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Monty Python’s And Now For Something Completely Different (1971)

Theatrical remakes of classic Monty Python TV sketches, including (but not limited to) How Not To Be Seen, Dead Parrot, Lumberjack Song and and and 88min imdb

Recap:

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Well, I’m not going to try and be funny by retelling all the jokes in this movie. In the UK, the TV show Monty Python’s Flying Circus was quite a success, and when they wanted to sell it to the americans, they took a movie camera and reshot some of their stuff for the big screen just to get some attention. Good thing too because while old british TV shows are not shown too often, the Monty Python movies have become classics that we keep on watching again and again.

Basically it’s not even necessary to review this because almost everybody knows and loves it already. The very few who may have spend the last 50 years under a rock may thank the noble uploader and find out what they missed.

(Even though I can’t prove it: it is my firm belief that this movie inspired the Kentucky Fried Theatre to shoot short and absurd bits on video which in turn inspired John Landis to reshoot their stuff as The Kentucky Fried Movie, which opened the door for Zucker, Abraham and Zucker to make some of america’s best comedies.)

Movie 88min

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John Cleese On How To Irritate People (1968)

68min

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Sound

English

Captions

English auto

A pre-python TV show with John Cleese

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Review:

This is an evening TV show with John Cleese, a nice assortment of sketches. It’s funny, yes, but when half of the Monty Python crew is gathered, we are used to a little more than just “it’s funny, yes” (you are not? Well I am, spoiled little brat that I am). All in all it’s a good but rather conventional 70s TV show. But hey, this is from 1968, so who knows, maybe they were ahead of their time then already? Anyways, I list and link it here because you know what we fanboys are like. What if this was some lost media stuff where Cleese, Booth, Palin and Chapman are doing these TV sketches long before the Flying Circus? I sure would die to see it. So I think it’s better that is NOT lost. Gentlepeople, I present you what may not be the greatest show in the world, but I guarantee you that it’s a highly interesting historical document and about 100 times funnier than anything that Adam Sandler or Kevin James could ever come up with.

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