketches and not new material but they’re still great.

3. Holy Grail- I am so sorry. Don’t get me wrong, I think this is the funniest movie and the most quotable but the other two have an emotional edge that Grail lacks (mainly because it’s supposed to be just a silly film)

2. Meaning Of Life- Is it perfect? No. Is it funnier than Grail? Also no. However, this film is so complex, that unlike most other Python sketches, you have to genuinely think about them in order for them to be funny. Also, it gets extra points for just having ‘The Galaxy Song’ and ‘Every Sperm Is Sacred’

1. Life Of Brian- Hands down. It’s funny, it’s thought provoking, it’s moving… it’s just simply wonderful! It was ahead of its time regarding organised religion, purpose and gender (Loretta is a trans icon. Eric said so. If you disagree… do one). In my opinion, it’s definitely their best film!

Thanks for the ask!

#monty python #monty python’s flying circus #and now for something completely different #monty python and the holy grail #life of brian #the meaning of life #graham chapman #eric idle #michael palin #john cleese #70s #terry jones

[funstyle]

smokin on some real monty python flying circus shit....got me acting eric idle....they know im onto something completely different

[thedurvin]

Okay, I was wrong: the Monty Python PC program (not game) called “A Complete Waste of Time” certainly is that, more like a fancy website with a single-screen minigame, but the one called “Flying Circus” actually looks decent. Terry Gilliam’s animation style is used for a game that randomly changes from platformer to shmup as you play as one of the Gumby Bros (his head on a fish or bird for the shmup sections) on a quest to find the missing parts of his brain by fighting flying body parts and characters from the show in sewers, factories, and organic landscapes, collecting breakfast foods and Spam like Mario collects coins. The action is occasionally interrupted by stills from the show with surprisingly good comedic timing

The final boss is the Spanish Inquisition attacking by throwing pillows from the Comfy Chair

#real video games #Youtube