I sit with NewsTalk 1010 host Deb Hutton on NewsTalk 1010 to talk about being at TIFF on 9/11. Then, we talk about the rerelease of The Man in Black’s 1976 comic book “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash,” what the ghostly figure adorns the cover of Black Sabbath’s debut album is up to today, how the “South Park” guys are satirizing Trump’s America-first renaming push in the show’s new season, and I recview “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger” and “Practical Magic 2.”
Check out Richard’s cineplex.com article on Monty Python as the Beatles of Comedy.
“’I’ve got two legs from my hips to the ground, and when I move them, they walk around,’ isn’t a line with the elegance of, ‘Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away,’ but it is a lot funnier.
“Comparing the work of Monty Python and The Beatles might seem like equating apples to oranges, or guitars to crunchy frogs, but it really isn’t that much of a stretch. Eric (Idle), Graham (Chapman), Michael (Palin), John (Cleese) and a couple of Terrys (Gilliam and Jones) have a lot in common with John, Paul, George and Ringo.
“Monty Python has been called the most influential comedy troupe of all time. Their absurdist brand…” Read the whole thing HERE!