Are they flogging a dead parrot?

[Archie_tect]

The first Blackadder series was the best. Went downhill from there.

Funny how differently people see things...

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

I love Holy Grail & Life of Brian plus some of their sketches were brilliant. My attitude towards their reunion is basically 'Meh, whatever.'

 

[Davidc]

Funny how differently people see things...

That has to be a good thing.

My deep memory of Blackadder isn't Rowan Atkinson, it's Brian Blessed as the king in that first series. Having said it went downhill that, it was from a very high point and the rest was enjoyable with the best line of all probably being "Yes, 35 miles behind".

 

[swee'pea99]

Never did like Blackadder. Have to admit it could be rooted in a lifelong loathing of Ben Elton, allied to a dislike of and disdain for Rowan Atkinson, but I always found it - insofar as I saw it - laboured and predictable in a way that anything Elton ever did always was. All 'He's more cunning than a cunning fox of cunningness at the University of Cunningtown' sort of thing. Oh go and sit down in the corner and play with the bricks, won't you?

Whereas Monty Python were a mix of anything from brilliant to genuinely dire. They were almost always trying something unpredictable. When it came off, it could be inspired. When it didn't, embarrassingly dull and unfunny. But you always knew that 'there'll be another one along in a minute', and you never knew what that 'one' would be like. With Blackadder, the 'ones' were all the same. And I for one found them formulaic, repetitive, predictable...

As Archie said, funny how people see things (differently)...

 

[MarkF]

Whereas Monty Python were a mix of anything from brilliant to genuinely dire. They were almost always trying something unpredictable. ..

Didn't they just rip-off Spike Milligan?

 

[swee'pea99]

Didn't they just rip-off Spike Milligan?

"Mediocre composers borrow; great composers steal." - Thomas Beecham.

 

[MarkF]

I thought the Q series were much riskier than MP, they were very silly.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Ripping Yarns had its moments too...

Haggetty F
Haggetty R
Tompkins
Noble, etc...

 

[swee'pea99]

I thought the Q series were much riskier than MP, they were very silly.

Q was very akin to MP: very hit & miss, but at its best on a different level than the likes of Blackadder.

 

[Paulus]

I remember the Python series' very well. At the time they were very funny, but as time marches on, the sketches have become very dated and not very funny. They were of their time and I think this re-union may be a mistake.

 

[compo]

I never found Monty Python funny first time round so can't see anything changing now.

 

[Archie_tect]

I remember the upper class twits filling our screens with their mindless ramblings... I'd last about 5 minutes before going off to find something more interesting to do.

 

[Beebo]

Dont forget their cycling related humour - I did quite like the Bicycle Repair Man sketch.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCdIe0wdvU

 

[compo]

Dont forget their cycling related humour - I did quite like the Bicycle Repair Man sketch.

Nah, not even half a smile worthy. I must be a humourless old git. Different programme altogether, I don't even find Miranda funny in the slightest.

 

[Archie_tect]

Dont forget their cycling related humour - I did quite like the Bicycle Repair Man sketch.
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View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCdIe0wdvU

May have been funny to the Upper 4th.

[Edit: Sorry for being grumpy and miserable.... normal service will be resumed shortly...]