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Monty Python

I'm watching Monty Python, which I absolutely loved on reruns in college. The episodes on Netflix in the USA right now are labeled 1974, and they began probably in 1969. Then they made films: Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983). I saw the Meaning of Life in the theater, and loved it. The glutton who blows up from eating too much is just disgusting. The sexual education where the wife comes in and he, assumes the foreplay as read, is hilarious. Can we have your liver?

Since then I've consumed it over and over, watched their watered down specials, and I even think Brazil by Terry Gilliam is brilliant. I've enjoyed Idle's What About Dick?

Transvestism is absurd, religion is absurd, culture is absurd. I'm watching Cowboy Bebop and there's a quality not of exoticism of transgender experience, but just the wide range the world has.

There's black face, even if it's to make fun of the British empire, is just not done any more. Gratuitous nudity.

I don't think Saturday Night Live, even in its prime or peaks comes close to it. I Think You Should Leave just is weird and uncomfortable.

Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's guides the close, but not really somehow. 

Eric Idle has survived Pancreatic Cancer recently.

The was Monty Python takes down so many things, I think the same way that two Twitter accounts take down Trump and MAGA.

New York Times Pitchbot 

Gollum J. Trump

The Onion

Borowitz report

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