Not the Nine O'Clock News - Monty Pythons worshipers

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sph · 2024-10 · Joke / meme

Linux: let's bump the major version just because Python: for the love of God [1] don't touch the version I wonder if the scar tissue will ever heal and we'll see a Python 4 in two decades. 1: [VIDEO]

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NeedMoreTea · 2019-08 · Joke / meme

Like most people at the time, it was the Not the Nine O'Clock News skit that everyone knew of and were talking about afterwards. I only saw the cringe worthy debate when it was repeated, some time after Mel Smith's far more mature debate. :) [VIDEO] Muggeridge and the bishop sounded incredibly pompous and anachronistic, even in 1979. The Catholic church particularly organised a fabulous publicity campaign for the Pythons. Every few days yet another fossilised Arch something-or-other relic turned up in the news to complain of a film they hadn't even watched. I thought Meaning of Life carefully directed at ridiculous Papal edicts and Catholic dogma, vs equally ridiculous CofE flavoured Protestantism, rather than anything against Christianity itself. It was wildly heretical - against the church, but not blasphemous. And had the Galaxy Song, so should have been far more successful than it was. :)

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irb · 2019-04 · Joke / meme

There was quite a good sketch by Not The Nine O'Clock News which reversed that debate, in which the film The Life of Christ is accused of parodying the revered Monty Python. [VIDEO]

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