debate about mid-20thC British comedy roots
Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:03:41 +1100
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>>>>Wasn't St. Swithin in one of those Brit movies about a girls' school?
>>>As others haved pointed out, that was St. Trinian's.
>>>St. Swithin's does have a relatively obscure Brit TV connection, though.
>>
>>completely ignoring the much funnier series of books the series was
>>based on, by Dr Richard Gordon.
>
> You know, it kicked off with the Goon Show and just kept rolling
> though the sixties and then they got into a lot of Royal Family lala
> land and Monty Python and Bonzo Dog. Then we all went to war. Hurray.
the Goons were 99% driven by Spike Milligan, partly as a way to deal
with his being shellshocked in the second world war and partly as a
reaction to the "bloody awful music hall comedy" that was prevalent at
the time. i'm certain Spike was of pure Yeti blood.
Monty Python was just where the british university comedy revue elite
got onto television; there were quite a few of them peripheral to the
Pythons, like Dr Jonathan Miller[1]. they ruled until the punks took
over; Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, etc.
[1] the Oxygen Deprivation story.
Dr Miller had an excellent series about medicine and biology called "the
body in question". he demonstrated a significant point[2] relating to
respiration by almost suffocating himself on camera.
[2] that the distress in suffocation isn't from a lack of oxygen, but
from too much carbon dioxide. he breathed into a closed system that
filtered the CO2 out of the mix so his body couldn't tell it was
suffocating.
Correspondent:: kdetal@aol.com (Yada Yada Yada)
Date: 13 Nov 2004 14:47:08 GMT
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>[1] the Oxygen Deprivation story.
>
>Dr Miller had an excellent series about medicine and biology called "the
>body in question". he demonstrated a significant point[2] relating to
>respiration by almost suffocating himself on camera.
>
>[2] that the distress in suffocation isn't from a lack of oxygen, but
>from too much carbon dioxide. he breathed into a closed system that
>filtered the CO2 out of the mix so his body couldn't tell it was
>suffocating.
Wow, now this is an interesting fact.
See I learned something on Alt.Slack today!
Of course the down side is that Joe will add it to his genocide repertoire.
--
"It's my kind of night most hollow and most null
a fan of compass fingers collapsed into the white laughter of slumbers."
-Cesaire
Correspondent:: "Rev. Simion Simian"
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:37:53 +0000
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. nikolai
kingsley sat down and wrote
>Monty Python was just where the british university comedy revue elite
>got onto television; there were quite a few of them peripheral to the
>Pythons, like Dr Jonathan Miller[1]. they ruled until the punks took
>over; Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, etc.
Since then we have Chris Morris, who is in a DIFFERENT UNIVERSE from all
the other 'comedy'. 'Blue Jam' IS the night hell sweaty sheets listening
of the British subgenius
http://cabinessence.cream.org/
or more gently -
http://chilled.cream.org/forums/onthehour.php
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Rev. Simian