Monty Python to Tour Again. Does Not Give You Permission to Resurrect Your Impersonation of Them.
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i remember my high school English teacher announcing, “There’s gonna be a new Monty Python movie! It’s called The Fisher King!” Ahh, teachers. What they don’t know could fail you on an exam. But this reunion, minus Zombie Graham Chapman, seems pretty legit – why, the one who needs the money most, Terry Jones, says it’s happening! Seriously, a formal announcement is expected Thursday with more details.
So now a whole new generation of drama geeks will grow up doing terrible falsetto English accents and thinking they’re hilarious for it. Just to try to be remotely preemptive here: The Pythons are funny because they’re FUNNY, not because they’re English and sometimes dress like women. If that were all it took, people would verbally impersonate Benny Hill, instead of just remembering Yakity Sax.
What would you want to see in a Monty Python tour – the stuff you’ve memorized by heart, or some actual new material?
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist