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Merchant Banker Monty Python (Original Post)
Ichingcarpenter
May 2014
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yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)1. I really believe that
The skits of Monty Python will live a very, very long time. They were incredibly talented.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)5. Pythonesque is an actual, official word
Pythonesque
adj
denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
[C20: named after the British television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, first broadcast in 1969]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)2. This is why there is such a resurgence of their work...
The message is the same!
Quality political commentary since 1969!
Roy Rolling
(6,915 posts)3. One of my favorites. NT
valerief
(53,235 posts)4. Why does the term 'conservative compassion' come to mind?
hatrack
(59,584 posts)6. An article in The Atlantic a few months back said it best:
"The Beatles Of Comedy".
Bingo.