Bloody peasants
I’m two months late, but I’ve just read Dave Eggers’ New Yorker piece on Eric Idle’s Spamalot, a musical adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The long opening does the usual background on Python. Annoyingly, he refers to the DVD of all forty-five episodes, a package that the BBC has yet to release in the UK. All we have is “Best of” selections. Fuckers.
That’s not all that annoyed me. Eggers uses the word “seasons” to refer to each series of episodes. It’s series Dave. We have series. And then, in running through post-Python careers, he doesn’t include Ripping Yarns. WTF? And the play Terry Jones worked on is not about “a pair of music-hall comics” but the most popular TV double act in British comedy (the 26 million people who watched their Christmas shows in the 70s would not fit into a fucking music hall).
Still, it looks like a fine musical. Eric Idle is the new Andrew Lloyd Webber! His next project is a musical version of Life of Brian: John Cleese Superstar.
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- Idle thoughts
- Observing McSweeney’s
- I love you because you look like Jim Reeves
- Pat Metheny Eviserates Kenny G
- Will Self Competition: Win The Book Of Dave
