John Cleese's Message to the USA

**Lady'sOtherHuman** · 11-14-2006, 02:17 PM

That was hilarious. My husband and I (Lady's Human) love Monty Python. Last year for Christmas I got him the 16 Ton Mega set. 16 DVDs of all their best skits ( including parrot sketch, crunchy frog and Dennis Moore) it also included two Live shows. Awesome! When I was reading it I could hear his voice in my head and his exact mannerisms in the text. Really funny.

**mugsy** · 11-14-2006, 02:54 PM

OMG! That was hysterical and so true for so much of it! John Cleese is brilliant!

**smokey the elder** · 11-14-2006, 03:50 PM

According to snopes.com, the leading debunk site on the Internet, John Cleese did NOT write this. It's funny, though. It was more apropos for the 2000 Presidential "election".

**Killearn Kitties** · 11-14-2006, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by smokey the elder

According to snopes.com, the leading debunk site on the Internet, John Cleese did NOT write this. It's funny, though. It was more apropos for the 2000 Presidential "election".

Certainly, the first time I saw this it did not have John Cleese's name on it. It is so much written in his style though, that it is easy to believe.

**RICHARD** · 11-15-2006, 06:57 AM

makes me wanna dive on a holy hand grenade...

**Randi** · 11-15-2006, 01:05 PM

I wish John could have seen this, he was an avid Monty Python fan and read everything they ever did. In his younger days, he was listening to the Goons on the wireless, and just recently, I found old books about the Goons that John had kept all these years.

I'm not familiar with all the shows, like John was, but I know he got some real old tapes from a childhood friend when we visited England.

John Cleese was brilliant in Faulty Towers, but I must admit, there are pieces in the Monty Python shows I don't find that funny, I suppose you have to be British to get it.

However, when I first heard this on the radio, I was ROTFL!

http://www.serve.com/bonzai/monty/cl...reSoPoorSketch

Two guys who were part of Monty Python I really like, is Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Terry Jones is/was writing some excellent political articles for Observer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Jones.

**Lizzie** · 11-16-2006, 05:55 PM

As someone else pointed out, this piece was more appropriate for the 2000 election which is when I first read it, but I'm very glad to see it's still making the rounds. Who did write it, really? As a Brit who has lived in the U.S. for 30 years, I find it funny in many different ways and it does poke fun at both cultures. I still put the full stop (period) in the wrong place when I use brackets (parenthesis) or inverted commas (quotation marks).

Like Randi, I most admire Terry Jones and Michael Palin from the Monty Python group. Did you ever see Terry Jones' series that was based on 1950's boys adventure stories? I loved the Goons also and can hear Spike Milligan's voice in my head every time I think of the Goons and Eccles.

**lizbud** · 11-14-2006, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by Lady'sOtherHuman

That was hilarious. My husband and I (Lady's Human) love Monty Python. Last year for Christmas I got him the 16 Ton Mega set. 16 DVDs of all their best skits ( including parrot sketch, crunchy frog and Dennis Moore) it also included two Live shows. Awesome! When I was reading it I could hear his voice in my head and his exact mannerisms in the text. Really funny.

My kids would both love that collection. Did you get it at one of the
large chain stores?