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Comedy Books: Fall 2000
Posted Thu Aug 31 18:35:11 BST 2000 by Justin
And now for something completely different....
Hey! You like Python? You do? Well, you'll love all these great new Python books coming out just in time for Christmas! The ideal gift for someone who saw Life Of Brian once and quite liked it, or perfect fare for those Python fanatics with more money than sense!!! (A close run thing, admittedly.)
PALIN'S BINS by Halesowen Bint ($24.95)
Featuring the complete "Notes To The Milkman" (1985-87), plus some doodles he made while on a transatlantic phone call, hazily reprinted for the benefit of our English readers in Wales, England.
(TEH PLEETMOC TOMPY THONYP PRISSTC NI NASMARGA)
THE COMPLETE MONTY PYTHON SCRIPTS IN ANAGRAMS
by Jimmy "Snapper Organs" Stein ($43.50)
Following on from his 1998 book "Monty Python - Just The Vowels", this is a marvellous tribute to the Eric Idle sketch where all the words were anagrammatic. But no spoonerisms - after all, that would be addressing the point of the sketch in the first place! Features an introduction by someone who used to work with Barry Took.
RENTADICK by [author information removed for reasons of kindness] ($17.95)
Complete and unabridged script to the worst film ever made, apart from Notting Hill, with a fawning introduction by Ned Sherrin.
THE TOP 10,000 PYTHON FANATICS by Number Twelve ($68.75)
Listed in order of humourlessness and odour.
PYTHON CONVERSATIONS 1995-1995 by Ilchester Foreskin ($39.95)
Exclusive interviews with three writers who once saw "Doctor In The House" on Granada Plus, plus surprising views from Neil Innes's insurance man, and someone who saw John Cleese once. In Bristol. That's Bristol, Scotland, near Wales, near England, for the benefit of our readers who clearly can't use an atlas or a mind of their own.
TERRY GILLIAM GRINS by Rodney Sredbarrel ($32.99)
Unauthorised collection of photos and cartoons showing the acclaimed director grinning. Contains over 12 illustrations.
CENSORED! (OR I NEVER WANTED TO WRITE BOOKENDS FOR DOZENS OF MONTY PYTHON BOOKS! I WANTED TO BE...A PROPER WRITER!!!) by Dinsdale Abbatoir Jnr. ($59.99)
Complete guide (apart from the ones we couldn't be bothered to trace) to cuts in Montie Python TV shows on IBC2 in England. Consists of 596,000 asterisks. And nothing else. The most insulting Python fanbook yet! Essential reading.
I PANICKED (THE COMPLETE PEPPERBOK) by Edgware Smegma Johnston, with additional material by Monty Piethon ($32.95)
All the Pepperpot rants, with a free sachet of helium for seconds of high-pitched fun in performing them.
THE COMPLETE CREOSOTE by Juliet "Ethel Thefrog" Swins ($48.35)
Complete guide to the post-wafer thin mint vomit. Fully illustrated.
AMANDA'S BY THE SEA - THE COLLECTED SCRIPTS Edited by Herman Boring ($23.99)
All three episodes of magic from the Fawlty spin-off where the producers wrote Basil out. Featuring an introduction by John Cleese slating the book you are about to read, which we thought was a joke, but which turns out to be deadly serious after all.
FAWLTY TOWERS: DON'T MENTION THE THIRD SERIES?!!! ($43.99)
Imaginary and worthless scripts for the never-was third season of BTV2 England's "Faulty Towers", written by Endsleigh J. Twat and Filkin A. Twat III.
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY THE SAME by Herman Boring ($329.85)
Contains The Parrot Sketch in Braille, Spam in Cantonese, I Like Chinese in Manx, an illegible version of The Lumberjack Song scribbled by Ian McNaughton's dentist, and a torn-up version of Out Of The Trees, so that no-one can ever read it again! Hilarious, and above all, decidedly profitable!!!
Subject: Re: Comedy Books: Fall 2000
Posted By Anonymous on Fri Sep 1 11:22:58 BST 2000:
You forgot - "Out Of The Trees And Into My Bank Account"
Subject: Re: Comedy Books: Fall 2000
Posted By Dr. Hackenbush on Sun Sep 3 15:15:11 BST 2000:
Are the Monty Python cash-in books really getting this bad? I've only seen the movie script books, which seemed very good.
Subject: Re: Comedy Books: Fall 2000
Posted By Justin on Sun Sep 3 18:47:07 BST 2000:
>Are the Monty Python cash-in books really getting this bad? I've only seen the movie script books, which seemed very good.
There seem to be a lot of American books flooding the market which try and be funny rather than actually give you the information you want. The only Python history I would really rate apart from Wilmut's Fringe To Flying Circus (out of print, I believe, since God knows when) would be David Morgan's Monty Python Speaks!
Subject: Re: Comedy Books: Fall 2000
Posted By Mr Griffiths on Sun Sep 3 19:20:56 BST 2000:
I've got "Life of Python" by George Perry and it's pretty good. Nice history and fairly detailed stuff about each member.
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