{"id":399,"date":"2006-02-22T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2006-02-22T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T19:42:00","slug":"we-interrupt-this-program-to-annoy-you-and-make-things-generally-irritating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/we-interrupt-this-program-to-annoy-you-and-make-things-generally-irritating\/","title":{"rendered":"We interrupt this program to annoy you and make things generally irritating."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you recognize the quote in the title, you&#8217;re going to want to read this.  It&#8217;s from the inimitable Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus.  Tonight and for the next three weeks, PBS will be running six one hour specials (two each night) called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/previews\/montypython\/\">Monty Python&#8217;s Personal Best<\/a>.  Each member of the troupe wrote and directed his own episode in the series, with the group collaborating to put together the episode on behalf of Graham Chapman.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa <em>Citizen<\/em> arts writer Alex Strachan wrote a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/ottawacitizen\/news\/arts\/story.html?id=3a4e9fd5-d6d3-4acf-9723-afe3203888fe&#038;k=18893\">feature <\/a>on the series this past Saturday (read it, it&#8217;s worth the time just to read the Eric Idle quotes).  I had no idea, but <em>Holy Grail<\/em> was funded entirely by the &#8220;grandaddies and geezers of English rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll,&#8221; including Pink Floyd, Genesis and Led Zepplin.  And <em>Life of Brian<\/em> was funded entirely by George Harrison.  Strachan quotes Eric Idle as saying, &#8216;It&#8217;s still the most that anybody has ever paid for a movie ticket.&#8217;  Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>This one will be worth setting the VCR for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you recognize the quote in the title, you&#8217;re going to want to read this. It&#8217;s from the inimitable Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus. Tonight and for the next three weeks, PBS will be running six one hour specials (two each night) called Monty Python&#8217;s Personal Best. Each member of the troupe wrote and directed his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/we-interrupt-this-program-to-annoy-you-and-make-things-generally-irritating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We interrupt this program to annoy you and make things generally irritating.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}