Robert Ross, �Monty Python Encyclopedia�
Bathroom reading material here, which was appropriate as this was a bunch of crap. I didn�t think so at first, but it soon became painfully obvious that this was yet another python offshoot by a guy unrelated to the creators, who has no idea how to be funny despite the material provided.
Really, just looking at the title shows how utterly bland this is. There�s even a subtitle: Everything You Wanted To Know About TV�s Greatest Comedy Team.
A better subtitle would be Lots Of Long Winded Rambling Listings Of Everything That People Infinitely More Talented Than I Could Ever Aspire To Be Have Done Since They Were Born, And Even After One Of Them Died, Written By An Inept Cockney Git Hack Who, Despite Having The Good Taste Of Enjoying Monty Python, Obviously Never Learned Anything About Comedy From Their Style.
Written in that bizarre English fashion of never having a paragraph break which brings about loads of spelling errors because it�s too hard to copy edit, Ross lists alphabetically everything that members of Monty Python has ever been involved with � films, books, other television shows, concert appearances, and pretty much anything else you can thing of.
This would be all fine and dandy, but he feels the need to insert his own personal opinion, and his opinion sucks.
I can prove this. He thinks A Fish Called Wanda is �pretty standard,� even daring to call it �unfunny� and says the Eric Idle film, Nuns on the Run is �far superior.�
Jesus christ, was anybody other than me unfortunate enough to see that god-awful film? Nuns on the Run was on the level of Toys in its unfunny-ness.
Worse, though I�m a big fan of Monty Python, I know I�m no expert. But even I found him making errors � things like giving the wrong name to sketches or characters or actors. The most unforgivable sin, however, comes when he talks about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (which he thought was titled �Love and Drugs in Las Vegas�).
Ross thinks Terry Gilliam was brought in after Alex Cox had disagreements with Johnny Depp. In actuality, Alex Cox had disagreements with Hunter S. Thompson, who wanted to beat him about the face and neck with a metal truncheon � much like I want to do to this author.
Finally, I was wondering why you would do an encyclopedia when only one of the members is dead, which means it�s out of date as soon as any of the remaining pythons films a commercial. I found the answer when I passed by a Barnes and Noble recently � the new edition was on display.
The fact that this guy is still making money off of this makes me want to do a silly walk all over his genital area.
So for a rating, let�s do this in song.
Specifically, �The Lumberjack Song.�
He�s a talentless hack, and that�s okay, he writes this crap and he gets big pay!
He cuts down Cleese, he writes this fluff, which I read on the lavatory. He doesn�t use a spell check, and get paid to watch TV!
He�s a talentless hack, and that�s okay, he writes this crap and he gets big pay!
They cut down trees to print this chump? Someone should press charges. Or steal some woman�s car keys and run him down with her car.
He�s a talentless hack, and that�s okay, he writes this crap and he gets big pay!
Stop writing please, you need to yield, your rating is lowest by far. I wish you�d been aborted, just like your own mama.
He�s a talentless hack, and that�s okay, he writes this crap and he gets big pay!
