The Overrated Thread

Robbie Keane,i never rated the cunt but many did,Steven Ireland too,hes done fuck all in Months,soccerball in general infact,cant wait for the hurling to come back so i wont have to be depending on it for entertainment.

Drinking and smoking. I haven’t had a drink or a cigarette for two and a half weeks and I feel bloody great.

Who is she?

That’s just because you’re former drink addled state is still fresh in your mind. In time it will fade, and your new healthiness will start to feel dull and mundane. That’s where drink comes in.

I’ll agree with that. It’s relatively entertaining but it’s not “hilariously funny” or very original. Superbad is much better

The Dunph

climate change

Not another case of “you should never meet your heroes”?

Afraid so. I’ll never forgot the look of total and utter disappointment on Shannonsiders face when the Dunph arrived.

A lot like Puke when Ben emailed him those pictures of Flano.

You seem to have sheep on the brain today WTB, feeling a bit homesick?

Monty Python.

Life of Brian.

All of that guff.

Bunch of college lads trying to out do each, up their own arse and generally not funny.

Cleese made up for it with Fawlty Towers where apparently he got a lot of grief from the rest of them for doing a straight forward sitcom.

Agreed. Load of wank.

Palin made up for it with his travel documentaries especially Pole To Pole. Eric Idle made up for it with Nuns On The Run :smiley:

I saw that in the cinema with my brother when I was about 7 or 8. Some bird tried to kick me out because I was under age.

Monty Python did invent the sketch show. And they have been cited by every significant comic act since as a major influence.

So that’s something.

I think The Life of Brian is fantastic. Very funny, it was by far the best of the movies they did.

Flying Circus looks a bit dated now, but it must have been revolutionary in terms of TV comedy at the time. I’d even still laugh at some of the sketches.

Comedy, with a handful of exceptions, doesn’t age particularly well. The python brigade proved in many projects that they were a very talented bunch. I would be grateful if Michael Palin fucked off though.

Comedy, as much as anything, I would say is a metter of taste.

The Python lads may have been mentioned as influences and that’s great but I don’t find their stuff particularly funny. I actually find them quite smarmy, condescending and a little too smart for their own liking.

Outside of Cleese and Gilliam, what did the rest of them do of any note?