Artist: Monty Python

A name from a Monty Python sketch. Musings about Norway. A breakdown in waltz time. Are BRUCE! playing it for laughs or just misunderstood? - By John Sturm.

[ purchase the complete Monty Python ] I presume to consider myself to be a pretty funny person, and I like to believe that other people agree with me. If not, I’ve been operating under a serious delusion for a long time. Like musical taste, a sense of humor develops over time, and like musical taste, I suspect most of us who care about such things can point to certain influences on our senses of humor. Clearly, my father, a funny guy in his own right, was an influence on me, and Saturday morning cartoons [...]

Kind of. Terry Jones is directing a film called Absolutely Anything , which is a tale of an asshole aliens who give an earthling the power of God just to see what happens. It's a CGI/live-action hybrid with John Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam voicing the aliens - Eric Idle hasn't signed on yet, but is expected to do so soon enough - and Robin Williams is voicing a dog, as well as playing a human, reports Variety . For the record, everyone involved is saying this isn't a [...]

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From Laughing Squid : "John Cleese’s character from the classic Monty Python sketch ' The Ministry of Silly Walks ' is the centerpiece of this clock by Susanne Lindberg . She was inspired to make the clock after finding this wristwatch." This clock would look great in my office.

Blur frontman Damon Albarn and Monty Python star Terry Gilliam have joined forces in a project to encourage new audiences to experience opera.

"Here is a photograph for all of those out there with existential dread." - Kate Simon . Dedicated to the memory of The G.

And now for something completely different: Monty Python at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1974 , by Kate Simon. Silver gelatin print. Kate was kind enough to share these thoughts on this previously unpublished photo: I love Monty Python, and always got a thrill when I would see John Cleese or Eric Idle at a party or event when I lived in London in the 70's. Nothing is sexier than "smart." For me, John Cleese embodied that. When I took the photo of John Cleese presenting Terry [...]

For their first video since 2009, psychedelic garage-soul act King Khan & The Shrines nods to the recent boom of big budget summer superhero movies, as lead singer King Khan takes on the alter-ego of Super KK. Much like their music, the video for Bite My Tongue channels a retro vibe that nods heavily to not only to the campy 1960s Batman television series, but also to absurdity and naughty cheekiness of both Benny Hill and Monty Python. Let's check it out... King Khan & The Shrines - [...]

working for tips at CHBP / photo by Brittney Bollay It’s time again for the weekly installment of Friday on My Mind , a post which focuses on videos centered around one common theme. This is a collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 News. In honor of our Summer Fund Drive, which takes place all of next week, we’re talking about Money. KEXP’s Summer Fundraiser starts today, Friday, June 1st. For the next week, this non-profit radio station will be asking its community to help support us. We [...]

It's only been a day since Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros released their second album "Here" and they've already released a video for "Man On Fire" . It's unclear if the song is inspired by a documentary like "Man On Wire", except about a man on fire, but the video takes us on a trip throughout various parts of NYC and records people dancing, whether it's as part of a troupe or just kids having fun in a park. It's got quite an epic ending, though. Think of Monty [...]

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Peter Blake es el artista pop responsable de una de las portadas más conocidas en la historia de la música: la portada del Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club de los Beatles. Para celebrar su cumpleaños número 80, Blake decidió inspirarse en ese trabajo para crear una portada completamente renovada y actualizada bajo el título: PETER BLAKE’S 80TH – FAMILY, FRIENDS & ICONS . En este nuevo collage podemos ver a personalidades como Ian Curtis, J.K. Rowling, Amy Winehouse, Noel Gallagher, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Mick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock [...]

The cigarette in Dirk McQuickly's hand played right into the "Dirk is Dead" rumors. The Rutles The Beatles This week instead of Cover Friday, I'm making it "Parody Friday" - and for the specific idea of doing the Rutles, my thanks go to loyal Reselect reader Terry McDermott, who suggested it earlier this week. Seeing as I had nothing else yet lined up for today anyway, it seemed as good a week to do it as any. The Rutles were a 1978 [...]

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Listen to Me: A Tribute to Buddy Holly was released so shortly after the Rave On Buddy Holly that it got lost in the shuffle of my review folder last year. Even months later, Listen to Me still suffers by comparison to the other Buddy Holly tribute. This is at least in part due to [...]

Look, there's absolutely no point in us writing anything here, as you're just going to go watch the video right away, aren't you? This isn't some kind of shocking new sensational footage, in case you were wondering. It's just something we stumbled across thanks to the wonders of YouTube. Now that we've burst your bubble [...]

I'm not a shopper. I can't stand indecision. Shopping for clothes for me goes like this... does it look good? Yes! Buy 2 in different colors. Leave, and hopefully never come back. It's not a process I enjoy, unless I am shopping for music. So my food shopping experience is done late night for the reason of swiftness. I'm sure you can understand this. This evening, I went to my local weenie mart for provisions. It took me about 5 minutes to select the food and  beverages I needed and I went to check [...]

So BBC4 does these dramas based on true stories of entertainers, they're not biopics per se, because they are tightly focused on one particular chapter and not a wide-angle. Anyways, their latest drama is based on an episode from the Monty Python gang . Airing this Autumn will be  Holy Flying Circus , an account of the controversy surrounding the release of Monty Python’s  Life of Brian . This being about Python, the BBC probably consider themselves free, if not actually obligated, to play around a bit. It is to this [...]

Any Monty Python fan can appreciate this: Monty Python's Graham Chapman died in 1989 — but that's not stopping his old pals from putting together an adaptation of  Liar’s Autobiography: Volume VI , his partially fabricated memoir. The project was spurred by a recent discovery of, and will be built around, a taped reading of the book recorded by Chapman (at Harry Nilsson's house, of course). The adaptation will be in 3-D and animated by fifteen different companies working on chapters that range in length from three to twelve minutes; the final product will [...]

Wie kam es eigentlich dazu, dass die Kino- beziehungsweise Fernsehzuschauer über die Dosenfleisch essenden Ritter in der Mittelalterparodie "Die Ritter der Kokosnuss" und Sketche wie "Der Papagei ist tot" überall in der Welt in schallendes Gelächter ausbrachen? Und was führte dazu, dass eine Komikertruppe, die aus vier Engländern, einem Waliser und einem "falschen" Amerikaner bestand, begeistert gefeierter Teil unserer Kultur wurde und dass deren absurde Sketche und aberwitzigen Kinowerke auch heute noch als Computerspiele und Bühnenmusical erfolgreich weiterleben? http://videos.arte.tv/de/video s/monty_python_fast_die_ganze_ wahrheit_6_6_-3869960.html _________ © dg , 2011