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The non-dead bits of Monty Python have decided to put everything up, for free, on YouTube, in the hopes that it will encourage people to buy their DVDs. I already have my DVDs, bought from Amazon Germany because they were massively cheaper and in bigger bulk and still in English from Europe than bought in the UK. But this is the sensible way to go about it and it will be worth watching, if this encourages fresh sales of Monty Python merch. If nothing else, John Cleese has got all that alimony to pay...


The Monty Python YouTube Channel. Seems to have some rare-ish stuff, like the Cleese/Palin Amnesty 'Dead Parrot Sketch'.

Labels: comedians, comedy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, piracy, YouTube

[via pretty much everyone I know on the intarwebs who doesn't think that choosing some deranged church looney on the sole grounds that they don't have a Y chromosome (and whats more, have you heard all the Fundie Christians start praying that McCain has a heart attack and dies once in office as President, how fucked up is that?) is a sensible basis for selecting a running mate.]

Labels: American Presidency, comedy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Republicans, YouTube

'Welsh tart' mayor wants to lift the ban on showing The Life of Brian in Aberystwyth.

"Given what's on TV now I think it's amazing a ban in Aberystwyth still exists," said [Sue] Jones-Davies, who played Brian's love interest, Judith Iscariot, in the film.

Labels: Christianity, Monty Python's Flying Circus, movies, religion