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''Monty Python Live at Drury Lane'' is the second LiveAlbum by English comedy troupe Creator/MontyPyhon.Creator/MontyPython. Released in 1974 through Creator/CharismaRecords, it was recorded at Drury Lane Theatre in London and features mostly sketches and songs from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Most of it are exact renditions of the TV versions, but here and there the Pythons offer some slight variations in delivery, extra lines, AudienceParticipation or {{Improv}}. Other sketches are material from their student stageshows at Cambridge and Oxford and ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show''.
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''Monty Python Live at Drury Lane'' is the second LiveAlbum by English comedy troupe Creator/MonetyPyhon.Creator/MontyPyhon. Released in 1974 through Creator/CharismaRecords, it was recorded at Drury Lane Theatre in London and features mostly sketches and songs from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Most of it are exact renditions of the TV versions, but here and there the Pythons offer some slight variations in delivery, extra lines, AudienceParticipation or {{Improv}}. Other sketches are material from their student stageshows at Cambridge and Oxford and ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show''.
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''Monty Python Live at Drury Lane'' is a 1974 album by Creator/MontyPython and their second LiveAlbum. It was recorded at Drury Lane Theatre in London and features mostly sketches and songs from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Most of it are exact renditions of the TV versions, but here and there the Pythons offer some slight variations in delivery, extra lines, AudienceParticipation or {{Improv}}. Other sketches are material from their student stageshows at Cambridge and Oxford and ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show''.
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''Monty Python Live at Drury Lane'' is a 1974 album by Creator/MontyPython and their the second LiveAlbum. It LiveAlbum by English comedy troupe Creator/MonetyPyhon. Released in 1974 through Creator/CharismaRecords, it was recorded at Drury Lane Theatre in London and features mostly sketches and songs from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Most of it are exact renditions of the TV versions, but here and there the Pythons offer some slight variations in delivery, extra lines, AudienceParticipation or {{Improv}}. Other sketches are material from their student stageshows at Cambridge and Oxford and ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show''.
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** In "World Forum/Communist Phonecall" "Communist Quiz" the presenter says that the question "When did Coventry City F.C. last win the FA Cup?" was a trick question, because this soccer club has "Coventry City have never won this prize. the FA Cup." In 1987 Coventry did win this championship, thus ruining the joke.
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* RacistGrandma: "Spot The Brain Cell" has the old lady mutter: "I don't like darkies." To which the TV presenter adds: "Who doesn't?"
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Despite being announced as a Monty Python not all the material here is from their series. Some sketches are from the time they were college students performing, others from the radio show ‘’Series/AtLastThe1948Show” where Cleese and Chapman were regulars: “Cocktail Bar”. Neil Innes, former member of Music/TheBonzoDogBand, also performs the Bonzo song “How Sweet To Be Idiot”.
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* EpicFail: In the "Election Night Special", Kevin Phillips-Bong of the Slightly Silly Party doesn't receive a single vote, or PatheticDefeat.
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* TheAlcoholic: "Bruces" features a bunch of Australians who are so obsessed with drinking beer that all throughout the sketch new cans are opened and "The Philosopher's Song" features various historically important philosophers all depicted as alcoholics.
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* ProductPlacement: Eric Idle out of nowhere takes out a piece of “Breakaway” chocolate during the “Nudge Nudge” sketch and sas: says: “Uggh! Breakaway”!, which gets a huge roar of laughter from the audience, since Idle used to advertise this product. The line was edited out on most other compilations and also cost Idle his exclusive deal with the company.
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** TimeMarchesOn: In "World Forum/Communist Phonecall" the presenter says that the question "When did Coventry City F.C. win the FA Cup?" was a trick question, because this soccer club has never won this prize. In 1987 Coventry did win this championship, thus ruining the joke.
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** TimeMarchesOn: In "World Forum/Communist Phonecall" the presenter says that the question "When did Coventry City F.C. win the FA Cup?" was a trick question, because this soccer club has never won this prize. In 1987 Coventry did win this championship, thus ruining the joke.
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* Creator/GrahamChapman
* Creator/JohnCleese
* Creator/CarolCleveland
* Creator/TerryGilliam
* Creator/EricIdle
* [[Music/TheBonzoDogBand Neil Innes]]: vocals, piano during "How Sweet To Be An Idiot"
* Creator/TerryJones
* Creator/MichaelPalin
* Creator/GrahamChapman
* Creator/JohnCleese
* Creator/CarolCleveland
* Creator/TerryGilliam
* Creator/EricIdle
* [[Music/TheBonzoDogBand Neil Innes]]: vocals, piano during "How Sweet To Be An Idiot"
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'''Monty Python Live At Drury Lane''' is a 1974 album by Creator/MontyPython and their second LiveAlbum. It was recorded at Drury Lane Theatre in London and features mostly sketches and songs from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Most of it are exact renditions of the TV versions, but here and there the Pythons offer some slight variations in delivery, extra lines, AudienceParticipation or {{Improv}}. Other sketches are material from their student stageshows at Cambridge and Oxford and ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show''.
'''Tracklist'''
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Introduction/Llamas"
# "Gumby Flower Arranging"
# "Secret Service"
# "Wrestling"
# "Communist Quiz"
# "How Sweet To Be An Idiot"
# "Albatross"/"The Colonel"
# "Nudge, Nudge"/"Cocktail Bar"
# "Travel Agent"
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Spot The Brain Cell"
# "Bruces"
# "Argument"
# "I've Got Two Legs"
# "Four Yorkshiremen"
# "Election Special"
# "Lumberjack Song"
# "Dead Parrot"
!! Tropes:
* TheAlcoholic: "Bruces" features a bunch of Australians who are so obsessed with drinking beer that all throughout the sketch new cans are opened and "The Philosopher's Song" features various historically important philosophers all depicted as alcoholics.
* AlbumFiller: Several sketches use visual imagery that make listeners who weren't there wonder what the hell is going on stage?
* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: UsefulNotes/{{Mao}} speaks in this voice when he says "Sing Little Birdie" in the "World Forum" sketch.
* AudienceParticipation: During the songs the audience is invited to sing along.
* AustralianAccent: "Bruces" features the Pythons (except for Terry Jones) all imitate Australian accents.
* BilingualBonus: "Llamas" has lines in Spanish, with Idle translating them directly into English. During "Secret Service" some French and German is spoken.
* BlowingARaspberry: "Liberty Bell" ends with someone blowing a raspberry.
* BrokenRecord: "Secret Service" has Cleese trying to make Idle laugh, by asking the same question over and over again: "Why do you want to join the secret service", not giving Idle a chance to get a word in.
* ChewingTheScenery: Cleese delights in hamming his delivery up.
* {{Corpsing}}: Cleese enjoyed doing this to his fellow actors on stage. It happens during "Election Special" and "Secret Service".
* CoversAlwaysLie: Despite being announced as a Monty Python not all the material here is from their series. Some sketches are from the time they were college students performing, others from the radio show ‘’Series/AtLastThe1948Show” where Cleese and Chapman were regulars: “Cocktail Bar”. Neil Innes, former member of Music/TheBonzoDogBand, also performs the Bonzo song “How Sweet To Be Idiot”.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The cover image was designed by Creator/TerryGilliam.
* DrunkenSong: “Bruce’s Song”.
* EpicFail: In the "Election Night Special", Kevin Phillips-Bong of the Slightly Silly Party doesn't receive a single vote, or Pathetic Defeat.
* GratuitousSpanish: "Llamas" is sang and performed in Spanish. Idle provides the translation that in the original sketch appeared in subtitles.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: "Bruces" features a group of Australian philosophy students who are absolutely against having "poofters" in their society.
* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: The "Dead Parrot" sketch has Cleese name all kinds of synonyms for death.
* {{Improv}}: Some lines are improvised or exaggarated in their delivery.
* ImprovisedPlatform: Described in the Lumberjack scene: "I always wanted... to be a lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia!"
* LandDownunder: "Bruces" features a bunch of stereotypical Australians with ditto accents. They are also all obsessed with guzzling down beer, as the sound of beer cans being opened is heard all throughout the sketch.
* MotorMouth: Mr. Smoketoomuch can't shut up and just keeps on ranting.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "I've Got Two Legs", a CaptainObvious song about legs, nevertheless very catchy.
* OverlyLongName:
--> '''Election Official''': ''Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday (pops mouth twice) Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable (sound of horse whinnying) Arthur Norman Michael (blows squeaker) Featherstone Smith (blows whistle) Northgot Edwards Harris (fires pistol, which goes 'whoop') Mason Chuffchuffchuff Frampton Jones Fruitbat Gilbert (sings) 'We'll keep a welcome in the' (three shots, stops singing) Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin (squeaker) Tiger-drawers Pratt Thompson (sings) 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' Darcy Carter (horn) Pussycat 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' Barton Mannering (hoot, 'whoop') Smithnote .''
* PrecisionFStrike:
** During “Dead Parrot” Cleese uses more vulgar language than in the TV version:
--> ''He fucking snuffed it!''
** "Albatross"
--> ''Of course you don't get fuckin' wafers with it, you cocksucker!''
** "Cocktail Bar"
--> ''We'd like to apologize for that last sketch. We're sorry. We really are sorry. We're honestly so ''fuckin''' sorry''
* ProductPlacement: Eric Idle out of nowhere takes out a piece of “Breakaway” chocolate during the “Nudge Nudge” sketch and sas: “Uggh! Breakaway”!, which gets a huge roar of laughter from the audience, since Idle used to advertise this product. The line was edited out on most other compilations and also cost Idle his exclusive deal with the company.
* RacistGrandma: "Spot The Brain Cell" has the old lady mutter: "I don't like darkies." To which the TV presenter adds: "Who doesn't?"
* RecognitionFailure: Creator/EricIdle provides the introduction and pretends to recognize celebrities in the audience, whom he can't name or identify.
* ReferenceOverdosed: The "Election Night Special" sketch is even more funny if you know something about how the way BBC TV broadcasts news about elections.
* RepurposedPopSong: "How Sweet To Be An Idiot" is performed by Neil Innes (Music/TheBonzoDogBand) and is from his 1973 debut album.
* [[RepurposedPopSong RepurposedSketch]]: Some sketches are from their college years and ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show''.
* SelfTitledAlbum: "Monty Python Live At Drury Lane".
* ShoutOut:
** "Gumby Flower Arranging" is described being presented from Vanessa Redgrave University. [[note]] Who is an actress [[/note]]
** "Wrestling" is presented from "The Uri Geller Institute of advanced spoon bending".
** "Bruce's Song" namedrops various philosophers: Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, David Hume, Artur Schopenhauer, G.W.F. Hegel, Creator/LudwigWittgenstein, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich and/or August Wilhelm Schlegel, Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, Creator/{{Socrates}}, John Stuart Mill, Creator/{{Plato}}, Creator/{{Aristotle}}, Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes.
** "World Forum/Communist Phonecall" has Creator/KarlMarx, UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin, UsefulNotes/CheGuevara and UsefulNotes/{{Mao}} being quizzed.
** "Cocktail Bar" has Cleese read an article in the newspaper: "Nixon had an asshole transplant", to which Palin adds: [[TakeThat "All the other assholes rejected him."]]
** "Spot the Brain Cell" has the quiz master ask the old lady "Which great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to a physical state and insists there is no point of contact between the extended and the unextended?" She says she doesn't know the answer to that, but [[spoiler: after thinking it through she gives the correct answer out of nowhere: Henri Bergson, despite adding "That was lucky. I never even heard of him." ]]
** "Election Special" quotes from "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" from ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.
* TheSomethingSong: “Argument Song”, “Bruce’s Song” and “Idiot Song”.
* StandardSnippet: "Liberty Bell" by John Philip Sousa, the theme song of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' is heard near the end.
* StraightMan: The colonel (Graham Chapman) ask Terry Jones and Idle which one of them is the straight man? [[spoiler: Then the "Nudge Nudge" sketch sets in.]]
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "How Sweet To Be An Idiot", despite being a comedic song actually sounds quite touching.
* TimeMarchesOn:
** TimeMarchesOn: In "World Forum/Communist Phonecall" the presenter says that the question "When did Coventry City F.C. win the FA Cup?" was a trick question, because this soccer club has never won this prize. In 1987 Coventry did win this championship, thus ruining the joke.
** "Cocktail Bar" makes reference to Nixon, who was still US President in 1974 and still alive.
* TooDumbToLive: In the "Election Night Sketch", the unofficial "Very-Silly Candidate" gets two votes (presumably from people who would've voted for the official Silly Party Candidate), thus allowing the Sensible Party to take the constituency by a single vote. Also, the Slightly-Silly candidate gets zero votes, indicating that he didn't even vote for himself.
* WhenIWasYourAge: The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch has four rich people brag about whose youth was the most poor and miserable, which goes to absurd lengths.
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'''Monty Python Live At Drury Lane''' is a 1974 album by Creator/MontyPython and their second LiveAlbum. It was recorded at Drury Lane Theatre in London and features mostly sketches and songs from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Most of it are exact renditions of the TV versions, but here and there the Pythons offer some slight variations in delivery, extra lines, AudienceParticipation or {{Improv}}. Other sketches are material from their student stageshows at Cambridge and Oxford and ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show''.
'''Tracklist'''
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Introduction/Llamas"
# "Gumby Flower Arranging"
# "Secret Service"
# "Wrestling"
# "Communist Quiz"
# "How Sweet To Be An Idiot"
# "Albatross"/"The Colonel"
# "Nudge, Nudge"/"Cocktail Bar"
# "Travel Agent"
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Spot The Brain Cell"
# "Bruces"
# "Argument"
# "I've Got Two Legs"
# "Four Yorkshiremen"
# "Election Special"
# "Lumberjack Song"
# "Dead Parrot"
!! Tropes:
* TheAlcoholic: "Bruces" features a bunch of Australians who are so obsessed with drinking beer that all throughout the sketch new cans are opened and "The Philosopher's Song" features various historically important philosophers all depicted as alcoholics.
* AlbumFiller: Several sketches use visual imagery that make listeners who weren't there wonder what the hell is going on stage?
* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: UsefulNotes/{{Mao}} speaks in this voice when he says "Sing Little Birdie" in the "World Forum" sketch.
* AudienceParticipation: During the songs the audience is invited to sing along.
* AustralianAccent: "Bruces" features the Pythons (except for Terry Jones) all imitate Australian accents.
* BilingualBonus: "Llamas" has lines in Spanish, with Idle translating them directly into English. During "Secret Service" some French and German is spoken.
* BlowingARaspberry: "Liberty Bell" ends with someone blowing a raspberry.
* BrokenRecord: "Secret Service" has Cleese trying to make Idle laugh, by asking the same question over and over again: "Why do you want to join the secret service", not giving Idle a chance to get a word in.
* ChewingTheScenery: Cleese delights in hamming his delivery up.
* {{Corpsing}}: Cleese enjoyed doing this to his fellow actors on stage. It happens during "Election Special" and "Secret Service".
* CoversAlwaysLie: Despite being announced as a Monty Python not all the material here is from their series. Some sketches are from the time they were college students performing, others from the radio show ‘’Series/AtLastThe1948Show” where Cleese and Chapman were regulars: “Cocktail Bar”. Neil Innes, former member of Music/TheBonzoDogBand, also performs the Bonzo song “How Sweet To Be Idiot”.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The cover image was designed by Creator/TerryGilliam.
* DrunkenSong: “Bruce’s Song”.
* EpicFail: In the "Election Night Special", Kevin Phillips-Bong of the Slightly Silly Party doesn't receive a single vote, or Pathetic Defeat.
* GratuitousSpanish: "Llamas" is sang and performed in Spanish. Idle provides the translation that in the original sketch appeared in subtitles.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: "Bruces" features a group of Australian philosophy students who are absolutely against having "poofters" in their society.
* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: The "Dead Parrot" sketch has Cleese name all kinds of synonyms for death.
* {{Improv}}: Some lines are improvised or exaggarated in their delivery.
* ImprovisedPlatform: Described in the Lumberjack scene: "I always wanted... to be a lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia!"
* LandDownunder: "Bruces" features a bunch of stereotypical Australians with ditto accents. They are also all obsessed with guzzling down beer, as the sound of beer cans being opened is heard all throughout the sketch.
* MotorMouth: Mr. Smoketoomuch can't shut up and just keeps on ranting.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "I've Got Two Legs", a CaptainObvious song about legs, nevertheless very catchy.
* OverlyLongName:
--> '''Election Official''': ''Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday (pops mouth twice) Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable (sound of horse whinnying) Arthur Norman Michael (blows squeaker) Featherstone Smith (blows whistle) Northgot Edwards Harris (fires pistol, which goes 'whoop') Mason Chuffchuffchuff Frampton Jones Fruitbat Gilbert (sings) 'We'll keep a welcome in the' (three shots, stops singing) Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin (squeaker) Tiger-drawers Pratt Thompson (sings) 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' Darcy Carter (horn) Pussycat 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' Barton Mannering (hoot, 'whoop') Smithnote .''
* PrecisionFStrike:
** During “Dead Parrot” Cleese uses more vulgar language than in the TV version:
--> ''He fucking snuffed it!''
** "Albatross"
--> ''Of course you don't get fuckin' wafers with it, you cocksucker!''
** "Cocktail Bar"
--> ''We'd like to apologize for that last sketch. We're sorry. We really are sorry. We're honestly so ''fuckin''' sorry''
* ProductPlacement: Eric Idle out of nowhere takes out a piece of “Breakaway” chocolate during the “Nudge Nudge” sketch and sas: “Uggh! Breakaway”!, which gets a huge roar of laughter from the audience, since Idle used to advertise this product. The line was edited out on most other compilations and also cost Idle his exclusive deal with the company.
* RacistGrandma: "Spot The Brain Cell" has the old lady mutter: "I don't like darkies." To which the TV presenter adds: "Who doesn't?"
* RecognitionFailure: Creator/EricIdle provides the introduction and pretends to recognize celebrities in the audience, whom he can't name or identify.
* ReferenceOverdosed: The "Election Night Special" sketch is even more funny if you know something about how the way BBC TV broadcasts news about elections.
* RepurposedPopSong: "How Sweet To Be An Idiot" is performed by Neil Innes (Music/TheBonzoDogBand) and is from his 1973 debut album.
* [[RepurposedPopSong RepurposedSketch]]: Some sketches are from their college years and ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show''.
* SelfTitledAlbum: "Monty Python Live At Drury Lane".
* ShoutOut:
** "Gumby Flower Arranging" is described being presented from Vanessa Redgrave University. [[note]] Who is an actress [[/note]]
** "Wrestling" is presented from "The Uri Geller Institute of advanced spoon bending".
** "Bruce's Song" namedrops various philosophers: Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, David Hume, Artur Schopenhauer, G.W.F. Hegel, Creator/LudwigWittgenstein, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich and/or August Wilhelm Schlegel, Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, Creator/{{Socrates}}, John Stuart Mill, Creator/{{Plato}}, Creator/{{Aristotle}}, Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes.
** "World Forum/Communist Phonecall" has Creator/KarlMarx, UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin, UsefulNotes/CheGuevara and UsefulNotes/{{Mao}} being quizzed.
** "Cocktail Bar" has Cleese read an article in the newspaper: "Nixon had an asshole transplant", to which Palin adds: [[TakeThat "All the other assholes rejected him."]]
** "Spot the Brain Cell" has the quiz master ask the old lady "Which great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to a physical state and insists there is no point of contact between the extended and the unextended?" She says she doesn't know the answer to that, but [[spoiler: after thinking it through she gives the correct answer out of nowhere: Henri Bergson, despite adding "That was lucky. I never even heard of him." ]]
** "Election Special" quotes from "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" from ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.
* TheSomethingSong: “Argument Song”, “Bruce’s Song” and “Idiot Song”.
* StandardSnippet: "Liberty Bell" by John Philip Sousa, the theme song of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' is heard near the end.
* StraightMan: The colonel (Graham Chapman) ask Terry Jones and Idle which one of them is the straight man? [[spoiler: Then the "Nudge Nudge" sketch sets in.]]
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "How Sweet To Be An Idiot", despite being a comedic song actually sounds quite touching.
* TimeMarchesOn:
** TimeMarchesOn: In "World Forum/Communist Phonecall" the presenter says that the question "When did Coventry City F.C. win the FA Cup?" was a trick question, because this soccer club has never won this prize. In 1987 Coventry did win this championship, thus ruining the joke.
** "Cocktail Bar" makes reference to Nixon, who was still US President in 1974 and still alive.
* TooDumbToLive: In the "Election Night Sketch", the unofficial "Very-Silly Candidate" gets two votes (presumably from people who would've voted for the official Silly Party Candidate), thus allowing the Sensible Party to take the constituency by a single vote. Also, the Slightly-Silly candidate gets zero votes, indicating that he didn't even vote for himself.
* WhenIWasYourAge: The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch has four rich people brag about whose youth was the most poor and miserable, which goes to absurd lengths.
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