Critical Essay by Blaine Allen
It is difficult, one must admit, to write anything clever after viewing a film which includes such episodes as "Hell's Grannies," "Joke Warfa...
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Critical Essay by Clive Barnes
Pure, unadulterated madness has invaded the City Center 55th Street Theater. A bunch of lunatics calling themselves Monty Python have taken over the theater and are forc...
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Critical Essay by Thomas Meehan
[The Pythons] have a singular genius for making nonsensical fun of all who are pompous, pretentious, humorless, or boring, or who take themselves too seriously. In shor...
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Critical Essay by Joe Medjuck
If you liked Auschwitz you'll love And Now For Something Completely Different. Virtually every joke is based on killing, maiming, destruction or sexism. This film ...
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Critical Essay by William F. Buckley, Jr.
[Monty Python's TV episodes are] most easily described as a National Lampoon romp through history. The rule, in this sort of thing, is that nothing, no...
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Critical Essay by Lawrence Christon
The Monty Python octet, rooted in British university and music hall humor, likes to go after some of the fundamental ideas and institutions of Western civilization,...
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Critical Essay by E. S. Turner
Nobody likes to intrude into a private joke. Seven pages of [Monty Python's Big Red Book] (there are only 64) are taken up with letters and telegrams expressing t...
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Critical Essay by Matthew Coady
Not all the Python funnies work [in Monty Python's Big Red Book]. In print one is more aware of a sagging jest than on a screen which, in the next instant, is ma...
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