Originally posted by Elizabeth
But I might have to challenge you- I am thinking I liked Eric Idle the best... That "Nudge Nudge" scene was hilarious... and he certainly played the best women 😃
Well, I don't want to start a crusade about which Python was the best, of course - Monty Python was all six of them, which makes for 64 different sets of talents to combine. Take one away or have one dominate and you only have 32!
OOooh, no, you shouldn't do that, no! That's dangerous! Yes, they breed in the sewers! Yes, and eventually you get evil-smelling flocks of huge soiled budgies, flying out of people's lavatories, infringing their personal freedom!
I'd agree with you on Idle's women - you can almost write a biography they're so well-characterised. She'd be the sort who had a pony when she was a young gel, and became quite respectable in later life (hosting parties, and giving advice on how to host parties - including how to deal with left-wing uprisings), but with just a shade of disreputability about her. Nothing you could ever put your finger on, but there was a twinkle in her eye and a wryness to her smile, and she seemed to know an awful lot about certain subjects that she couldn't possibly know that much about - could she?
Rumple Tweezer ran the Dinky Tinky shop, in the foot of the magic oak tree, by the Wobbly Dum-Dum bush, in the shadow of the magic glade, down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives—
Personally, I think Idle's genius - in its purest form - is in his songwriting. (Having said that, though, I haven't read "The Road to Mars" yet, so maybe he's just as good an author. I think I'll put in a request for it at the library now.) After sufficient alcohol I'm all too happy to grant requests for a rendition of the Bruces' Philosopher's Song (it was the anthem of a club I used to be a member of; we'd hold our meetings in a pub, and wrap up the official proceedings with it).
Dinsdale was a loony; but, he was a happy loony.
I just tend to reckon that Chapman showed the broadest range - I find it all too easy to forget that King Arthur and Brian were both played by the same person; though he did usually play professionals and authority figures: vets, generals, movie moguls, police sergeants and detectives (with Cleese on his offside as a slightly menacing constable), and of course King Arthur and the Messiah.
He is not the Messiah! He's a very naughty boy!
