SPAMALOT (?) - Alright guys let's hear it! — Page 2

What Matt said is what I have been afraid of. I will see the show myself - how can you stay away with a cast like that? But I can see *how* the show can fall on just references to the movie. I have seen the movie more recently than Matt so I think I'll be fine.

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Werrrr''eee the
knight of the round table
we dance when ere we're able
we do routines
and chourus scenes
and foot woork in-pec-able!!

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eric idle was just on the daily show and was very hilarious. he talked about spamalot nearly the whole time. i'm afraid that i've been fearing what matt said. as someone who is not into monty python i've never been excited about this musical as i fear it will only appeal to people on the "inside"

I never thought of the show as filled with "in-jokes" either. They use the jokes from the film, but they are just referenceing them expecting the audience to know the joke without actually performing it. The only "in-jokes" I saw in the show at all were for those familiar with muscal theatre and the most important ones are pretty well-known to most anyone who has scene the show or the film of the show. The humor is not to everyone's tastes. I hate SNL and the type of humor in most Jim Carrey, Chris Farley, Mike Meyers, Adam Sandler, or Will Ferrell films, but apparently, most of the country loves it.

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You tried to get your money back after having seen the show???

Yep, that British humour is not for everyone... I LOVE IT!

QM

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Has "Little Britain" hit your shores yet? Two guys playing a variety of grotesque British types, usually women or screaming queens, including Daffyd the Welsh boy..."the only gay in the village" who prides himself on that title and refuses to believe there are other gay people in the vicinity even though there are gay bars and Pride marches happening all over town! Again, it's a very acquired taste...lots of vomiting, and even a middle aged man whose mum breast feeds him in public..but some of it is quite wonderful.

Just wanted to add my support to Little Britain - some of it is a little beyond the pale, but they are far outweighed by some screamingly funny characters and sketches

Somebody once outlined the main difference between successful American and British humuour: American humour tends to be about mostly successful people getting into situations (Friends, Ally McBeal (sp?), even Fraiser to a certain extent) whereas British humour tends to be about grotesque failures (The Office, Fawtly Towers, Steptoe and Son, Blackadder, Hancock). Obviously that's a blanket description and can't be applied to everything, but in my opinion our humour tends to be both more melencholic and surreal than mainstream American which could be why British shows tend to be more of a cult thing than actual hits across the pond . . .