{"id":25043,"date":"2014-04-09T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T12:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25043"},"modified":"2021-12-01T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:53:26","slug":"palin-a-lot-of-python-was-crap-it-really-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/09\/palin-a-lot-of-python-was-crap-it-really-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin &#8211; &#8220;A lot of <em>Python<\/em> was crap, it really was&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funny bits were very funny indeed, but we tend to forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-London\/2014\/04\/09\/Michael-Palin-a-lot-of-Monty-Python-was-crap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">never-ending interminable repetitive repetitiveness<\/a> of a lot of the other material:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Palin has finally admitted what many of us have known in our hearts for some time: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/comedy\/comedy-news\/10753126\/Michael-Palin-A-lot-of-Monty-Python-was-c-p.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lot of <em>Monty Python<\/em>&#8216;s material was &#8220;crap.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People forgive you the things that don&#8217;t work. A lot of <em>Python<\/em> was crap, it really was,&#8221; said Palin, yesterday, at the launch of a tour called &#8220;Travelling To Work&#8221; announced at the London Book Fair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We put stuff in there that was not really that good, but fortunately there were a couple of things that everyone remembers while they&#8217;ve forgotten the dross,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Palin is dead right, of course. As a child in the 1970s I remember sitting stony-faced through entire episodes of <em>Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus<\/em>. But at the time, and ever since, there has existed a powerful <em>omerta<\/em> whereby no one can admit to finding <em>Monty Python<\/em> unfunny for fear of being thought humourless or not part of the gang.<\/p>\n<p><em>Monty Python<\/em>&#8216;s inflated reputation derives as much as anything, I think, from a combination of obsessive repetition and peer pressure. That is, a lot of their sketches are not particularly funny in and of themselves, but have been conferred the status of classics as a result of being endlessly repeated by drunken students who brandish their knowledge of <em>Python<\/em> sketches as a way of acquiring cult credibility.<\/p>\n<p>I know this because it&#8217;s exactly what I did myself at university in the mid-Eighties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, on that last bit all I can say is &#8220;All right, it&#8217;s a fair cop, but society is to blame&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"640\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rQDeU6dHX-c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funny bits were very funny indeed, but we tend to forget the never-ending interminable repetitive repetitiveness of a lot of the other material: Michael Palin has finally admitted what many of us have known in our hearts for some time: a lot of Monty Python&#8216;s material was &#8220;crap.&#8221; &#8220;People forgive you the things that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57,28],"tags":[263,1453,101],"class_list":["post-25043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","category-media","tag-1970s","tag-montypython","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6vV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70322,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25043\/revisions\/70322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}