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Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know Roundhouse stuff Works dot com. Hey,

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Speaker 1: So um, we're talking today about Monty Python, right, and

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Speaker 1: if you'll you'll go back with us. We're gonna head

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Speaker 1: back to swing in London in nineteen where a group

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Speaker 1: show called How to Irritate People? And it was actually

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Speaker 1: named John Cleese, Yeah, written by a guy named John

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Speaker 1: Cleese and a dude named Graham Chapman and um also

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Speaker 1: only three members of what would become Monty Python today.

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Speaker 1: Spoil it already, but it was written by Clice and

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Speaker 1: Chapman and the sort of the goal here was to

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Speaker 1: but um, it's sort of failed in that respect. It

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Speaker 1: Do you want your own show? And cliceaid, sure, I'd

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Speaker 1: And the BBC said, go put your team together. So uh,

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Speaker 1: he spoken to his wristwatch and said Python assemble. And

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Speaker 1: But he was doing a show called Uh, Do Not

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Speaker 1: Clice was a fan of that and he said, well,

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Speaker 1: like parting like homeless people can all go to hell?

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Speaker 1: made decisions. It led to that, right, I think out

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Speaker 1: And UM. So they had to come up with a name,

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Speaker 1: L Moist's flying circus, right, and Will Will Stranglers flying Circus,

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Speaker 1: the movie. George Harrison had always been a champion. He

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Speaker 1: later would invest He actually he created a production company

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Speaker 1: to make Life of Brian but Um for Holy Grail,

426
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:30,239
Speaker 1: led Zeppelin, Pink Fleet, Right, led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd in

427
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: Genesis all invested twenty thousand. But why is Genesis getting

428
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Speaker 1: a laugh? This is like Peter Gabriel, Genesis's not invisible touch. Hey, hey, hey,

429
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Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with Phil Collins Genesis. Man, nothing wrong. Sorry,

430
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: I can have you thrown out. I'm up fine stage.

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Speaker 1: I knew you were gonna say that. I was like,

432
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Speaker 1: I bet I've offended Josh with that. It's it's I

433
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: think he gets a bad rap. Unfairly sure he does. Well,

434
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 1: they were He's not like Sammy Hagar. Well, you want

435
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: to know something funny, My wife Emily loves Van Hagar

436
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: more than David Lee, rothan Haleen and she's proud of it.

437
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, man, put on that song right now.

438
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 1: There's some my world issues and like the world's not

439
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: right and uh yeah. And I was like, or we

440
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: could I hear Janet Varney laughing in the background. That's

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00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 1: laugh in the world. Uh yeah. So anyway, Van Hagar

442
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: and oh never mind starring Phil Collins. I think that's

443
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Speaker 1: where we left off. That's right. It was Phil Collins

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00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: who got everybody else to invest probably, so that's a

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00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:48,959
Speaker 1: made up fact. Uh. In the movie, Michael Palin plays

446
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: the most roles. Uh. He twel He plays twelve different characters.

447
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: He played Sir Galahad played the soldier who argues about swallows.

448
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: Remember that great scene. He plays Dennis the Peasant. He

449
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: plays a mud villager singing camel at night, the right

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00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: head of the Three Headed Night, Uh, the King of

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Speaker 1: the Swamp Castle, a wedding guest at the Swamp Castle,

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Speaker 1: Brother Maynard's assistants Brother Maynard Uh. He was the main

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Speaker 1: knight who says me and he played one of the

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Speaker 1: French taunting knights. Uh. Terry Gilliam played the I'm sorry.

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00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: Graham Chapman actually played the fewest because he was King Arthur,

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Speaker 1: and as in Life of Brian, they didn't want to

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Speaker 1: overuse him as the league character, so he played King Arthur,

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Speaker 1: the voice of God, the Hiccup, and guard in the

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Speaker 1: middle head of the Three Headed Night. So that's Holy

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Speaker 1: Grail their next movie from then from this point forward,

461
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 1: Holy Grail is just like a hit, right everybody exactly. UM.

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00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: So they're like, okay, we'll go off and do our

463
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: own things because one of the one of the things

464
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: that characterized these guys as individuals was they always had

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00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: their own work and it didn't necessarily have anything to

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Speaker 1: do with comedy. Like Eric Idel. All he does is

467
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: comedic acting. But he's got his own stuff too. Um.

468
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: Michael Palin got into making travel documentaries for the BBC.

469
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Speaker 1: That was his thing. Um. Terry Jones opened a brewery,

470
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Speaker 1: Penrose Brewery and Hertfordshire, which I'm saying how it's spelled

471
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Speaker 1: so in in the UK it's it's probably like um

472
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Speaker 1: chatting Ham or something that's so uh. And then John

473
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Speaker 1: Kleete strangely formed a company that created UM training videos

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Speaker 1: for for BIS. This well, not funny ones from what

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00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: I understand either was he in those I don't know.

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00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: I don't know way if he was in those that

477
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: they weren't funny, even if he was trying to be,

478
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: He's like, please stop laughing. Well, I'd love to see.

479
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: This is very serious. It's about industrial safety, the emergency

480
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 1: exits all behind and across like. Well, he was kind

481
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 1: of deadpan like that. That was sort of his thing.

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00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 1: Whether he liked it or not, he was funny. Uh.

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00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: And of course that's much later their second I guess,

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Speaker 1: their third movie. Their second narrative film in nine was

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Speaker 1: the Life of Brian, which I watched this morning. Uh.

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Speaker 1: To me, Terry Jones kind of steals that movie is

487
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: Brian's mother. Every scene he is in he just walks

488
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: away with uh. And that movie came about from a

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Speaker 1: press conference from Holy Grail. People were asking like, what's

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Speaker 1: your next thing gonna be? What's your next movie? And

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00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 1: as a joke, Eric Idle said, Jesus Christ lust for

492
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: Glory and that sort of got the seeds started that

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Speaker 1: they should maybe go to biblical times since they medieval times.

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00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: So when they started writing this movie, Um Jesus actually

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00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: became a smaller and smaller and smaller figure character I

496
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 1: should say, in the movie Um, and it became about Brian,

497
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: this guy who's mistaken for the Messiah the same time.

498
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: He's born on the same day as Jesus Um. But

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Speaker 1: he's most decidedly not the Messiah. You haven't seen. It's

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00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: definitely worth seeing. It's still hilarious. Is just Holy Gray

501
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: old life of Brian in my opinion, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

502
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: he's he's Yeah, something more to be said about it.

503
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: So because it was about Um Jesus, even though it

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00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: wasn't at all about Jesus Um, of course it got

505
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: banned in several places by people who hadn't even seen

506
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: the movie, had no idea really what it was about.

507
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: That's what we do in America, right and Norway. Norway

508
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: and seven American states banned it. And you can probably

509
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: take a pretty good stay of it. Which American states banned.

510
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: It's like the South and then something ran him like Idaho,

511
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: you know, and then featuring Norway. I bet Georgia probably

512
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: sadly banned it. You imagine for sure. Uh well, anytime

513
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: you do a comedic take on Biblical times, you're gonna

514
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in trouble. But if you watch the movie,

515
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: it's it's not it's no, it's not offensive. You know,

516
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: Like I'm not very touchy about stuff like that, but

517
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: I was watching it, and I'm like, this actually isn't

518
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: offensive at any point. Really, you're not easily offended though,

519
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: unless you talk, unless you bring up Phil Collins. That's

520
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: my button, so and I love to push it. Uh So.

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00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: The final film they made was called Monty Python's The

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00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: Meaning of Life. Oh wait, hold on, hold on, I'm sorry,

523
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: there's one other spectacular fact about the life of Brian.

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Speaker 1: It won the Jury Award at the Canned Film Festival

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00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine. I have an arrow, an asterisk

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Speaker 1: and three exclamation points pointing to that sentence. Well, meaning

527
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: of Life to two then or did you mix it up?

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00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm sorry. The asterisk didn't work. You needed

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Speaker 1: one more arrow. They released Monty Python's Meaning of Life,

530
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: which won the Jury Prize at the Can Film Believe It?

531
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: And it was by this time these were like financial

532
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: and critical successes, like everyone was on board the train

533
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: and it was another sketch movie. UM, very funny. I

534
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: like the Meaning of Life, but to me still the

535
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: other narrative films were a little better, but of course

536
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: the very classic UM, every Sperm is Sacred, which is

537
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: very funny because if you watch Monty Python, nothing was

538
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: sacred about anything. They would take on Hitler and cannibalism

539
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: and race and gay rights, and nothing was sacred except

540
00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: every sperm. Apparently, there's this really great article UM that

541
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: a lot of this is based on. UM. It's called

542
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: The Beatles of Comedy by a guy named David Free,

543
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: and he points out that it's sad that the word

544
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: irreverend is overused these days, because the literal sense of

545
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: irreverend is the best way to describe Python. That they

546
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: didn't have automatic respect for anything, which is pretty good

547
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: description if you ask me so. A Meaning of Life

548
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: was the last official project that they ever did together

549
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: for a while. Uh they in nineteen Um, I guess

550
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: in the late eighties they got together and did a

551
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: couple of live shows. Uh they did one at the

552
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: Aspen Comedy Festival, and then a couple of years ago

553
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: finally did one. Well. They owed money for Spam a Lot,

554
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: the Great Broadway Show. They were sued by one of

555
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: the producers of Holy Grail and uh because of Spam

556
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: a Lot and we're very famously owed about eight hundred

557
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: thousand pounds they owed him eight. Yeah, they lost, and

558
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: um they came out and said, you know, we're gonna

559
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: get back together and do some shows for the money

560
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: so we can pay off this lawsuit. And everyone was

561
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: delighted that they were going to do these tin shows.

562
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: They were one of their first reunion appearances in Aspen.

563
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: They were being interviewed by Robert Klein, and Graham Chapman

564
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: wasn't there because Graham Chapman died in um one day

565
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: before the twentieth anniversary of the debut of The Flying Circus,

566
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. Um, yeah, he just couldn't

567
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: hang on for one more day and um and so, uh,

568
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: Graham's happens not there, but they actually brought his ashes

569
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: in an urn and he's on the table during the interview.

570
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: So for those of you listening to this in the

571
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: future at home, the ashes were kicked over. Oh yeah,

572
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: and Ted Danson thought it was really funny. Yeah. I

573
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: was like, is that Ted danceing? Totally ted dance? That

574
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: guy's good. Have you seen Fargo Season two? It's amazing

575
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: you get money for that or anything. You're just plugging it. Oh,

576
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: I'm just a fan. I love dancing. Uh. But that

577
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: kind of like typifies Monty Python, like nothing was sacred.

578
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: They would take their dear dear friend. Uh and well

579
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: obviously they weren't his ashes, let's get real, but they

580
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: would pretend like they kicked him over on stage for

581
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: a joke. It did. So they performed at the O

582
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: two Arena in England two years ago. They did those

583
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: tin shows to get out of debt, and that was

584
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Speaker 1: the last time they performed together. Uh. They say that's it,

585
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: They're not gonna do it again. And uh, you know,

586
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: they were together for short years on TV The Beatles

587
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: of Comedy. It's pretty amazing. So we're gonna talk a

588
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: little bit about how they worked. Um. There have been

589
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: a lot of interviews with sort of the inside story

590
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: with the guys, and they kind of all roundly say

591
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: it was very democratic process. Um. Palin comes out and says,

592
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: you know, Clice was a little bit of the leader.

593
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: He's a little forceful his presence, he was a large man. Uh,

594
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: he could be very convincing when he wanted something. But

595
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: he said, but in the end it was very democratic,

596
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: like no one really wanted to be the leader, right. Uh.

597
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: Terry Jones kind of considered himself a bit of a

598
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: leader just because he directed so much like he directed,

599
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: He co directed, um, the Holy Grail, but he totally

600
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: directed Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. Um

601
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,879
Speaker 1: So even still, I don't think he he actually saw

602
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: himself as like the leader of Monty Python. He was

603
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: probably just the one you could get the attention of

604
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: the other ones long enough to direct them, right. Yeah.

605
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: And they would fight and argue, like you know, get

606
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: any group of creative folks together and you're gonna argue.

607
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: But they said it was never about big things. They

608
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: would argue about like the size of the chair and

609
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: the sketch, but not like the big picture stuff, which

610
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: is pretty cool. And then everybody kind of had their

611
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: own little niche that they brought to the table, like, Um,

612
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: John and Graham uh were funny, but also very angry

613
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: and kind of bitter, Like you could tell that they

614
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: were like that the traditional English schoolboys who parents had

615
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,439
Speaker 1: like sent them off to school at age like eight

616
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: and had seen them since, you know, kind of thing. Um.

617
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: And then uh, Terry Jones and Michael Palin were a

618
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: little more like surreal, little more whimsical. And then Eric

619
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: Oddo was very verbal. They said, yeah he's my guy.

620
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: Yeah he's good, so good. Uh So one of the

621
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: big factors in their success was the freedom that they

622
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: had with the BBC. Um, but it was sort of

623
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: a mixed bag. They had a lot of freedom to

624
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: do what they wanted, but it is the BBC and

625
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: it is on television, so they would often battle them

626
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: about words they could say with the sensors. And of

627
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: course and um, they were famously censored for using the

628
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: word masturbation. Yeah, they were in the the um what

629
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: was it masturbation? Well, josh In the UH explain in

630
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: the summarized Prust competition, there was a game show that

631
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: was you had to say you had to summarize of

632
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: pruce poem or prus short story in UH like sixty

633
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: seconds or less. So they had this whole game show

634
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: and so they said strangling animals, golf and masturbation or

635
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 1: his hobbies right, and so originally the BBC was like,

636
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: you can't say that. Well, they recorded it anyway, and

637
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: then the BBC went behind them and um edited it out.

638
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: So in the original version that was aired, it was

639
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: strangling animals, which they left in golf like a dead

640
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: air for a second and then a big laugh. And

641
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: they said when they went back and watched it, they

642
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: were like, this doesn't make any sense, Like, what's what's

643
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: so funny about golf? So UM, As far as their

644
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: aim kind of depends on who you talk to. Terry

645
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 1: Jones very much said that they were trying to subvert

646
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: the establishment and they were trying to make a statement

647
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: and try to make some noise. UM. Michael Palin said,

648
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's kind of overrated. We were

649
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: just trying to be funny as we could be. So

650
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: I think it was probably you know, as always, the

651
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: truth is sort of somewhere in the middle there with

652
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: what they were trying to get accomplished. Uh. They also

653
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: said that radio was a big influence because they were

654
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: from the generation where uh they none of them, you know,

655
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: they didn't have TV until they were like twelve or

656
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: thirteen years old. So that theater of the mind that

657
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: you get when you would listen to the radio as

658
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: a kid. And uh, I know that not many people

659
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: in this room can probably imagine that, but now we

660
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: have podcasts that do that R Yeah, which is wonderful. No,

661
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: that really struck me that that was one of their

662
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: big creative inspirations was being raised on radio. You know,

663
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: um that that they were forced to use their imaginations

664
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: and that they managed to figure out how to translate

665
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: that into TV. It's pretty pretty interesting. Yeah. And I

666
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 1: mentioned like Tenacious T and Kids in the Hall and

667
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: the shows that would come along that would and Mr

668
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: Show especially where each show would have sort of this

669
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: weird theme that ran through it, but it was never

670
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: like a statement. I mean it would be like a

671
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: watch of episode the aten Idi Flying Circus where the

672
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: theme was just a pig and like in the very beginning, Uh,

673
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: Graham Chapman just sits down and you hear this, and

674
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: then they cut to a chalkboard of a bunch of

675
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: pigs drawn and they just x out another one. And

676
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: then just randomly through the episode that would be a

677
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 1: pig here there, or someone else would sit on a

678
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: pig and they would cut it and do another one.

679
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: Meant nothing at all but that in the animation, Like

680
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 1: then a pig would drop on, you know, Jesus's head

681
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: and there would be a fart noise in the animation.

682
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: And so they had this weird kind of theme like

683
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: that one was the Pig Show or whatever, and you

684
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: very much see that. Like Mr. Show, they sort of

685
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: had these little thematic elements that tied it together. One

686
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: other thing Mr Show did very well that, um, you

687
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: can kind of say Python started was like blending one

688
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: one sketch into another. Yeah, like one would not end

689
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 1: before the other one began. They just kind of cross paths,

690
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: and Um, that was I think pretty much they pioneered that, Yeah,

691
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: and it could be done in a lot of ways. Uh.

692
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 1: Sometimes they literally ran into each other, like you would

693
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: have a thing with medieval nights and he would walk

694
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: to the next set, which was like a modern day

695
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: living room, or it would end like I saw one

696
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 1: where they did a little snapshot to close the sketch

697
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: and then they would pull back from that snapshot and

698
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 1: it's just a picture on the wall in the next sketch.

699
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: So they just had really clever ways of sort of

700
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: tying it all together. It was very cool. They'd also

701
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: sometimes run the credits in the middle of the show, right,

702
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: and then I run them again at the end, like

703
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: that's where they went in the middle of the show. Yeah,

704
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: or John Clice would it would like the show would

705
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,720
Speaker 1: stop as it if it had been canceled, and Clice

706
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: would come on as a as a supposed member of

707
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: the BBC to apologize for the content of the show

708
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: in the middle of the show, and then someone would

709
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: just come in like lasso him all stage. They go

710
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:50,240
Speaker 1: right into the next sketch. Very cool. So they're also

711
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 1: uh anachronisms masters that juxtaposition. Um, you know, everyone who's

712
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: seen Holy Grail. It ends when modern day police show

713
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: up and arrest the not only the actors in the

714
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: big battle scene, but the cast and crew, and they

715
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: would shut the movie down. So they would throw weird

716
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: things like that in there, like the Picasso thing, Yeah,

717
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: Picasso painting a painting, riding a bicycle while he's on

718
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 1: the highway, the twenty nine high way, just random, or

719
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: the Spanish Inquisition being in a modern day household. Um.

720
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:28,399
Speaker 1: And they were extremely smart, very very well educated dudes. Um.

721
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: But if they if they were doing a project, they

722
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: would also like do more research and just automatically know everything.

723
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: And some of their best jokes came out of that research.

724
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: Like when they were researching UM for the Holy Grail. Uh,

725
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: they they found that UM one of the common tactics

726
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: during medieval sieges was taunting the people who were trying

727
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: to siege the castle. Right, so that was actually done

728
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: apparently verbatim in history. Uh. The other thing they learned

729
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: in their research was that they did used to launch animals.

730
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: We actually covered this in I think Our Castle's episode

731
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: many years ago, where they would launch animals. The idea,

732
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: of course they didn't cover this in the in the movie,

733
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: but the idea was that they would be diseased animals,

734
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: so it actually have an effect other than just being

735
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: really weird and disconcerting to see a cow come flying

736
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: any but it would be like a cow that was

737
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: very sick and would get people sick when it exploded

738
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: all over everyone really gross and lead to a plague

739
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:41,160
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Speaker 1: They felt no social dread. Uh. They were just like

756
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: they were often described as little boys. This article from

757
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: the Atlantic said they not only weren't afraid they didn't

758
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: know they should be afraid, so they kind of had

759
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: the sweet naive quality about them, Like, what's what's wrong

760
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: with doing the sketch about Hitler in the Pope is

761
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: that we should we not do that. I don't think

762
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: it ever occurred to him that that was off limits.

763
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: There's a there's a really good example of that, um

764
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 1: in the sketch called the Undertaker Sketch, which I think

765
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: is probably the funniest sketch they made. Um let me

766
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: set it up though. Uh. John Clice is this dude

767
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 1: whose mother has recently died and he comes to the

768
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:27,240
Speaker 1: funeral parlor where Graham Chapman is the undertaker, and um,

769
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: Graham Chapman kind of runs down the list of things

770
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: they can do to John Clice's mother, right, like, um,

771
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: they can barrier, but if she's not dead yet, she'll

772
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 1: be eaten up by worms and beetles and it's quite shocking. Um,

773
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: or they can they can just toss her in the

774
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: Thames or something like that, right, And then John Cleese

775
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,479
Speaker 1: is he's a little shocked, but um uh, it turns

776
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: out he has his mother in a burlap sack next

777
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: to him, like he dragged her body to the funeral parlor. Right,

778
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: So what they're playing there is God Save the Queen,

779
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: and everyone is reverently standing around. They stopped rioting because

780
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: they started playing God Save the Queen, and any good

781
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: British er will just immediately stop whatever they're doing and

782
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: like kind of piously stand there. The reason that they

783
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: did God Save the Queen was because Monty Python all

784
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 1: the guys in it had this this deep fantasy that

785
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: one day the Queen would turn on the BBC and

786
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: accidentally watch their show. And so they really hope that

787
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 1: the one thing that she tuned into was the Undertaker sketch,

788
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 1: like the foul Is sketch that they ever came up with,

789
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: So that that's kind of a nod to that that desire. Yeah,

790
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: and if you if you watch that sketch and you

791
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: were uninformed, you hear people, you know, start to boo

792
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: and hits a little bit and uh, let's have something

793
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: decent that's disgusting, and you're like, oh my god, the

794
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 1: audience is turning on them like they've gone too far. Uh,

795
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 1: it was all planned, of course. The baby Oh my god, Wow,

796
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,399
Speaker 1: look what it is. Everyone, it's Kevin Polite. Well, thank

797
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: you kelling. Wow, did that just happen? Something's in the water.

798
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,240
Speaker 1: What's he doing here? I don't know. That's a really

799
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: good question. He's in the wrong place, clearly, Thank you, sir,

800
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: Thank you Kevin Pollock. I've been waiting to say that

801
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: for years. So the BBC hated the Undertaker sketch for

802
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: obvious reasons. They did not want it to air, but

803
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: they said, all right, we'll let you guys air it

804
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: if we can put these plants in the audience to

805
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: boo and hiss and yell would eventually come down and

806
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: riot very awkwardly at the end. So that was the compromise.

807
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: And they're like pretty awkward as long as the Queen watches, right,

808
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: So uh sorry, where was Kevin Pollock? Really threw me off.

809
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: When they got two movies. Um, you know, they never

810
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: were allowed to cuss on the air, and when they

811
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: got two movies they could obviously do what they wanted to,

812
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: but for the most part, they still refrained from actual

813
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: curse words. Um like, Brian has a few f bombs,

814
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: a few, but that's it right before it works that

815
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: they don't stand out, no, not much. But they they

816
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: found one part where, um, something did stand out to them.

817
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: They actually went back after they shot the movie and

818
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: and dubbed in um instead of the C word. I'll

819
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: let you guys figure that one out. Um they put

820
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: in klutz instead. John Klice calls um Graham Chapman of

821
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: klutz um because he screwed something up. I don't remember

822
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: what it was. But they went back, not because of

823
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: a sensor. They went back and um and edited at

824
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 1: that's a really difficult sentence, edited it out that because

825
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: they thought that it kind of detracted from the overall joke,

826
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: the larger picture. So, um, they were they were self reverential.

827
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 1: How about that. I don't know about reverential, but they

828
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: didn't curse much. Um. We got a couple of tidbits

829
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: to end here. Yeah. Well they um, you know, not

830
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: only were they influential in the world of comedy, but

831
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: they they're I mean, they're part of pop culture now,

832
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: like people say things like the Nights who say NA

833
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: and the Spanish and no one expects the Spanish inquisition.

834
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: It's it's worked its way into the fabric and the

835
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: lexicon of pop culture. Um. Python esque is actually a

836
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: word that's in the Oxford Dictionary now. It's official. It's

837
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,240
Speaker 1: a real word spam like spam email. Uh named after

838
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,839
Speaker 1: the famous sketch. I wish we had the spam sketch. Well,

839
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: you should have given me a heads. I know you

840
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: guys have seen the spam sketch right where they come

841
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: in and everything. Spam, spam, spam on the menu, one

842
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,919
Speaker 1: of their great word place sketches. But my favorite part

843
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 1: of that sketch not the weird fact that there's Vikings

844
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: in there or the weird fact that it stops halfway

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Speaker 1: through and there's a history lesson from Michael Palin, but

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Speaker 1: it is when the sketch starts. Are you looking it up? Uh? They,

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Speaker 1: for no reason at all lower Uh the two main

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's scraam Chapman. And so they lower

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Speaker 1: them into the sea and from wires in a sitting

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Speaker 1: position into their chair for no reason whatsoever. It's just

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Speaker 1: a diner scene. And then they just are lowered in

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Speaker 1: sitting like this and then sit in there chair and

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Speaker 1: then it starts. Yeah, and then it starts. And that's

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Speaker 1: like the genius of Monty Python for no reason whatsoever. Um,

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Speaker 1: and Python is a it's a coding language. To you

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Speaker 1: after Monty Python. There's actually a fossil snake, a fossil

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Speaker 1: river snake that lived a hundred million years ago, um

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Speaker 1: in what is now Australia called Monty python Oides rivers sliensis.

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Speaker 1: Nice work, it's named after Monty Python. Uh. And like

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Speaker 1: you said, the guys all went on to do their

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Speaker 1: own thing. They were together very short time, made a huge,

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Speaker 1: huge impact. Um, what do you say. Palin did travel

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Speaker 1: docs among other things. Of course, fish called Wanda. We

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Speaker 1: all saw him love that. Uh. They still enjoy being together. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think John Cleese's wife said, you know, she loves

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Speaker 1: her husband and she's never seen him have as much

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Speaker 1: fun and laugh as much as when he's with the

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Speaker 1: boys lads. Yeah, it's very sweet. Uh here's a very

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Speaker 1: sad thing I should mention just yesterday. Uh don't you

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Speaker 1: think we should save this for the very end to

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Speaker 1: really bring him down. No, I'll wedge it in and

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Speaker 1: we'll try and make you laugh again. Uh. Terry Jones

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Speaker 1: just announced yesterday he is suffering from a rare form

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Speaker 1: of dementia and it's super sad. Um. His his mates

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Speaker 1: have known about it for a while and they've all

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Speaker 1: kept a quiet but um, it's a form of dementia

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Speaker 1: where it renders him and able to speak. So they

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Speaker 1: officially came out with the announcement just yesterday and said

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Speaker 1: Terry Jones won't be doing interviews anymore, and all the

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Speaker 1: guys are making statements about that. They've known about this

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Speaker 1: for a while. It's been very sad to see, uh,

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Speaker 1: and now something funny, something completely different. So if you

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Speaker 1: go to a UK funeral, um, you are probably very

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Speaker 1: likely to be hit with the song always Look on

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Speaker 1: the Bright Side of Life. Actually, there was a survey

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Speaker 1: done in two thousand fourteen U of like thirty thousand

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Speaker 1: British funerals that found that that was the number one

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Speaker 1: song played in them and it beat out Invisible Touch.

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Speaker 1: I'd be great. It beat out um My Heart Will

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Speaker 1: Go On by Selene Dion, which is can you imagine

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Speaker 1: how offensive is that? Yeah, being at a funeral and

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Speaker 1: being subjected to that just be like, yeah, you would

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Speaker 1: rise from the grave and gag. And it's not I've

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Speaker 1: got nothing against Celine Dion or even that song, but

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Speaker 1: that plus a funeral is just I got something against

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Speaker 1: her in that song. I'll say it. You're you're a

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Speaker 1: music snob, I am. Uh, so we'll finish with this

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Speaker 1: little tidbit. Um. We might not know about Monty Python,

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Speaker 1: and it might not have never made it to the

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Speaker 1: United States, uh, if not for one Terry Jones. Because

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Speaker 1: back in the day, it was common practice in the

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Speaker 1: BBC and I guess in the United States too, to

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Speaker 1: erase over tapes of shows because they were expensive. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they were pricey. And someone at the BBC literally called

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Speaker 1: Terry Jones that said they're about to erase over flying Circus,

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Speaker 1: get down here now. And Terry Jones left the phone

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Speaker 1: hanging and the guy was like, hello, hello, Yeah, did

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Speaker 1: you hear what I just said, Terry? And uh, a

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Speaker 1: little leity know, Terry Jones is already on his way there,

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Speaker 1: showed up while the guy was still on the phone,

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Speaker 1: shouting Terry into the phone. This is like minutes later,

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Speaker 1: Terry Jones grabs the tapes, goes and pays for his

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Speaker 1: own um blank tapes, makes copies of him, and the

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Speaker 1: legacy was secured. So we have Terry Jones to thank

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Speaker 1: for that legacy. And and this the this unnamed person

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Speaker 1: from the BBC who thought to call them rather than

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Speaker 1: just going ahead and in erasing the tapes. Do you

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Speaker 1: got anything else? No? Do you guys want to sit

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Speaker 1: here and watch money pipeline close for like a half

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Speaker 1: an hour? See if you can find this fan um, Seriously,

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Speaker 1: I found the spam. It's three and a half minutes long. Perfect.

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Speaker 1: Oh great, okay, you got three and a half minutes right,

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Speaker 1: all right, It will be a great way to close

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Speaker 1: it out. Those of you have to p t s. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we bring you to close out this stuff you should

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Speaker 1: know live episode at l a podcast fest the my

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Speaker 1: Python Spam sketch. For more on this and thousands of

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Speaker 1: other topics, is it how stuff works dot com