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Monty Python reunion crashes and burns.
Jul 2nd, 2014 at 9:05pm
 
" Monty Python Live (mostly) opened a ten-night run in London last night.
    Three decades since they last appeared on stage, the comedians were back.
    John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones appeared.
    They performed old comedy favourites including the dead parrot sketch.
   
    But public reaction to the money-raising reunion was mixed to say the least.

    One Twitter user wrote: 'Monty Python looked tired, pretty rubbish'.
    Another said: 'Bunch of skint old men trying to make a few quid.  #bored'.
    Mail's Quentin Letts was also unimpressed, calling them 'dodgy tribute band'\"


I could have told them their brand of humour is way past its Use By date.

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Okay, I'll confess I never found them that funny in the first place. 'Silly' doesn't translate as 'funny' for me.
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Reply #1 - Jul 2nd, 2014 at 10:54pm
 
I did find Life of Brian funny...but like any humour it dates I mean I remember the Goons... and I never did get them...I think you needed a weird mind to understand them... same with   Larry Curly and Moe..

its all the same after a while..

theres not much humour around now that I care for..

stand up comedians just use bad language and I dont laugh at that at all..but people rave about them..
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Reply #2 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 12:51am
 
cods wrote on Jul 2nd, 2014 at 10:54pm:
I did find Life of Brian funny...but like any humour it dates I mean I remember the Goons... and I never did get them...I think you needed a weird mind to understand them... same with   Larry Curly and Moe..

its all the same after a while..

theres not much humour around now that I care for..

stand up comedians just use bad language and I dont laugh at that at all..but people rave about them..


I think it has a lot to do with the fact that so much comedy is based on the
culture, fashion, social mores and so on, of that particular era.

Once those are gone or are no longer relevant, the comedy loses a lot of its
point and its 'bite'.

Agree about the bad language. Sparingly used, it can be hilarious, but too
much of it takes away more than it adds.
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Reply #3 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 1:14am
 
Yeah, they're basically out of context, anachronistic, they outlived their relevance, not to mention that being trail-blazers they've been copied to death and audiences are well jaded now.
Sad but true.
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Reply #4 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 8:10am
 
the movies were funny... damn funny!! Classics, to be sure!
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Reply #5 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 8:26am
 
the movies were great.
The TV show was revolutionary

I had a book of the goon show scripts. they were amazing.
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Reply #6 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 8:27am
 
austranger wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 1:14am:
Yeah, they're basically out of context, anachronistic, they outlived their relevance, not to mention that being trail-blazers they've been copied to death and audiences are well jaded now.
Sad but true.



at least we got a good belly laugh out of them when at their height like most jokes they are never as funny the second time around...

I cannot think of any funny show that really makes me fall about laughing...my daughter love Mrs Browns Boys I hate it.... its all low brow bad taste to me...

as for American humour.. it escapes me all the time..
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Reply #7 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 9:24am
 
cods wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 8:27am:
austranger wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 1:14am:
Yeah, they're basically out of context, anachronistic, they outlived their relevance, not to mention that being trail-blazers they've been copied to death and audiences are well jaded now.
Sad but true.



at least we got a good belly laugh out of them when at their height like most jokes they are never as funny the second time around...

I cannot think of any funny show that really makes me fall about laughing...my daughter love Mrs Browns Boys I hate it.... its all low brow bad taste to me...

as for American humour.. it escapes me all the time..


So true, so true.
When the guy who "invented" laugh tracks died a while back I saw a report showing clips of a couple of American popular "comedies" without the canned laughter, it highlighted just how puerile and boring they actually were, not that that required proving, not for anyone with more than 11 functioning braincells anyway.
Even stand-up comedians these days seem to have been dumbed-down, there's so little actual wit they leave me cold.
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Reply #8 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 9:41am
 
"Monty Python reunion crashes and burns."

No surprises there.

Most superannuation tours are crap, and this one was starting to smell from the day it was announced.

I love Python, bit I wouldn't go see this reunion show if you paid me.
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Reply #9 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 10:32am
 
austranger wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 9:24am:
cods wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 8:27am:
austranger wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 1:14am:
Yeah, they're basically out of context, anachronistic, they outlived their relevance, not to mention that being trail-blazers they've been copied to death and audiences are well jaded now.
Sad but true.



at least we got a good belly laugh out of them when at their height like most jokes they are never as funny the second time around...

I cannot think of any funny show that really makes me fall about laughing...my daughter love Mrs Browns Boys I hate it.... its all low brow bad taste to me...

as for American humour.. it escapes me all the time..


So true, so true.
When the guy who "invented" laugh tracks died a while back I saw a report showing clips of a couple of American popular "comedies" without the canned laughter, it highlighted just how puerile and boring they actually were, not that that required proving, not for anyone with more than 11 functioning braincells anyway.
Even stand-up comedians these days seem to have been dumbed-down, there's so little actual wit they leave me cold.


aaaaaaauuuuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhh, hard to imagine a US comedy without the canned laughter.
They are unwatchable WITH the canned laughter.

Seinfield was ok, predictable and safe, but ok.

Many of the standup comedians are just abusive.
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Reply #10 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 11:00am
 
Kat wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 12:51am:
Agree about the bad language. Sparingly used, it can be hilarious, but too
much of it takes away more than it adds.


Well said.

I've seen really good acts ... clever ... funny ... well thought out ... ruined because he or she felt obliged to toss in the 'f'-word as a sort of 'bonus'.
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Reply #11 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 11:18am
 
austranger wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 1:14am:
Yeah, they're basically out of context, anachronistic, they outlived their relevance, not to mention that being trail-blazers they've been copied to death and audiences are well jaded now.
Sad but true.


What's so pathetic is that rather than admitting to themselves that they've become obsolete with the passing of time, they pretend they're still hot-to-trot and as commercial as ever.

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Reply #12 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 11:47am
 
Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 11:00am:
Kat wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 12:51am:
Agree about the bad language. Sparingly used, it can be hilarious, but too
much of it takes away more than it adds.


Well said.

I've seen really good acts ... clever ... funny ... well thought out ... ruined because he or she felt obliged to toss in the 'f'-word as a sort of 'bonus'.


I suspect Billy Connolly could be an exception to that rule?
Depends on your tastes though I suppose.
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Reply #13 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 2:15pm
 
austranger wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 11:47am:
Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 11:00am:
Kat wrote on Jul 3rd, 2014 at 12:51am:
Agree about the bad language. Sparingly used, it can be hilarious, but too
much of it takes away more than it adds.


Well said.

I've seen really good acts ... clever ... funny ... well thought out ... ruined because he or she felt obliged to toss in the 'f'-word as a sort of 'bonus'.


I suspect Billy Connolly could be an exception to that rule?
Depends on your tastes though I suppose.


I like Billy Connolly, but I always thought he made a complete ass of himself stalking the stage with repeated and totally unnecessary use of the 'f'-word (which I hate being said in the presence of females).
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Reply #14 - Jul 3rd, 2014 at 2:29pm
 
I could have told them their brand of humour is way past its Use By date.

couldn't agree more. I mentioned before that the particular humour they came out of - Cambridge theatre - just didn't wear well. Thus, Pete & Dud, Sorry I'll Read That Again and some others just don't hack it anymore.
On the other hand, a lot of old Brit sitcoms remain funny -  Last of the Summer Wine of course, in fact anything written by Roy Clarke.
Also the Goon Show is still funny after 70 years. The humour in Dickens novels is still funny.
What makes for lasting humour is hard to say.
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