Monthy Python's Comedy: "Birth"

Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) were a British comedy group that created the influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and impact, spawning touring stage shows, films, numerous albums, several books and a stage musical as well as launching the members to individual stardom. The group's influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles' influence on music.

IN accordance with wikipedia, the television series, broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974, was conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Loosely structured as a sketch show but with an innovative stream-of-consciousness approach (aided by Gilliam's animation), it pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in style and content.

A self-contained comedy team responsible for both writing and performing their work, they changed the way performers entertained audiences. The Pythons' creative control allowed them to experiment with form and content, discarding rules of television comedy. Their influence on British comedy has been apparent for years, while in North America it has coloured the work of cult performers from the early editions of Saturday Night Live through to more recent absurdist trends in television comedy. "Pythonesque" has entered the English lexicon as a result.

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, three of the six Pythons members were voted by fellow comedians and comedy insiders to be among the top 50 greatest comedians ever: Cleese at #2, Idle at #21, and Palin at #30.

In mid-November 2008, the five surviving Python members created a YouTube channel to reduce the incentive to download their products illegally from the Internet. On this channel, they host a high quality selection of their favourite clips, as well as other clips about The Pythons and the channel...

George Carlin: Back in Town - Live at the Beacon Theatre NYC (1996)

George Carlin: Back in Town - Live at the Beacon Theatre NYC (1996)
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Country: USA
Genre: Concerts, Standup Comedy


* Review Summary:


According to TheThis video offers viewers a taste of comedian George Carlin at his best, before a live and appreciative audience. Filmed live in New York City, Carlin offers viewers a wide range of his unique comedy style, from his observational humor to his often cutting remarks about society and government. Intended for adult audiences, parents will likely find that the language and content of this video make it inappropriate for younger viewers.

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Frank Sinatra (1977)

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Frank Sinatra (1977)
Director: Greg Garrison
Release Date: 1977
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 100 min



* Cast :

Dean Martin ... Himself - Roastmaster
Frank Sinatra ... Himself - Man of the Hour
Ronald Reagan ... Himself
Gene Kelly ... Himself
Don Rickles ... Himself
George Burns ... Himself
Dom DeLuise ... Himself / Domenic Tendoroni
Redd Foxx ... Himself
James Stewart ... Himself
Flip Wilson ... Himself
Telly Savalas ... Himself
Jonathan Winters ... Himself / Elwood Suggins
Jack Klugman ... Himself
LaWanda Page ... Herself
Red Buttons ... Himself

Indian Comedian Dan Nainan Stand Up Comedy

Indian Comedian Dan Nainan Live at the Moore Theater in Seattle.


There is a bit about the fact that 20% of Americans can't find the US.. on the map of Earth!



* Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question:




* Jimmy Kimmel explains what Miss South Carolina said:





A question which was posed to Miss Teen USA South Carolina Lauren Caitlin Upton.


This video is one of the most viewed videos on Youtube. Till that date it has been viewed by nearly 40 millions person.


Real phenomena!

Celebrity Autobiography: Kristen Wiig reads Suzanne Somers

This episode of Celebrity Autobiography features Kristen Wiig reading an except from Suzanne Somers' book of poetry "Touch Me."


Wiig's part of the "Celebrity Autobiography" series, which is part of the New York Comedy Festival.


Wiig get more notorious after performing on “Saturday Night Live".

Bill Cosby: The Boss

Bill Cosby: Himself is a 1983 stand-up comedy film featuring the comedic routines of Bill Cosby.


Filmed before a live audience at the Hamilton Place Theatre, in Hamilton, Ontario Cosby gives audiences his comedic views ranging from marriage and parenthood.


The film also showcases Cosby's trademark conversational style of stand-up comedy; for the most of the performance, Cosby is seated at the center of the stage, only getting up to emphasize a joke.


Many of the comedic routines presented in this stand-up were the precursors to Cosby's successful sitcom The Cosby Show.


Nearly all of the movie concerns the trials and tribulations of raising children, frequently illustrated with anecdotes involving his own family. Occasionally he compares these with stories from his childhood. Other topics include grandparents, going to the dentist, and people who drink too much or take drugs.

Dave Chappelle - Killing Them Softly ( On Racism)

Dave Chapelle is showbuiess guy who run away from millions dollar contract because he hated the way he is living.


Webelong to the world where a few want to make it rule the way they want without justice.


According to so-called free encyclopedia wikipedia, David Khari Webber "Dave" Chappelle (born August 24, 1973) is an American comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer, and actor. In 2003, he became widely known for his popular sketch comedy television series, Chappelle's Show. Comedy Central ranked him forty-third in the list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians.


Chappelle was born in Washington, D.C. His father, William David Chappelle III, was a professor at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. His mother, Yvonne (née Reed), was a professor at Howard University, Prince George's Community College, and the University of Maryland and is also a Unitarian Universalist minister. Chappelle grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland and attended Woodlin Elementary School. During young Chappelle's formative years, his comic inspiration came from various comedians, particularly Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor.


After his parents separated, Chappelle stayed in Washington with his mother while spending summers with his father in Ohio. In 1991, he graduated from Washington's Duke Ellington School of the Arts where he studied theatre arts.


Chappelle moved to New York City to pursue a career as a comedian. He gathered the courage to perform at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater in front of the infamous "Amateur Night" audience. The performance resulted in him being booed off the stage. Chappelle has described the experience as the moment that gave him the courage to continue his show business aspirations. He quickly made a name for himself in the New York comedy circuit, even performing in the city's parks. At the age of 20, Chappelle made his film debut as "Ahchoo" in Mel Brooks's Robin Hood: Men in Tights. That same year, he had a small but showy role in the film Undercover Blues. On the strength of his performances in these films, Chappelle was offered the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump, which was in a pre-production stage. Not realizing the effect this future Academy Award winner for Best Picture would have, and concerned about what seemed to be a racially demeaning character, he turned down the part. He has since admitted to regretting the decision. Chappelle played another supporting movie role in 1994's little-seen Getting In. He attracted the attention of TV network executives and developed numerous pilots but none of them were picked up for series. In 1995, he made a guest appearance in an episode of ABC's highly rated sitcom Home Improvement. The storyline had Chappelle and real-life friend comedian Jim Breuer ask Tim Taylor for advice on their girlfriends. The characters' single outing in the episode proved so popular that ABC decided to give them their own spin-off sitcom titled Buddies. However, after taping a pilot episode, Jim Breuer was fired and replaced with actor Christopher Gartin. Buddies premiered in March 1996 to disappointing ratings. The show was cancelled after only four episodes out of thirteen that were produced. Nine years later, in May 2005, ten of the episodes were released on a single-disc DVD to capitalize on Chappelle's new-found fame.


After the failure of Buddies, Chappelle starred in another pilot. According to Chappelle, the network was uncomfortable with the African-American cast and wanted white actors added. Chappelle refused and accused the network of racism. Shortly after this incident, Chappelle's father died. Chappelle returned to Ohio and considered leaving the entertainment business.


He later appeared as the nightclub comedian in The Nutty Professor starring Eddie Murphy, one of his major comedic influences. He also had minor roles in Con Air and Martin Lawrence's Blue Streak. He co-wrote (with Neal Brennan) and starred in Half Baked, a cult film about a group of pot-smoking best friends trying to get their friend out of jail.


Chappelle appeared as himself in an episode of The Larry Sanders Show, in which he and the executives of the show's nameless television network satirized the treatment that scriptwriters and show creators were subject to, as well as the executives' knee-jerk stereotyping when it came to race. In 1998, he played a supporting role as Tom Hanks' character's friend and confidant in You've Got Mail.


Dave then, in 2002, played the "Conspiracy Brother" in the movie Undercover Brother.


Chappelle lives with his wife Elaine and two sons, Sulayman and Ibrahimon a 65-acre (260,000 m2) farm, just outside Yellow Springs, Ohio. Chappelle has stated that he is an avid World of Warcraft player.


Chappelle is a Muslim; he converted to Islam in 1998. He told Time Magazine in a May 2005 interview, “I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way."


Chappelle can play two songs on the piano, Round Midnight and Misty, as revealed by drummer ?uestlove in Dave Chappelle's Block Party.

Seven Dumpsters & a Corpse

Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse is a documentary film (2007) by Swiss journalist Thomas Haemmerli.


The Journalist is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A further shock follows when he and his brother Erik discover her apartment, which is filthy and full to bursting with junk. It takes the brothers an entire month to clean out the place. Among the chaos, they find films going back to the 1930s, photos and other memorabilia.


Two opposing storylines developed out of the film material. On the one hand, there is the struggle against chaos, during which the apartment becomes increasingly empty and clean. On the other hand, there is the story of the family, which becomes increasingly confusing.


The film deals intensively with compulsive hoarding.

Disorder in the Court

Disorder in the Court (1936)
Director: Jack White
Producer: Jules White
Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Genre: Comedy
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
Length: 16:27



Disorder in the Court is a 1936 short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges.


It was the 15th in a series that the trio made of a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.



* Plot :


The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend, Gail Tempest (a name whose parts are synonyms of each other), who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin (a play on "Who Killed Cock Robin?").


Although the boys disrupt the proceedings, they manage to clear Gail's name and extract the real murderer's identity (Buck Wing) from a parrot (they were able to find a confession tied to the parrot's leg).

The General - Buster Keaton (1927)

The General - Buster Keaton (1927)
Directors: Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
Runtime: 1:07:00

* Cast :

Marion Mack ... Annabelle Lee
Glen Cavender ... Captain Anderson
Jim Farley ... General Thatcher
Frederick Vroom ... A Southern General
Charles Henry Smith ... Annabelle's Father (as Charles Smith)
Frank Barnes ... Annabelle's Brother
Joe Keaton ... Union General
Mike Donlin ... Union General
Tom Nawn ... Union General

Buster Keaton ... Johnny Gray


Produced by
David H. Shepard .... video producer (2003 alternate version) (as David Shepard)
Buster Keaton .... producer (uncredited)
Joseph M. Schenck .... executive producer (uncredited)
Joseph M. Schenck .... producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
The Alloy Orchestra (2003 alternate version)
Carl Davis (1987)
Joe Hisaishi
Robert Israel (1995 alternate version) (uncredited)

Cinematography by
Bert Haines (photographed by)
Devereaux Jennings (photographed by) (as Dev Jennings)

Film Editing by
Buster Keaton (uncredited)
Sherman Kell (uncredited)

Art Direction by
Fred Gabourie (uncredited)

Set Decoration by
Harry Roselotte (uncredited)

Makeup Department
Bennie Hubbel .... assistant makeup artist (uncredited)
J.K. Pitcarin .... makeup artist (uncredited)
Fred C. Ryle .... makeup artist (uncredited)


* Plot :


The film opens in 1861. Johnny Gray, an engineer for the Western and Atlanta Railroad, has entered Marietta, Georgia. He is greeted by two young men who follow him to his girlfriend's home. The girl's brother announces the attack on Fort Sumter, indicating the start of the Civil War. He states that he will join the Confederate Army. The girl encourages Johnny to join the army. He attempts to, but is rejected because he is more valuable as an engineer with the railroad. The girl, believing Johnny was a coward because he did not join the army, rejects him.


A year later, a Union plot unfolds to hijack Keaton's train and use it to destroy confederate rail lines and break supply lines. Keaton spends much of the film attempting to foil the plot and keep the girl out of harm's way. At one point, he finds himself in Union headquarters, underneath the table and listening to Union strategy. He uses this knowledge to foil union plans.


The film closes with Johnny lighting a bridge on fire, which leads to a spectacular crash by the train run by the union officers. A battle follows. Through a series of errors, Johnny ends up defeating the union forces and returns a hero. As the film closes, he is commissioned a lieutenant in the Confederate Army for his bravery. The girl takes him back, and they kiss as Johnny salutes dozens of enlisted men. Fade to black.

The Kid (1921)

The Kid is a 1921 silent dramedy film by Charlie Chaplin that featured Jackie Coogan, as his adopted son and sidekick (see 1921 in film). It was a huge success, and was the second-highest grossing film in 1921, behind The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.


- Cast :

* Charlie Chaplin ...The Tramp
* Edna Purviance ... Mother
* Jackie Coogan ... The Kid ("John")
* Carl Miller... The Man
* Tom Wilson ... Cop
* Jack Coogan Sr... Pickpocket / Guest / Devil
* Henry Bergman ... Empresario
* Lita Grey ... Angel of Temptation

* Written and Directed by Charles Chaplin
* Photographed by Roland Totheroh


The Kid is notable as being the first feature length comedy film to combine comedy and drama, as one of the opening titles says: "A picture with a smile, and perhaps a tear..." The most famous and enduring sequence in the film is the Tramp's desperate rooftop pursuit of the welfare agents who have taken the child, and their emotional reunion.


The film made Coogan, then a vaudeville performer, into the first major child star of the movies. Many Chaplin biographers have attributed the relationship portrayed in the film to have resulted from the death of Chaplin's firstborn infant son just before production began. The portrayal of poverty and the cruelty of welfare workers are also directly reminiscent of Chaplin's own childhood in London. Several of the street scenes were filmed in Olvera Street, almost 10 years before it was converted into a Mexican-themed tourist attraction.


After production was completed in 1920, the film was caught up in the divorce actions of Chaplin's first wife Mildred Harris, who sought to attach Chaplin's assets. Chaplin and his associates smuggled the raw negative to Salt Lake City, Utah (reportedly packed in coffee cans) and edited the film in a hotel room there. Before release he negotiated for and received an enhanced financial deal for the film with his distributor, First National Corporation, based on the success of the final film. Chaplin edited and reissued the film in 1971, and he composed a new musical score.


Lita Grey, who portrays a tempting angel in the film, became Chaplin's second wife from 1924 to 1927. Chaplin and co-star Coogan met for the last time in 1972, during Chaplin's brief return to America for an Honorary Academy Award.