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New Monty Python movie to turn old jokes into new royalties
When legendary comedy troupe Monty Python staged “Live (Mostly): One Down, Five to Go” in 2014, its surviving members filmed themselves taking what they promised would be their final bows together. So how can we then speak of a new Python movie in the headline? Because, according to entertainment industry outlet Deadline, the …
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Tuesday 8th May 2018 07:42 GMT allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
Well, I'm a
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Tuesday 8th May 2018 10:00 GMT VinceH
They should therefore extend the cycle more fully. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (and the other fillums) probably wouldn't have happened if there wasn't the original TV series, Flying Circus.
So the full cycle would actually be:
TV Show -> Fillums -> Musical based on one of them -> Fillum based on that musical -> TV show.
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Tuesday 8th May 2018 09:13 GMT TheProf
Been done before
The Mel Brooks film The Producers (1967) that led to the musical play based on the film The Producers (2001) that lead to the film based on the musical play based on the film The Producers (2005).
Good for the Pythons! If they (continue to?) make more money than the current
crapcrop of funny people then good on 'em.Of course I'm still waiting for the Marx Brothers revival.
Edit: Ah what @Jay 2 said.
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Tuesday 8th May 2018 09:40 GMT Bob Wheeler
When I was a lad...
... I had an evening job in the local cinema. I got to see the films, always in small parts, and out of sequence depending on actually doing some work. We had a double bill of "Blazing Saddles" and "Holy Grail" on for about three weeks - shows how popular the films were.
The jokes in Blazing Saddles got stale after the first week, but Holy Grail kept us laughing every night for three weeks.
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Tuesday 8th May 2018 13:58 GMT Arthur the cat
Re: When I was a lad...
The jokes in Blazing Saddles got stale after the first week,
Back in the 90s Channel 4 used to broadcast some films with subtitles for the deaf, one of which was Blazing Saddles. The bean eating scene started off with short onomatopoeic captions on one line which got longer and longer, eventually taking two entire lines, and ended around half way through the scene with a final caption that read "The farting continues …". That's stuck in my memory longer than the actual jokes in the script.
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