Subj : Re: Zany comedy
To   : Guilbert
From : Cardinal Fang
Date : Fri Aug 12 2005 10:05 pm

From: "Cardinal Fang" <latinum_no_spam@yahoo.co.uk>

The Marx Brothers can't be in the Python style as they pre-date Python.

"Guilbert" <guilbert@nospax.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
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>I mentioned zany comedy in an append on this  forum, and I wondered
> who else people though was in the 'Python' style.
>
> From my point of view it would include:
>
> The Marx Brothers - some of their zany comedy was amazing.
>
> The Goons - a historic BBC radio show from the 1950's. So way
> out and so far ahead of its time.
>
> Of course Spike Milligan was the driving force of the Goons and
> he went on to make a series of TV shows called the 'Q' series (Q5
> etc). The Pythons still say he beat them to it with their style of comedy
> (no punchlines, sketches flowing into other sketches etc).
>
> Mel Brooks - SOME Mel Brooks including Blazing Saddles,
> Young Frankenstien, High Anxiety
>
> Steve Martin - Some of the early Steve Martin films fall into this
> category - The Man with two brains, The Jerk - he is a great
> fan of Python.
>
> Mike Myers - Some of Wayne's world, and the Austin Powers
> films have many zany moments - he is of course a great fan of
> English comedy.
>
> Some of Saturday Night Live - but then of course it was started
> by fans of Python - Belushi, Ackroyd, Chase, etc
>
> Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker - Airplane, Naked Gun etc
>
> Any more ?
>
>
>

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