python on late night with jimmy fallon

[thatguy]

promoting an upcoming 40th anniversary documentary on ifc

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[Drunk Monk]

i'm not that into fallon as a late night host and the boys ran rings around him. i missed palin tho.

cleese was quoted in entertainment weekly - the 4 reasons to buy fawlty towers, now on dvd. he gave a good shot at palin.

palin was quoted in the s.f. chron recently too, something about how proud he was to have been a python.

looking forward to the ifc doc. a friend has promised to rip it for me...

[Drunk Monk]

It was really good. I'm looking forward to watching the rest very much.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Saw the whole thing. Liked it very much. It is so much better after the first episode.

[Drunk Monk]

i thought 2 was weaker. too much ruminating about fav skits and then showing clips. i was disappointed that they didn't go into how spam became part of our daily vocab. i also thought gilliam wasn't credited as a member of python until the 2nd season. they were discussing how he was overlooked but didn't go into that. i remember hearing an old interview with gilliam about how they finally had to acknowledge the american....

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Yeah, there seemed to be a lot of whinging and whining. Cleese comes off the poorest, I think. I thought I saw a lot of not quite so thinly veiled hostility because the group didn't listen to him more and how he got stuck with Chapman during his alcoholism days. I liked the second episodes for the clips. It was good to see the old bits.

[The Queen]

I've had the opening theme from Life of Brian playing in my head since we saw the Lust for Glory episode.

[Drunk Monk]

that was the cleese on defense/chapman on the sauce one. hearing them comment on each other was hysterical.

[Drunk Monk]

I would love to see that original interview with Chapman where he talked so much about his alcoholism. Would also love to see that Palin & Cleese vs. the to religious dudes on Brian, and the original stuff for the making of Holy Grail. All in all, it was a very satisfying doc.