Go to Lego's Blog
Go to Dermot's Blog

Subscribe
Follow
What mean Expendable?
07/09/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Adventures in Babyhaving
06/09/10 Average Rating: 0 out of 5
Warning : Speculation
12/07/10 Average Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Adventures in driving
07/07/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
05/07/10 Average Rating: 4 out of 5
Pipe Up
23/04/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
More Bard News
21/04/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Volcanoes and Elections
20/04/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Grumpy Old Deathwish
29/03/10
The Apple
27/03/10 Average Rating: 2 out of 5
1987
26/03/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
The Long Bad Wednesday
25/03/10
Art for Art's Sake
23/03/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Modern Slash
22/03/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
A Little Bit 'Special'
16/03/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Dead Happy
05/03/10 Average Rating: 3.3 out of 5
Video Killed The Radio Stars
03/03/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Sunday Zoo
01/03/10
Im Flugzeug
20/02/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Radio Times
17/02/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Intellectual Property
16/02/10
Happy Loveday
15/02/10
Average + Retarded = Avatar
11/02/10 Average Rating: 3.5 out of 5
A Load of Pony
25/01/10
I Want To Lie Down With A Lion
18/01/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
'You Lecherous Moron'
17/01/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
A National Treasure
15/01/10
Snow
13/01/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Friday The 13th
12/01/10 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Steaks are High
11/01/10 Average Rating: 4.2 out of 5
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
16/11/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
BBC Bashing
10/11/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Kenny Effing Powers!
09/11/09
No More Heroes
06/11/09 Average Rating: 3.7 out of 5
What I Did In My Holidays
04/11/09
Jellyneck
22/09/09 Average Rating: 3 out of 5
Can Buy Me Love
10/09/09
Memory Lane
27/08/09 Average Rating: 4 out of 5
Shitting Stars
26/08/09
The Life and Death of My Pop Star Life
25/08/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Are You Being Offended?
24/08/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
My Generation
14/08/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Home Alone 2 : Lost In 1939-1945
12/08/09 Average Rating: 4.3 out of 5
Home Alone
29/07/09 Average Rating: 3 out of 5
Context
28/07/09 Average Rating: 2.7 out of 5
Summer is a bummer
27/07/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Time Waster
26/07/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Yes, but how did it Happen??
25/07/09
He Must Have Some Agent
24/07/09 Average Rating: 3.8 out of 5
Day 2
23/07/09 Average Rating: 4.3 out of 5
A New Morning
22/07/09 Average Rating: 4.1 out of 5
The Sadness
21/07/09
Who Punishes The Punisher?
17/07/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
The New Blog
09/07/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Baby, You're A Ritchie Man
21/05/09 Average Rating: 3 out of 5
An Englishman's Home Is His Castle
20/05/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
The Return
05/05/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Double Trouble
06/04/09
It's The End Of The World As I Know It
05/04/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Not Good Enough
30/03/09 Average Rating: 3 out of 5
Picture This
24/03/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Size Matters
22/03/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
The Death of Mother Tongue
19/03/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
I Am Modern Man
18/03/09 Average Rating: 4.6 out of 5
Not Ready
16/03/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Watched
10/03/09 Average Rating: 4 out of 5
Wired
08/03/09
The Running Man
26/02/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Run, Fatboy, Run
25/02/09 Average Rating: 4.7 out of 5
Absent Friends
09/02/09 Average Rating: 4.8 out of 5
Snow Wonder
02/02/09 Average Rating: 4.2 out of 5
A New Breed of Hero
21/01/09 Average Rating: 4.2 out of 5
You Be The Judge
20/01/09 Average Rating: 3.7 out of 5
Take Hart
18/01/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
What's In A Name?
17/01/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Don't Remake Me Over
16/01/09 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Random Fluctuations In The Space Time Continuum!
08/01/09 Average Rating: 3.8 out of 5
The Future Is Already Written
07/01/09
The Shortest Story Ever Told
06/01/09
Demon Seed
03/01/09 Average Rating: 4.5 out of 5
2008
30/12/08 Average Rating: 4 out of 5
What's Cooking?
29/12/08 Average Rating: 3.8 out of 5
A Feel Good Story
21/12/08 Average Rating: 4 out of 5
The Curse
19/12/08 Average Rating: 1.8 out of 5
He's Not The Messiah!
15/12/08 Average Rating: 4 out of 5
Who throws a shoe?
14/12/08
Sneaky Christmas
10/12/08
Feeling Blu
09/12/08 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
SHT
07/12/08
Gategate
02/12/08 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Comedy of Errors
30/11/08 Average Rating: 3.7 out of 5
For What It's Worth
27/11/08 Average Rating: 2 out of 5
Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters
23/11/08
National Expression
20/11/08 Average Rating: 3 out of 5
A View To A Job
18/11/08 Average Rating: 1 out of 5
Last Bus Gone
17/11/08 Average Rating: 4.1 out of 5
Jungle Nobodies
12/11/08 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
The Cage Strain
11/11/08
A Common Practice In Poland
07/11/08 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Close Encounters of the West Country Kind
06/11/08 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
David Brent Would Vote For Barack Obama
05/11/08 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
I am Legend
04/11/08 Average Rating: 4 out of 5
Setting The President In The Art World
03/11/08 Average Rating: 5 out of 5
My Word Is My Bond
02/11/08
A National Treasure
Ah, Palin
15/01/10
When I was a nipper, my favourite Python was John Cleese. I would watch him in anything, even Clockwise (The most stressful film ever made).

As I have got older, and perhaps wiser about the mechanics of comedy. I have realised that the real genius in the group, the person who really gives the most joy and unadulterated pleasure in his silliness, is Michael Palin.

The reason I write this is I recently finished reading his second diary "Half way to Hollywood". Whilst many may offer that they find Palin boring in real life, I dont.
I feel like he is our nation's lovely uncle that you just love to hear from or see.

His diaries are just so nice to read. Obviously, I bought the first one for some behind the scenes Python insight. When I finished it I was more interested in Palin than the Pythons.

The second volume really serves to underline just how good Palin is. I had no idea that he wrote Time Bandits, which was one of my favourite films when I was little.

The 1980's were such a rich decade for Palin, in terms of filmmaking. Time Bandits, The Missionary, A Private Function and A Fish Called Wanda. All basically classic British films. Not to mention that he turned down any involvement in Yellowbeard (A genius decision, terrible film) and was almost going to be in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (The part eventually went to Michael Caine).

I am looking forward to the next diary and reading about his many adventures.

Ah, Palin. He really is a national treasure. I say a knighthood is in order.

John Cleese on the other hand has gone right down in my estimations over the last 10 years or so. Ever since Fierce Creatures it seems the John Cleese that we knew (A Fish Called Wanda, Fawlty Towers) is no more.

He has been in some utter shit of late, too many really to mention. The Pink Panther 2 is worth a mention. Cleese plays the part made classic by Herbert Lom, Chief Inpecter Dreyfus. With his classic ticks and nervous giggle, that part was pure gold.

I haven’t seen The Pink Panther 2 but I am willing to put my house on the fact that Cleese does none of this, just as Kevin Kline didn’t in the first one.

John Cleese knew Peter Sellers and even worked with him in The Magic Christian (which was also shit by the way). At any point during filming, do you think that John Cleese sat there, watching Steve Martin murder yet another classic comedy creation and felt proud?

Do you think he was significantly artistically challenged? No, it was purely for the money, which seems to be the only driving force behind Cleese's every choice these days. I suppose that it is to pay off the numerous women he has married and then divorced. Silly sod.

Don’t even get me started on Eric Idle; he is my least favourite Python. He is just ALL about the money these days, which is a shame.

When you watch the original Python series; Idle was something of an enigma. The only Python to write alone and also a really great performer. He had a great gift of delivering long rambling monologues and also was very adept at playing the slimy characters or wide boys (I'm only pullin' your leg, crucifixion really!).

Rumour has it that he wanted to do a sequel to The Holy Grail a few years ago, even though Graham Chapman had been dead for a while.

So, he decided to write a musical around it and made MORE money. I hear he is writing a musical based on The Life of Brian, so, it would seem that until he shuffles off this mortal coil, he will not be stopped trying to milk the Python cow (George Lucas seems to be the same these days with Star Wars).

It must be also noted, that he also did a sequel to The Rutles using left over footage from the first one...Need I say more?

Still, it's good to see that neither Gillliam or Jones have sold themselves to Hollywood. Which they could have quite easily done.

Gilliam can hardly raise money to make films and seems to be avidly avoided in some Hollywood circles. Jones is always a joy when he pops up on TV with his historical programmes.

I often wonder just how fed up the Python team must be about answering the same questions in interviews over and over again. I saw something recently about their 40th anniversary. They were all on an American chat show and the interviewer asked the same old questions that you hear them asked all the time.

George Harrison used to say that the same force that was with the Beatles (in terms of innovation and creativity) was with Python (The Beatles split around the same time Python formed) and I think there is somthing in that.

Talking of The Beatles. The Hallmark channel were showing a biopic they had made about John Lennon the other day. The man playing John Lennon had obviously only ever seen the John Lennon in Forrest Gump. It was awful. He looked and sounded nothing like him.

I wonder if there will be a Python biopic one day?

In other news, Iain Lee has left Twitter due to the amount of abuse he received regarding "The Persuasionists", a new sitcom about an advertising company he is in that started the other night on BBC 2. Apparantly the abuse has been relentless. I must say, it was absolutely terrible and everyone involved should kind of be a bit embarrassed. If you missed it, you are lucky.

But to be honest, the abuse shouldn't really be directed at Iain Lee, but the writer.

Adam Buxton was pretty bad too, he is lucky he hasn't got a Twitter account.

Most new sit-coms are often compared to previous greats. If I had to have a go at comparing The Persuasionists to anything else, it would be the 90's CITV childrens sit-com "Spatz". The show had a childrens TV style of delivery. Everything was fast paced and everyone was a total caricature. I really couldn't believe it was on BBC 2.

Anyway, at least it's Friday. The weekend is nearly here and time to sleep.

Follow Ted (MrJohnRain) on Twitter
Comment on This Article
 Your comment will be added automatically once you click on submit.
Your name:
Comment:
Overall Rating out of Five:
ZeroOneTwoThreeFourFive

HOBO-BONOBO.co.uk
Back to Index Page | What's New | Search | Links | Link to Us | Feedback | Contact Us | Site Map
The opinions expressed on Hobo-Bonobo.co.uk are not those of anyone, particularly not the people to whom they have been accredited.
The content of the site is intended to be humourous, and is not intended to offend anyone.