Taylor Parkes
- Journalist
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The other side of Monty Python
Taylor Parkes will not be traipsing down to Greenwich to watch the Monty Python reunion shows. Here he explains what has changed in the "disquieting, disordered, disruptive" British institution.
Taylor Parkes, The Quietus, 1st July 2014A Revolution In The Head: The Other Side Of Monty Python
There is, or was, another side to Monty Python. Back in the day, that celebrated silliness was only part of the picture; this was adversarial humour, part of the counterculture (in effect, if not necessarily by intention). Very rarely was Python political, but it was a protest all right - a protest against bullshit and bullying, sloppy thinking and humbug, a gleeful assault on philistinism and pseudery.
Taylor Parkes, The Quietus, 1st July 2014