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John Cleese speaks on Palins
Rising Hegemon —
Awesome... via boing boing And speaking of Brits doing political analysis.
"Monty Python could have written this" -- John Cleese on Sarah Palin
BlondeSense —
"Monty Python could have written this" -- John Cleese on Sarah Palin Posted by JerseyCynic | 11:12 AM | [image] [image]
This is an ex-parrot!
Feministing —
Check out John Cleese on Sarah Palin; hilarious. (Via Boing Boing.)
Speaking of parrots...check the famous Monty Python sketch after the jump. ...
"Monty Python Could Have Written This"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
John Cleese on Sarah Palin:
John Cleese on Sarah Palin
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Comedian Cleese Compares Palin to Parrot
News —
Comedian Cleese Compares Palin to Parrot Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is “like a nice-looking parrot,” British comedian John Cleese said in an interview Monday. “The parrot speaks beautifully and kind of says, ‘Aw, shucks,’ every now and again, but doesn’t really have any understanding of the meaning of the words it is producing,” Cleese, a member of the famous Monty Python comedy troupe said. “The extraordinary thing is that so many people are taken in by it,” Cleese said. “I mean, Monty Python could have written this.” One of Cleese’s most famous sketches for Monty Python is one in which a character tries to return a dead parrot to a pet store, ...
The Funniest Palin
The Moderate Voice —
Some of Monty Python’s humor was admittedly crass, although I’d argue that most of it was informed and intelligent. John Cleese reminds us of the grey matter lurking behind the laughs, here:
H/t Mr. Sullivan.
John Cleese On Sarah Palin: "Monty Python Could Have Written This" (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Andrew Sullivan posted some footage of former Monty Python writer and performer John Cleese discussing the Republican vice presidential candidate. Cleese bemoans the fact that Michael Palin is no longer the funniest Palin and says:
Can they not see that she's basically learned certain speeches? ... It's like a nice-looking parrot because the parrot speaks beautifully and kind of says, "aw shucks" every now and again but doesn't really have any understanding of the meaning of the words that it is producing, even though it is producing them very accurately
Watch: ...
John Cleese On Sarah Palin: "Monty Python Could Have Written This" (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Andrew Sullivan posted some footage of former Monty Python writer and performer John Cleese discussing the Republican vice presidential candidate. Cleese bemoans the fact that Michael Palin is no longer the funniest Palin and says:
Can they not see that she's basically learned certain speeches? ... It's like a nice-looking parrot because the parrot speaks beautifully and kind of says, "aw shucks" every now and again but doesn't really have any understanding of the meaning of the words that it is producing, even though it is producing them very accurately
Watch: ...
Cleese On "The Funniest Palin"
Newshoggers.com —
By Cernig
"She's like a good looking parrot". (h/t Sully)
(Recently, Ron gave us a little bit of Cleese's poetry on the subject of politically-inclined dead parrots too.)
wrong palin, or, the dead parrot sketch
skippy the bush kangaroo —
via andrew sullivan, to whom we link only to get the memeorandum traffic.
John Cleese: Michael Not the Funniest Palin Any More
Firedoglake —
Cleese says Palin is "like a nice-looking parrot."
Dept. of disdain
Ben Smith's Blog —
Monty Python vet John Cleese compares Palin to a "beautiful parrot" and extends his disdain to all those who are "taken in" by her.
"Monty Python could have written this," he says, before apologizing to Michael Palin for ruling that he is no longer the funniest Palin,
(via Swampland)
And Now For Something Completely Different
Swampland —
John Cleese is not a conservative. Now the hard question: Does European disdain help or hurt McCain at this point?
The funniest Palin
HorsesAss.Org —
Wednesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
WEDNESDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * New discouraging economic numbers pushed the markets even lower today, with the Dow falling 733 points . * McClatchy reports , "A U.S. official who participated in drafting the top secret National Intelligence Estimate said it portrays the situation in Pakistan as 'very bad.' Another official called the draft 'very bleak,' and said it describes Pakistan as being 'on the edge.'" * The Bush administration "issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against ...
John Cleese on Sarah Palin: Monty Python could have scripted this ticket
Majikthise —
John Cleese on Sarah Palin : She's a well-trained parrot
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily —
Remember that the man knows a thing or two about parrots:
John Cleese's observations about the United States are right on target and I've written about them here before : That the United States has become a banana republic under the Bushes in 2000 .
Yet he goes on record saying exactly what so many of us have heard from people from elsewhere in the world : that electing Bush in 2006 was a massive fuck up. It is still incredible that people in this country somehow thought that getting Dubya back in the Oval Office was a good idea.
It's why Cleese believe that ...
