John Cleese who never stops coming up with great new inventive ideas has now arranged a 15-stop tour of Scandinavia where he will - get this - be alone on stage and talk about his fantastic career for two hours.
He will also have clips of some of his famous films and television shows which will be shown on a big screen. The same clips most people have bought several times over on VHS and DVD and have instant access to on YouTube.
Tickets start at over $100 and Cleese is predicted to make over $100,000 per gig.
People really liked Fawlty Towers - what there was of it. Twelve episodes made over a six year period. Contrast that with Friends that ran in realtime for ten years with 238 (count 'em) episodes all filmed before a live audience after a full week's rehearsals. 238 times.
People liked Wanda too. But it was just another film.
People generally don't like most of the other crap Cleese has come out with. And most importantly: Cleese only did Fawlty Towers in the 1970s and Wanda a few years later. That's it. That's really all.
Ever since then Cleese has been granting interviews where he tells people how amazed he is at his own talent.
Cleese had a cowriter (and for a while there a wife) on Fawlty Towers. But she's not seen anywhere, nor is she ever interviewed on one of these nauseatingly endless recycled editions of Cleese's Greatest Hits.
It's time to put Cleese in the rain barrel where he belongs. It's time to boycott his delusional tour of Scandinavia. It's time to tell him to his face: 'John, you were never that funny or talented but your wife was and the few times you were really funny are so few and so long ago SO WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP AND GO AWAY?'
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
It's Tough to be a Chicken
Today is Denny's 'Grand Slam' day in the US. This follows on Super Bowls: from 06:00 to 14:00 they offer free breakfasts around the country. The breakfasts are two eggs, two rashers of bacon, two sausages, and two pancakes. It's free.
Sounds like a bit of charity. Which is timely considering in the US there's really no social system (or any ambition for such a system) to take care of the unfortunate. If there's one thing they're still #1 at, it's homeless people. And do they ever excel at that!
Now check this link out.
http://dennys.com/superbowl/splash2.html
Yeah it's tough to be a chicken alright. It's also pretty tough to be anyone in the Americas if you're not in the US. 910,000,000 people and only 307,000,000 million of them are entitled to call themselves 'American'.
It's chickens, it's turkeys, it's Nicaraguans, it's Chileans, it's Argentinians, it's Ecuadorians, it's Guatemalans, it's Cubans, it's Bolivians, it's Peruvians - the list goes on and on.
They stage coups. They murder elected leaders. Heck - they murder period. They assassinate Salvador Allende and then push in a dictator to replace him, they stand behind persecutions and imprisonments and torture and more and more murders. That's OK. We're AMERICAN!
And we like our chickens and we like our turkeys and WE LIKE OUR OIL! And we like our BANANAS! And we'd really like some good Cuban cigars goddammit but we have to support freedom around the globe right now. We're famous for that, right?
Right.
Then there's @stevez33 (Steve Zebrowski) formerly of Connecticut and now of Florida who is really incensed that the homeless are queueing outside Denny's for a good free meal for the first time in who knows how long. And he asks how they can even know when they don't have houses to live in and probably can't have televisions either?
Then someone suggests they might have found out on Twitter and @stevez33 goes ballistic. They have computers too now? Ugg!
Let's hope he's joking. Let's close our eyes and hope Denny's were also joking. And that the imperialism was also a joke. That rendition was a joke. That all the millions of deaths and ruined lives these people have caused - that it was all just a joke. So we can open our eyes and nobody's ever heard of that gross place called the US.
Sounds like a bit of charity. Which is timely considering in the US there's really no social system (or any ambition for such a system) to take care of the unfortunate. If there's one thing they're still #1 at, it's homeless people. And do they ever excel at that!
Now check this link out.
http://dennys.com/superbowl/splash2.html
Yeah it's tough to be a chicken alright. It's also pretty tough to be anyone in the Americas if you're not in the US. 910,000,000 people and only 307,000,000 million of them are entitled to call themselves 'American'.
It's chickens, it's turkeys, it's Nicaraguans, it's Chileans, it's Argentinians, it's Ecuadorians, it's Guatemalans, it's Cubans, it's Bolivians, it's Peruvians - the list goes on and on.
They stage coups. They murder elected leaders. Heck - they murder period. They assassinate Salvador Allende and then push in a dictator to replace him, they stand behind persecutions and imprisonments and torture and more and more murders. That's OK. We're AMERICAN!
And we like our chickens and we like our turkeys and WE LIKE OUR OIL! And we like our BANANAS! And we'd really like some good Cuban cigars goddammit but we have to support freedom around the globe right now. We're famous for that, right?
Right.
Then there's @stevez33 (Steve Zebrowski) formerly of Connecticut and now of Florida who is really incensed that the homeless are queueing outside Denny's for a good free meal for the first time in who knows how long. And he asks how they can even know when they don't have houses to live in and probably can't have televisions either?
Then someone suggests they might have found out on Twitter and @stevez33 goes ballistic. They have computers too now? Ugg!
Let's hope he's joking. Let's close our eyes and hope Denny's were also joking. And that the imperialism was also a joke. That rendition was a joke. That all the millions of deaths and ruined lives these people have caused - that it was all just a joke. So we can open our eyes and nobody's ever heard of that gross place called the US.
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