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Chuck /
Friday, July 31st 2009 - 01:50:17 AM

i have to join this!

Sooo I'm a sophomore at Bloom U right now, but planning on transferring to Penn State next year...and i must say, while browsing the clubs looking for ways to find potential new friends with similar interests in a big new school, I stumbled upon this group and proceeded to giggle with delight and dance around the room, because it's right up my alley. :)Just had to say that. That it sounds like a great new group, and hopefully I can be a member next year.

Liz Hildebrand /
Wednesday, March 19th 2008 - 12:20:01 AM

Halllo!!!

Hello. It is soo good to see the cream de la cream of American youth hurling themselves bodily on the sacrificial alter of absurdist humour. Indeed if more youth could be induced to sacrifice themselves in such endeavors I dare say the scourge of potatoe de divan would be eliminated from the face of the earth. As it is I feel a need to support such endeavors as yours. you have inspired me and so we will be hosting a rather large Python event here in texas. If any of your memebers should find themselves in Grapevine Texas between the days of June 15th and June 19th 2007 then please let them know they are welcome to celebrate all things python with us. Also we shall use our merriment to raise funds for a small child who is suffering from a dibiliatateing condition know as RSD. Look forward to reading of more of your adventures...Toodles

Aaron Jay (Spiney Norman) Glendenning, Esq. Spc4, Ret. Dec. / The British Emporium
Saturday, May 19th 2007 - 02:20:06 PM

Halllo!!!

Hello. It is soo good to see the cream de la cream of American youth hurling themselves bodily on the sacrificial alter of absurdist humour. Indeed if more youth could be induced to sacrifice themselves in such endeavors I dare say the scourge of potatoe de divan would be eliminated from the face of the earth. As it is I feel a need to support such endeavors as yours. you have inspired me and so we will be hosting a rather large Python event here in texas. If any of your memebers should find themselves in Grapevine Texas between the days of June 15th and June 19th 2007 then please let them know they are welcome to celebrate all things pyhtin with us. Also we shall use our merriment to raise funds for a small child who is suffering from a dibiliatateing condition know as RSD. Look forward to reading of more of your adventures...Toodles

Aaron Jay (Spiney Norman) Glendenning, Esq. Spc4, Ret. Dec. / The British Emporium
Saturday, May 19th 2007 - 02:18:46 PM

Thank You

I am a big MP fan so thank you for this site

Rainie /
Wednesday, December 20th 2006 - 09:51:35 AM

Dave and Tom Comedy Show review

Weekend Review: “Dave and Tom’s: A Tribute to Dave and Tom”
By Julianne Fylstra
DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF
jfylstra@media.ucla.edu

"Dave and Tom's: A Tribute to Dave and Tom"

Santa Monica Playhouse

Saturday, Oct. 14

David Beeler and Tom Konkle, best known as the British comedy team that brought laughter to audiences all over the globe, died Saturday at 8 p.m.

Their deaths were confirmed in the play "Dave and Tom's: A Tribute to Dave and Tom," and they are survived by repeated performances at the Santa Monica Playhouse until Oct. 29.

The show, which is a tribute to these dearly departed souls, is made ghoulishly gleeful in that the tribute is hosted by none other than Dave and Tom themselves.

The pair isn't actually British (try American), but apparently they have nine lives – or at least two, as they claim to have been deceased well in advance of the tribute show's premiere.

But willing suspension of disbelief isn't too hard to do here, because these fictitious Brits run through sketch after sketch without losing any steam. The audience is thrown into a world where anything is possible and everything is gut-bustingly funny.

Beeler and Konkle's chemistry make "Dave and Tom's" a treat to watch.

They build off each other's wild gestures, energy and antics as if they've known each other all their lives, even though they met in 1999. The wide range of sketches require Beeler and Konkle to play characters who are polar opposites of each man's previous part, yet the duo pull it off with ease.

One of the best sketches is "Doctor Braintree," which happens early on in the show. Tom plays a doctor who has been having an affair with Dave's wife for years and just discovered test results that show that Dave is going to die in three months. The problem is, these results have been lost for three months, and today is Dave's date with the grim reaper.

The "Braintree" sketch seamlessly turns into the longest death scene ever – the next sketch, "Thus Die I" – as Dave proceeds to die after being shot hundreds of times while Tom flashes cards that say "The Godfather," "The Godfather II," "Scarface," "Platoon," "The Terminator" and so on.

It may be the longest death sequence an audience has seen in ages, but it's also the best: Beeler's facial expressions are priceless, and the amount of positions he can contort himself into make Jenna Jameson pale in comparison.

Another excellent sketch is "The Publicist," which involves Konkle dressed as Dave and Tom's old, frumpy female publicist, complete with glasses and a wild hairdo to match. This is the best monologue in the entire show, as the publicist gets drunker and drunker, stumbling offstage and returning with dark stains all over her dress. She talks about how having ample parking outside a theater is the secret to a show's success, only to wonder aloud, "Why do I keep getting dropped off in parking lots with strange men?"

Dave and Tom may be dead (kind of), but their tribute show is more lively and hoppin' than a grasshopper on speed. In other words, don't miss it, or you'll be gravely sorry.

Tom / Tribute Show Review Konkle Beeler Actor Writer
Wednesday, October 18th 2006 - 10:17:31 PM

Hiya

The weather here is windy and a bit wet, after about two weeks of sun - my graduation was the hottest day ever (in Britain). Incidentally my brother stole the sign from outside Michael Palin's old school in Sheffield, but had to give it back.

Douglas McNair /
Tuesday, August 1st 2006 - 06:09:17 PM

McFwap is back

See the new page. new shows, old history, new sketches and brand new look of McFwap. Konkle, Beeler, Stearns, Neill and Vianelli professionals, writers, actors, producers, actors, directors.

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Thursday, January 26th 2006 - 10:15:58 AM

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I am the PR Director of a Monty Python club and was wondering after I saw your brain numbing site. It was that if your infamous club was doing any big events soon if we could maybe come watch. If this was at all a possibilty would you please email us. Thank you for reading to my meaningless rant and Good Day

The Monk who goes NI /
Monday, November 28th 2005 - 12:21:36 PM

Death to Snacktreats

I believe that the title says it all. Though I must admit, it is an excelent way to weed out the weak among the new people, but I still intend on being there.

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Thursday, September 22nd 2005 - 08:55:55 PM

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adam /
Sunday, September 18th 2005 - 10:23:11 AM

Club

I would be interested in knowing if you are still meeting and if the day will change from Sunday.

Jerri /
Wednesday, August 31st 2005 - 08:33:55 PM

my personal opinion

this shows over 30 years old losers, LIVE IN THE NOW!

who cares /
Sunday, July 24th 2005 - 11:41:10 PM

Let the fjords pine for their own damn selves for a change!

The group is still very much alive. I'm just no longer able to update the website, having left Penn State (after 9 years) and the cushy comforts of my job there. I'm sure someone will get around to replacing me as webmaster...eventually.

Big plans are afoot this semester, from what I've heard. At the very least, there's going to be a live performance of sketches and songs in the HUB and then later -- if all goes according to plan and everybody eats their Wheaties -- world conquest!

Collage away!

Fred /
Thursday, March 10th 2005 - 07:26:34 PM

Anyone home?

I noticed that most of the pages on this site had not been updated this year. I'd like to now if the sociaty is still around, as it may affect weather I will enroll in this collage. Really.

Emerald Frigidare Baxter /
Tuesday, March 8th 2005 - 12:10:27 PM

Beowulf

Fred if you are still there.

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danny brooks dalby /
Monday, February 21st 2005 - 06:24:32 PM

Sketch Comedy

LA Fest of Sketch


The McCadden Place Theatre
1157 N. McCadden Place
LA, CA 90038
(1 blk. East Of Highland Ave., 1 blk. W. of Santa Monica Blvd.)
free parking at 1150 N. McCadden Place
Reservations Highly Recommended: (323) 463-2942
Tickets: $10, stay for second show $7, stay for third show $5

website: 4LAFS.com

Double Act with Dave and Tom thurs November 4th at 9pm
Saturday Nov 13th at 10pm
Friday Nov 19th at 8pm

ALSO! McFwap returns with three shows

Nov 6th at 9pm
Nov 12th at 8pm
Nov 13th at 9pm

Please come and pass this invite along to others who might like to see the sketches.

Tom / Los Angeles Sketch Comedy festival
Wednesday, October 27th 2004 - 02:21:45 PM

Just testing.

I'm bored. I'm not sure this works. I'm not sure those are good enough reasons to be testing this. But here I am, doing just that. And, what's more, telling you about it. Sad, isn't it? What I'm reduced to, just so I can relieve a moment's boredom and test a silly messageboard -- one, I might add, nobody probably reads anyway, even if it is working -- which I sincerely doubt. Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. I'm just testing.

Fred / occasional fish
Monday, September 27th 2004 - 03:50:28 PM

scaling the mall

As a former Penn Stater I recall an ocassion of special eccentricity and plain old paradigm shifting put-on by the PSMPS that involved brave and intrepid climbers ascending the precipitous slope of the mall leading up to the library. I am considering mounting a similar expedition in another land far away and would appreciate any advice, or historical reference that you all might be able to lend.

Much thanks and good sailing

p.s. don't forget the relish.

Holger V. Bergstein /
Thursday, January 22nd 2004 - 10:30:42 PM

The lumberjack skit

I absolutely love the lumberjack skit. It's so rediculous. Thanks for an awesome website. I have a link on my homepage. Monty Python Rules!

lumberjacks rule /
Saturday, November 22nd 2003 - 02:01:24 PM

Eric Idle on Around the World in 80 Days

I am a huge Monty Python fan and I can thank a mini-series back in 1989 that introduced me to my all-time favorite Python, Eric Idle, who I nicknamed my username in honor of his character, Jean Passepartout on "Around the World in 80 Days". Graham is the straight man, Michael the idiot but funny and cute, Terry G the animator, Terry J dressed in drag but does it the best of the five(or six when Terry G makes occasional appearances), John is the glue(and the Flying Circus wasn't any good when he left in the 1973-74 final season) but Eric put the sex in Monty Python. I would love to have some people share my interests in Eric and if anybody has any more memorabilia since the mini-series I have on tape for a decade. Thanks!!

Passepartout / Passepartout
Sunday, November 16th 2003 - 06:24:39 PM

Python's Roots

Southern CA November 12, 2003

Beyond the Fringe and Beyond

Reviewed By Hoyt Hilsman

Presented by: ReEstablishment Players


In the early 1960s a group of precocious Oxbridge undergraduates tweaked the international funny bone with a revue called Beyond the Fringe, which mixed absurdist, offbeat humor with a sophomoric university sensibility. The creators of the revue became some of the best and the brightest of British writers and humorists: John Cleese, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, and Michael Frayn. This distinguished group had an impact on a whole generation, not only of British humor but also on the international comedy scene, and was responsible for the Monty Python and Fawlty Towers series, as well as many other films, plays, and comic works. While there are probably millions of devotees of the Beyond the Fringe sketches, which were released in recorded form, many of these skits have faded into dim memory. Thanks to the ReEstablishment Theater troupe, however, the pieces are now back onstage. And while some of the bits are a mite threadbare and dated, they still retain the wry flavor of the originals. "A Bit of a Chat" is typical of the classic Beyond the Fringe humor. An upper-class father--or "twit" as the Fringers might call him--has finally gotten around to having a chat with his son about the birds and the bees. This might seem a normal enough situation, except that the son is 36 years old. Things get even more odd when the father explains, with great embarrassment, that babies are conceived when mothers sit on chairs that have been recently occupied by their husbands. "The Great Train Robbery" presents an interview with a Scotland Yard detective, who patiently explains that the train itself was not stolen and that the police have concluded that the perpetrators were thieves, as no one else is likely to have committed such a dastardly crime. English public school is lambasted in "Fatal Beatings," in which a dour headmaster informs a student's mother that the boy has been administered a fatal beating because of a minor infraction of the rules. He consoles her that all is well because they don't expect any further such infractions to occur. And Shakespeare takes it in the gullet both in "Shakespeare Master Class," in which each syllable of the Bard is dissected ad absurdum, and in "So That's the Way You Like It," which butchers Shakespeare's language and stage action to hilarious effect. While the performances lack much of the punch of the original personalities, the troupe--which includes Joseph P. Dunn (who also directs the evening), Tom Konkle, David Beeler, and Ella Carter--faithfully re-creates the irreverent tone of the material.


BEYOND THE FRINGE AND BEYOND

Comedian Peter Cook revolutionized British satire in the 1960s with his revue, Beyond the Fringe; his venue, the Establishment Club; and his magazine, Private Eye — setting the course for Monty Python. Anglophile comedian Joseph P. Dunn’s ReEstablishment Players lovingly re-create sketches from Beyond the Fringe and the Establishment Club, written by Cook, John Cleese, Dudley Moore and others. Americans Dunn, Tom Konkle and David Beeler, who’ve worked together since 1999 in the first Beyond the Fringe, An Evening Without Peter Cook, all grasp that peculiarly dry English humor and play off each other well.

Admittedly, it’s challenging to get across these occasionally creaky comedy routines that mostly jab at English repression and were originally performed before an audience of inebriated Brits. Highlights include second-act opener “The Invisible Man,” in which Dunn plays an uptight suit accosted by an invisible presence on a subway, and “A Bit of a Chat,” in which an elderly father (Dunn) is still too embarrassed to tell his 36-year-old son (Beeler) about how his parents conceived him. The 70-minute show would undoubtedly flow better if director Dunn cut a couple of lackluster scenes and dropped the unnecessary intermission. ReEstablishment Theater in the Brewery Arts Complex, 622 Moulton Ave., Unit E, dwntwn.; Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; thru Nov. 29. (323) 993-5790. Miriam Jacobson (Miriam Jacobson)

McFwap /
Thursday, November 13th 2003 - 03:17:22 AM

Python lives at the Santa Monica Playhouse!

WHAT: The Three R's: Sex, Madness & Death, a zany evening of all-new comic delights guaranteed to make you think twice, laugh out loud and/or shift uncomfortably in your seat. Presented by humor masters Lester McFwap, the "well-educated, Monty Python-influenced quintet" (The Hollywood Reporter).
WHO: Featuring the members of Lester McFwap: David Beeler, Tom Konkle, Michael Neill, Stephanie Stearns and Gino C. Vianelli, Production Design by The Attic Room

WHEN: TWO WEEKS ONLY! Friday & Saturday, December 5-6 & 12-13, at 8:00pm.

ADMISSION: All seats $15.00. Proceeds from this event benefit the Save The Playhouse Campaign

WHERE: Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 Fourth Street (between Wilshire & Arizona) Santa Monica, CA 90401-1391

HOW: Reservations are necessary

Evelyn / McFwap Sketch Comedy
Thursday, September 25th 2003 - 02:03:57 AM

Wicked!

I ran into the site a while back, then lost the link. I found it again (yay!) and took the liberty of putting the link on my sites. I loved the interview stuff....and everything else, that I looked at. Very good job!

Woo Python!

Lisa / Py Are Squared (All six Pythons!)
Thursday, September 11th 2003 - 07:19:03 PM

Sketch Comedy Lives!

LESTER McFWAP’S INNUENDO & OUT THE OTHER Lurking behind an ungainly moniker, the sketch comedy troupe Lester McFwap reveals itself as surreal, intelligent and very funny. The group is described in its press material as Monty Python influenced, and at least one piece, Thomas Konkle’s erudite "Astronomer’s Cup Final" the recap of a race wherein famous stargazers perform according to their theories is a striking re-creation of the Python vibe, which demonstrates itself mainly in the strength of the writing. The majority of the other sketches written by Lindsay are admirably diverse. "Leakey About the Eyes" features Lindsay and Mary Magara as scientific researchers who’ve fallen in lust with their test subjects, a dolphin and an orangutan, respectively. "Airline Food" is mordantly hilarious, with Konkle and Lindsay as airline pilots informing their in-flight passengers just how things are going to be after the world has just been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Konkle is particularly fine here as the captain, saying outrageous things over the intercom, midflight, in the recognizably silky tones that come from the cockpit. Magara is bitingly funny in "L’Attitude," as the superheroine Frenchwoman, whose dual powers are seduction and mockery. Gino C. Vianelli’s "Disarming Statements" is also quite effective, with a demolitions expert attempting to defuse a bomb but distracted by his co-worker coming on to him. Raven Playhouse, 5233 Lankershim Blvd., N. Hlywd.; Thurs., 8 p.m.; (Terry Morgan) LA WEEKLY

Stephanie / Sketch Comedy Review
Wednesday, April 30th 2003 - 01:04:04 AM

Hey world

As I sit here at my computer, I find that my life has become temporarily boring... and (like the good club-member that I try to be) I find myself seeking sillyness. For some reason, my internet travels led me back here...

So I say this to all who read my message:
Seek the silly. Find the funny. Enjoy the absurdities. And (above ALL else) be yourself, it just happens to be who you are.

AND NOW OFF WITH YE, MATEYS! ARRRR!

Matt "Fuzzybeard the Pirate" /
Tuesday, March 11th 2003 - 10:36:15 PM

British comedy

We're getting ready to send out our new SAVE THE PLAYHOUSE BENEFIT

GOOD NIGHT
a comedy billed as "a sketchy play and tribute to the style of
Dudley Moore & Peter Cook"

Good Night
"It's British comedy, American made."
by David Beeler & Tom Konkle
with David Beeler & Tom Konkle
directed by Michael Neill

Saturdays at 10:00pm
March 22 through April 27
All seats $10

Evelyn Rudie
Co-Artistic Director, Santa Monica Playhouse
1211 4th Street, Santa Monica CA 90401
310-394-9779 ext 623 erudie@santamonicaplayhouse.com

Please donate to the SAVE THE PLAYHOUSE CAMPAIGN! The Playhouse celebrates
its 40th anniversary this year. Please help us keep the doors open!

Evelyn /
Saturday, February 22nd 2003 - 01:21:26 PM

power to the peeple

Power to the peeple! I attend an evil university that has sold it's refrehment soul to Pepsi, and I wanted to congratulate you for making a stand!

"wee will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them on land!"

out

Some call me "Dan" / none of your business
Monday, February 10th 2003 - 11:40:12 PM

hey

I suppose I could send this to the list...If I was on my computer...and remembered the place to send it...but on the offchance someone will read this:

Hey you lazy punks, when are we going to start meeting this semester? SUndays are probably good for me again, at least for now...Someone declare a day and time and let's go with it.

Lindsay /
Sunday, August 25th 2002 - 10:38:56 PM

Python collectibles on offer

If anyone collects old records, I currently have some Monty Python items on offer.

LPs:
THE MONTY PYTHON INSTANT RECORD COLLECTION
THE RUTLAND WEEKEND SONGBOOK

7" singles:
GALAXY SONG /EVERY SPERM IS SACRED
I LIKE CHINESE / I BET YOU THEY WON'T PLAY THIS SONG ON THE RADIO
ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE /BRIAN

Book:
THE RUTLAND DIRTY WEEKEND BOOK

With $1 Australian Dollar currently equal to around only US 54c,
there's no better time to catch some of these collectables.

For more details, please visit my website:

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Greg / Full details
Wednesday, August 21st 2002 - 07:36:15 PM

Second world premiere?

Source: http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/july20/budgie.html

Doubt over Chapman 'finds'
Sketches had been performed before

NEW RELEASE EXCLUSIVE


The 'unseen' Monty Python sketches due to be premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe are not as much as a revelation as had been claimed.Huge publicity greeted this week's announcement that London-based Sketch Club were to perform three Graham Chapman scripts for the first time ever.Jim Yoakum, literary executor of the Graham Chapman Archives, had claimed: "These sketches have never been seen outside the confines of Graham's desk drawer."But at least one of the sketches has already been seen, during a month-long production in Los Angeles.

The sketch Who's A Pretty Boy Then?, about a gay budgie, formed part of a Monty Python tribute show Owl Stretching Time, which ran at the Santa Monica Theatre in November and December last year. Strangely, the shows were presented with the apparent backing of Yoakum, whose name appeared on the posters.Tom Konkle, one of the performers in the Santa Monica production said the sketch opened their second act.

He told Chortle: "A good deal of time and money was spent on a world premiere of Graham Chapman's sketches and it is disconcerting to see it erased from history."It was a high-profile show, and you can really truthfully only have one world premiere."

Yoakum admitted the sketch had been "redrawn" for the Edinburgh show, telling Chortle: "Yes we've reworked some things, not majorly, but tweaks."

However, this skit, written for the cinema, was only performed once as the troupe felt they couldn't make it work on the stage.That this material had been seen before came as news to Brian West, half of the team behind Sketch Club.He said: "If we find out that the Chapman Archive have been yanking our chain, we'll obviously cut the sketches from the show immediately."Owl Stretching Time was one of the original titles considered for Monty Python's Flying Circus. Graham Chapman died from cancer in 1989.Website for the original LA production

Mike / Graham Chapmans Never seen sketches premiere
Saturday, July 20th 2002 - 05:30:34 AM

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore tribute Show

Beyond the Fringe: An Evening With(out) Peter Cook



It’s not every week someone creates a live show in Hollywood to celebrate a guy who did sketches in England 30 years ago, but comics Joe Dunn, Thomas Konkle, Michael Lindsay and David Beeler have taken it upon themselves to pay homage to a true comedy innovator in Peter Cook. Among other accomplishments, Cook influenced the course of satiric comedy for generations by breaking through then-taboos against lampooning elected officials. The Monty Python brethren were in awe of him, and at one point Woody Allen saw fit to call him "Britain’s only comic genius." Cook died in 1995, and Dunn and company now reprise a number of his sketches from Beyond the Fringe, which was launched in the early 1960s with Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller and frequent partner Dudley Moore. The material holds up surprisingly well, especially a piece that could have been written for the millennium. It features an apocalyptic group that sits on a mountaintop, all holding "The End Is Nigh" signs, and counting down to the Big Finale. When the appointed time comes and goes without so much as a hint of calamity, the cult leader checks his watch. "It’s . . . spring forward, fall back, isn’t it, lads? Never mind, same time tomorrow ó we must get a winner one day." Another dry highlight is "A Bit of a Chat," in which an uptight man sits his son down for the uncomfortable talk about sex, or as he terms it, "The method whereby you came to be brought about." Dad describes the procreative process with authority: "It was necessary for your mother to sit on a chair which I had recently vacated, and which was still warm from my body, and then something very mysterious, rather wonderful and beautiful happened, and, sure enough, four years later you were born." Performing this stylized, absurdist material can only come from a labor of love, and the cast executes it flawlessly. If you shut your eyes, you can feel the comic rhythms of Cook, Moore and Monty Python

Tom Frykman
LA WEEKLY


REVIEWS:
"...a brilliantly realized and surprisingly bittersweet tribute to the father of modern satire...Dunn and Konkle in particular capture Cook's halting cadences and demented personas to perfection... KKGO RADIO

"...Dunn is a terrific stage presence, clearly confident and assured in his style, incorporating a range of subtle character moments and deranged touches...

"...Konkle must be the American love child of John Cleese and Michael Palin, an instantly funny presence on stage...

Tom / Beyond the Fringe 2000: An Evening With(out) Peter Cook
Wednesday, April 24th 2002 - 05:56:01 AM

McFwap reviewed doing new Python sketches

ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
Owl-Stretching Time
Santa Monica Playhouse
Reviewed by Tim Cogshell


Since November 2nd Monty Python has been on stage at the Santa Monica Playhouse. Well, not exactly... but it's certainly the next best thing. Indeed, the material is pure and actual Python, written by Graham Chapman, John
Cleese, Eric Idle and others; executed by the sketch comedy troupe Lester McFwap a group of American comic/actors well known for their own Pythonesque antics. Tom Konkle, David Beeler, Michael Lindsay, Gino C. Vianelli and Michael Neill are Lester McFwap, with Konkle also serving as the production's director. The show is like a trip in the wayback machine to the heart the British cult comedy circuit--circa 1970. Essentially the show consists of a troupe of American actors using sundry British accents (quite believably) and colloquially specific references while performing anglophilic comedy sketches written for a British audience some 30 or so years ago. And it's damn funny! Perhaps even funnier now as it would have been then, even had the actual Pythons performed 19 or so sketches, video and audio vignettes and other asides that make up the two hour performance.
In fact, none of the material in Owl-Stretching Time has ever been performed live before, so even Python aficionados will find it quite new and refreshing...if not a little odd. The material ranges from the loose-and-lewd, as in a dirty little scene in which an extremely "progressive" family presses the concept of sexual openness beyond its limits, to the odd, a sketch that take the audience behind the scenes of the BWF (British Wrestling Federation) where things are quite "gay," to a near stream-of-conscious intellectual stroll as Michael Neill and Tom Konkle play a couple of seasoned old ladies (as the Pythons often did) shooting pigeons and discussing partial auditory antisibilances and quantum physics whilst snorting pure coke... and just about everything in between. There are tightly woven narrative driven pieces that reflect John Cleese's particular sense of the pompous (as in the detective sketch), disparate shifts of tone (often involving gunfire) and flat-out jokes. This is pure Python, interpreted by a group of comedians who plainly enjoy paying homage to the style of comedy that's influenced them most. They're like a talented Beatles revival band, making you believe for just one moment that John and George are still with us. What the show isn't is remotely topical. There is not a single reference to the Taliban, Osama or George W. in the whole two hours. For that alone it's worth the full price of admission, which is $17.50. Catch it before it goes away. For ticket information call:(310) 226-7047or email info@lestermcfwap.com

Tim / McFwap does Python reviews
Wednesday, April 24th 2002 - 05:52:04 AM

ooh, I don't like that..

Just another short message about a particular moment in Python... it's that one with Terry Jones as the dish of the day. (It bears a resemblance to the dish of the day at Milliway's.) Eric Idle as the wife who, all of a sudden, goes "... RHYTHM METHOD!..." ... This has always seemed to me like a shocking moment ... is it even comedy? It's pretty interesting. I don't mean to kill the humor by dissecting it (too late) but I have always found that episode (also containing the squatter hippies in the man's stomach ... "Money isn't real.." ..... "It is from where I'm standing, young man, and it blows my mind!".......) to be one of the most interesting and sharp.

Peet /
Wednesday, October 17th 2001 - 06:10:32 AM

Advice

Advice for the young at heart, soon we will be older, when we gonna make it work.... I could be happy.... I could be so naive..... it's only me and my shadow.... happy in our makebelieve..... sorry, I know this message has nothing to do with Monty Python but when I saw that header "Advice," I couldn't resist. I did have a cogent thought. Suppose MPFC is a roving lens that scans across multiple universes, landing on a particular situation for anywhere from three seconds through a half an hour or more. You could (if you wanted to) see anything written by C,C,G,I,J or P for their entire lives as part of the same roving lens. It comes from that quality MPFC has, that ___Anything___ could happen in the next moment. This is why I love the TV shows so much, and so much more than the movies. Even though I think I have now seen them all at least once, there is always the illusion when an episode begins, that the lens is going to land on new people, places and things I have never seen before. I hope I never get familiar enough with all the episodes that this sense of the unexpected goes away.

Peet /
Wednesday, October 17th 2001 - 06:01:30 AM

Hellloooooo from Tejas

Hi, gang. I miss y'all. Almost nobody impersonates old, British pepper pots around here.

It was heartwarming to see on Derf's site that you're still active and taking a stand on the important issues. Hung lions, indeed!

I can't even *bake* a pie.
Much love,
Sharon

Steve Spyderella / Phlebotomy
Wednesday, October 3rd 2001 - 12:30:42 PM

Fall 2001: Virtually Lemur Free!

I know the website hasn't been updated in quite some time, but that's okay. We get by. I just wanted to let you know (if you didn't know already but still care) that we still meet every Sunday evening at 6:30 in 106 Osmond. That is all.

Fred Coppersmith /
Monday, September 10th 2001 - 01:20:56 PM

New sketches from Python performed live need fans support

We would like to tour and bring this to as many fans as
possible. Please let me know if you can help pass on the
word.

thank you.

Hello all:

Tom Konkle here. I am on Spy TV tonight Tues. at 8pm on NBC
playing Revel the fortuneteller with a difference!


I am excited as an actor who does sketch comedy and as a
fan of Monty Python to announce on Nov 2nd 2001 I shall be
performing the lost Python sketches in the world premiere
of "Owl-Stretching Time" by Graham Chapman, John Cleese,
Eric Idle , and probably the other ones but we really
aren't sure at Santa Monica Playhouse.

It's a world premiere starring sketch comedians from the
infamous troupe, Lester McFwap: David Beeler, Michael
Lindsay, Tom Konkle and Michael Neill paying respects by
bringing these new sketches to the public Friday, November
2nd at 8pm at Santa Monica Playhouse
(http://www.santamonicaplayhouse.com)
1211 Fourth Street
Santa Monica, CA

Call 310-226-7047 for advance tickets $15 or mention you
saw this posting and get them for $10. Shows every Friday
and Saturday through Dec 8th!.

It is a fun chance for California Python fans to see some
new material from the good old days of Python performed by
a sharp group of up-and-coming professional
writer/actor /sketch comics who love Python. In the past we
have toured with a revival of an updated Beyond the Fringe
(http://www.mp3.com/beyondthefringe2000) which was the Pick
of the Week in Los Angeles papers like the LA Weekly,
Beeler and Konkle have performed "Good Evening" by Cook and
Moore, you can see Konkle in all the Python-style "Quiznos"
sandwich commercials and as Revel of NBC's Spy TV, and as
Lester McFwap we have performed hundreds of original sketch
shows across the country winning festivals and called one
of the best up-and-coming Monty Python influenced troupes
performing today by The Hollywood Reporter in their 1999
Comedy Special Issue. Go on look up "Lester McFwap on the
web. I'm not kidding here!


Come see the show and reserve tickets early to get a
discount. See you in Santa Monica on Nov 2th at 8pm for the
closest thing to a Python Reunion yet and affectionate
performance of Owl-Stretching Time!


http://hometown.aol.com/tkonkle/comedy.html

Please email me if you like for advance discount tickets at
tom@lestermcfwap.com

Tom /
Tuesday, August 14th 2001 - 04:37:33 PM

I wish to register a complaint!

When is the web page going to be updated? I keep looking
at my monitor and by now my eyes could rival the cookie
monster and marty felman put together with a little bit of
jarjar binks for bad taste.

Still, I will keep watching and watching.

Steve Brezler /
Tuesday, July 10th 2001 - 11:06:04 PM

I wish to register a complaint!

When is the web page going to be updated? I keep looking
at my monitor and by now my eyes could rival the cookie
monster and marty felman put together with a little bit of
jarjar binks for bad taste.

Still, I will keep watching and watching.

Steve Brezler /
Tuesday, July 10th 2001 - 11:04:22 PM

Advice

Strangers hand out the best candy.

Captain Apparent / Earl
Tuesday, July 10th 2001 - 10:49:20 AM

About the Monty Python Society

So you say you wanna join the Penn State Monty Python
Society. Well then. For your edification:

1. Sometimes, late at night, when we're tired and weary and
think that it's clever, we like to call ourselves PSUMPS.
This is what we in this silliness game call "an acronym"
and not (as has been suggested) a tropical disease. So
don't look at us like that.

2. While some of us are still here in scenic State
College, the club itself is taking the summer off. We do
this every summer, and it's about time you dealt with it
and stopped your whining. I mean really. What would your
mother say? July is simply not a good time for us
to be wearing dresses and talking about fish in strange
accents while frightening young co-eds, now is it?

3. The club will, most likely, start up again sometime in
September when the fall semester begins. If you would like
to be notified when this happens, send a short e-mail
message to psumps-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, describing the
air speed velocity of an unladen swallow and how we can
notify your next of kin. Comedy, let's face it, is
dangerous stuff.

4. Don't be alarmed if we ignore you. Nine times out of
ten, we're just returning the favor.

5. As a group, we like to get together and act silly.
Sometimes we watch episodes of Monty Python's Flying
Circus. Sometimes we perform original sketches. Sometimes
we don't know what to do and so we go out and walk around
and point at things and call them fish, when quite
obviously they're not. It's remarkable we don't have a
major motion picture in the works.

6. We are the people your parents warned you about and if
you join us, we'll give you candy. You like candy, don't
you? Everybody likes candy.

7. My name's not Clement.

Thank you. That is all. Goodnight.

Fred Coppersmith /
Tuesday, July 10th 2001 - 12:00:14 AM

Bunn, Wackett, Buzzard, Stubble, and Boot

Dear Sirs,
I am highly offended by the complete lack of mathematics on
this webpage. Math is a lost art in this day and age, and
I think you strapping young lads should take the iniatitive
and do math and physicsize about the universe.
Yours etc.,
Dr. Albert Spim, DDS, MD, Esq. and all that.

Thomas Legnani the Negative Eighth / Go away!
Thursday, July 5th 2001 - 01:42:11 PM

quantitative silly scale

is this club silly? How silly? Because I don't think I'll
enjoy a gang of people who are too silly. Perhaps just a
modicum of silliness will be just right.

SO?

Tapalapa /
Wednesday, June 27th 2001 - 11:54:51 PM

I am bored, so...

FISH!

the... AMBASSADOR /
Wednesday, April 11th 2001 - 12:24:58 PM

What has been removed?

One question about the "Complete Flying Circus" DVD-set:
The say that it´s "uncut - with three exceptions"
Does anybody know what´s beeing cut?

Please help me, or I´ll fart in your direction.

Funky Sven /
Tuesday, April 10th 2001 - 10:17:38 PM

Lemurs From Hell

You (yes, you) are cordially invited to a performance of
original sketch comedy and songs this Friday evening, April
6th, from 10 PM until 1 AM on the first floor of the Hetzel
Union Building. The Penn State Monty Python Society will
once again present their smash hit comedic revue, Lemurs
From Hell, guaranteed to be more fun than at least three of
the other things you could be doing that evening.

Now go away or we shall taunt you a second time.

Fred Coppersmith /
Wednesday, April 4th 2001 - 05:38:03 PM

Icky-Icky-Peh-KAAnguaw-Zip!

Before the next skit, there will be a short Raspberry.
Thbbbtt!

Will Milner /
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 - 08:36:16 AM

A Very Very Funny Read

I have just read something on the site: www.storymania.com.
It's called "The Casebook of Dr Black and his Trusted
Assistant Ned". There are Python-like qualities to it. It's
very funny, very surreal and unlike anything I've read
before. It gets funnier as it goes on, so stick with it.

Bobby Jesus /
Tuesday, February 20th 2001 - 09:58:54 AM

rehersal

Kids, when are we rehersing next. It is Friday, write me
tonight.
Jude

Jude /
Friday, February 16th 2001 - 03:11:46 PM

regrettably selling my Python presskits

Hi. I’m trying to spread the word to Monty Python fans that
I have several rare Python-related movie presskits up for
auction on ebay through Sunday, Feb. 11. These presskits
are for: “A Fish Called Wanda,” “Fierce Creatures,” “Nuns
on the Run” (Eric Idle), “Burn, Hollywood, Burn” (Eric
Idle), “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,” “The Fisher
King,” and “Eric the Viking.” My seller name on ebay is
ladyeve2. The following is a link to my auction page:
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItems&userid=ladyeve2&include=0&si
nce=-1&sort=2&rows=25
Feel free to contact me with questions about these items at
theladyeve2@yahoo.com. Thanks!

ladyeve2 /
Friday, February 9th 2001 - 10:16:37 PM

Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote project

Just to let Terry Gilliam fans know that this Sunday 4
February, The Observer is carrying a piece by Sean O'Hagan,
in the paper's Review section, investigating the collapse of
Gilliam's 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' project.

The piece is based on an exclusive interview with Gilliam
and can also be read on the paper's website -
www.observer.co.uk - from Sunday.

Sunder Katwala
sunder.katwala@observer.

Sunder Katwala /
Friday, February 2nd 2001 - 12:16:40 PM

I'm a huge Python fan.. respond if you are too!

i have the Life of Python DVD,Holy Grail, Meaning of life ,
Life of Brian and the 1st set of the Flying circus series;
all on DVD!!!!! i even went to that Eric Idle live show!
its so cool! too bad none of the others were there!!!

Jamie /
Wednesday, January 31st 2001 - 04:49:34 PM

Great Site, and South Park

Interesting site. I am interested in the club, but, I
certainly am not as animate about it as the actual members
must be. For instance, I can't write my own sketches, nor
would I be caught dead performing one. In any case, I am
aware of most of Python's humorous performances.

I saw the Mystery Science Theater 3000 link. Excellent
that someone other than my mom and I actually watch that
show. I've seen it since its first season on comedy
central (then the comedy channel). I'M HUGE!!!!

That said, does anyone have the South Park version of the
dead parrot sketch. It came out as part of the 30th
anniversay celebrations last year. Instead of a dead
parrot, its a dead Kenny. Anyway, if anyone has it, or
knows where to get it, just let me know. Thanks!

Mike Erali /
Monday, January 29th 2001 - 05:27:59 PM

Would someone e-mail or call

to let me know if the meetings are same as usual. Sorry
for not making it last sunday but I hope to (weather
permitting) this sunday

ellie /
Thursday, January 18th 2001 - 12:09:29 PM

Dost mine eyes decieve me? There is a Monty Python club??

This is sweet. Im going to come to penn state just to join
this club. you guys and gals are a dream come true to a
python (not the snake) like myself. By the way anyone got
any tips for slowly seeping the wonderful form of humor into
my high school. Im slowly hooking my friends but and always
looking for suggestions. THANKS ALL!

Gabby /
Monday, January 15th 2001 - 10:38:05 PM

How much dumb stuff is there in the world?

A question, if I'm not mistaken (and trust me, I am
very much mistaken) that has plagued philosophers and the
weak-minded for centuries, if not decades, and whose answer
is, of course, quite a lot.

Thank you. I'll be here all week. Drive safe.

Fred Coppersmith, All-Knowing Poohbah /
Monday, January 15th 2001 - 05:33:12 PM

Dumb Stuff

Somebody please tell me, how much "Dumb Stuff" is there in
the world ?

Jimbo /
Saturday, January 6th 2001 - 05:39:45 PM

Meeting times

I finally got e-mail address. but no computer. is
meeting times same as usual

ellie

ellie owens /
Thursday, January 4th 2001 - 09:50:34 PM

Happy New Millennium!

Okay, party's over, back to the books!

The Other OTHER Operation / The Bottom of the Barrel!
Monday, January 1st 2001 - 10:30:17 AM

Interviews

Looking for videotapes of interviews with Michael Palin and
Terry Jones (both of them partly about Meaning of Life)on a
show called CBS News Nightwatch in 1983. I'm looking
especially for the entire episodes of the show in each case.

Alexander Grant /
Monday, November 6th 2000 - 11:03:00 PM

Meeting

I have been told, and I quote:

"There will be a meeting Sunday, at 6:30. We will meet
in the Thomas Building lobby. We will be discussing the
Homecoming parade, other things about this semester, and I
believe we will be watching an episode of the Avengers.
Hope to see you there."

Fred Coppersmith /
Thursday, October 12th 2000 - 08:30:49 PM

Rather silly

I went to the Thomas building at 7 today, which was the
spring schedule, then I walked in on some arcitecture
class, and it was rather amusing. They were like can I
help you, I was like "Eh whats all this then?" They
informed me it was a architecture class or something
and I asked if I could sit and join them. lol So when R
the REAL meetings you silly sod?

ROB /
Wednesday, September 27th 2000 - 07:26:56 PM

Meetings

Is there any way I can get a list of upcoming meetings?

Seems like I should write more. Pretty straightfoward I
suppose...

Jeff Rubin /
Wednesday, September 20th 2000 - 07:55:08 PM

I saw weird ungodly stuff in there and i want in

ok allow me to rephrase how do I ME MYSELF THE PAGAN PEACH
join this society ...someone pleez help thank you

the pagan peach /
Monday, September 18th 2000 - 09:24:31 PM

I NEED TO KNOW WHEN THE MEETING IS

I can't send e-mail and I need some one to phone me
as to when the meetings are since I can't get any info at
all

ellie owens at ph # 814-234-7939

ELLIE OWENS /
Monday, September 18th 2000 - 07:08:22 PM

how the hell do you join this thing

well in the unlikely event that you did not understand the
question how the hell do i join the society???????? do i
just show up?? e-mail at jyn100@psu.edu or reply to this
thanx

the pagan peach

Joel "The Pagan Peach" Ndreu /
Monday, September 18th 2000 - 05:22:20 PM

Poster

Months ago someone posted a message about wanting a python
poster. Well, in the HUB, when the semester started, they
had a poster that was a picture taken on all the pythons
minus Gilliam wearing their costumes on the set of the holy
graile. So there you have it. Or, rather, I guess you
don't have it since the sale is over.

El Presidenté /
Tuesday, September 12th 2000 - 12:15:00 PM

This message board

This message board is quite silly.

Tony Anzivino /
Thursday, September 7th 2000 - 03:12:57 PM

when is the meeting

When is the meetings, and will someone call me.
Sorry I missed the last several meetings. Work.

No I am still not on a computer system so will
someone call me

814-234-7939.

ellie owens /
Wednesday, August 30th 2000 - 06:52:15 PM

All right...

Due to my incredible genius for this sort of thing, I've
gone and missed the meeting on Sunday. When & where's the
next one?

Kate /
Monday, August 28th 2000 - 06:01:13 PM

Meeting

Here's what I know, courtesy of Brad, who as I remember
is some kind of Society officer:

"The first meeting of the year will be help [sic] Sunday
evening at 6:30. We will meet in the lobby of Thomas
building. Reading material will be passed out. I guess I'll
try to bring a viodeo or something, but mostly we need to
discuss our plans for the year. Let's make this a great
year for the Penn State Monty Python Society. This is the
year our dreams of global conquest will come to fruition."

I'm not sure what a "viodeo" is, but I'm sure it's a lot
of fun and well worth a trip to Thomas Building (on the
corner of Pollock and Shortlidge, across the street from
Ritenour, for you freshman or easily confused upperclass
folk).

Fred Coppersmith /
Saturday, August 26th 2000 - 10:17:53 PM

Meeting Time & Place

So where and when does this illustrious Society hold its
meetings?

Kate /
Friday, August 25th 2000 - 05:46:03 PM

Birth-daze

First, become a close and personal friend of John Cleese.
Then, ask him. All done, and I didn't even break a sweat.

Fred Coppersmith /
Tuesday, August 22nd 2000 - 11:07:39 PM

Birthday Wishes

So, any ideas how I get a personalized birthday wish from
John Cleese? My sister is a huge fan (like who isn't)!

Simply Interested In... /
Tuesday, August 22nd 2000 - 10:44:15 PM

Incidentally...

You DO know that PythOnline Chit Chat (such as it is...) has
returned. But ya gotta register your name (ka-ching! Sorry,
wrong register), and so the race is on to see which KCAS will
get there first!

The Other OTHER Operation / The Bottom of the Barrel!
Wednesday, August 16th 2000 - 07:54:59 AM

Will the real KCAS please stand up?

Not that we'd ever be able to SEE you stand up, of course.
It's like that show "Quark" - which one is the clone?

The Other OTHER Operation / The Bottom of the Barrel!
Monday, August 14th 2000 - 11:21:17 AM

Eh, eh?

I knew I'd track down that other guy using the name Ken
Cleanair-Systems! Ha! Ummmmm.....ok, i guess that's it....

Different Ken Cleanair-Systems than that other guy /
Sunday, August 13th 2000 - 11:27:53 AM

LOOOOOOOOOKING FOR :

I would do anything for a poster of the completly Monty
Python's team.I just love these guys...I would pay for
it...we can even go to my place...

Mieszko Opi³ka /
Saturday, July 29th 2000 - 09:25:34 AM

I think I'm going to fit in here.

The incredibly tame squirrel in front of Old Main bit my
finger off as I tried to feed it some rancid bits of stale
bread...ouch.

Megan /
Monday, July 24th 2000 - 08:45:54 PM

The Four Yorkshiremen

Does anyone know where i can get a video clip of the full
version of "The Four Yorkshiremen/We Were Poor Sketch" as i
can't seem to locate it anywhere.

Brian /
Friday, July 7th 2000 - 10:19:46 AM

Stupid

The great thing about me is: that I am almost totally
stupid. And I posted the message titled 'Ok...'

Ken Clean-Air Systems /
Tuesday, July 4th 2000 - 05:48:02 PM

Waddya mean, "ok"??

I mean, what is "Ok", anyways? Is it singular for ox? Is it
part of some bizarre "'ok, 'ok, who's there?" joke? Oi mean,
we just might 'ave to 'ok some 'eads around here. And no, I
have no idea what I'm on about here.

The Other OTHER Operation / The Bottom of the Barrel!
Tuesday, June 20th 2000 - 10:31:00 PM

Ok.............

Monty python was ok..... i mean i only sall one video and
it was pretty good so i can only judje by that one vido so
i am just saying that its ok for now

Wouldnt u like to no / ahh....whats that
Saturday, June 3rd 2000 - 09:44:17 AM

Graham Chapman Redux

You know what? My dad used to work in Eisenhower auditorium
years ago, and when I was about 5 years old he took me and
my mom up there one evening and I was totally bored out of
my mind. It wasn't until about 15 years later when he told
me that he took us up there to the Graham Chapman show. Boy,
I wish I'd known then, or at least been old enough to
appreciate it. My parents had the Python records...and
probably still do...I used to listen to them all the time.
Terry Gilliam's cartoons, however, will always remain my
fave parts.

Alice Teeple / Exquisite Dead Guy
Thursday, May 25th 2000 - 06:58:52 AM

Radio Interviews.

G'day all,

Just a very quick note to let you all know that the series
of radio interviews I did with Terry Jones, Carol Cleveland
and Kim 'Howard' Johnson for the Pythons 30th anniversary
are now available on KHJ's website for you to read.
Audio of said interviews are coming in the future. If we
feel like it. Maybe.
New stuff coming soon. Stay tuned!

daz.

daz / The Pantomime Goose
Thursday, May 11th 2000 - 05:38:56 PM

Win Free Monty Python Stuff

Yes, that's right you can win a free gift.

Kim / Monty Python Silliness
Monday, May 1st 2000 - 03:42:37 PM

i have a theory... this is it. my theory. that is, the theory which is mine...

the attendence sheets were so amusing i had to hire three
men to wet my pants because i don't have a winkle! thanks
for the distraction you cheeky bastards.

E. Ecky Thompson / E. Ecky Thompson
Sunday, April 30th 2000 - 05:48:35 PM

A couple of Python video requests

I was wondering if anyone can help me find the following:

-An episode of The Midnight Special, circa 1974 hosted by
David Steinberg which the Pythons appeared on live (I'm
fairly sure). I have another episode hosted by David
Steinberg, but it only featured a prerecorded clip of them.

-Any behind-the-scenes stuff from The Holy Grail, such as
the footage used on the A&E "Life of Python" special; Or
anything at all from The Holy Grail --it's my favorite
Python movie.

If you can help at all, please email me. Thanks!!! :)

Jess /
Sunday, April 30th 2000 - 03:35:26 AM

And the answer is:

Series Three:
THIRTY-ONE - Titled: "The All-England Summarize
Proust Competition" and released on 16th November
1972 . Or, you can try href="http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/tv-series/sketches/
fc-31/summarize-proust-competition.html">this
link. Or, you can blow $40 on the DVD.

The Other OTHER Operation / The Bottom of the Barrel!
Saturday, April 29th 2000 - 07:02:46 PM

does anybody know...?

Can anyone tell me which TV episode contains the "Summarize
Proust Competition?" Any help would be appreciated...other
sketches that are in that episode, etc. Many thanks

Larry Gregorio /
Thursday, April 20th 2000 - 06:17:44 PM

I'm a Lumberjack and I'm ok...

Spam

Torie /
Wednesday, April 5th 2000 - 04:30:39 PM

What the Can can do

I had never heard of the can, but granted, most of the
stories I have heard are from the Society's early
1990s days. I know that when I became president I was
bequeathed no such artifact, so who knows what became of it?

Fred Coppersmith /
Tuesday, March 28th 2000 - 03:14:27 PM

i need some help

hi you guys. for my english lit class this term we need to
write a term paper on something from english society, so i
choose monty python's flying cicus!!!! now this is the
thing, i need some site, or even better books that can give
me some glips of how it affected english society. do you
guys think you can help me!!? if so please email me!!!
thank a lot. and rember...never expect a spanish inqusition!

SAi / mmm, under construction
Monday, March 27th 2000 - 02:20:20 AM

Where'd My Message Go

Ok. I just tried posting something to your message board.
Its not here! How am I supposed to educate you about the
Can that Is The Can (Graham Chapman's "Pepsi Free" pop /
soda can from the day he was actually on campus back in
1983) if what I write doesn't actually post!

Tony Leshinskie /
Wednesday, March 22nd 2000 - 10:10:07 PM

What of the Can that is the Can?

Many years ago (1983-1984), I was the President of Vice and
Acting for the PSU Monty Python Society. During my
year of dereliction and through no active campaigning
on my part, the Society and the student speaker
organization, Colloquy, sponsored Graham Chapman to
speak on campus. (translation: by shelling out ~$300 dollars
to cover advertising & promotion costs, we got to suck
helium and meet the Man himself.) This solemn occasion (in
which GC demanded 10 minutes of abuse before he began
speaking) resulted in the creation of the first MPS relic -
the Can that is the Can.

The Can was (hopefully is) a "Pepsi Free" can that Graham
Chapman partially drank during a WPSU (the studio radio
station back then) interview given in the lobby of the
Nittany Lion Inn. At the end of the interview, Mr. Chapman
was escorted to dinner, leaving the half-drunk Can behind.
Upon discovering the can, the collected officiers of the
Society and other assorted disciples (the partners that the
Society officers were trying to bed at the time - none of
whom were made of latext, thank-you for assuming the worst
about us), carried this Grail-like artifact to a small
shrubbery in front of Chambers Building. We then took turns
drinking the contents of the Can until we all realized
what a pointless concept a sugar & caffine-free Pepsi
product really was. The remaining contents were then
poured and expectorated into said Chambers Building
shrubbery.

Someone in the club with access to power tools later
created a small trophy stand for the Can. We displayed
it at meetings for the remainder of the year.

I was curious whether the Society still had possession of
the Can, or has it gone the way of the large wooden rabbit
we constructed for the Homecoming Parade that year?

Tony Leshinskie /
Wednesday, March 22nd 2000 - 10:02:32 PM

Autographed T-Shirt & Playbill For Sale

Python fans,
I'm selling an autographed "Live at the City Center" T-shirt and playbill from way back in 1975 when the group performed in New York at the City Center Playhouse.Condition is brand new, plastic wrapped If you're a srious MP collector, this is for you! Extremely rare.E-mail me at johnwindwalker@webtv.net for more info and to leave a bid. JW 3-17-2000

John Windwalker /
Saturday, March 18th 2000 - 12:14:11 AM

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it!

Wow! No new posts since November 1999! Well, here it is,
nearly the end of January 2000, and it's the first post of
the new year. So I suppose I should say something
meaningful. Naaaaaaaaaaaah!

The Other OTHER Operation / The Bottom of the Barrel!
Sunday, January 30th 2000 - 02:19:31 AM

Python

We meet every Wednesday evening from around 7 to 9 (or
thereabouts) in 109 Sackett Building. Feel free to drop by.

We're always looking for original material to perform. If
you have a script, bring that down to. We can't promise
laughs, but we can promise moments of awkward silence that
will leave you cowered in embarrassment -- and, really,
isn't that all that matters?

Fred Coppersmith /
Saturday, November 6th 1999 - 10:41:58 PM

Python

We meet every Wednesday evening from around 7 to 9 (or
thereabouts) in 109 Sackett Building. Feel free to drop by.

We're always looking for original material to perform. If
you have a script, bring that down to. We can't promise
laughs, but we can promise moments of awkward silence that
will leave you cowered in embarrassment -- and, really,
isn't that all that matters?

Fred Coppersmith /
Saturday, November 6th 1999 - 10:37:53 PM

Scripts etc

I have free scripts for plays, and they really are free, i
am sick and tired of the licencing process, so i have
purchased one for my own and other peoples use. Email me
gex94@hotmail.com

Ed /
Thursday, November 4th 1999 - 11:09:13 AM

Meetings

Is the Society meeting on a regular basis? When and where?

Can I come? Can I harass you with exceedingly bad attempts
at humor? Can I have your first-born children?

~the Blue one~

Blue...Lindsay...Your Worshipfulness / Yes, I AM a TMNT fan, thanks for asking.
Sunday, October 31st 1999 - 03:10:17 AM

I love the smell of semprini in the morning!

Just a little announcement for those of you taking notes:
the Penn State Monty Python Society will celebrate its first
meeting of the new semester on Wednesday, September 15,
1999. We'll be meeting in room 109 href="http://www.psu.edu/psu/UniversityPark/maps/sackett.gif
">Sackett Building from around 7 PM until 9 PM, enjoying
"Government-Sponsored Radiation Testing Night" (an old
favorite revived for the end of the millenium and for
kicks). Do stop by, won't you?

Fred Coppersmith / Elsewhere
Friday, September 10th 1999 - 06:28:28 PM

Accountants

I want to go rowing with the accountants, but for the life
of Brian, I can't remember how to find those happy buggers.

Can anyone help me find the way? The sanity of my fellow
wanna-be accountants is driving me mad.

Kate Kearney /
Friday, September 3rd 1999 - 12:04:12 PM

Semprini?

Ah, yes, it's an extrememly obscure Italian dish - so
obscure, it doesn't even exist! And neither do I. I'm just
a rambling Fig Newton of your imagination. I'm sorry - I'll
come in again, this time through the window.

The Other OTHER Operation / The Bottom of the Barrel!
Monday, August 30th 1999 - 11:21:33 PM

Definitive definitions. Definitely!

What in the interesting and imaginative world does
"Semprini" mean?

HRH Kienen I / Useless Link
Sunday, August 29th 1999 - 08:43:45 PM

Ha!

::wanders in::

Hello. I am an overachiever who just got here and doesn't
want to wait for club season to start up.

Um, yes. I'll leave now.

::leaps onto a passing cheesewheel and rolls off::

del /
Friday, August 27th 1999 - 06:40:24 AM

A Silly Answer

Beats the heck out of me, frankly. This thing was here when
I got here--honest, officer, I didn't do it! Anyway, to
de-stiffen your campus with a little zany madcap funster
Pythonics, you'll probably want to contact The Powers That
Be and ask, politely, how one goes about organizing a
student club on campus. Then, just decide what you want to
do (show movies and episodes, write and perform skits,
secede from the Union in a bloody civil war, et cetera) and
how you can best go about attracting new members. I've found
leaving a trail of chocolate-chip cookies to our door works
as well as anything else--like moths to a candle, I tell ya,
like moths to a candle.

Anyway, it's a good question. If you're successful in
starting up a club (and couldn't every university use a
touch more Flying Circus anyway?), let me know. Always nice
to know there are more people out there trying to make the
world a sillier place.

Fred Coppersmith / Elsewhere
Tuesday, August 3rd 1999 - 05:01:48 PM

A Silly Question

Okay....you wonderful silly people you....exactly how does
one go about organizing such a silly organization upon ones
campus? The UT campus I am at is too bloody stiff....it
needs the fun. Any help would be greatly appreciated and I
promise not to use the Hungarian phrase book.

InvictusDr.,Col

InvictusDr.,Col /
Monday, August 2nd 1999 - 11:50:26 PM

Trustworthy, brave, loyal...semprini!

There's a dissertation in there somewhere, I'm sure--the
complex, underlying similarities between Monty Python
Societies and sleepaway camp. It could be just the sort of
kick in the head academia so desperately needs.

But anyway, you're right, there are similarities.
I'm surprised it hadn't really occurred to me before to
make the comparison, or even think about it. I did spend
seven summers at summer camp, y'know. Ah well. The main
difference, though, between the Python Society and the Boy
Scouts is that we have much funnier sketches. There's only
so many times you can sing The Cat Came Back in a
week without losing all grip on reality...

Fred Coppersmith / Elsewhere
Monday, July 26th 1999 - 06:34:46 PM

you know...

i wonder if the society knows this, but this club is EXACTLY
like boy scout camp (somehow, i'm a girl and just hear
stories and occasionally go up to see friends) They stand
around a fire and put on old monty python sketches and ones
they wrote themselves for the hell of it. just letting you
know

a highschool sophomore girl who's brother goes to pennstate /
Monday, July 26th 1999 - 12:11:48 PM

Oy!

I didn't know where to begin so I began here. And Texas is
fine, thanks. I dunno if you know me (founder of MPOAP, or
that Michael Palin page that's been lingering around for 3
years) and I'm just saying hi. And I said it. Thank you.

TAH / MPOAP
Friday, July 23rd 1999 - 05:53:15 PM

The crinkly paper will live on!

Glory is fleeting, obscurity forever, but you, m'dear, are
just plain weird.

Don't let Texas change that.

Fred Coppersmith / Elsewhere
Wednesday, July 14th 1999 - 09:20:31 PM

Pest from the Past...

I just couldn't let my name drift into obscurity. Plus, I
haven't harrassed Derf in *ages*!

The Lady Spyderella / Spyderella's Lair
Wednesday, July 14th 1999 - 11:21:47 AM

Rip-offs? Ooh, what a giveaway.

Yes, but as I think we have just demonstrated, original does
not always equal funny.

Fred Coppersmith / Elsewhere
Saturday, July 10th 1999 - 01:40:41 PM

Rip-offs

People on this page (message-board) could at least think up
some of their own jokes, c'mon be original folks. Instead of
mentioning the 'cheese shop' for example, state a funny
quote, like "Just the othuh day I was walking down the
street and I saw this liddle bitty boy looking back at me. I
took pity on him and smiled. Then he pulled a knife on me
and stole my wallet an' me car keys, then drove off in me
brand new convertible. The bastard deserves to die!" That is
original (If not I'm sorry :P )

Myself /
Friday, July 9th 1999 - 09:58:55 PM

where's the club in the summer?

YO TENGO MUCHO MUY PEQUENO COMEDREJA EN MI BOCA

Robin /
Tuesday, July 6th 1999 - 03:09:08 PM

Hello.

Anybody home?

Fred Coppersmith / Elsewhere
Monday, June 21st 1999 - 01:58:28 PM

In search of Sheila Gibson....

Hello....

About 6-7 years ago, a woman by the name of Sheila Gibson had a Monty Python fanzine entitled "It's!". Needless to say, it was a great fanzine. However, she seemed to disappear around 1994, never to be heard from again.

If anyone knows that current where abouts of Ms. Gibson, please let me know. Thanks.

PseudoSwede /
Sunday, May 9th 1999 - 06:57:20 PM

Let's not bicker and argue...

That's not saying much, mate. I've seen your father.

And what've you got against singing? Boom, baby, boom!

The Evil Midnight Poster What Posts at...er...1 PM? /
Friday, May 7th 1999 - 12:54:53 PM

Can't say that I blame ya...

I wouldn't want to marry my father, either.

AND NO SINGIN'!!

TOOO

The Other OTHER Operation /
Tuesday, May 4th 1999 - 04:22:59 PM

Please Help

Please help me! I am being held hostage in the to tower of
swamp castle. My father is forcing me to marry against my
will. Oh, wait....nevermind.

Dolf Lundergardenvonschlitzenburger /
Thursday, April 22nd 1999 - 05:31:26 PM

Please Help

Please help me! I am being held hostage in the towr of
swamp castle. My father is forcing me to marry against my
will. Oh, wait....nevermind.

Dolf Lundergardenvonschlitzenburger /
Thursday, April 22nd 1999 - 05:29:59 PM

Quick correction

I could, if I really wanted, erase and repost my message,
seeing as I am messageboard tyrant and all (but
tyranny with a happy face!). But I don't want to. Suffice it
to say, Eric Idle actually talked about Life of Brian on
PythOnline and not PythoNet. The link should still
point you in the right direction, though.

Which I say, as if anyone was actually reading this or
caring. Oh, why do I bother?

Fred Coppersmith / PythoNet
Saturday, April 17th 1999 - 01:24:39 PM

The Bishop...?

I'd like to remember the '80s. I've asked people if they
remember the '80s. Or even the early '90s. Hell, I've asked
people if they could possibly be so kind as to remember last
week and how the Python Society affected their life then. I
had intended some sort of grand 20th anniversary...thingie.
But, alas, it seems it was not to be. A few brief words and
a picture or two, but I don't have enough to cobble together
a real history.

Least of all before I graduate in early May.

Fred Coppersmith / Home again, home again...
Saturday, April 17th 1999 - 09:57:14 AM

Nude Man

Please reply if anyone remembers former PSMPS President Tiny
Rat Intestines (remember the 1980's!)

Paul /
Saturday, April 17th 1999 - 12:11:06 AM

Something's afoot.

"I don't believe The Life of Brian is blasphemous," Eric
Idle once wrote on href="http://www.pythonline.com/">PythoNet, "though it
may be heretical. JC appears in the movie twice." Of
course, the film originated with an idea Idle had
following the troupe's work on Holy Grail, namely
"Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory".

Good places to start would be Kim "Howard" Johnson's work
on the Pythons (The First 280 Years is due out any day now,
I keep hearing) or George Perry's Life of Python. Although,
for the life of me, I can't remember if either one of them
directly deals with the controversy at any length. The film
was condemned by many fundamentalist Christian groups--most
of which had never seen the film--but I don't think the
Pythons ever meant it as an attack on Christ. On
Christianity, however...? Well, that's another story. They
discussed this at some length at the Aspen Comedy Festival
reunion last year...

Fred Coppersmith / Skirting the Shores of Unreality
Friday, April 16th 1999 - 05:49:16 PM

life of brian Give me a hand

As part of my MA I am researching "LOB" and would
appreciate any info at all that might help, particularly
regarding the blasphemy issue and the religous community's
response to it. Thanks. PS No famous Dutch authors please.

Adrian Wapcaplet /
Friday, April 16th 1999 - 12:08:53 PM

Come and see the violence inherent in the system!

No, look, I told you! We're an anarcho-syndicalist
commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive
officer for the week. Which pretty much explains why nothing
ever gets done and why I'm usually left with all the blame.

Oh yes. Woe is me. Woe, woe, woe. I think I'm going to go
lie down now.

Fred Coppersmith / PythoNet
Tuesday, April 13th 1999 - 01:55:20 PM

I am not drunk

I'm only posting here because Dinsdale made me. It's
very hard to go to work and make magnets with your head
nailed to the floor. Anyway, I was just sitting here
eating some egg, bacon, sausage, and spam, and I began to
think that strange women lying in ponds, distributing
swords, just may be a good basis for a system of government.
Think about it, but not too hard.

Semprini /
Monday, April 12th 1999 - 11:55:44 PM

Everybody's a critic.

You know, in theory, this board was set up merely so
members of the href="http://www.clubs.psu.edu/python/">Penn State Monty
Python Society could have a forum to discuss interesting
topics. Other people are, of course, free to drop by and
post their own observations, witticisms and whatnot, but I
didn't feel like turning this into another of the sundry
Spouse boards that seem to pop up each and every day. Call
me crazy. Call me A Loon.

I have advertised this messageboard in my e-mails to the
Python Society, but thus far only one member has posted any
comments. And I think she was just humoring me. I encourage
you to tell other people about the board; I mean,
they can't always be wrong, can they? But I'd also
like to keep this more or less connected with the href="http://www.clubs.psu.edu/python/">Society and
related topics.

Fred Coppersmith / Elsewhere
Monday, April 12th 1999 - 12:49:54 PM

Oh, damn! I forgot the subject!

Almost a month with no new messages? Ya know, they say it
pays to advertise. Sadly, nobody knows who "they" are. But
"they"'re out there. I mean, really "out there" - like me,
for example.
But you should let others know about this board, like, say,
actually mentioning its existence on another board. I
stumbled upon it through a search engine! The end. TOOO

The Other OTHER Operation /
Sunday, April 11th 1999 - 02:19:14 PM

What the flying (un)dead wombat up the nose am I DOING here??

It seems as though I have stumbled upon yet ANOTHER Python
messageboard. Oh, dear, more loonies to converse at...er, I
mean, with. That's it.

And now, the obligatory:

Bum. Oh, what a giveaway!

TOOO

The Other OTHER Operation /
Friday, March 26th 1999 - 05:07:59 PM

Contradictions

Well, which is it, Derf? Post a message or not make a
nuisance of myself. This is *me* we're talking about, after
all. I mean, what with crinkly paper and all, you really
couldn't expect anything else. What the heck am I talking
about...

The Lady Spiderella / Spiderella's Lair
Thursday, March 4th 1999 - 04:09:41 PM

Just get that bazooki player outta here...

What the heck is a bazooki anyway? A bozooka that's gone
off? And how do you even spell it?
Anyway, Fred, I just stopped in to visit your loverly site,
and to tell you that I'm still working on a Python club at
RPI - here's hoping!

KD / KD's Homepage
Wednesday, March 3rd 1999 - 11:41:22 AM

Not much of a cheeseshop, is it?

Testing, one two five (three, sir).

Yes, well. It might seem as if I've simply stolen
an idea from href="http://www.clubs.psu.edu/pssfs">PSSFS because I
was bored and felt like fiddling around with HTML tags I
obviously don't completely understand. And...well, to be
perfectly honest, that's preceisly what I have done.
So, um, there.

But isn't this a lovely little messageboard? I mean, look
at the plumage!

Fred Coppersmith / Skirting the Shores of Unreality
Sunday, February 28th 1999 - 04:31:40 PM