Post by David Morgan on Jul 14, 2006 16:29:19 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU192q84xnw
"A.M. America," the precursor to ABC's "Good Morning America," was hosted by Bill Beutel and Stephanie Edwards. On Feb. 25, 1975, with Beutel away on assignment, Edwards was joined by five members of Monty Python as her co-hosts, who introduced news segments and ultimately took apart the set. Attending were Graham Chapman, Michael Palin and Eric idle, joined later in the program by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. While the late Peter Jennings may not have known what to do with the situation -- having a bunch of rambunctious comedians lead into his reports on the impending fall of Saigon -- Edwards was game and a great sport.
I've extracted parts of the broadcast featuring the Pythons (leaving out the news reports on Henry Kissinger, the Portuguese elections, and Hollywood's search for a successor to the late Bruce Lee). One benefit from watching is not only seeing a rare glimpse of the Pythons on the eve of the premiere of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," but also a look at a very, shall we say, quaint news broadcast of that era -- graphics, set design, even the writing are clearly not contemporary television news (certainly pre-24 hour news channels). Yet what is depressing is that the content broadcast -- strife in the Middle East, spiking gas prices, terrorist acts -- is sadly too familiar today.
Also, be sure to catch these PBS fundraising spots shot by Python in Chicago in 1975:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5iLDUQcQlw
Cheers,
David Morgan ("Monty Python Speaks") ... (more)
"A.M. America," the precursor to ABC's "Good Morning America," was hosted by Bill Beutel and Stephanie Edwards. On Feb. 25, 1975, with Beutel away on assignment, Edwards was joined by five members of Monty Python as her co-hosts, who introduced news segments and ultimately took apart the set. Attending were Graham Chapman, Michael Palin and Eric idle, joined later in the program by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. While the late Peter Jennings may not have known what to do with the situation -- having a bunch of rambunctious comedians lead into his reports on the impending fall of Saigon -- Edwards was game and a great sport.
I've extracted parts of the broadcast featuring the Pythons (leaving out the news reports on Henry Kissinger, the Portuguese elections, and Hollywood's search for a successor to the late Bruce Lee). One benefit from watching is not only seeing a rare glimpse of the Pythons on the eve of the premiere of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," but also a look at a very, shall we say, quaint news broadcast of that era -- graphics, set design, even the writing are clearly not contemporary television news (certainly pre-24 hour news channels). Yet what is depressing is that the content broadcast -- strife in the Middle East, spiking gas prices, terrorist acts -- is sadly too familiar today.
Also, be sure to catch these PBS fundraising spots shot by Python in Chicago in 1975:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5iLDUQcQlw
Cheers,
David Morgan ("Monty Python Speaks") ... (more)
