What was going on in England in the 1970s to give Monty Python so much comedy fodder that is still relevant today?
What was going on in England in the 1970s to give Monty Python so much comedy fodder that is still relevant today?
Their jokes about assigning gender to babies and to being transgender, dressing in drag, like all of it was a send-up.
Sure, they did punch down if you were a person who were in those groups, but the fact that it was large enough social event to be relevant enough to be a comedy skit on a television show or a movie seen by millions implies that there were some serious things going on back then that they could see and wanted to address.
What the hell was going on that put all of those things in their mind?
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Check the history of comedy.
Mel Brooks 'The Producers' movie had two gay men. Bugs Bunny was in drag in the 1940's. "Some Like It Hot" came out in the 1950s. Heck, pretty much any Hollywood movie made before the Hays Code would have had gay gags.
Milton Berle was the King of Comedy and he did drag for years.
The Pythons didn't invent anything
This is why the whole woke thing is so stupid to me.
"I'm sick of Hollywood putting DEI bs in my movies not like the old days!"
The old days: "Come see two men dress as women to escape the mob!"
Since this is a comedy thread, I'll paraphrase John Cleese.
The great thing about anger is that it really works. It makes you physically stronger and less likely to feel pain. If you're angry all the time you aren't worrying about things because you've got a target to go after.
I'll throw in another comedy classic.
The musical "The Music Man" is about a conman who gets the whole town in an uproar over a pool table.
“Disney has gone woke”.
Meanwhile Mary Poppins (made in the 60’s) straight up has a banger song “sister suffragette” and signs for women’s suffrage in it.
“Disney has gone woke” has to be the stupidest thing to say, they've been woke longer than I've been around.
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Was that nuns on the run
This is it exactly. Before magnetic tape, Comedians told the same jokes For generations.
Modern comedians act like they’re the first people to come up with jokes because of the first people to record them.
Sometimes I wonder about how many songs the average person would know throughout history. An ancient Roman would be exposed to songs from the entire Empire, while a 1000 AD English farmer might only hear a few dozen in their whole life time.