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In Conversation: John Cleese (legacy, Political Correctness, and the Funniest Joke He Ever Told)
New York Magazine ^
| 9/17
| David Marchese
Posted on 09/17/2017 2:34:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: cdcdawg
Well I didn’t expect some kind of Spanish Inquisition.
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:17:07 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:22:46 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: dhs12345
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:41:06 PM PDT
by
ex91B10
To: dfwgator
I have to agree. Cleese is good at playing a raving lunatic but Michael Palin was more well-rounded.
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:43:02 PM PDT
by
ex91B10
To: nickcarraway
IIRC, Cleese is not the proud atheist he once said that he was, now more of a no-proof-there’s-no-God kind of agnostic.
Basil Fawlty flogging his car with a tree branch was classic. So was the disgruntled cheese shop customer and the man who wanted to be a mouse.
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:50:57 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: nickcarraway
As a Christian I always found Life of brian hilarious. And yes, it is because it is not making fun of Jesus. It is making fun of his followers.
The thrown sandal scene is comedy gold.
It took me quite a while to realize that monty python were not making fun of Christ or christianity. They were making fun of people being kinda nutty in WHY they believed what they believe.
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:52:42 PM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm male.)
To: cdcdawg
I get the feeling the man is a “pragmatic Christian.”
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:53:27 PM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm male.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Whatever you do, DON’T MENTION THE WAR!
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:57:52 PM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm male.)
To: dfwgator
Shut your festering gob, you twit!
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:59:39 PM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm male.)
To: elcid1970
"Just going to have a word with O'Reilly, dear."
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posted on
09/17/2017 6:06:28 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
I go back a little further. Anyone remember another group of Brits that did “Beyond the Fringe” ? it was about five years prior to the Flying Circus birth as I recall.
My college roommate and I used to do some of the bits in the 60s we listened to it so much.
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posted on
09/17/2017 6:08:16 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: KC Burke
A lot of them got their start writing for David Frost, Marty Feldman was one of the main writers on that show as well.
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09/17/2017 6:11:18 PM PDT
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dfwgator
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posted on
09/17/2017 6:13:46 PM PDT
by
freds6girlies
(many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30. R.I.P. G & J)
To: KC Burke
I go back a little further. Anyone remember another group of Brits that did “Beyond the Fringe”Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
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09/17/2017 6:14:46 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/17/2017 6:24:37 PM PDT
by
t4texas
(Remember the Alamo!)
To: robroys woman
I think you are right. Regardless, his dramatic reading is really good. It would be difficult to read Lewis that much, and completely reject everything. Difficult, not impossible.
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posted on
09/17/2017 6:27:05 PM PDT
by
cdcdawg
To: t4texas
Hedgehog
That's a woody kind of word.
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posted on
09/17/2017 6:27:11 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: robroys woman
I think you are being naive. They don’t like Christians, and they don’t like Christianity.
To: nickcarraway
What did the Romans do for us?
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posted on
09/17/2017 6:30:26 PM PDT
by
Does so
(McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
To: dfwgator
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09/17/2017 6:34:03 PM PDT
by
t4texas
(Remember the Alamo!)
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