A bunch of big names explain why they love Monty Python, including the South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Luke Wilson, Judd Apatow and others...
Why they love Monty Python
Posted by Unknown | Monday, January 26, 2009 | Monty Python | 1 comments »
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My introduction to Monty Python occurred in Plymouth,England in July 1972 when I was 12 years old. My family was visiting relatives in England and Wales and doing the tourist thing including France,Holland, and Scotland. anyhoo - We were staying at a hotel on the Barbican, the old section of Plymouth. Back then English hotels didn't have TV's in the rooms, only a single TV in the lobby. My parents and I had just returned from visiting my fathers uncles and aunts of the WW 1 generation. My folks went up to our room for a little rest before we all headed out to the pub. I decided to check out some English 'tube so I sat down on an Edwardian era chair and surrounding accoutrements and settled in. There was already a WW 1 era gent watching a show - apparently about trees as they were featuring "Number 23 - The Larch" with a strange acting commentator in a horrible hairpiece and glasses. The show moved on through all kinds of strange things that at 12 years old I admittedly didn't understand. By the look on his face, neither did the old guy. The programme ended and I went with my parents to the 1550's era pub that, supposedly, the pilgrims had a few before boarding the Mayflower and sailing for America. An interesting feature of the pub was the fireplace with the dozen or so pokers in the flames used for "toasting" ones brew if requested.(lukewarm beer) My folks let me have a "short toasty" with my fish 'n chips- my first legally consumed brew as the legal age in the UK with parental consent and oversight back then was 6. Back in the U.S. 3 years later I turned on the local PBS station and was met with " Number 23 - The Larch" Same exact show at the same exact point in the show ! For the next 3 years I spent Friday nights at 10 watching the Pythons. I believe that Frank Zappa and Monty Python have had the greatest effect in shaping my outlook on life- even more than my family.