Things that make you :)

[Dunsignalling]

37 minutes ago, ardbealach said:

Should have explained myself better.  There was no Q - queue. [Alisdair)

 

Should have got in without delay, then....

 

[J. S. Bach]

38 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

 

Well, I wasn't expecting that!!!

 

(For J S Bach's benefit, it's a reference to a Monty Python sketch relying on comic absurdity, in which an office meeing is in progress when Torquemada (John Cleese) and the Spanish Inquisition burst into the room.  'We weren't expecting you', 'Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition'!)

I never found python funny or even worth listening too, so missed that.

[figworthy]

On 30/09/2024 at 00:55, DavidB-AU said:

 

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The Good Life ?

 

Adrian

[pH]

1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said:

I never found python funny or even worth listening too, so missed that.

Not meant in any way at all to be derogatory  (and despite Stewart’s “agree”), I think that illustrates the differences between UK and US senses of humour (or humor!). 
 

“Monty Python” appears to be a very niche thing in the US, while it had a much bigger audience in the UK. And, typically, Canada appreciation seems to be somewhere in between.

[Sidecar Racer]

 

 

[The Johnster]

4 hours ago, pH said:

And, typically, Canada appreciation seems to be somewhere in between.

 

No it isn't, it's above the US and a ways to the left of the UK.  Ireland is somewhere in between...

 

Monty Python was extremely popular with people of my age group in the UK (I loved it), and with the next generation in the US, but it was very much 'of it's time' and would not appeal to a certain type of person.  You need to find the absurd comical, but there are people who simply find the absurd, well, absurd, and you probably have to be British to fully appreciate it's savage and satirical mockery of our absurd class system and social conventions.  I think it's probably fair to say that tv sketch comedy is a somewhat British thing anyway; can't think of an American example off-hand since Rowan & Martin's Laugh In, another show very much 'of it's time'.  I suppose you could count the Muppet Show, but that had the puppetry element as well, so not quite the same thing.