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DVD Monty Python's Flying Circus - Michael Palin's Personal Best
The sketch selection for this hour-long greatest bits collection would certainly provide fodder for the Argument Clinic (a classic sketch, sadly not included here). But the Fish-Slapping Dance, Michael Palin's self-professed favorite piece of Pythonian silliness is included, as is the absurd, curd-free Cheese Shop sketch and his smarmy turn as the oily host of the game show, "Blackmail." Oddly enough, the bulk of this volume is pretty much as devoid of the amiable Palin as that cheese shop was of cheese. Still, the Tobacconist sketch, the Piranha Brothers sketch, Conrad Poohs and his Dancing Teeth, and the Chemist sketch serve as a nifty Python primer for the uninitiated and a filling sampler for fans who have yet to invest in the complete series. To be totally frank, I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition, the Dead Parrot sketch, an excerpt from "The Cycling Tour," or any number of Monty Python classics in which Palin played a key role. On the upside, in newly filmed material, Palin does take time out from his global travels to serve as a tour guide to the actual site where the Fish-Slapping Dance was filmed, and explicates the three stages of this rather silly ritual.--Donald Liebenson
Not as well- known as Fawlty Towers or The Rutles, Michael Palin and Terry Jones's Ripping Yarns is poised for discovery as among the best of the post-Python projects. The release of the complete series on DVD is ripping good news. Palin essays a gallery of colorful (or colorless, as in the case of one of the series' best episodes, "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite"), archetypal characters drawn from the storybook adventures that thrilled English schoolboys back in the day.
In what is surely the most laconic comedy concert film ever made, Graham Chapman of the Monty Python troupe entertains worshipful audiences of college students during a 1988 tour of the United States. Chapman proves a warm and delightful raconteur as he recalls skiing down a Swiss mountainside in a wooden gondola, Keith Moon (drummer for rock band the Who) using explosives to chastize a hotel manager, and appeaing naked during the filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian. Be warned: As the packaging is quick to note, the film and audio quality are not professional; this is virtually a home movie. Nonetheless, Chapman's relaxed poise and impeccable deadpan delivery give his stories a dry wit that any Python fan will enjoy. The extras, in addition to having further... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Richard S. Miller DVD Release Date: Released the 26 April 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Monty Python completists will especially appreciate Do Not Adjust Your Set, a precursor to Monty Python's Flying Circus starring Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Eric Idle, along with fellow writer-performers David Jason and Denise Coffey. Ostensibly a children's show, Do Not Adjust Your Set also includes the then-future Python Terry Gilliam lurking off-camera as an occasional animator, and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band with Neil Innes, an important collaborator on several Idle projects that lay ahead. A freewheeling sketch show from the late 1960s, originally broadcast on the Rediffusion network before switching to Thames Television, it's impossible not to see Do Not Adjust Your Set as a blueprint for Flying Circus. The two hours' worth of material in this... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Adrian Cooper (II) - Daphne Shadwell DVD Release Date: Released the 26 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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On its own merits, At Last the 1948 Show could have kept going and thousands of dateless geeks sitting at home on the weekend or in one of the geek's basements playing some TSR produced role playing game would be reciting "Four Sydney Lotterbys" inbetween gulps of Jolt instead of our, I mean THEIR usual recitations of episodes of The Young Ones (Anyway, 'round about now, I usually have a Pot NOO-dle, yes...) or Monty Python (They're very good scissors.)
Outside of the annoying (not lovely, despite what she says) Aimi MacDonald, this set is the audiovisual equivalent of an Aero Bar. You love it. It's over with way too soon. You want more. Highlights? The whole bloody thing but if I must, okay: John Cleese as the fascist game show host, Tim Brooke-Taylor unable to maintain... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Ian Fordyce DVD Release Date: Released the 26 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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