Showing posts with label John Cleese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Cleese. Show all posts

Monday, October 27, 2025

Vital Viewing (And Now for Something Completely Diabolical Edition)

 


Halloween is almost here, the time of year when we take perverse delight in getting the hell scared out of us, and what better way to get the hell scared out of us than by a creature from Hell? Of course, I'm talking about the Devil, a.k.a., Satan, Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub, Belial, Old Nick, Old Scratch, the Evil One, the Arch Fiend, the Serpent, and the Antichrist. 

Did I leave a name out? Oh, yes. Blair:




Scary, huh? But is it fair? Can there be another side to the Devil? Can Satan be misunderstood? 



John Cleese offers this perspective:

 


So you might want to consider chipping in a few dollars. It will do your soul some good. Assuming it hasn't already been sold.

Friday, January 3, 2020

Quips and Quotations (TV Sketch Comedy Edition)



In fact, there were some Americans who when they saw Monty Python said, "These guys are ripping off Saturday Night Live." Whereas of course we were pre-Saturday Night Live. But if you'd seen Saturday Night Live and hadn't seen Python, and then you see Python, those conventions had been broken already for the audience, even though we were doing that stuff first.

--John Cleese