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Politics for Poets

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I also made some logos for Amillia Publishing 
company. How about some interesting frames of animation?

  
  John Cleese
  speaks sense about joyless
  political-speach conformism.
  It's worth looking for his comments 
  posted yesterday in a lot of different
  web locations.
  Yay for Mr. Cleese. 
  http://www.thejohncleese.com/
   

Monty Python's humor, always appealing, gave a quick study into kindness of ribaldry. Those gentlemen (and the women around them,"Would you like to come up-stairs?" dissected the genres of British media, and made hard-truth commentary within the dream-space of comedy. In the tradition of surrealism, and acid-rock, they deconstructed genre after genre of mind-mush media, and concocted mayhem of flaying of assumptions, blow-whistle quality slapstick coupled with a full understanding of the modern conundrums of political and sociological elitism. Harrumph!

I had to stop to blow my nose. Well not really.

The thing about cutting-edge stuff is that, years later, in hindsight, it might not seem that way. So many other comedians have mirrored the humor that Monty Python made, for a very long time, and that makes it seem prototypical. Like listening to a cut of Atomic Dog from Mr. George Clinton in a raw early version. It's really very skimpy in some sense. But skimpy means that you can imply other things, build a montage on top of it. In the case of George Clinton (I've divigated) "woof, bow wow, yippy yo, yippy yay. " He laid down the beat and the sound and let's the world dance up a storm.

Monty Python? They left us laughing. They left us thinking. They did things with the comedy that was revolutionary in some sense, but completely within the comedic tradition: flay the fallacies of those locked within them, so that they feel good about becoming aware of how they drop turds on the heads of others with their ways and demands. Show them the turds-thought behaviors and help them to clean it up. Make them be kind by realizing their ridiculous. Well, not 'make them be', let them be.

Mr. Cleese is correct is saying that comedy is not supposed to be politically correct, and that political correctness is the death of comedy. But I'm not quoting him directly. It benefits students of comedy to study Monty Python. Also, listen to what Mr. Cleese says about the modern college campus. It's too bad that Mr. Cleese isn't a professor at a university teaching his view of comedy. But he's out doing it, for real, and traveling the world in the meantime. Sounds like a lot of fun? Or a long, grueling road home.

History shows us that comedians and actors often have to face political clampdowns by powerful lobby interests of power. These shady groups demand order, and do not understand that the chaos of a production is not supposed to be easily cataloged with some base and stock 'on message' meaning. Double entendre, and the alternative meanings of homophonic phrases: phrases that sound the same but mean totally different things, are designed to give maximum humor. Worrying about offending a touchy political class results in very poor humor.

Fortunately Mr. Cleese doesn't need to go to college anymore. And it's sad that he fears doing his work there (his act). but I think maybe colleges are a lot more open-minded than he knows. He ought to go and shake it up a bit, at a college, and ruffle some academic feathers. Maybe he can do a Fish called Wanda type of humor only set it at a college? There is a lot there to satirize.

The best way to describe Monty Python's humor? With long winded sentences of extreme sycophancy.

What they claim is good
 for 'the environment' 
   really sucks 
  for the forest.

    
    
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Watch This

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even Know-it-all-will-tell-yaa:
When people complaign about the words 
you use often they don't really want to 
hear what you have to say.

spinfont unicode-isms
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Here is today's pretty poem:

  

sparse shape
and seemingly childlike
simplicity.
War is Over.

Picasso's Eyes

    

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glossry of what's next
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Be nice to yourself and others. What other choice?

Wake up!

  Praise God!

♥♥ Praise ♥♥ the ♥♥ Lord ♥♥ because ♥♥ He's ♥♥ Wonderful ♥♥ and ♥♥ Awesome ♥♥!!

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