Often seen as semi-autobiographical, Uncle Dick was apparently initially based on the character Sheridan Whiteside in the 1941 film, The Man Who Came to Dinner ( played by Monty Woolley, apparently based on American critic Alexander Woollcott ), although Russell later wryly admitted: " I ’ ve grown more like Uncle Dick and Uncle Dick has grown more like me.

Richard Webster comments in his A Brief History of Blasphemy that, " internalised censorship played a significant role in the handling " of Monty Python's Life of Brian.

The single ( which was backed with two tracks from Contractual Obligation, " I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio " and " I'm So Worried ") also doubled up as promotion for the recently-released compilation Monty Python Sings.

Idle presented Mayo with a model human foot, akin to the one used in the Monty Python title sequence, as a thank you gift for promoting the song.

In the San Francisco Chronicle, Ruthe Stein said it is " A charming movie ... should appeal to fans of The Full Monty and Waking Ned Devine — and not just because they also featured nudity that made you smile instead of smirk.

If you were to release a purely-non-widescreen version of Monty Python, you would have those options, as well as the additional option of an " open-matte " release, where the film footage that was never visible in theaters ( due to use of the matte technique in post-production or in the theatrical projectors ) is " restored " to the purely non-widescreen DVD release.

Secondly, as you should know already, we're kicking off Never Sleep Again ' 09 with Just Surrender, Monty Are I, Punchline, Anarbor, and Nightbeast on November 2!

Let's Make a Deal host Monty Hall called Stewart " the best second banana you ever found in your life " and said that " it was a very, very good feeling between us.

To `` Monty '', the American people, who in two previous world wars were very reluctant to join the fight, `` now look like the nation most likely to lead us all into a third World War ''.

" The Funniest Joke in the World " is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, " Joke Warfare " and " Killer Joke ", the latter being the most commonly spoken title used to refer to it.

* 3 Monty: His Part in My Victory ( 1976 ) This and the previous two books were released and publicised as the first, second and third part respectively of a trilogy.

Jones co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Terry Gilliam, and was sole director on two further Monty Python movies, Life of Brian and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair created a website containing their play in response to statements from the producers of The Full Monty that claimed the two productions were not alike.

Bothell remains the only municipality in the state of Washington to have two consecutive amputee mayors ; James Dixon ( who lacked a right leg ) from 1956 to 1960, followed by Monty Winestein ( left arm ) from 1960 to 1963.

Toward the beginning of the Monty Python episode " You're No Fun Anymore ", the two characters, Mr and Mrs Samuel Brainsample can be seen walking along the platform of New Pudsey Station.

He cited him and Monty Python as the two major influences on the comic.

During this period, Lambert was referenced in Monty Python ’ s 1969 sketch " Buying a Bed ," which featured two shop assistants called Mr. Verity and Mr. Lambert, named after her.

The Monty Python mode of presenting the tune was with a single strike of the bell, lifted from the third section and increased in volume, followed by a strain of each of the first two sections, followed by the famous stomping foot and a noticeably flatulent " splat " sound reminiscent of a whoopee cushion ( though the first episodes used a " hiss ").

Sketches were again reused in How to irritate people and by Monty Python for two German TV specials ( Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus ) and for stage shows, including the " Four Yorkshiremen sketch ", which was performed on Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

* Monty Python had a sketch about two hermits agreeing at the beginning " There's no point frigging your life in idleness and trivial chit-chats " but the conversation quickly degenerate into a gossip about their hermit neighbors and their caves as if it was an ordinary suburban gossip.

In 1996 and 1997, he appeared in the two highest-profile roles of his career to date: as the psychopathic Francis Begbie in Trainspotting and Gaz, the leader of a group of amateur male strippers, in The Full Monty, the latter earning Carlyle a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Game show host Monty Hall stated in a TV interview that his partner, Stefan Hatos, had always been experimenting with a game show based on The Lady, or the Tiger, in which contestants would win what was behind one of two doors that they could choose.

The show also included filmed inserts which were mostly taken from two Monty Python specials, Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus, which had been broadcast on German television in 1972.

In the wake of the worldwide success of Monty Python's Life of Brian, the Pythons originally planned to release a film consisting of the two German shows edited together, but this proved impractical, and so Hollywood Bowl was released instead.

* The main theme of this movie, the song " Sing As We Go " ( written by Harry Parr Davies ), was used by the comedy group Monty Python in a parody song called " Sit on My Face " and is one of two signature songs of The Kampen Janitsjarorkester Symphonic Band ( The Kampen Band ) of Oslo Norway.

As noted above, Eubanks hosted two special episodes of this version – one featured Wilson and her husband as well as her sister Wendy, her mother Marilyn, and their husbands ; the second featured game show hosts Monty Hall, Peter Marshall, and Wink Martindale and their wives.

The " Peter Gunn Theme ", composed by Henry Mancini, became an instant hit, earning him an Emmy Award and two Grammys, and became as associated with crime fiction as Monty Norman's theme to the James Bond films is associated with espionage.

The Monty Python album Matching Tie and Handkerchief was originally issued with two concentric grooves with different programs on the second side ( this was done for comedic rather than practical reasons ).

Leaflets arguing against the film's representation of the New Testament ( for example, suggesting that the Wise Men would not have approached the wrong stable as they do in the opening of the film ) were documented in Robert Hewison's book Monty Python: The Case Against.

The appearance was billed as the " U. S. Comedy Arts Festival Tribute to Monty Python ", although video releases have gone by varying titles, including " Monty Python Live at Aspen ( 1998 )".

An early listing of the sequence of sketches reprinted in Monty Python: The Case Against by Robert Hewison reveals that the film was to have begun with a set of sketches at an English public school.

The reason for the confusion is that existing live recordings of the song ( included in the Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl film and on the albums Live at Drury Lane and Live at City Center ) have the " Schopenhauer and Hegel " version, while the studio recording on Matching Tie and Handkerchief features the " Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel " version.

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

The screenplay removes any depiction of a sexual relationship ( which would have been both incest and infidelity ) between Monty and his stepdaughter, Veda.

Monty Woolley makes a full-blown character of the man who comes to lodge ; Joseph Cotten is droll as the Navy playboy, and Hattie McDaniel does an Andy-act quite well .... No doubt, this would have been a sharper picture if Mr. Selznick had played it in much less time, and it would have been considerably more significant had he kept it somewhat closer to average means.

As of 2009, notable residents living in or close to Wymondham include / have included George Szirtes, poet ; Oliver Winterbottom, car designer ; Simon Beaufoy, writer of the films ' The Full Monty ' and ' Slumdog Millionaire '; Bill Bryson, humorist, author and travel writer ; Justin Hawkins, singer with The Darkness ; and the late Edwin Gooch, MP and President of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.

* In the Monty Python short " The Crimson Permanent Assurance ", business clerks-turned-pirates sail a pirated building and attack competing businesses to build a business empire, when the narrator reads " or so it would have been, if certain modern theories concerning the shape of the world had not proved to be disastrously wrong.

" After Lenny Bruce, others have been Sam Kinison, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Jimmy Carr, Frankie Boyle, Chris Morris and the Monty Python team.

When they are approached by local women who have heard of their show, Gaz declares that their show will be better than the Chippendales dancers because they'll go " the Full Monty " and remove all their clothes.

Monty often tries to reassure about his pancreas anxiety (" I have one.

Parody art movements like Neoism and Plagiarism have challenged notions of originality, as have the multiple names Monty Cantsin and Karen Eliot, proposed for serial use by anyone.

In Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwarzbaum graded the film B + and commented, " is the first export from the light-comedy-steamroller division of the British film industry that avoids, for the most part, the kind of queasy class condescension such hell-bent charmers have relied on since unemployed steel-mill workers shook their groove thangs in The Full Monty.

Jason is about to throw in the towel and prepare to be forever humiliated and disbelieved in his hometown, when Wolf's beleaguered secretary, Monty Kirkham ( Amanda Detmer ), appears after dismissing Rocko, who was keeping an eye on Jason and Kaylee ; Monty states that, because many of Wolf's co-workers and employees have been abused by him, they are more than willing to help Jason and Kaylee to take revenge against Wolf.

( Monty Python's Life of Brian ) should be read as The Romans have never done anything for us.

He shuns his administrative duties, and generally has a secretary to handle such things ; amongst the occupants of this post have been the likes of Hugo Carmody, Monty Bodkin and Psmith, although by far the best known, and least appreciated by his Lordship, is Rupert Baxter, the bespectacled efficiency expert, who made Emsworth's life a misery with his ruthless organisation of his master's precious time.

Toying with many television conventions, Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 – 74 ) played around with the concept of cold opens, sometimes having an entire episode before the starting credits, and, in two instances (" The Cycling Tour ", the first episode to have a full-length story, and " The Golden Age of Ballooning ", the first episode of series four ) had no opening credits at all ( the former has a brief title card with the episode's title, and the latter has no titles because Terry Gilliam had not finished the new opening sequence ).

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