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From: kjetilfp@sofus.dhhalden.no (KJETIL FAGERNES PEDERSEN)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: pythons progress (John Cleese)
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:54:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: sofus.kjetilfp.7
Organization: Ostfold College

In article <1992Mar27.143021.22608@samba.oit.unc.edu> Chuck.Lavazzi@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi) writes:

>John Cleese:  fair amount of movie work, including "Silverado", "A Fish Named
>Wanda", and voice work in "American Tale II"; also lots of commercials, 
>especially for Schweppes,  
                ^^^^^^^^^

Here in Norway they're constantly sending commercial spots on TV with John 
Cleese eating the chocolate 'RELAX' under the most horrible situations, but 
keeps calm. Very funny, thanks to John Cleese.


-Where's the Generalissimo?
-Uh, er...In Madrid!
From: Ted.Bebenek@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Ted Bebenek)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Ripping yarns
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:39:04 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1274@hydra.bucknell.edu> norbeck@mira.bucknell.edu (nancy norbeck `93) writes:
>In article <1992Apr2.135041.1200@trdlnk.uucp> joe@trdlnk.uucp (Joe Panfil) writes:
>>Has anyone seen any of the episodes of Ripping yarns on video.
>>To refresh you're memory (and mine). I'm almost positive this
>>comedy series starred Micheal Palin and maybe one other guy of
>>Python fame.

Michael Palin was in all the episodes, but Terry Jones only appeared in
"Tomkinson's Schooldays".  I think that Terry Jones either wrote or
directed the rest of the series.  I haven't seen any of the shows, but I
read one of the scripts, and it was HILARIOUS!


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From: dpenner@ee.ualberta.ca (Darren E. Penner (Dokken))
Subject: Holly vs Holly  How the heck did that happen
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:08:52 GMT

I watched most of the first two episodes (I had a freind who managed to
record the whole series off of PBS) but I never caught the episode where
they changed places, could someone enlighten me how this occured.

PS:  Thier was no backup computer, or battle computer in my opinion
(I have seen that episode 3 or 4 times, always the case, you keep seeing
reruns but never the ones you miss) was just Holly playing a trick on
the rest of the crew to gain respect.

PPS: Why does everyone alway copy most of the old message into new posts,
     it is such a pain to wade though the exact same message 4 times when
     the stuff crawls on the screen at 2400 bps.  The ability to generate
     a post or rewind a newsgroups seems to allude so many people...

PPPS:Send Email to......


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From: markt@harlqn.co.uk (Mark Tillotson)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Porterhouse blue / Tom Sharpe
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:47:32 GMT
Organization: Harlequin Limited, Cambridge, England

Talking of Tom Sharpe,  The film version of "Wilt", with Mel Smith,
Gryff Rhys Jones and others I can't recall, is _certainly worth seeing_.
Like the Porterhouse Blue serial, it sticks closely to the book, which
is why it is hilariously funny.  Wilt being interrogated by a boorish
slob of Policeman is the best.  They added a few visual gags (like the
"can't have his head screwed on properly" one, and the tartan dildo)
but nothing can really outdo the inflatable woman scene... 
   I still think there are Sharpe novels that will not be filmed,
especially his South African ones...  However, I certainly look
forward to my favourite (The Throwback) being done...

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From: Michael.Horne@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Roy Horne)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Bottom
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:50:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: comp.1992Apr8.005059.25942
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.


What can people tell me about the series "Bottom"

It's just started showing here in New Zealand.

I hear it only has six parts to it but are there any more series,
any info about this series welcom.

Thanks in advance,  Mike
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: smeagol@carina.unm.edu (Karl P.)
Subject: Re: The Goodies
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 05:41:17 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Keywords: Big Bunny, Loony Animals, Eky-Thump! 

In article <sprooney.702153450@unix1.tcd.ie> sprooney@unix1.tcd.ie (Simon Rooney) writes:
>>|I remember a Goodies special, called "The Goodies and the Beanstalk",
>>|where they retell the class fairy tale, with a few twists of course.
>>|Anyone know if it's available on home video?
>
>>What about all the other episodes too? Saturday Night Fever? The Revenge Of
>>The Kitchen Furniture? Robot Replacement? The Nose Vole? and of course, the
>>immortal Gun Fight At The O.K. Tea Rooms (hence jam, scones etc. above)?
>>But sadly, I suspect they are not available.
>
>My favourite goodies was possibly the search for bigfoot. Hilarious

    You can't forget the time they went to the moon and met Big Bunny or the
 time they opened their own clinic for loony animals and created Kitten Kong!
 >HA! HA! HA!<  Remember when they fought the living construction machines
 in a battle over the pristine countryside?!  (Hoo! ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!)  No wait,
 the time when Bill tried to take over the world by using the ancient martial
 art of ecky-thump on everyone!  (Bwahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahah)!

     God, I loved that show!

						---Reverend Smeagol


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From: ee02jb@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Jonathan Bennett)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Fun in the Sun (Red Dwarf)
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:59:35 GMT
Reply-To: ee02jb@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Jonathan Bennett)
Organization: USSU Stage Crew, Students' Union, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, England.



Its cold outside,
there's no kind of atmosphere.
{I'm/we're} all alone, more or less.
Let me fly 
far away from here,
Fun, fun, fun,
in the sun, sun, sun.


I want to lie,
shipwrecked and comatose,
drinking fresh mango juice
goldfish {dunno}
nibbling at my toes
fun, fun, fun...


Thats as much as I can remember.

Jono
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From: tdubins@silver.cs.umanitoba.ca (Tom Dubinski)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: good neighbors
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:05:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

In article <1992Apr7.231608.503@skbat.dseg.ti.com> dittman@skbat.dseg.ti.com (Eric Dittman) writes:
>In article <1992Apr7.162233.867@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, bryer@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jeff Bryer) writes:
>> I believe the show you are referring to was Executive Stress (at least that
>> is what they called it in North America).  I love the theme to this show
>> and have been trying unsuccessfully for years to find it on tape.  It
>> is by Julie Covington and for the moment I have forgotten the name.
>
>I absolutely hated that song!  Whenever the show was on I hit the mute
>button on the remote until it was done.  It was written by Andrew Lloyd
>Weber (sp.?) if I remember correctly.

Yes, it was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. He recycled it into one of the
Big Tunes in his musical "Aspects of Love." I'm not sure if he used the same
lyrics (it's been a lonnnnng time since I've listened to the recording of
Aspects or seen any episodes of Executive Stress), but I seem to remember
that the melody shows up a number of times during one of the acts of the
musical.
-- 
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From: v128juxa@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu (Schuyjuannah)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Black Adder in Buffalo
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:02:00 GMT
Organization: SUNY@Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


For anyone who a Black Adder fan and resides in Buffalo, NY, you'll all
be happy to know that they've *kept* their promise and Black Adder is
on at 10:30 PM Saturday nights on Channel 17 (PBS).

It debut 4 April with "The Foretelling" and if they are aired in chronological
order, the full run of all 4 series will be completed by the end of September.

Happy watching!

Tia aka it's about time!
From: morjens@vipunen.hut.fi (Jens B von Weissenberg)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: The Marty Feldman Show
Date: 8 Apr 92 08:12:38 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

In article <n=pjrf-.snow@netcom.com> snow@netcom.com (Tim Szeliga) writes:
>
>  My first exposure to british tv comedy was through a summer replacement,
>  when NBC brought The Marty Feldman Show over in ?68? .  As I recall,
>  it was written by the guys who later became a sizable chunk of Monty Python.
>  It was very strange and bent my mind in ways Wayne Fontana could begin to
>  imagine.
>
>  Tim Szeliga  

Could it be a sketch from this show that I once saw in some other program.
The skech was in black and white and it starred Marty Feldman as an englishman
and Cleese and one of the other pythons and another guy as Scotchmen at the
ballet. It was called somthing like "The Egnlish national ballet presents....
with the Scottish national ballet"
It was really killing as Cleese and the other two were chering on the Scotish
ballet as if it were a football team. 
Sound familiar? I'd really like to know from what show this was.

Thanx.

Morjens aka I don't know, I don't know, I don't want to remain ignorant, help!
From: bruce@tcom.stc.co.uk (Bruce Munro)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: What's More Vulgar To A Brit?
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:13:31 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe, New Southgate, London.

In article <1992Apr12.191150.23761@acsu.buffalo.edu> v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey) writes:
>
>     A YANK of course!  (Or a Frenchman).

Or in the Cockney rhyming slang, a Septic!

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From: winalski@tle.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Useful British words (was Re: What is a "git" anyway?)
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:28:29 GMT
Reply-To: winalski@tle.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH


In article <neilg.702463261@sfu.ca>, neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy) writes:
|>
|> I was under the impression that "naff" was roughly equivalent to the
|>North American English word "tacky." Can anyone correct/enlighten me
|>on that one?

NAFF is an acronym from the same family as SNAFU and FUBAR:

	SNAFU = Situation Normal--All F**ked Up
	FUBAR = F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition
	NAFF = Not Available For F**king

All are military slang.  FUBAR was used as a code for badly damaged corposes.
NAFF was used to refer to women who were off-limits, such as the base
commander's daughter.

--PSW
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: johnsos@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (johnson scott andrew)
Subject: Blackadder questions
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:12:58 GMT

Hullo.  I've got a couple BLACKADDER questions for you.

1)  What was the name of the maid/lady in waiting in BA III?  The one to whom
    Edmund says "If we were the only three people left in the world, I'd try
    to start a family with Baldrick"

2)  What is the name of the General in "Blackadder goes forth?"


I've been working on several Blackadder/Star Trek parodies (including one which
has been posted on alt.startrek.creative)  Should I post it here, or would that
be considered a waste of bandwith?  

These parodies involve the cast of Blackadder being the crew of a Federation 
vessel, the HMS Tallyho.  Blackadder is the Captain, George the first officer,
Baldrick the helmsman, Percy the tactical officer, and Darling the counsellor.
With a few other characters to be added in the future.

See ya all later....

/sj/


REAL men don't use .sigs.


Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: Good Neighbors
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:26:14 GMT

dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:
|> 
|> The first series of Blackadder had a credit at the end of some episodes
|> 
|> 'With additional dialogue by William Shakespeare'

The referent is probably Sam "additional-dialog-by" Goldwyn.
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From: Brad.Ritchie@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Brad Ritchie)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: That 'Ship all full of men' song
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:21:56 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

Hi!

I'm looking for the name of a song that I keep hearing on the radio now
and then when they play Monty Python and Dr. Demento etc.  I know it's not
a Monty Python song but it's the same kind of humor (sort of) and that's 
why I thought somebody in this newsgroup might recognize it and could help
me out.

The song starts out like the Vikings in 'Spam' except they're all chanting
'men, men, men, men' (instead of 'spam').  The only lyrics I can really 
remember go something like:

		There's men above, there's men below
			and men down in the galley.
		There's Joe, and Fred, and Bill, and Frank
			and one guy we call Sally.
			(...and one guy we call Sally.)

		Men, men, men... It's a ship all full of men.
		So throw your rubbers overboard there's no one 
				here but men.

I hope I'm not being too vague but if anyone recognizes this song I'd really 
like to know who sings it, where I can get a copy of it and if they have 
made any other good, funny stuff.  You can answer me by E-mail 
(b_ritchie@unhh.unh.edu), or if want to, post the rest of the lyrics if you 
know them.

Thanks a lot!

-Brad Ritchie

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From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu (Aaron Dickey)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: cast AYBS
Date: 13 Apr 92 07:40:01 GMT
Organization: New York University

I don't think the first episode was taped in black&white.  If you
notice at the end of the credits, it still says "BBC Color (c) 1972."
Also, there's something not quite right about the videotape; it almost
has the appearance of a modern-day kinescope, or at least a third- or
fourth-generation copy.  I think the Beeb just screwed up and lost the
original, and found this copy floating around somewhere later.
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From: kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: re:good neighbors
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:09:05 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: kji@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU

Julie Covington sang the theme for Exec.Stress??  

Julie "I want to live on Sugar Mountain" Covington from the Rock Follies?
(She sounds like such a wimp when she sings Exec. Stress)

And, speaking of "Rock Follies",(I still have the album) who can forget 
Rula(sp) Lenska?
From: hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Ron O'Dell)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf on NBC?
Date: 15 Apr 92 06:30:34 GMT
Reply-To: keeper@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us
Organization: The Pen


In article <1992Apr14.222405.1596@merrimack.edu> burkems@merrimack.edu writes:
>
>    Could NBC really be considering picking up Red Dwarf for its fall schedule?

This is old news.  The pilot episode was shot some time ago.
Let's see if I can fish out a file posted to rec.arts.tv.uk via Compuserve...

 
#: 266796 S11/British Media SF
    23-Jan-92  13:35:07
Sb: #Red Dwarf America!
Fm: SysOp Jim Shaun Lyon 72571,3002
To: All
 
You wanted the lowdown, here goes.......
 
RED DWARF: The American Series will hit NBC in a few months.  The pilot was
filmed last night at Universal Studios in Hollywood at Stage 44, and I was in
the audience.
 
It was.....unusual.  First and foremost, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor are creative
consultants on this show, and were there for the taping.  The sets are very
similar, the art direction very similar, even most of the jokes are similar,
but there's the American touch.  This show is either going to be a hit or it's
going to bomb.
 
The cast includes Craig Bierko as Lister (you've seen him on many TV shows in
guest roles), Chris Eigelman as Rimmer (notice the leads are another Craig and
Chris pair....they're not the British regulars though), Jane Leeves as Holly
(she was in the short lived Diana Canova series "Throb"), Tony award winner
Hinton Battle as Cat and..........Robert Llewellyn, the current Kryten, as
Kryten.  He was, by the way, brilliant as usual.
 
Also in the cast were Lorraine Toussaint as Captain Tau, Michael Heinzmann as
First Officer Munson and Elizabeth Moorehead as Kristine Kochanski.
 
The show follows the story of "The End," the first episode of the Brit version,
very closely, but with some changes in pacing, locations, etc.  There's also
part of "Future Echoes" in this one, with a future projection of the Cat,
Kryten, Lister and Kochanski (! This is unusual) telling Lister he must go on.
The stuff about the farm was in it, but not named Fiji; the cat was named
Frankenstein but was a white and brown kitten; Holly starts as a female; Kryten
starts off on the ship from day one.  Different, yet similar.
 
It's unusual, it's pretty decently acted and scripted, I just hope they do ok
on TV.
 
 
Cheers, JSL
 
 
[The preceding was a post directly from Compuserve (back off CIS lawyers!) 
on the taping of the first episode of the American Red Dwarf)]
 
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From: sharman@Software.Mitel.COM (Richard Sharman)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Another 'Name that Program' Query
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:34:02 GMT
	<q_kjbwk@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Apr4.081536.26600@hasler.ascom.ch>
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
In-reply-to: rculley@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch's message of 4 Apr 92 08:15:36 GMT


  |> 
  |>    what about a couple that used to recycle alot
  |>    they had a neighbor who was a snob and didn't
  |>     like them haveing pigs, goats and stuff
  |> 
  |>    anybody know the name of this one

  The Good Life. If my memory serves me well the couple were Richard
  Briers and Felicity Kendal and the snob was Penelope Kieth.

And don't forget Paul Eddington ("Yes Minister") who played the other-
half of the other couple.   A good show.
From: bill@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Bill Ferreira)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british,connect.audit
Subject: Re: What's more vulgar to a Brit?
Date: 9 Apr 92 09:34:24 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England

mccon@ssdd475a.erim.org (Joe McConnell) writes:

>Another query: what does the term "brothel creepers" mean?  I believe
>its an item of clothing, but ...

>Also, what is a "berk"?
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"Berk" is short for "Berkshire Hunt", rhyming slang for "cunt".

I think "brothel creepers" are the sort of shoes that rockers wear, like
"beetle crushers" but I might be wrong on that.
-- 
Bill Ferreira (bill@uk.ac.warwick.dcs)
Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL, ENGLAND.
From: v128juxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Schuyjuannah)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to....
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:48:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.1992Apr8.184939.13320
Organization: SUNY@Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr8.025713.2306@bradley.bradley.edu>, larry@bradley.bradley.edu (Larry D. Stratton) writes...
> 
>   Penelope Keith (sp) of "To the Manor Born"?
> 
>   After many reruns I think I just saw the last episode where
>   she gets married.  Was that the last?
> 
>   I know she did 'Neighbors' after that (I think) but where is
>   she now and what is she doing?

Penelope Keith was on the first season of "Executive Stress", from 1987.
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british