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John Cleese declared to the world that the media got it all wrong when it widely reported on his tweet that was seemingly in response to fellow Monty Python member Eric Idle criticizing him for bullying the late Python Terry Jones and firing the last manager of the Python IP Idle did not seem to[...]
Star Trek: Discovery, Doctor Who, Chucky & More: BCTV Daily Dispatch
Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Peacock's Community: The Movie, TBS's AEW Dynamite, Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, ABC's The Rookie, SYFY's Resident Alien, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Bewitched, SYFY & USA Network's Chucky, Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2024, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery, Netflix's Bridgerton, BBC's Doctor Who, Monty Python, BBC's Gavin and Stacey, and more! Images/Screencaps: SYFY, BBC, Hulu,[...]
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They say you should never meet or get to know your heroes, and maybe we should add social media to that expression – as we've seen recently from Monty Python John Cleese and Eric Idle have made what seems to be a decades-long antipathy public on social media after Idle stated he was happy to[...]
Monty Python: Eric Idle Remembers Terry “Toady” Jones on His Birthday
It's hard to believe that it's been over four years since Terry Jones' passing in 2020 – the second member of Monty Python to do so since Graham Chapman in 1989 Eric Idle, who is a surviving member along with John Cleese, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, took the time to remember Jones on social[...]
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But big-picture? Much like the characters on the screen, I would've been more than happy to watch both of them hack away at each other until there's nothing left except two horror-themed versions of The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail So when I hear that ex-FOX "News" primetime talking head Tucker[...]
Fawlty Towers Sequel Series to Star John Cleese and His Daughter
It doesn't look like Scales will be back as Sybil as she has retired from acting due to ill health, and Booth left show business to become a psychotherapist. The inspiration for Fawlty Towers came from Cleese's stay at a hotel in an English seaside town with an awful and rude manager while filming Monty Python[...]
The Flash/Nexstar, Buffy, Mark Hamill & More: BCTV Daily Dispatch
Our line-up for this morning includes connecting the dots between The Flash Season 9 trailer non-drop & Nexstar beginning to rebrand The CW, Mark Hamill taking a hard pass on any more "Star Wars" holiday specials, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds star Anson Mount offering Elon Musk a little "tough love" advice, NBC's Night[...]
Byline Festival, Pippingford Park, Nutley, Uckfield, East Sussex, UK - June 2/4 2017 - John Cleese (Raphael Moran / Shutterstock.com)
Monty Python member John Cleese seems to be having a hard time remembering what goes on with BBC programming given his recent rage at the network, accusing them of not airing repeats of Monty Python's Flying Circus on social media, writing, "Can anyone (including BBC employees) tell me why the BBC has not shown Monty[...]
Byline Festival, Pippingford Park, Nutley, Uckfield, East Sussex, UK - June 2/4 2017 - John Cleese (Raphael Moran / Shutterstock.com)
The actor and comedian, who hasn't left full curmudgeon mode for some time, pulled out of an upcoming talk at the Cambridge Union scheduled for November 12 citing concerns over "woke rules" over Hitler impersonations he's done on his two signature series, Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, decades ago. Byline Festival, Pippingford Park, Nutley, Uckfield, East[...]
Today, The Eternals Do Monty Python (Spoilers)
And while these folk have clearly been around for a very, very long time, it is possible that Ikaris has been keeping up on some pop culture in the last fifty years? And at least has a sixth-form common room working knowledge of Monty Python's Flying Circus? Eternals #2 by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribic. As Ikaris[...]
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While his work for At Last The 1948 Show begat Monty Python's Flying Circus who also made his sketch The Four Yorkshiremen world famous. Tim_Brooke-Taylor has died, aged 79, of the coronavirus Photo by Ed g2s. Tim Brooke-Taylor was president Footlights comedy show at Cambridge University, before launching into TV in the sixties TV show On the[...]
terry jones
With a career spanning six decades, the actor, director, and writer is best known for his time as a member of the popular and influential comedy troupe Monty Python During Monty Python's Flying Circus' run on the BBC (1969-1974), each of the six members wrote and performed in their own sketches, with Jones and fellow[...]
Remembering Jonathan Miller: Comedy Pioneer, British Renaissance Man
The show and its sketches were a precursor to the likes of Monty Python, who would take its satirical tact to even more extremes of surrealism and absurdity in the 1970s. The Last British Renaissance Man Miller hated the term "polyglot", but he was truly one of those multitalented people who did just about everything[...]
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If any troupe has stood the test of time, it's British comedy team Monty Python The stories and sketches Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam have heavily influenced generaations. Every 10 years, Monty Python reunites to tell and retell their stories about pitching the idea to the BBC, creative[...]
Not Sure if Monty Python or 'Hellboy': 4 New Images
Okay so, maybe comparing one of these four new Hellboy images to comedy classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail isn't fair, it sure is accurate? We mean, just LOOK at this shot of Alestair Petrie and David Harbour Doesn't Petrie look JUST LIKE a mashup of Sir Bedivere and one of the Knights Who Say[...]
Monty Python Life of Brian - Graham Chapman
Friends! Romans! Rapscallions! Monty Python's Life of Brian makes a triumphant limited resurrection to theaters for the 40th anniversary of its release. https://youtu.be/TKPmGjVFbrYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Life of Brian (1979) – Terry Jones – Trailer – [HD] (https://youtu.be/TKPmGjVFbrY) Trafalgar Releasing, who took over rights of the film in 2018, plans a 400-screen release[...]
Michael Palin Becomes First Monty Python to Receive Knighthood
Yes yes, we can now officially say that Michael Palin will be an *actual* Knight who says Ni. Soon-to-be-Sir Michael PalinPhoto by Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com Palin becomes the first member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python to receive the honor of (substantive rather than honorary) Knighthood from Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during the[...]
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If you currently don't have enough Monty Python in your life, never fear! Netflix has got you covered, apparently The streaming service giant has acquired the entire Python catalogue of films, Flying Circus episodes, and various live performances and will be launching them sometime later this year. Credit: Netflix The UK and Canada Netflix subscribers will actually get[...]
William Stout: A Career To Envy
When Stout asked what they wanted from him he was told to draw the poster as if it was his own movie. One of the most famous film posters that Stout did was for Monty Python's Life of Brian Stout also did a poster for Monty Python's Meaning of Life which I had actually never seen[...]
Watching Game Of Thrones, I Really Didn't Expect The Spanish Inquisition
And from Monty Python's Flying Circus Series 2 Episode 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M0-wwBGeS8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Monty Python's Game Of Thrones – A Dothraki Inquisition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M0-wwBGeS8) It's also a bit "What have the Romans ever done for us" too? From Game Of Thrones Season 6 Episode 1[...]
Simon Pegg Gets Everything He Wishes For In Absolutely Anything
The aliens are voiced by Monty Python and Robin Williams provided the voice for Dennis the Dog. Absolutely Anything follows a disillusioned school teacher (Pegg) who suddenly finds he has the ability to do anything he wishes, a challenge bestowed upon him by a group of power-crazed aliens (voiced by Cleese, Gilliam, Jones, Palin & Idle),[...]
Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down, Five to Go – The Perils Of High-Def
By Jeb D. When it was announced earlier this year that there would be a live theatrical broadcast of the final performance of the Monty Python "farewell" shows from London's O2 arena, people that know me assumed I'd be first in line for tickets My siblings and I were what you might call "first generation" American[...]
Monty Python Reunite (Well, Except One) For Graham Chapman Non-Biopic
It's been over twenty years since the premature death of Monty Python Graham Chapman in 1989 from cancer But now his fellow Pythons are determined to bring Chapman back to the attention of a generation that has missed his wit through an animation of his 'fanciful' autobiography A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI Not only that,[...]