Monty Python Live

December 10, 2007 @ 3:16 PM

“You're either too young to have seen it, or too old to remember. Either way, it's new to you.”

Well, maybe it's not, since the DVD was published in 2001, but whatever. It hasn't been featured here yet, and that's all that counts. If you don't know Monty Python at all, then...No, it can't be. You have to at least know that terrible song “Always look on the bright side of life.”

That's pretty much the worst thing they ever did. Which, in turn, means that everything else that they did is somewhere between decent and really good.

“Your beer is a little like making love in a canoo. It's fucking close to water.” Seeing Eric Idle dressed up as an Australian philosopher making fun of his “typical Hollywood audience” of 18.000 heads in the famous Hollywood Bowl (“All the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on rollerskates!” is something you don't want to miss.

This double DVD pack contains a live performance by the complete Python staff (including director extraordinaire Terry Gilliam) in the Hollywood hills, recorded in 1982 but still hilarious, an HBO appearance in Aspen 1998, where they (John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, and the late, powdered Graham Chapman) talk about 30 years of Monty Python with host Robert Klein, a collection of the best sketches of their first 20 years, and a special little treat, which is too German to explain. And the best thing about it: if you don't like it, it's still the perfect gift for your parents. Seriously.