To all those that love them some Monty Python, make sure you check PBS in the next few weeks. They are doing an awesome 6 part series highlighting the best of MP by each performer. Last night was the Eric Idle portion and they really went back in the vaults and found the rarely seen stuff plus lots of footage of the live college arena shows they used to do that were HYSTERICAL! I can't believe that I used to watch this as a little kid in the 70's and got the jokes. Not all of them, of course, but the beauty of this kind of series is that you get to see all the stuff you don't know (all the fans know the Dead Parrot Sketch, etc), and catch all the jokes you were just too young to understand. and this is stuff that mostly aired in England that we never got to see.
P.S. As much as I love stand up comedy and comedians, in my mind, NOTHING beats a group of people who are equally funny, talented and crazy who work together to break new ground. I would LOVE to be part of something like that...(hint, hint)
