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Episode 15 - Eric Idle and Neil Innes - The Rutles

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December 7 th 2011 / 10:00 am    |   Tags: comedy on vinyl eric idle neil innes monty python rutles gomiller worden klamm lp ep album humor wit discussion roundtable deconstruction analysis music parodu satire beatles   |   Notes: 3

After Monty Python, Eric Idle continued the sketch comedy television with Rutland Weekend Television, which featured “The Seventh Python,” Neil Innes.  Best known beyond The Rutles as an amazing absurd satirist, Innes brought a musical legitimacy that Idle, with impressive musical credentials of his own, likely couldn’t match.  Also, Innes did a dead-on John Lennon.

Hardly the first mock-documentary, this is one of the first - if not THE first musical-themed film in the genre.  A pretty literal parallel of the actual history of The Beatles, The Rutles is impressive, if only for its attention to detail.  The songs are, in many cases, dead-ringers for actual Beatles songs (which apparently caused a legal problem or two), and the story an absurd twist and comment on Beatlemania - an obsession that, no matter how you feel about The Beatles, is easily seen as one of the strangest phenomena to ever ripple through pop culture.

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Episode 12 - Monty Python - The Instant Record Collection

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November 2 nd 2011 / 10:07 am    |   Tags: monty python comedy album vinyl record lp eric idle john cleese graham chapman terry jones terry gilliam guskin klamm worden michael palin bbc instant record collection humor wit satire absurdism   |   Notes: 29

MPIRCIt’s taken much too long to get to Monty Python, given our collective love for the group, perhaps best demonstrated by how many Holy Grail references make their way into this podcast.  This is a great primer album, though it makes little sense to listen to this until after watching the series and, of course, Holy Grail and Life of Brian.

They were the gods of irreverence and detractors of the end portion of a sketch.  Inspired by The Goons, Ernie Kovacs and a host of other insane comedy-types, Monty Python was something new to their UK audience, but was something mind blowing for an originality-starved US audience that wouldn’t see their first episodes until a few years after they originally aired.  Nerds everywhere rejoiced and further found one more reason to believe they would always be alone.  Until they met that special someone who could also say “anarcho-syndicalist commune” without breaking a sweat.  Listen and enjoy.

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Host: Jason Klamm

Producer: Mike Worden

This Week’s Guest: Jeremy Guskin

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