If Graham Chapman had not died, do you think Monty Python would have done a Shakespeare parody?
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probably romeo& joliet
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John Cleese lives. At last I heard unless he recently died. Check out Johncleese.com
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Do you even know what "tantra" means...or black magic for that matter. Gosh, if only Anton LaVey could see you now...he would laugh at your mockery. But since he's dead, I'll do it for him...\nHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Hey, your majesty, learn how to finish a sentence. \n*rubs stomach from laughing too hard* Goodness, all the fruits and nuts are out tonite...hey, we could make a pretty good fruit and nut salad...anyone interested; drinks on me!
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old joke!\n\ni think he would have run over the cat and the world would be a different place... until the next guy saw a cat face on and invented it himself
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Mm, sounds like Shakespeare to me...
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You should watch "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".  It is a very accurate portrayal of the good and bad things that knights did.
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Shakespeare really  came up with his plays, however   Nicholas Rowe and Alexander Pope, were responsible for publishing/editing the plays, so it is hard to say what Shakespeare's original words really were. There is also speculation that Shakespeare was not "smart" enough to come up with the plays that he did. Some believe it could be different Earl's and auhtority figures, but I hardly believe it.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail tends to make fun more of the romanticised view of knights and the middle ages created by Renaissance and Victorian story writers rather than real minstrels/ knights etc.\n\nThe minstrels in Holy Grail were depicted in this vein. In the romanticised version they were hangers on who just sang the praises of their lords (although in Holy Grail, the minstrels made fun of Sir Robin's cowardice instead - at least until they were eaten). Real minstrels were more likely to be multi-skilled high ranking servants in a court of a king or lord, specialising partly in entertainment, but also partly in retelling oral history. Minstrels were adept at recognising the emblems of lords and kings and would also act as heralds, and as signallers in battle (with trumpet or drum signals). Travelling minstrels (or troubadours) wandered the country earning what they could from entertaining the people. These tended to play coarser songs that appealed to the common people (they also tended to be thieves).\n\nThe idea of "courtly love" and protecting those in distress is also largely a victorian myth. Codes of Chivalry existed, about not killing those who had surrendered etc, but was only practiced amongst the knights themselves. If you were a peasant, you didn't count. The idea of knights storming castles to rescue damsels in distress, as Lancelot does when he storms Swamp Castle, were created by Victorian writers selling the idea that women were to be weak and submissive. In fact, Medieval women were not particularly weak and submissive and there are a number who were war heros in their own right.\n\nMonty Python and the Holy Grail is not a satire per se, but rather a gently pastiche of all of those swashbuckling movies of the 50s and 60s (often starring Errol Flynn or Burt Lancaster) that the Pythons probably remember watching as kids (mixed up for good measure with ideas from Dante etc that both Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam were fond of, hence the muck and disease). The animation comes about, partly because it's a recognisable element from "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and partly because they were working on a very small budget and couldn't afford anything better (hence also the coconuts). The "documentary" sequence with the Famous Historian were relics from earlier drafts of the script where Arthur's knights eventually found the Holy Grail in the modern day, in Harrods.
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hello, acorn, ....they say there was a  phantom of the opera ...he was real they say. so i assume so. and i am very much in agreement as to people giving sarcastic answers ...hmmmm.so , yes ...i believe there was .
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hahaha.....Both were very good,,,,,,,, Now would you be so kind as to please post some more jokes.......lol
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Totally bring back The Mary Whitehouse Experience! Genius comedy, I still have the video if you wanna borrow? I don't even have a video player now lol\nMy fave bits were Milky milky and that History Today bit....  \n"See that? Thats your mother that is." Haha bloody brilliant.\nI'd forgotten David Baddiel used to be funny, what a prick he is these days! Whatever happened to Rob Newman? \n\nAs for Only Fools, it still makes me smile to think of him falling, but thats because I haven't seen it in years, just cos something is repeated doesn't mean you have to watch it!\n\nBut in general yeah, too many bad, bad repeats!
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um. . . William Shakesphere??!!!
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Yes, it is definitely Shakespearean.  There is a great article on the Bush 41 in the New York Times by Maureen Dowd (Nov. 9, 2006 Op-Ed) entitled "A Come-to-Daddy Moment."  The title says it all.  An excerpt from that article:\n\n"Two trusted members of the Bush 41 war council, Mr. Baker and Mr. Gates, have been dispatched to discipline the delinquent juvenile and extricate him from the mother of all messes."\n\n"Mr. Gates [was] already on Mr. Baker's 'How Do We Get Sonny Out of Deep Doo Doo in Iraq?'" study group."
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Strictly speaking, this does not answer your question, but it might be fun to keep in mind that Shakespeare (whoever he was) basically ripped off the story of Romeo and Juliet from some French novel or something that ripped it off from some other source that was an adaptation of an old Greek story (or something like that).  It might be better to judge Shakespeare by some of his other works, rather than the admitted fluff that is Romeo and Juliet.
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it was stated in an interview that he requested it.\nHe thought it was funnier.\nHe was on a soap opera  during the same time.\nSadly I heard that he died awhile back..
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I thought the Pink Panther movies were a  riot. Still watch one when given the chance. I like Monty Python too.
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Hell yea I would. He'd be awesome to make fun of plus he's got a funny voice so when you're high you can laugh at something that's actually funny. ITS MY POT PIE!