How Fast Are You?

What a fantastic show, with a great cast and an excellent arrangement of material! iFMagazine has a better review of the show than I could write, but suffice it to say that I highly recommend it! From their review:

Of the stand-out moments, Holmes gets to re-enact the “Travel Agent” sketch from the show and goes off on a long involved tangent that never quite stops. Tudyk (a Joss Whedon regular on FIREFLY and DOLLHOUSE) gets to showcase what a truly underrated performer he is. He’s flawless throughout the show and if you didn’t know any better, you’d think he was British. He is given the Cleese part in the Parrot sketch, but takes it into surprisingly darker and more intense territories. It’s a signature moment for him and he delivers it with zeal.

It’ll be at the Ricardo Montalbán Theater in Hollywood¹ through October 4, then in NYC² October 6-10.

From the official site (which also has a link to buy tickets):

A celebration. A very, very funny night. Not your usual theatrical experience. A Celebration of Forty Years of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

A very silly and refreshing interlude of Sketches, Spam, Songs and Custard Pies lovingly drawn from the Python canon.

OR

SIMPLY, THE VERY BEST OF MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS’ SKITS & SONGES PERFORMED L I V E !
(But only for a few nights.)

Starring the very Python-esque: Jeff B. Davis, Jane Leeves, Alan Tudyk, Rick Holmes and Jim Piddock performing:

(This is the partial list of sketches)
PEPPERPOT MONTAGE – SPAM SONG – CAMP JUDGES – MICHELANGELO – SILLY WALKS – SPANISH INQUISISTION – NUDGE NUDGE – LION TAMER – WORKING CLASS WRITER – ALBATROSS (Also featuring the original fowl!) – CRUNCHY FROG – ARGUMENT CLINIC – THE BRUCES – TRAVEL AGENT – PARROT SKETCH – FOUR YORKSHIREMEN – CUSTARD PIE – LUMBERJACK SONG.

All written and composed by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

Jealous?

I’ve quoted this fact to a few people over the last month or so, but I completely forgot where got my facts actually came from. This is not unusual for me. I never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

But now, here it is in all it’s factual glory. Quoth YouTube:

The past few months have demonstrated that great content on YouTube leads to increased sales. For example, when Monty Python launched their channel in November, not only did their YouTube videos shoot to the top of the most viewed lists, but their DVDs also quickly climbed to No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent.

Hard to argue with the numbers there. Of course, putting your video or music or writing on the the web for free won’t work for everyone like that, but the evidence is accumulating. But speaking of arguing:

Via Boing Boing.