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Cleese and Chapman have fair powerful always been my popular Pythons, and the chance to behold them alongside the incredible Marty Feldman (always Igor in Young Frankenstein to me) and Tim Brooke Taylor was too honorable for me to pass up.
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The material here is shining. This is the sort of anti-authoritarian, incisive, satirical stuff in embryonic obtain that would obtain its fleshy fabricate a few years later as Monty Python’s Flying Circus. There’s even a skit, The Four Yorkshiremen, that the Pythons would regularly earn in their live shows. And since the shows were recorded virtually live, its astounding to contemplate when something goes putrid, such as the Policemen in Slouch, where they’re all obviously struggling to support from laughing. I also bought the “Do Not Adjust Your Status” collection, which is aimed at younger children, and doesn’t appeal to me as well, although it does own Palin, Indolent, Jones, and occasionally Gilliam.
There is some surviving video from twelve of the thirteen episodes from its 1967 broadcast, and it seems like most of this material is spliced together from those bits to do the five ‘episodes’ packaged here. I don’t know if this contains all the surviving material.
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As is most surviving TV shows from this era, the image quality (being a film copy of a video recent) is unpleasant. Many contemporaneous episodes of Doctor Who, for example, have been restored to near-original condition with the exhaust of VidFire technology, and certainly this point to is unbiased as meritorious of restoration.
I dock this one star for the packaging. At honest over two hours, why this couldn’t be fit onto a single DVD is beyond me. No commentary, no subtitles, a hard-to-read menu cloak. There are interviews with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Michael Palin (of Do Not Adjust Your Station), but these are also included on the “Do Not Adjust…” discs too. Audio exists for all 13 episodes, and it would have been nice to hear some of those lost skits (Cleese and Feldman doing “Bookshop”, for example) .
Would any one want to leer this if the careers of John Cleese and Graham Chapman had ended here? Mostly, I deem not. There are some righteous laughs, and a one hour package could be made that would be tremendously comical. But having to contemplate the radiant Aimi MacDonald over and over, feeling as if her inanity and tedium is sucking the oxygen legal out of my room, is painful. And like Monty Python, sometimes the boys don’t seem able to distinguish between a comical concept and a humorous sketch. The Nazi game exhibit host probably sounded wildly laughable, watching it is excruciating.
So, an early incarnation of the Four Yorkshiremen, one-upping each other with tales of their melancholy childhoods, is possibly funnier than the later MP version. Marty Feldman, playing Michael Palin, Eric Lazy and Woody Allen, is often sparkling, demonstrating a breadth unseen elsewhere. The Chartered Accountant Dance with a previously unknown to me Tim Brooke-Taylor is fair. Several clever peek gags expose up unexpectedly, providing surprising mirth. And a genuinely clever skit of Scotsmen at the ballet is well executed. I liked distinguished of this, and don’t regret seeing it. But comedy for the ages? Nooooo, I consider not. I’ll fraction my copy with friends, but if it somehow never finds its plan attend, I’ll not be terribly disappointed.
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