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...from the song "Knights of the Round Table" in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Spamalot...
...have devoted their lives to the study of his literary leviathan have to take him with a tiny grain of salt. There is a website that poses the challenge of summarizing In Search of Lost Time in as few words as possible - seemingly inspired by the brilliant Monty Python sketch "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition." Some brave attempts from this website include "Society Sucks", "Mmmm...cookies", and "Marcel's not gay." So what have we learned? What does Proust teach us about time, memory, love, feeling? The way that he's referenced in pop culture now would have...
Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Michael Winterbottom Warning to college students: Don't rent this movie as video Cliffs Notes for that Laurence Sterne "classic" you have no intention of reading. Do rent it to see what happened to Brit humor after Monty Python. TV eminences Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon star in this postmodernist jape, which keeps interrupting the novel's tale to focus on the offscreen agitations of the cast. Since the Coogan-Brydon banter gave the film much of its brio, their very funny commentary on the DVD amounts to a second deconstruction...
...least wasn't hooked up to the power. It might have been pretty warm there." --KARL BEZNOSKA, owner of Houdini, a 12-ft.-long Burmese python that required surgery after swallowing a queen-size electric blanket...
...paranoia set in. I retraced my steps. Eventually I calmed down, cancelled my credit cards, filed a police report, found friends to loan me money, and got my parents to overnight my passport. I kept telling myself that things weren’t that bad. But not even Monty Python could cheer me up. Just when everything seemed lost, I got a call. “We just got home and there was a message from a guy named Marty,” my Dad said. “He found your wallet.” The next thing...