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...type of Anglophile the most are the British. For with some exceptions (Absolutely Fabulous, The Young Ones), the original British shows that Americans have most dearly embraced have reinforced a safe, neutered image of Britons, all Anglo veneer, no Saxon bile. (Let's not count the decades-old Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, which, however brilliant, are as representative of today's Britain as a suet pudding...
...most ingenious is The League of Gentlemen, a genre-defying black comedy that combines the sketch humor of Python with the small-town horror of Twin Peaks. Set in the fictional English hamlet Royston Vasey, it intertwines the stories of more than 60 characters, male and female--all played by three men--from the abusive counselor at the town unemployment center ("I know they've put monkeys in space, but do you really think they'll have one driving a fire engine?") to the reactionary proprietor couple of a local shop (named the Local Shop), who plot to stop...
...high-tech trappings, the show is essentially an old-fashioned radio program, with all of that medium's intimacy and immediacy. It is also not just about comedy. In the first episode, which went live last Wednesday, the hyped-up star had Eric Idle of the Monty Python Group interview him about everything from Williams' days as a street-performing mime in New York City to his cocaine addiction in the late '70s and early '80s. An upcoming episode with writer John Irving touches on the subject of abortion, revealing Williams as a gentle interviewer who's not afraid...
...meaning of life, I learned last week, is either gene replication, 25 years or less in jail before parole or the name of a Monty Python film. Or maybe it's simply to do God's will, as a 15-year-old girl wrote in response to the question I posted on Expertcentral.com Along with Abuzz.com Askanexpert.com Knowpost.com and Xpertsite.com Expertcentral is a kind of collective brain made up of thousands of self-appointed experts who will answer virtually any question, no matter how mundane or inane, for free. Other websites, such as Keen.com and Exp.com do the same thing...
...Paisley. Polka-dots. Python skin. Candie shits you not. After all, if Emanuel Ungaro says jaunty pink polka-dots are a-okay even for those who haven't yet run away to join the circus, who are we to argue...