Who's the biggest Monty Python fan in DOOM?

[Drunk Monk]

Way ahead of you (because I’m a bigger MP fan…)

http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...3#pid73093

[thatguy]

Way ahead of you (because I’m a bigger MP fan…)

http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...3#pid73093

Yeah, but that's GalaxyCon. He's coming to the Santa Cruz Civic...(maybe I should have posted this in the Cruz thread)

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[Drunk Monk]

Yeah, there’s that. Sloppy seconds. 

I’d come back but I’m booked for Billy Strings at the Greek. Note that Galaxy.con goes to 2am so maybe I’ll swing by on my way back. 

No that’s crazy talk, right? I don’t have my youthful vigor for such shenanigans.

[Drunk Monk]

The Cleese is coming, the Cleese is coming!

An evening with Monty Python's John Cleese Saturday, November 16 Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
An evening of stand up with Q&A.

John Cleese is best known for his involvement in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and A Fish Called Wanda.

In addition to his comedic activities, he was a co-founder with Sir Antony Jay of Video Arts, a management and sales training video company. Over a period of 20 years, Video Arts made over 120 training videos, and it was the largest firm of its kind outside the United States.

John Cleese was also a co-author, with the eminent psychiatrist Dr. Robin Skynner, of two books — “Families And How To Survive Them,” and “Life And How To Survive It.” These books, which explored psychology, psychiatry, and their application to the wider world, both became best sellers.

He wrote his first autobiography ‘So Anyway,’ which was published in 2014 and has sold 600,000 copies worldwide. In 2020, he also penned “Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide.”

In his twilight years he passes his time writing film scripts, making speeches to business audiences, doing seminars on creativity, teaching at Cornell and constructing a virtual reality.
johncleeselive.com

Tickets on sale Wednesday, August 14th

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This weekend. Are you going tg?
I'm debating it. $50+ for the cheap seats and I just dropped $380 on some new tires after an unexpected flat yesterday (I was overdue and I need to get new front tires soon too...)

[Drunk Monk]

Meh
I can’t afford it. Went way over budget for the year. Time for some cuts…

[thatguy]

if you missed the 48 1/2th anniversary, you are in luck:

https://gizmodo.com/get-your-coconuts-re...2000572693

Get Your Coconuts Ready: Monty Python and the Holy Grail Is Returning to Theaters

The comedy classic will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a limited big-screen engagement.
Cheryl Eddy
Published March 6, 2025
© Shout Factory
For a certain type of fan, just the image at the top of this post has unlocked a barrage of quotes you suddenly feel powerless to keep from shouting into the universe: “It’s just a flesh wound!” “Help! Help! I’m being repressed!” “What… behind the rabbit?” “It’s only a model!” “NI!” We could be here all day, really. And what a great day it is, with the news that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is briefly returning to theaters to mark its 50th anniversary.

The 100% historically accurate depiction of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table stars Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin, and was co-directed by Gilliam and Jones. When it hit U.S. theaters in 1975, according to a press release, it became the highest-grossing British film in the U.S. for the time, and has since gone on to become one of cinema’s greatest cult classics.

And new fans continue to see its genius: the past few years at San Diego Comic-Con, we’ve spotted different cosplayers dressed as King Arthur and the Black Knight—one of the greatest duo costumes ever, for our money, though there are nearly limitless possibilities. The killer rabbit and the Holy Hand Grenade! The cow and the catapult! The old man on the Bridge of Death and an unladen swallow!

The big-screen revival is taking place Sunday, May 4 and Wednesday, May 7—Monty Python and the Holy Grail first hit U.S. theaters April 27, 1975, so the dates line up nearly exactly with the movie’s big 5-0. It’s being presented by Shout Studios and Fathom Entertainment, and you can snag advanced tickets starting April 4 at Fathom’s website.

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[thatguy]

And there was much rejoicing!

https://kottke.org/25/05/monty-python-an...l-turns-50

Monty Python and the Holy Grail Turns 50. Watch It Free on YouTube.

By Jason Kottke 

Monty Python and the Holy Grail premiered in theaters on April 3, 1975. 50 years on, it remains one of the finest comedy movies ever (though it is definitely not everyone’s cup of tea). If you’re a fan, you can catch it for free on YouTube(with ads, not sure about region restrictions) or in select theaters in North America. You can also stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video, Pluto TV, Roku Channel, Plex, and a few other free movie services. (via open culture)

https://www.openculture.com/2025/05/stre...rsary.html

Stream Online Monty Python and the Holy Grail Free on Its 50th Anniversary
May 1st, 2025

This year, YouTube celebrated its twentieth anniversary, prompting younger users to wonder what life could have been like before it. The fiftieth anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which premiered in April of 1975, has inspired similar reflection among comedy enthusiasts. It can be difficult, at this point, to imagine oneself back in a culture not yet disrupted by Monty Python’s rigorously absurd logic, scattershot satire, and deliberate breaking of narrative and social convention — a culture, indeed, where that sort of thing could be feared too dangerous for television and film.


It was their BBC sketch series Monty Python’s Flying Circus that introduced this comedic sensibility first to Britain, and then to the world. Between that show’s third and fourth seasons, the Pythons — Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam — took on the side project of creating their own cinematic re-interpretation of Arthurian legend.

With a modest budget furnished by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, and other investors connected to the music world, they plunged themselves into a grimy, unglamorous vision of the Middle Ages, punctuated by inexplicable anachronism and saturated with an iconoclastic disregard for received wisdom and trumped-up glory.

There the Pythons told a story that, while perhaps lacking in narrative structure — to say nothing of historical realism — more than compensates in sheer comic momentum. By all accounts, it holds up half a century on, even for those viewers who’ve already seen it so many times as to have involuntarily committed every joke to memory. In celebration of its anniversary, the film has become available to stream free (albeit not in all regions of the world) on the official YouTube Movies & TV channel, where the latest generations of Monty Python fans first discovered their work. Even if lines like “I fart in your general direction” no longer raise any transgressive frisson, there’s still little on that platform’s universe of content to match Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s multilayered silliness, whose place in the annals of comedy legend has long since been assured.

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[thatguy]

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