The Rutles aren't funny.
Posted by Chief Kamanawanalea on 6 October 2008 - 7:56pm.
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They are better...
...than Oasis, though as a Beatles tribute act. And perhaps their work pales a little compared with the subsequent work of Spinal Tap...
correct
they're seminal
Trousers
Yes. It's the trousers I like.
Leave nothing..
...to the imagination.
Well...
I'm shocked.
And stunned.
The Rutles are very funny.
Spinal Tap or no Spinal Tap.
Very stunned.
"Ouch!"
The Rutles aren't funny?
Ouch!
It must be the tea.
May I suggest you contact Arthur Sultan, the Surrey Mystic, and go on a 'get-away-from-it-all' table tapping weekend in Bognor.
This is proof that society
This is proof that society is, in effect, a sewage system.
Get up...
...and go and put the kettle on
This is a bit Rutlesque
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7655167.stm
This is great
Thanks.
So are The Rutles.
Most things that occur to people in dreams
seem to be a bad idea. On the whole.
Well thats it
i'm accepting that teaching post in Australia
*limps off pursued by Dick Jaws while giving the kiss of life to a rubber raft*
Agreed
Eric Idle, who's work it was, never was very funny post Python and the Rutles were a spin off from his solo sketch series Rutland Weekend Television, not fondly remembered on DVD reissues. There's a clue there. And more than a few jokes in the Rutles were taken from other sketches in that series. Last time I saw the Rutles I found it just passingly amusing, mainly for the knowing references to Fab history and for Neil Innes' affectionate musical pastiches. But funny? That's another thing altogether...
Spamalot
Has many new jokes by Eric Idle. If you haven't seen it yet and are in any way fond of Python, you should make the effort before it closes in January.
Funny? Hells Yes!
But it is elevated beyond mere titters by Neil Innes' songwriting and the Cheese & Onion/Yellow Submarine animated sequence.
I standing here by the banks of the Mississippi
Makes me laugh every time.
Whenever I hear the words "Far from home" I add
"and far from talented."
Clever, but not necessarily funny
One of the golden rules of satire applies to The Rutles: there is no point in taking the mickey out of something that is aware of its own ridiculousness. Idle essentially took The Beatles' story and reproduced it, changing the names and places, but the problem is that the original is far funnier than the satire could ever be. I guess you could say that it's more of a homage than a satire.
This thread emphasises the show's main strength: quotability, surely the defining feature of the cult movie.
That said, Neil Innes is god.
remind me..
never to ask you out for a pint Mr. C_C, I reckon even a Parker pen wouldn't cheer you up :(
I agree with Con..
The Rutles is mildly funny, but "A Hard Days Night" and the press confrerences are hilarious.