{"id":68596,"date":"2019-10-08T10:01:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=68596"},"modified":"2019-10-08T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:51:07","slug":"sudden-violent-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/sudden-violent-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden, violent comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wonderduck.mu.nu\/python_50\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wonderduck points out<\/a> that we&#8217;ve had Monty Python for fifty years now. I discovered them late. Their show didn&#8217;t arrive in Kansas until years after I quit watching teevee. It wasn&#8217;t until a friend handed me the scripts for the shows that I found that they were pretty good. Reading the scripts alone doesn&#8217;t give you a complete idea of what they were \u2014 &#8220;Ministry of Silly Walks&#8221; seems like a dumb little skit on paper, but John Cleese perambulating transforms it. However, the words to &#8220;The Spanish Inquisition,&#8221; &#8220;The Cheese Shop&#8221; and a good proportion of the other skits are funny on the page as well as in performance, and that is still largely how I know them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monty Python- Cheese Shop\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hz1JWzyvv8A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Enjoy the Pythons now, because in the very near future the punchline to <em>all<\/em> jokes, not just &#8220;how many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?&#8221; will be &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/the-revolt-of-the-unfunny-comes-for-seinfeld\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">That&#8217;s not funny<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(The title is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W9FzUI8998U\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderduck points out that we&#8217;ve had Monty Python for fifty years now. I discovered them late. Their show didn&#8217;t arrive in Kansas until years after I quit watching teevee. It wasn&#8217;t until a friend handed me the scripts for the shows that I found that they were pretty good. Reading the scripts alone doesn&#8217;t give &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/sudden-violent-comedy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sudden, violent comedy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-hQo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68596"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68615,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68596\/revisions\/68615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}