Monty Python (was: Freeware Python editor)

[Mark Jackson]

Mikael Olofsson <mikael at isy.liu.se> writes:
> 
> On 01-Nov-2001 Oleg Broytmann wrote:
>  >  On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:39:31AM -0500, Steve Holden wrote:
>  > > [Makes note to remember that Oleg isn't a Monty Python viewer.]
>  >  
>  >     Few years ago I tried to view the scetches - there was Russian
>  >  translation of them on TV - but found them stupid and boring. Well, I was
>  >  in bad mood those days, may be now I'd find it more interesting :)
> 
> You should really watch them in their original language. And I admit,
> some of them are not that great (those where legs and arms are cut off 
> and blod everywhere). But then there are the others (for instance the 
> dead parrot sketch), where the humour is in the language. And they are 
> fantastic.

Evidently Monty Python is funny in French.  We once went to see Holy
Grail in Paris and it's a good thing we knew the dialog by heart; since
the audience could read French subtitles faster than the actors spoke
in English there wasn't a single punchline that wasn't drowned out by
audience laughter.

Could be a contextual mismatch; I can imagine that the (no cheese in the)
cheeseshop sketch might not seem funny in St. Petersburg. . .

-- 
Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson
    After a recent trip to New York one French journalist remarked that
    leafing through a copy of /Forbes/ or /Fortune/ is like reading the
    operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship.
					- Adam Gopnik