jake - tell your old man to ring steve coogan.
I'd love to, Jason, but he's currently in a home suffering from alcohol-aided extreme confusion. Maybe that'll be Coogan's next career move and all....
Good to see Eric Idle's awesomely desperate live album of Python songs makes it into the Onion's "Least Essential Albums of 2000" list.
I mean, what IS the point?
Idle reminds me more and more of a story Ned Sherrin told, against himself for once, in one of his fwightfully amusing books of theatrical anecdotes. At a time in the 70's, when Ned was constantly doing shows on Broadway, two New York producers were talking, and one said, who the fuck is Ned. The other said, "He's always coming over here, so people in England think he must be really famous here, and people here think he must be really famous in England. In fact, he isn't famous anywhere."
>Good to see Eric Idle's awesomely desperate live album of Python songs makes it into the Onion's "Least Essential Albums of 2000" list.
>I mean, what IS the point?
Whatever happened to quality? And comedians having a sense of irony? And a sense of humour? And a sense of knowing when to stop. I weep for comedy.
And not appearing in Suddenly Susan.
alcohol, jake? wasn't that coogan's *last* career move? or am i confusing him with someone...?
j xxx
ps. suddenly susan. party susan would have been more watchable. let alone susan stranks. additional pre-emptive answer to anyone sticking up for idle (the moneygrabbing sod): splitting heirs. i beg to move.
>Idle reminds me more and more of a story Ned Sherrin told, against himself for once, in one of his fwightfully amusing books of theatrical anecdotes. At a time in the 70's, when Ned was constantly doing shows on Broadway, two New York producers were talking, and one said, who the fuck is Ned. The other said, "He's always coming over here, so people in England think he must be really famous here, and people here think he must be really famous in England. In fact, he isn't famous anywhere."
Isn't this Rich Hall as well?
Ha ha! True.
I expect most people either know this, or have guessed it already, but I once asked the BFI's dynamic, bearded Dick Fiddy (after a night of Bonzos/Innes clips) why Rutland Weekend Television is never repeated, if it's so good. He said, "Because Eric Idle these days has just one failed project after another, everything he touches turns to dust, his films end up only being shown as in-flight movies" and that if RWT was shown, inevitable comments about 'he was so good then, he's so rubbish now', would follow. He also said that as Idle is probably best known today for doing the sig tune to One Foot in the Grave, he probably wishes he could have played Victor.
No doubt, if Idle does that song on his live shows, he has to explain to the American fools, who've only heard of Are You Being Served, what One Foot is. Cuh.
Americans can be a bit twitty when it comes to British comedians, I mean when I used to watch friends the one in England didn't even have applause for Jennifer Saunders and the like. Admittedly maybe they don't need applause...but all the American guests get wolf whistles and the lot, is this favouritism or is this a load of old-
Saunders can barely get a round of applause over here, so what the Americans would make of her i don't know: "she's not British - her accent not posh/cockney/shit enough"
Let Mirrorball prove me wrong. Ho ho
anyone who's seen the rutles and saw the 300th anniversary python celebrations will have noted, as the mighty unruly butler pointed out, that idle, sat by his pool in l.a. with a tall cocktail and matching shirt, looked like nothing so much as stanley j krammerhead iii jr.
j xxx