nostalgia has it's market - personally, I found it (well some of it) amusing the first time round, but then again, Ken Dodd has done well out of repeating the same gags for 60 years
Went to see it live. Great giggles and awesome to see them bouncing off each other. They missed one or two lines after laughing at each others improv. Closing with "Always look on the bright side of life" caused a few glazed eyes. Magical stuff.
I'm glad people enjoyed it. I thought it was dreadful, having managed to tape half of it on the box. I like Python - I am a huge fan - but the renditions of the famous sketches were pale imitations of the originals. There was little venom in Cleese and none of them could remember how to act. The constant references to campness and homosexuality (good for laugh in 1970, nudge nudge, wink wink) have aged horribly. And no, it wasn't really like listening to an old group trot out their greatest hits. If you go and see Neil Young, he might be pushing 70, but you'd never know from the performance. He's as good as he ever was. I think that Python should have rehearsed more, and chosen material that is still just about relevant. But to be fair, this would be difficult. Comedy isn't the same as great music. It ages. What was amazing and groundbreaking in 1970 was just vaguely droll in 2014. A bit like 4 wrinkly Beatles coming on and playing "Love Me Do". And no, I never thought that Always Look on the Bright Side of Life was funny. It's just an Eric Idle thing - he clearly wanted to be a music hall artiste. Sorry.
