John Cleese definitely seemed to have the biggest body of work in the US. Although I love Fawlty Towers, he pops up EVERYWHERE. James Bond, network TV guest spots, lots of kids movies my kids watch, even video games!
What I remember most about Michael Palin is he wrote the score to Robin Hood.
Graham Chapman was apparently one of the most talented, but to be honest other than King Arthur nothing sticks out in my memory.
I can't tell whether Eric Idle is smart or a sellout. He definitely has made a lot of money based upon "I'm a Python!".
(Score: 2) by mendax on Saturday July 29 2017, @02:25AM
(1 child)
There is also the movie Yellow Beard. Most of the Python actors are in it, along with Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Peter Cook, Peter Boyle, James Mason, and Cheech & Chong for good measure. Graham Chapman played the insane and vicious Yellow Beard.
One of my favorite movies from the 80's, and it damn near had everyone it except for Mel Brooks himself. David Bowie is even in it, although uncredited for his work.
I've seen Graham Chapman in the other perhaps more famous movies he was in, along with Python itself, but this role is always the one I remember most.
-- Technically, lunchtime is at any moment.
It's just a wave function.
The basic list of what they did post-Python: - Cleese continued to do quite a bit of acting, as you mentioned. Including bit parts like Nearly Headless Nick in the Harry Potter franchise. - Chapman is pining for the fjords. - Gilliam really pursued directing after his experience with The Crimson Permanent Assurance. His best known films are probably Time Bandits, Brazil, and Adventures of Baron Munchausen. - Palin is best known for his travel documentaries, such as Around the World in 80 Days. - Jones has probably been the quietest of them (not surprising), although he did do a very fun educational series called Medieval Lives. - Idle has been, as you mention, the most ruthless in shamelessly trying to turn his Python past into more money.
Also not mentioned: - Carol Cleveland had a few minor film roles but nothing major. - Neil Innis continued to be mostly a musician. His best-known post-Python project was The Rutles.
-- The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
One of my favourite sketches is the Ken Clean-Air System one, in particular for Connie Booth's delivery of the perfect slapstick fall, again, again, and again. For some bizarre reason, my g/f's less enamoured by this skit.
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Graham Chapman was apparently one of the most talented, but to be honest other than King Arthur nothing sticks out in my memory.
Come off it. He played pompous pricks while Cleese played officious jobs-worths. The Chapman role that most sticks in my mind is him dressed in colonel's uniform telling us to stop laughing even though "No-one enjoys a joke more than I do .. except Captain Johns of course and ... [a long list followed]". A bit equivalent to Stephen Fry in Blackadder - they were both gay too.
Monty Python... Many decades ago when that stuff was merely "not current release" instead of ancient, the fandom was extremely annoying anglophile stoner kids with terrible accents and awful in-jokes. You know how there's some people who "communicate" exclusively in pop culture movie quotes? Yeah those guys. Like a vastly less cool version of the local SCA chapter. Is modern 2017 Monty Python fandom the same or better? (can't be much worse than it was)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @09:06AM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday July 31 2017, @09:06AM (#547050)
It didn't appear often enough for me, but the giant foot was my favorite. Yes, I understand it had limited range, and basically was a one trick pony, but its comic timing was unmatched.
(Score: 3, Informative) by rob_on_earth on Monday July 31 2017, @10:11AM
Now, I've noticed a tendency for this site to get rather silly. Now I do my best to keep things moving along, but I'm not having things getting silly. Those two last articles I did got very silly indeed, and that last one about the bed was even sillier. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do... except perhaps my wife and some of her friends... oh yes and Captain Johnston. Come to think of it most people likes a good laugh more than I do. But that's beside the point. Now, let's have a good clean healthy outdoor article. Get some air into your lungs. Ten, nine, eight and all that.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @09:04PM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday August 02 2017, @09:04PM (#548116)
The ministry of silly walks would now be branded an ableist smear and so on for every other famous sketch. Thanks SJW fun sponges.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 05 2017, @06:06AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday August 05 2017, @06:06AM (#549018)
Because only fascists have fun. I bet you voted for Hitler in this poll.
This weeks freely (world-wide) Friday comedy podcast from the BBC /The Museum Of Curiosity/ (Series 11, Ep 2) featured someone who worked with, and talks about, the pythons: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05b8mx2
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(Score: 2) by Weasley on Monday August 07 2017, @02:42PM
(3 children)
(Score: 2) by microtodd on Friday July 28 2017, @01:16AM (11 children)
John Cleese definitely seemed to have the biggest body of work in the US. Although I love Fawlty Towers, he pops up EVERYWHERE. James Bond, network TV guest spots, lots of kids movies my kids watch, even video games!
What I remember most about Michael Palin is he wrote the score to Robin Hood.
Graham Chapman was apparently one of the most talented, but to be honest other than King Arthur nothing sticks out in my memory.
I can't tell whether Eric Idle is smart or a sellout. He definitely has made a lot of money based upon "I'm a Python!".
(Score: 2) by mendax on Saturday July 29 2017, @02:25AM (1 child)
You obviously never saw Life of Brian then!
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday July 31 2017, @08:42PM
There is also the movie Yellow Beard. Most of the Python actors are in it, along with Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Peter Cook, Peter Boyle, James Mason, and Cheech & Chong for good measure. Graham Chapman played the insane and vicious Yellow Beard.
One of my favorite movies from the 80's, and it damn near had everyone it except for Mel Brooks himself. David Bowie is even in it, although uncredited for his work.
I've seen Graham Chapman in the other perhaps more famous movies he was in, along with Python itself, but this role is always the one I remember most.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Saturday July 29 2017, @12:38PM (7 children)
The basic list of what they did post-Python:
- Cleese continued to do quite a bit of acting, as you mentioned. Including bit parts like Nearly Headless Nick in the Harry Potter franchise.
- Chapman is pining for the fjords.
- Gilliam really pursued directing after his experience with The Crimson Permanent Assurance. His best known films are probably Time Bandits, Brazil, and Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
- Palin is best known for his travel documentaries, such as Around the World in 80 Days.
- Jones has probably been the quietest of them (not surprising), although he did do a very fun educational series called Medieval Lives.
- Idle has been, as you mention, the most ruthless in shamelessly trying to turn his Python past into more money.
Also not mentioned:
- Carol Cleveland had a few minor film roles but nothing major.
- Neil Innis continued to be mostly a musician. His best-known post-Python project was The Rutles.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @02:31AM (1 child)
What about Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Post?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday August 14 2017, @04:43PM
He's dedicated his life to being the first to photograph migrating swallows carrying coconuts.
He's made models, but now his head is in a silly place.
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Monday July 31 2017, @10:51AM
Plain, for me. I mostly watch documentaries.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
(Score: 3, Informative) by Joe Desertrat on Monday July 31 2017, @11:21AM
Jones, sadly, has been struggling with dementia for some time.
(Score: 2) by microtodd on Monday July 31 2017, @06:31PM (2 children)
Whatever happened to Connie Booth? Had kind of a teenage crush on her...
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday August 05 2017, @08:30AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2, Touché) by isostatic on Friday August 11 2017, @11:31AM
If only there was some form of website that could take the term "Connie Booth", which return a link to an encyclopedic entry answering your question.
Try it next time - less typing.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Wednesday August 02 2017, @09:17AM
Come off it. He played pompous pricks while Cleese played officious jobs-worths. The Chapman role that most sticks in my mind is him dressed in colonel's uniform telling us to stop laughing even though "No-one enjoys a joke more than I do .. except Captain Johns of course and ... [a long list followed]". A bit equivalent to Stephen Fry in Blackadder - they were both gay too.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @05:02AM (2 children)
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(Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday July 28 2017, @07:44PM (1 child)
White spaces are very, very significant in the TrumpScript cyber code. As they should be. We need to bring back vibrant, safe, white spaces! #MAGA 🇺🇸
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @06:03PM
Actually, some of them are white tabs.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snospar on Friday July 28 2017, @10:52AM (2 children)
I must be out of touch, didn't even get the reference to the Python programming guy - didn't even recognise the name.
He does look a little bit like Terry Gilliam (in certain roles).
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday July 31 2017, @12:51PM (1 child)
Monty Python... Many decades ago when that stuff was merely "not current release" instead of ancient, the fandom was extremely annoying anglophile stoner kids with terrible accents and awful in-jokes. You know how there's some people who "communicate" exclusively in pop culture movie quotes? Yeah those guys. Like a vastly less cool version of the local SCA chapter. Is modern 2017 Monty Python fandom the same or better? (can't be much worse than it was)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Appalbarry on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:11AM
Sigh, happy days they were. :)
(Score: 5, Funny) by Hartree on Friday July 28 2017, @06:01PM (5 children)
Favorite python: Kaa from The Jungle Book.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @02:05AM
Zelda DuBois
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @08:07PM (2 children)
My favorite snake is Tony ScaryGucci.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Monday July 31 2017, @02:43AM (1 child)
"Scarmucci, Scaramucci! Will you do the fandango?"
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Monday July 31 2017, @07:33PM
And you're outa there, Tony!
I think 10 days may be a new record for revolving White House communications directors.
(Score: 1) by slap on Saturday August 19 2017, @02:15PM
Mine is Olive Pythons. And Reticulated Pythons are near the top.
(Score: 3, Funny) by driven on Sunday July 30 2017, @04:41PM
Vintage WWE reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbszVMpAh94 [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by snufu on Monday July 31 2017, @01:06AM
You will not Sophie choice me!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @09:06AM (1 child)
It didn't appear often enough for me, but the giant foot was my favorite. Yes, I understand it had limited range, and basically was a one trick pony, but its comic timing was unmatched.
(Score: 3, Informative) by rob_on_earth on Monday July 31 2017, @10:11AM
so Terry Gilliam then?
he did most of the animation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Gilliam#Monty_Python [wikipedia.org]
and the amazing film Brazil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film) [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:04AM
Can you pick a favourite Python?
Without Cleese, what is Monty Python?
Without Palin, what is Monty Python?
Without [insert name], what is Monty Python?
No... cannot pick.... too difficult.... without quarks, what are atoms? Without Cat/Holly/Rimmer, what is Red Dwarf?
Without "One of us, one of us", what is Freaks? (Answer: the U.S. Government) ;)
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday August 01 2017, @01:40PM
No. Actually, it's the "It's" man.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nuke on Wednesday August 02 2017, @09:06AM
Carol Cleveland
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Wednesday August 02 2017, @03:40PM
Now, I've noticed a tendency for this site to get rather silly. Now I do my best to keep things moving along, but I'm not having things getting silly. Those two last articles I did got very silly indeed, and that last one about the bed was even sillier. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do... except perhaps my wife and some of her friends... oh yes and Captain Johnston. Come to think of it most people likes a good laugh more than I do. But that's beside the point. Now, let's have a good clean healthy outdoor article. Get some air into your lungs. Ten, nine, eight and all that.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @09:04PM (1 child)
The ministry of silly walks would now be branded an ableist smear and so on for every other famous sketch. Thanks SJW fun sponges.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 05 2017, @06:06AM
Because only fascists have fun. I bet you voted for Hitler in this poll.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by MostCynical on Thursday August 03 2017, @07:59AM
best acting.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday August 05 2017, @02:12PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Weasley on Monday August 07 2017, @02:42PM (3 children)
2.7
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 09 2017, @09:36PM (2 children)
Ah, I was going to say 3.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14 2017, @01:00PM
Even nostalgy was better before...
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:22PM
One, two, five...
Three, sir.
Three!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @03:15PM
Monty