"Monty Python on Poetry" by Robert Peake

Sunday, September 21. 2008

Monty Python on Poetry

In case, like me, you may have been taking yourself a bit too seriously lately, please enjoy what may be one of the strangest Monty Python sketches in history, featuring three of the big six of Romantic poetry, ants, the queen, and lots of sherry—all conveniently subtitled in Spanish:

Posted by Robert Peake in Poetry, Humor at 14:54 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Christ, it’s been a while since I’ve seen that. And for some inexplicable reason our cockateil got all excited when Chapman began his speech.

#1 Jim Murdoch (Link) on 2008-09-21 15:19 (Reply)

No doubt the shrill overtones of the inebriated gender-bender struck a primal chord in the brain of the bird.

#1.1 Robert on 2008-09-21 15:25 (Reply)

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