Lemon Curry? A Monty Python Thread...

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 4:52 pm

I've had a huge Monty Python revival in the last month. Broke out the old tv shows on video, devoured the new book/autobiography think, watched an old documentary, poked around some MP boards and generally I've resuscitated an obsession that had been dormant for years. I first saw the Flying Ciircus in 1985, I would have been 10 at the time and I was instantly hooked.

Dunno why I started this... any Python heads out there...?

DrJ

whtesde · Post by **whtesde** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 5:23 pm

I am told that I ruined a viewing of Lord of the Rings by screaming, "Look, you stupid bastard, your arm's off!" at the television during the big fight scene.

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 5:32 pm

I was going to post this on the philosophy thread a while back. Many moons ago I memorised the Philosophy Song (Two Bruces) and as far as I remember this is how it goes (apologies for spelling, I'm no skolar and so I don't know who half these people are!)

Immanuel Kant
Was a real pissant
He was very rarely stable
Heidegger Heidegger
Was a boozy begger
Who could drink you under the table
David Hume could out consume
Shaupenhauer and Hagel
And Wittgenstein
Was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as Schegel
There’s nothing Nietzche
Couldn’t teach ya
‘Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates himself was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill
Of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato they say
Could stick it away
Half a grade of whisky everyday
Aristotle Aristotle
Was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes
Was a drunken fart
“I drink therefore I am”
There’s nothing Nietzche
Couldn’t teach ya
‘Bout the raising of the wrist
A lovely little song
About a bugger when he’s pissed!

Goodnight Bruce.

I wouldn't describe myself as a Python head but I've been a fan since the seventies, as amazingly my parents let me stay up and watch it. The Life of Brian is in my top five films ever and The Holy Grail wouldn't be far behind.

More songs later this week.

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 5:53 pm

Then there's the other Python Philosophy-related song...

Eric the Half a Bee

Half a bee, philosophically,
Must, ipso facto, half not be.
But half the bee has got to be
Vis a vis, its entity. D'you see?

But can a bee be said to be
Or not to be an entire bee
When half the bee is not a bee
Due to some ancient injury?

La dee dee, one two three,
Eric the half a bee.
A B C D E F G,
Eric the half a bee.

Is this wretched demi-bee,
Half-asleep upon my knee,
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric the half a bee!

Fiddle de dum, Fiddle de dee,
Eric the half a bee.
Ho ho ho, tee hee hee,
Eric the half a bee.

I love this hive, employee-ee,
Bisected accidentally,
One summer afternoon by me,
I love him carnally.

He loves him carnally,
Semi-carnally.

DrJ

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 6:08 pm

I need a shrubbery

stormwarning · Post by **stormwarning** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:47 am

Aye, 'ampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it? ... you had to go poncing off to Barnsley, you and yer coal-mining friends. (spits)

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:26 am

I do love the songs of MP, especially Eric Idle who was chief songwriter. The Contractual Obligations album was a gem, here's one from that by Michael Palin:

Decomposing Composers

Beethoven's gone, but his music lives on,
And Mozart don't go shopping no more.
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again,
And Elgar doesn't answer the door.

Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh,
Whilst composing a long symphony,
But one hundred and fifty years later,
There's very little of them left to see.

They're decomposing composers.
There's nothing much anyone can do.
You can still hear Beethoven,
But Beethoven cannot hear you.

Handel and Haydn and Rachmaninov
Enjoyed a nice drink with their meal,
But nowadays, no one will serve them,
And their gravy is left to congeal.

Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
With their highly original sound.
The pianos they played are still working,
But they're both six feet underground.

They're decomposing composers.
There's less of them every year.
You can say what you like to Debussy,
But there's not much of him left to hear.

Claude Achille Debussy-- Died, 1918.

Christophe Willebald Gluck-- Died, 1787.

Carl Maria von Weber-- Not at all well, 1825. Died, 1826.

Giacomo Meyerbeer-- Still alive, 1863. Not still alive, 1864.

Modeste Mussorgsky-- 1880, going to parties. No fun anymore, 1881.

Johan Nepomuk Hummel-- Chatting away nineteen to the dozen with his mates down the pub every evening, 1836. 1837, nothing.

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:40 am

Oooh, Mrs Nigger-Bater's exploded!

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:42 am

Semi-carnally?

No, Sarah Connelly.

Oh!

"...Sarah Connely..."

*whistle*

Big big big big big big big Monty Python fan here. Love them so much.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:43 am

Ooh! I've wet 'em.

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:58 am

Chateau Wogga Wogga - compares favourably with a Welsh claret.

(the idea of Australian wine may no longer be funny, but Welsh wine is)

Gillibeanz · Post by **Gillibeanz** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 8:29 am

Huge Python fan - nudge nudge wink wink know what I mean?? I was a teenager when they were around and had endless rows with my parents to be able to watch it as they didnt find anything in the least bit funny and we only had one tv!!

They totally changed the face of humour in this country and everything is as funny today as it was then!

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 12:12 pm

Actually it's Cyril Connolly...

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/C/ConnollyC1.asp

...Python are quite educational...

DrJ

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 1:20 pm

Still, not bad. I hadn't heard the song since I was 12.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 10:58 pm

Any Pete & Dud fans out there? Man alive, Peter Cook was an absolute comic genius.

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 2:06 am

Pete (to an apparently one legged Dud, hopping and laughing, hoping to audition for the part of Tarzan): '... I've got nothing against you're right leg. Unfortunately, neither have you'

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:37 am

I love Pete & Dud. Nothing is more filthy and obscene than the outrageous Derek and Clive...

Clive: I prefer you to do the wooing before you do the winkie and the wanky. I may be a bit old-fashioned but I like to see a bit of wooing before the winkie and the wanky, you know.

Derek: Alright then, you smooth talking fucker.

Or something like that.

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:51 am

Derek: Are you going to the match on Saturday?
Clive: No I'm down for wanking on Saturday

Dud singing in a scottish accent
"Oh dear little Flo
I love you so
Especially in your nightie
When the moonlight flits
Across your tits
Oh Jesus Christ Almighty"

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 6:43 am

I've got the horn...

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 7:30 am

I remember stumbling upon a compilation tape of their Not Only....But Also series at Blockbuster during my senior year in high school. I became obsessed with them and probably watched that tape at least 100 times. From there, I got into Beyond The Fringe.

PETER COOK: (Reading a newspaper) Oh dear, the Titanic has sunk again!

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:03 am

"Jump" as sung by Derek. Very sorry for the language, but it's just so darn funny.

As I was walking down the street one day,
I saw a house on fire.

There was a man, shouting and screaming at an upper-storey window,
to the crowd that was gathered there below,
for he was so afraid.

Jump! You fucker, jump!

Jump into this here blanket
what we are holding,
and you will be alright.

He jumped, hit the deck,
broke his fucking neck -
there was no blanket.

Laugh?! We nearly shat!
We had not laughed so much since Grandma died,
or Auntie Mabel caught her left tit in the mangle.

We are miserable sinners,
Fi-i-ilthy fuckers,
Ahhhrrrr-soles.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:49 am

Plaything - I was actually singing along to that!

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 1:11 pm

I have to punch your ticket!

Actually, the current python thing started when I bought "Tragically I Was an Only Twin", a Peter Cook compendium, watched my Pete and dud vids, trawled the net and hit upon a lot of people obsessing about british comedy, then back to python...

DrJ

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 53-4667604

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 3:35 pm

El Vez--

Once again, wise beyond your tender years.

I'm not sure if I'm a fanatical style "fan", but I love Peter C. & Dudley Moore -- at least the several great sketches I've seen and original "Bedazzled."

And yup, love the Python. I'll never forget the day when, nothing much else to do, I went to see "The Holy Grail" (it actually beat the TV series to L.A.). From the credits on -- yes, at 13, I understood the joke about Swedish subtitles -- I was a goner.

Now, I've never memorized any sketches (I went to school with a guy who had the entire "Holy Grail" screenplay memorized), but there's no denying the salutarying twisting effect on me. (And I love that sketch with the idealistic coal mining writer's son a lot!!!)

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:01 pm

Larry the Wonder Llama?

Monty Python's Holy Grail is one of my favorite films ever. I love the Holy Hand Grenade . . .