The fight is regarding Eric’s writing contribution to Monty Python.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 26, 2023 3:19 PM |
I'll wait for Terry Gilliam or Michael Palin to weigh in before taking a side.
The bigger question is why Cleese is being such a dick about it which makes me side with Idle since the whole thing seems from left field.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 25, 2023 8:42 PM |
I wonder if Cleese was just saying that to wind Eric up?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 25, 2023 8:42 PM |
Monty Python = completely overrated. Always thought they were a bunch of smug, insufferable assholes. Not fun-nay.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 25, 2023 9:55 PM |
They say comedy doesn't travel well.
Monty Python is a prime example.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 25, 2023 9:58 PM |
Michael Palin is the nice one everyone else loved. He is also brilliant in "Life of Brian," whatever his own contribution to the script was.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 25, 2023 10:04 PM |
I always wondered if Eric Idle was bitter at Cleese's success with A Fish Called Wanda, An Oscar for Kevin Kline, BAFTAs for Cleese and Michael Palin, an Oscar nomination for Cleese's screenplay.
A few years later Splitting Hairs was released. Written by and starring Idle with Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey and darling bud Catherine Zeta Douglas Spartacus Jones and Cleese in a small role. It got appalling reviews. Nuns On The Run with Robbie Coltrane was much better.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 25, 2023 10:08 PM |
John Cleese made a joke, and thin-skinned Eric Idle took the bait.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 26, 2023 12:03 AM |
John Cleese is still alive?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 26, 2023 12:09 AM |
r12 Yes and he won't let anyone forget it
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 26, 2023 12:18 AM |
[quote]R14: John has … issues.
Yes. Among them is that he has jumped onto the far right anti-woke haywagon, and cries about 'cancel culture.'
Oddly, he still considers himself a liberal.
He's developed a lack of self-awareness.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 26, 2023 3:19 PM |
