On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:21 PM, K.M. Richards <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> PTV is where I discovered Monty Python, >> >> My first Python encounter was also on PBS... I recall it vividly... > during a night of insomnia as a pre-teen I was channel surfing and happened > upon "And Now For Something Completely Different." I'd never seen anything > like it. It was followed by a John Byner sketch comedy show that was also > bizarre. > I will share my 1st encounter with Python, in part because I am not sure if kids do these two things any more. We could not get a decent UHF signal where I grew up in the northeast San Fernando Valley. In junior high school I stumbled upon a snowy image of Flying Circus, and asked some friends about it the next day at school. First Encounter 1A: One of my friends had (it turned out) an uncanny ability to memorize and mimic Python, and began a new career as a popular kid (he was otherwise painfully shy, and could not use his memory to do well in school) regaling us with what seemed (and later pretty much proved to be) extended verbatim performances of Python. I first heard "I'm a Lumberjack" and "Norwegian Blue" and "Spanish Inquisition" in this way, and they lent catch phrases to our group long before most of us had every heard the original. First Encounter 2A: At some point during that period, one of my friends got a hold of "Another Monty Python Record", and I spent many nights at his house listening over and over to it (do kids listen to comedy albums anymore? Mine do not - they watch internet clips of comedy bits, but not albums. A couple of years ago I was so pleased to get DVD's of Firesign Theater ("Nick Danger) and Steve Martin's "Lets Get Small". On a long car trip I proudly played them for my kids, knowing they would love it and think I was cool - but it bombed, as the idea of listening to comedy rather than watching it on the internet seemed quaintly absurd to them. Sometime in high school we were finally able to watch all of Python, TV and films, which I loved of course, but maybe not quite as much as hearing my friend perform it during lunch, or listening to it late at night during those sleepovers. I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?... -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
