GavinTheAlmighty: Tom Arnold was actually really good in "Happy Endings"

For me the pinnacle of his career will always be True Lies. I feel ashamed that I still laugh at his lines in that movie.

NightGirl: What is it with Eric Idle? All the other Pythons moved on to other, successful careers. He tried one project - Rutland Weekend TV - and has been flogging the dead horse of the Pythons ever since.
I loved Python, but the original series does not need adding to. Cleese has the right idea.

I have to agree - we saw Idle perform at Carnegie Hall in the late 90's - the show was called something like "the last cash grab" or something - Idle loves those sorts of titles. It was sad. The low point being turning "the nudge nudge wink wink" sketch into a rap song.

There was one very pleasant section where he told the story about Eric The Half A Bee before singing the song, but other than that it was very shrill.

Don't ever try and tell me Cleese isn't funny. This may be the closest civilization will ever get to the perfect comedy.

zarberg: For me the pinnacle of his career will always be True Lies. I feel ashamed that I still laugh at his lines in that movie.

True. In a close second: showing up in the nick of time to help DMX in Cradle 2 Tha Grave. In a tank.

Would you like to come to my place and bouncy bouncy?

UNC_Samurai: Don't ever try and tell me Cleese isn't funny. This may be the closest civilization will ever get to the perfect comedy.

There's a reason that constantly gets listed as the best comedy television has ever produced. Goddamn Fawlty Towers is hilarious.

I'm just gonna leave this here.

UNC_Samurai: Don't ever try and tell me Cleese isn't funny.

Nobody is trying to say Cleese was NEVER funny. They're saying that Cleese isn't funny ANYMORE.

Skinkadink: My brain hurts.

You're too?

/At least I got the surgery.

GSD4Ever: Drop your panties, Sir William. I cannot wait until lunchtime.

Beg pardon?

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: I'm just gonna leave this here.

i designed it. i built it. it's my baby.

why are you banging your head against the wall? we all saw you, you silly man.

you mean i raped you and didn't kill you?!?!

stagger, crawl, stagger, stagger. or was it crawl, stagger, stagger crawl? or...

(all from memory - love that movie - almost unknown sadly)

Two Dogs Farking: MasterThief: Dr. Rosenrosen: Is it not possible that Cleese has other projects going on and simply cannot rehearse and act in the live performances? Scheduling is complicated and live performances are a big chunk of time. The fact that he is involved in the documentary suggests that this is not a "I'm better than you" motivation.

No it isn't.

Yes it is.

Wow! Were you both on the debating team in school?

So why does everyone think Cleese is an asshole now?

TonnageVT: Would you like to come to my place and bouncy bouncy?

Sorry, but my hovercraft is full of eels.

Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein of Gelderland: GSD4Ever: Drop your panties, Sir William. I cannot wait until lunchtime.

Beg pardon?

I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

docmattic: Wow! Were you both on the debating team in school?

If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another five minutes.

Maybe Cleese went assholish when he starred in a few Bond films and then dropped everything to go 'more serious.' I mean, that's got to be a blow.

A few things:

1. Cleese actively participated in Spamalot providing the voice of God, whereas the others just showed up on stage for the premiere and then griped about it (as is their right) in the press later on. And if there are any Pythons he didn't get along so well with, it'd be Eric anyway, so it seems like some scheduling/personal thing rather than animosity.

2. Neither pompous and Hollywood-y nor winding up a drug casualty: George Carlin.

3. No pooftahs.

4. Has Palin confirmed there will be no more travel documentaries?

5. No pooftahs.

6.

/morning Major!

for good or for awesome: If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another five minutes.

I already paid!

zarberg: for good or for awesome: If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another five minutes.

I already paid!

No, you didn't.

UNC_Samurai: This may be the closest civilization will ever get to the perfect comedy.

Don't mention the war!!

zarberg: for good or for awesome: If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another five minutes.

I already paid!

*whistles idly*

The President of Hittin' That Ass: A few things:

2. Neither pompous and Hollywood-y nor winding up a drug casualty: George Carlin.



Not that he didn't try. (George had at least two close calls and a good bit of his heart disease can be traced to cocaine usage in 1960's and 1970's.)

docmattic: Two Dogs Farking: MasterThief: Dr. Rosenrosen: Is it not possible that Cleese has other projects going on and simply cannot rehearse and act in the live performances? Scheduling is complicated and live performances are a big chunk of time. The fact that he is involved in the documentary suggests that this is not a "I'm better than you" motivation.

No it isn't.

Yes it is.

Wow! Were you both on the debating team in school?

...fail

GSD4Ever: Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein of Gelderland: GSD4Ever: Drop your panties, Sir William. I cannot wait until lunchtime.

Beg pardon?

I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

No it isn't!

ColSanders: UNC_Samurai: This may be the closest civilization will ever get to the perfect comedy.

Don't mention the war!!

YOU ALL

wjllope:
He got old and stayed funny and didn't turn into an asshole.

to which I'll add:
Rodney Dangerfield



You must not have heard the stories of his legendary douchbaggedness.

There's a dead bishop on the landing, dad.

The President of Hittin' That Ass: A few things:

2. Neither pompous and Hollywood-y nor winding up a drug casualty: George Carlin.


George Carlin was the epitome of pompous late in his career, and certainly enjoyed his drugs early on...


//Right you. The one in the middle, what do you think?
///splunge!

UltimateNimrod: There's a dead bishop on the landing, dad.

I could go for a little rat sorbet. Thanks a lot!

The most recent thing I've seen him in was John Cleese's Personal Best in which he portrayed himself as a vile, racist, homophobic bastard. The only reason I could tell it was an act was it was so realistic a performance that it had to be.

One of the crossbeams gone out askew on treddle

"...And the grumpy, unfunny, tall one."



"It's people like you what cause unrest."

UltimateNimrod: There's a dead bishop on the landing, dad.

Suffragette, or Diocesan?

/I don't know who keeps bringin' 'em in here

GSD4Ever: UltimateNimrod: There's a dead bishop on the landing, dad.

I could go for a little rat sorbet. Thanks a lot!

what diocese is he?
i dunno.
check for a tattoo behind the ear.

FlashHarry: cleese is a colossal, epic dickhead.

He's spent the last forty years assailed by nerds trying to impress him by reciting "The Dead Parrot Sketch" in a terrible British accent.

It'd turn you into a sour asshole, too.

Guntram Shatterhand: Maybe Cleese went assholish when he starred in a few Bond films and then dropped everything to go 'more serious.' I mean, that's got to be a blow.

I believe that was it too. Him as "Q" (or "R", whatever) was a sad move in his carrer.

Cleese had some sort of odd video podcast, with him teaching film students how to read scripts, and all sorts of odd garbage that bored me to death.

I'll put him and his ex-wife on a pedestal for a few brilliant episodes of Fawlty Towers, but he mostly lost the funny many years ago.

Note, I said 'mostly': He did some sort of Python Reunion show that was on PBS a number of years ago now... just a history of the Python's, including an interview with him at his house, with a hot woman in a swimming pool. Very tongue in cheek, and hilarious stuff.

I think there was also a 'anonymous' black screen interview with Eric's 'mother' who curiously sounded a lot like Eric, then the lights came on, and there was a naked girl sitting on a chair. I miss riveting interviews like that on TV.

dna_level_c: It's not a reunion without Chapman and Cleese.

chapman'll be there. in urn, o'course.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: I'm just gonna leave this here.

Best movie ever.

Dr. Rosenrosen: MasterThief: No it isn't.

Two Dogs Farking: Yes it is.

Thanks for clearing that up, guys.

You want Argument in Room 12A, this is Abuse.

kinsineriksin: ...fail

No it isn't.

Courtney Cox-Zucker: NightGirl: What is it with Eric Idle? All the other Pythons moved on to other, successful careers. He tried one project - Rutland Weekend TV - and has been flogging the dead horse of the Pythons ever since.



He shows up in unexpected places all the time.

Eric Idle voiced Wreck-Gar in The Transformers: The Movie.

The Wreck-Gar you have pictured is from the Transformers: Animated tv series, and was voiced by "Weird Al" Yankovic.

/Now you know!
//And knowing is half the battle!
///Wait! Wrong toy line!

ColSanders
UNC_Samurai: This may be the closest civilization will ever get to the perfect comedy.

Don't mention the war!!

German: You started it
Basil: No I didn't
German: Yes you did
Basil: No, you invaded Poland!

GSD4Ever: UltimateNimrod: There's a dead bishop on the landing, dad.

I could go for a little rat sorbet. Thanks a lot!

Can I get some Crunchy Frog with that?

Courtney Cox-Zucker: NightGirl: What is it with Eric Idle? All the other Pythons moved on to other, successful careers. He tried one project - Rutland Weekend TV - and has been flogging the dead horse of the Pythons ever since.



He shows up in unexpected places all the time.

Palin, Jones and Gilliam were know to show up unexpectedly as well.

also, one of the pest post-python projects ever

chemrebel: GSD4Ever: UltimateNimrod: There's a dead bishop on the landing, dad.

I could go for a little rat sorbet. Thanks a lot!

Can I get some Crunchy Frog with that?

We're all out. How about Spring Surprise instead?

chemrebel: GSD4Ever: UltimateNimrod: There's a dead bishop on the landing, dad.

I could go for a little rat sorbet. Thanks a lot!

Can I get some Crunchy Frog with that?

Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.

Cleese is demonstrating the value of not being seen.