Comments on: I'd like an interview, please.

I'd like an interview, please.

darren — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:41:16 -0800

Lost Monty Python interview from 1975 Dallas TV station unearths interview with four of the Pythons from 1975, just as they were hitting it big in the states. Love the hair! Love the armadillo!

By: Gator

Gator — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:01:31 -0800

Awww. No John Cleese or Eric Idle. Still, a cute little bit of business, hearing them talk about how they have this new film they're anxious to plug, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and how they haven't found an American distributor yet. And the censorship stuff, too, heh. Thanks.

By: Decani

Decani — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:43:29 -0800

That must have been so strange for them. They were basically plugging stuff they'd recorded 5 or 6 years earlier and done to death on stage and record. They'd also finished with the TV series altogether in Britain by that stage, if I remember correctly. Interesting stuff.

By: fungible

fungible — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:44:37 -0800

Very cool, downloading now, thanks.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:51:36 -0800

Too bad they taped over at an abrupt end. But it brings to mind Cleeses' "And now for something completely different"

By: lazywhinerkid

lazywhinerkid — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:01:46 -0800

Wow, what a great find! On a more bitter note, Graham Chapman was in the throes of alcoholism at the time and seeing him in this footage pretty blatantly shows (at least to me) that he was in pretty bad shape. He looks pretty buzzed and I'd bet cash money that that's not water in his cup...

By: mokey

mokey — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:25:36 -0800

Excellent. Monty Python are cool, man.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:02:16 -0800

Thanks for the link! I found it amusing that they were plugging Holy Grail and hadn't found a distributor in the States yet. *waves to Decani*

By: spock

spock — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:16:14 -0800

God Bless George Harrison.

By: jiawen

jiawen — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:36:29 -0800

At the end, Terry Jones gets cut off in the middle of saying that one of the other names considered for the show was (iirc) "Owl-Splitting Time". Cool stuff.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:37:11 -0800

My god. TV was still so innocent wasn't it? Can you imagine how that would be done now? The interviewer would do an onstage Dr. Phil style intervention with Chapman - and he sure as shit wouldn't be alowed to light up a pipe on camera. great find.

By: lumpenprole

lumpenprole — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:18:33 -0800

That must have been so strange for them. They were basically plugging stuff they'd recorded 5 or 6 years earlier and done to death on stage and record. Ah, that's pretty common. You ever notice that actors on talk shows are kind of weirdly uninterested in the movie they're plugging? That's because they shot it three years ago and did two others after. Great footage. I only wish the rest of it had been saved... And was that some kind of proto-James Lipton doing the interview?

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:42:22 -0800

jiawen - Haven't been able to download the video, but I'm pretty sure the name was "Owl-Stretching Time."

By: marvin

marvin — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:27:39 -0800

Please God spare me from any more Monty Python. I grew up with it in the UK, and now I live in the US, BBC America seems to run saturaion re-runs ad nauseum. It's old tired humour now. Let's move on.

By: YoungAmerican

YoungAmerican — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:36:34 -0800

Thanks for posting this! That's me introducing the clip... if you're a Python fan, check out the radio show/podcast, you might like it. Many of our guests come from the "alternative" and sketch comedy worlds. Also, Terry Jones is due to appear in a few weeks.