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i had a vision for an revue starlight PPKM AU bcuz im off my meds its basically junnana (junna x daiba)

junna = noelle daiba = akarsha

i also recently bought the first butterfly soup art book and added some of ppkms old design features bcuz its cute

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Introduction to semester two

It's the start of semester two, which means the start of a new journey of creating more work. Previously, my work centred around Queerness and the body in drag, and I'm interested in continuing that line of questioning and discovery this semester. This first post is going to be a recap of my concerns last semester, plus a sort of checklist of things to do over the course of this semester. Ideally this blog would just have been for 2D, but I also want to track my process for Professional Practice, so that will likely end up here as well.

Handsome Boy

Last semester's big work was Handsome Boy. I was thinking a lot about how drag is conceptualised - that a drag queen, for instance, is only a drag queen onstage, in the performance of hyperfemininity. Drag is often conceptualised in material terms - the clothes a performer wears, the hair, the makeup, the external mannerisms. Judith Butler suggests that all gender is performance, not just that of drag performers. I started thinking about being in a body that will always present a certain, socially-recognised gender (barring surgery, my naked body will always read as female through a cisheteronormative lens), and how, for many Queer people, our bodies become a layer of "drag" performance, sending out gendered signals in a society not primed to read the nuances of our actual gender. Because of this line of thinking, I decided to put my vulva in drag to hyper-feminize it. I bejewelled & glittered it in pinks and purples, then photographed it while I was menstruating. The period was a commentary on essentialist assumptions about gender - that if I menstruate, I must be female - and contrasted against the anti-essentialist act of dragging my vulva up. This photograph was altered and blurred to reflect the slippery, only-visible-if-you-want-to-see-it nature of gender non-conformity, and then printed on a 1.2 x 1.2m piece of cloth. The cloth was then embroidered with conversations I'd had with other Queer people concerning Queerness and Queer love.

You are what you eat

The second piece of work was a performance art piece responding to essentialist ideas that our biology makes our gender. In this work, I ate my own menstrual blood, fingernails and hair until I could no longer stomach it (about half an hour). The joke was that the more I could eat, the more female I must be. I edited the video & set it to Shania Twain's Man I Feel Like A Woman, which loops endlessly to the point that the video feels surreal & absurd. I then took stills from the video and transferred them to a T-shirt - a wearable item. We often customise our gender presentation with our clothing, so the point of putting the video "storyboard" onto a T-shirt was to contrast the performance of identity with the absurdity of an essentialist assumption of gender.

QUEERTHEYEAR! Cabaret

The final project I embarked on for the first semester was an alternative Queer cabaret in Singapore. Singapore has very few avenues that platform Queer performers - most drag queens are limited to the RIOT!, the monthly drag revue hosted by local legend Becca d'Bus, or performing in clubs like go-go dancers. There are nearly no spaces for drag kings, queens, strippers, burlesque artists and other creators of Queer content to experiment. (The one space that is open to this degree of experimentation is dink, a monthly open mic and petri dish of creative experimentation. Unfortunately, the space is limited, and the performance is unpaid.) I wanted to create a space where Queer performers could fuck it up and be appreciated! Thus, QUEERTHEYEAR! was born. We showcased seven performers at The Projector (a venue owned by QTIPOC) to a full house. I also designed and screenprinted 50 T-shirts and 50 tote bags to raise funds for the event. Through the event, we were also able to platform and pay Queer photographers. Our next event is slated for December 2020.

What's Next?

I have three main projects I want to explore through the course of this semester, most of them building on the work done last semester. Of course, they're subject to change, and I'm curious where they will end up by the end of the year.

Vulva pop-up book: I want to create pop-up cards between my thighs. Exactly how and why I'm doing this is to be determined, but I know that I'm interested in exploring the cishet and Queer gazes, and how the Queer body is treated both like a site of education and one of objectification. I've been wanting to explore bookmaking, and want to see if I can combine that with my performance art.

Self portraits - I have a goal of creating 27 self portraits of myself as different articulations of my gender. Each self portrait will then be embroidered with a description of my gender that day.

Love Garden - This may end up being my Professional Practice project. It's an extension of my interest in embroidery, but the subject matter is different than what I've been exploring. I'd like to anonymously collect people's experiences of heartbreak and things that have been said to hurt them, and then I want to embroider these things onto the leaves of plants, creating a garden of heartbreak. It sounds cliche, but I'm interested in how we grow from (or in spite of) these things. I think this is a project I personally need to take on, in order to catalogue past feelings and step forward. It's a project I've attempted to embark on before, but it felt too close to me then and I was unable to healthily approach it. Now it feels far away enough that I can interrogate it.

Timeline

Week 1: Research how to create pop-up cards, research places to get fake trees, brainstorm conceptions of my gender, take a self portrait

Week 2: Make some pop-up cards, collect heartbreak quotes, take 3 self portraits

Week 3: Make some pop-up cards, collect heartbreak quotes, order trees, take 5 self portraits

Week 4: Start transposing pop-up cards onto my own body, collect heartbreak quotes, take 5 self portraits, begin to embroider trees

Week 5: Continue work with pop-up cards on body, take 5 self portraits, embroider trees

Week 6: Formative. Should have some draft pop-up vulva cards to show, some embroidered leaves, and about 21 self portraits. Continue working on pop-up cards, take 5 self portraits, embroider trees.

Week 7: Continue working on pop-up cards, take 3 self portraits, embroider trees.

Term break: Consolidate what has been done so far. By now, should have all 27 self-portraits and a clearer idea of what type of vulva books will be produced for the final piece. Tree embroidery should be 1/3 done. Spend the two weeks catching up on anything I'm behind on. (probably lots)

Week 8: Embroider self-portraits. Create final pop-up vulva book. Embroider trees.

Week 9: Embroider self-portraits. Create final pop-up vulva book. Embroider trees.

Week 10: Embroider self-portraits. Create final pop-up vulva book. Embroider trees.

Week 11: Embroider self-portraits. Create final pop-up vulva book. Embroider trees.

Week 12: Assessment

Week 13: Assessment

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Death and the Maiden, Cooking Edition: Pomegranate Tiramisu

Fahwad Khan, IMPERMANENT (THE POMEGRANATE SKULL) 2014

Pardon the long post, but I just don’t know where else to go with this. And even in terms of recipe posts it will be annoying because there’s the dreaded backstory — but I’m sharing in honor a friend who passed away, so I guess if you feel terrific about skimming past all that to get to a cake recipe one minute faster, no one can ever question your commitment to gastronomy. 

So here’s the deal. Back in 2011 I was hosting a monthly variety show that featured numerous components: film, live music, burlesque, PowerPoint presentations, arts & crafts, really ANYTHING. 

My friend Cas Marino wanted in on the action; he was a performer, but he was so much more than that. He was performing life, quite vividly; he was a cancer survivor who’d never stopped transforming. He played serious dramatic roles in productions all over New York City, he was happy to dive into a drag revue, he would host salons and get-togethers in his Midtown apartment, and on top of everything else, he was working on a blog called “The Food Daddy,” which was entertaining to read even if you couldn’t cook. As you’ll see below, everything he touched became infused with his humor and personality.

He’d appeared in a number of my shows, usually in drag inspired by that night’s theme. Here he is on the night we read excerpts from Elsa Lanchester’s then-out-of-print memoir. 

Here he is, drinking milk right out of the carton on the night we did a whole show about the trope in fiction about women who transform into cats. (I’m telling you, dear reader, I was truly living my best life as a producer!)

This was all in a lovely professional downtown establishment, so naturally I was interested in bending every possible rule past the breaking point. So when Cas asked if he could make food for my entire audience, I said YES... and then went to inform the venue so they could explain why it was completely against the rules. (In this instance, they had their own cafe on-site that was strictly kosher, and they could not risk confusion or contamination with outside food.) 

I don’t recall exactly how we pulled it off, but Cas began showing up at my events armed with enough food to serve 75 people (the theater’s capacity). Do you realize how incredible that is, reader? Sometimes we’d sell out, but sometimes we’d only have 15 folks in the audience, half of them comps. Cas believed in me so hard, he planned for a sold-out show every time. He would have been offended if we ran out of kibble with even one person left to feed.

The food was always on theme, so when I did a show about America’s First Ladies, he combined vintage recipes from Barbara Bush and Rosalynn Carter to make Bipartisan Buffalo Chicken Sliders, which he served dressed as Eve, the original “first lady,” mostly naked and covered in vines.

As you’ll read below, he agonized over the perfect thing to serve at our “Death and the Maiden” show.  At one point, it was going to be mini-eclairs filled with pomegranate cream and tipped with an almond fingernail. He finally settled on this original tiramisu recipe that knocked us all COMPLETELY OUT. And I ate the leftovers out of my fridge for days, because letting even one serving go to waste felt like a desecration.

Look, I’m telling you he could COOK. He once described his culinary style to me as “tragically indulgent.” His fantasy (like so many others at the time) was to parlay his food blog into an actual cookbook someday. 

Sadly, Cas did not live to fulfill this particular dream. In 2014 his cancer returned, and he faded away right before our eyes. From his hospital bed, he wrote me: “I have to survive this just to write about it and do a one-man show where I cook and feed and we all laugh and sob and go ‘Mmmmm that's fucking good’ and it just becomes a big audience/artist participation evening of sharing where I am the only one who gets to talk.”

That same year, I managed to recreate his Pomegranate Tiramisu and serve it to friends as my birthday cake; for a couple years afterward, I would look the recipe up on his website and fantasize about making it again. The ingredients weren’t cheap, and it required more kitchen space than I had in NYC. 

And then the worst thing happened: at some point after Cas’s death, the domain expired and his blog went 404, and ONLY THEN did I realize I hadn’t scribbled it down anywhere. People say “the internet is forever,” but hell... even Tumblr users know differently. 

I spent a few more years being very depressed about this, imagining the recipe was lost forever, but it turns out someone had managed to preserve the blog’s contents, and at long last it fell back into my hands. BACK FROM THE DEAD! Not unlike the Bride of Frankenstein herself.

So I’m going to let Cas take it from here, dear reader. Thank you for letting me bring him back to life for a just few minutes, performing for you, feeding you. Knowing that would’ve meant everything to him. From one of his last messages to me: “I have no designs on sainthood. But I know I still have shit to accomplish in this world, even if not a physical member of it.”

Knock ‘em dead, Cas!

“The Food Daddy” - Pomegranate Tiramisu

This recipe was created by me to fit the bill for the recent “Meet the Lady” performance (which, if you’ve not heard or read, is a monthly variety show that really rather defies description), titled “Death and the Maiden”.

I toiled with possible ideas that had to do with death and maidens, figuring most easily that a “death by chocolate” offering would at least use one of the title words. Then lady fingers came into the thought process because, well, if you dismembered a maiden you’d have two byproducts: death, most notably, and lady parts — including, but not limited to, her fingers.

Lady fingers naturally led to Tiramisu fantasies, but I didn’t want to go the traditional route. And after discussing it and brainstorming, I got smacked in the back of the head with the realization that the mythical Persephone — a maiden — kidnapped as she was by Hades — who, by way of his being the god of the underworld, was death its very self in semi-human form — ate nothing but pomegranate seeds during her detainment in hell.

If this doesn’t spell fucking dessert, I don’t know what does.

Herewith, my scaled-down recipe (in scope, not in structure or composition; I doubt you’ll need to serve 75 people with yours, though even at half-size this will serve a small army). You can pare it down even further if you feel such need, or instead of making it into one big sheet cake, assemble several smaller ones (I found this worked BEAUTIFULLY in loaf pans) and send them straight to the freezer for future enjoyment.

A few other flexible considerations: I made mine in a full-size deep steam table pan for presentation and food service purposes. These things measure roughly 20 x 10 x 3.5”, but you can use the smaller (12 x 9 x 2.5”) disposable aluminum half-pans for this recipe, or as stated above, any other configuration of sizes that suit your needs. If you want to unmold it and slice it after freezing, line your pans first with cellophane wrap. After just a minute or two out of the ice box, you’ll be able to lift it out of the pan (perhaps with the help of a hungry friend) by the ends of the cellophane, place it on a cutting board, and have at it. Tres artistique, even weighing in as mine did at about eight pounds. This last conclusion required me getting on the scale both with and without the final dessert in my arms and subtracting the first weight from the laden number, which could have been quite a site, as I generally refuse to step on a scale until I’ve removed every last stitch of clothing including my socks, and spit out any spare saliva and shaved every last facial hair so NOTHING will add even a bazillionth of an ounce to my readout, lest I suffer a deep fit of depression. And being depressed when you’re holding what turns out to be 8 pounds of really good cake is a recipe for emotion-eating disaster. But I staved off the need to feel slimmer than normal in light of the facts that (a) I was mid-movie shoot that week, and thus had to maintain a larger-than-usual mane of face-hair for my role; (b) spitting near food meant for others would be gross; (c) being naked around the same food would be even grosser; and (d) the tile floor in my bathroom could be a bit chilly, so why risk taking off my socks?

Socks, spitting, scanty clothing — nothing could have made this less enjoyable. The audience that night devoured what was served to them, and all but attacked the leftovers on the way out of the theater. I had sent samples of this creation to my usual team of taste-testers for input as part of the development process, and perhaps the most poignant and fitting critique came from my dear Mom who, just having started a new diet regimen, had the following to say during our brief check-in on the phone:

“Hello. This is your mother. Fuck Weight Watchers, and Fuck You.”

I love you, Mom. And not just because you loved this surprising new take on an old favorite.

60 Lady Finger cookies

4 Cups Pomegranate juice

1-½ Cups plus 2 Tbsp. sugar

1 Packet unflavored gelatin

4 Egg whites

1 tsp. Cream of Tartar

1 Cup Mascarpone cheese 

3 Cups Crème Fraiche 

1 Tbsp. Corn starch

¼ Cup water (or as needed) 

½ Cup sliced almonds

¼ Cup Pomegranate seeds (or dried sweetened cranberries) 

(Reserve 6 Lady Fingers for garnish.)

In a saucepan, mix pomegranate juice with 1-½ cups sugar, and sprinkle gelatin on top. Stir or whisk until gelatin is dissolved with no lumps remaining. Bring mixture to boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly until sugar and gelatin are fully dissolved. Reduce heat to medium-low and continue to boil, stirring often, for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and set saucepan into a larger bowl filled with cold water. Stir frequently and change cold water bath often, allowing juice reduction to cool as close to room temperature as possible.

In the bowl of a stand mixer or with electric beaters, whip egg whites with cream of tartar until stiff. Remove to a separate, clean mixing bowl (preferably chilled in the freezer) and set aside.

In stand mixer or large mixing bowl with electric beaters, mix mascarpone with 1-½ cups of cooled juice reduction until well blended. Beat on medium-high for one minute. Add 1 cup of the crème fraiche and blend until smooth. Finally, fold in beaten egg whites, half at a time, just until fully incorporated.

Assembling the tiramisu: Here’s where Food Daddy starts getting anal (but this works easiest, so just shut up and do as I say. Love you!). On your prep surface, set your plate or bowl of unpackaged lady fingers (you don’t want to be messing with cellophane and plastic bags and such mid-project here); next to that, set your remaining juice reduction; and next to that, set your cake pan.

Working from left to right (or for my Hebrew or dyslexic foodies, right to left), dip a lady finger lightly in the juice by placing it on the liquid’s surface, flipping it over with your fingers, then removing it by hand and placing it in the cake pan. Working quickly, repeat this process, building a tightly packed layer of side-by-side, row-by-row, lightly soaked lady fingers on the bottom of the pan. Nobody will see the inside of the tiramisu in its entirety, so if to make a uniform layer with few gaps you need to rip a finger here or stuff a finger there, I won’t tell a soul if you have to be a bit forceful or creative.

Spoon half of the pomegranate mousse mixture over the bottom layer of lady fingers. Using the back of a spoon or a rubber spatula, spread the mixture evenly. Lift the pan and drop it gently a few times on your work surface, just to make sure all the gaps are filled and big air bubbles are removed.

Repeat with a second layer of dipped lady fingers, and then a second layer of pomegranate mousse, again tamping pan to release air bubbles and distribute the filling evenly. Top with one final layer of dipped lady fingers.

Spread the top with the remaining 2 cups of crème fraiche, tamp pan to settle the layers, and set aside.

Pour remaining juice mixture into a measuring cup, and add enough of the water, if needed, to make 1 cup of liquid. Return to saucepan, and stir in the corn starch and the remaining 2 Tbsp. of sugar until starch is dissolved. Place pan over medium-high heat, and bring to a boil to thicken. Remove from heat.

In a food processor or with a cutting board and knife, coarsely chop the almonds and the fruit, then add the reserved lady fingers and pulse (or chop and crumble) until the whole thing looks like somebody pawed at a poor helpless berry-nut muffin until there were no big chunks left.

Sprinkle the crumb mixture evenly over the top of the tiramisu. Drizzle with the pomegranate syrup mixture.

Chill tiramisu at least 2 hours in refrigerator before serving. For overnight storage or longer, cover with cellophane wrap gently pressed against the top surface.

This will “cure” and the flavors will blend and the whole combination really pull together if left refrigerated for two days. For storage beyond that or to deal with leftovers, this freezes BEAUTIFULLY. Just allow to come to room temperature before serving, or enjoy it “semi freddo” by removing from freezer and slicing wide, inch-thick slices, laying each on its side on individual serving plates and eating it cold and firm. A dollop of additional crème fraiche and a sprinkling of chopped almonds (did I hear someone say “mint sprig”?) sure would make this anything but a “leftover” dessert.

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This trip has been an absolute whirlwind - I cannot believe that I saw Elisabeth only last week! But, with my hastily scribbled notes in hand I present an out of order bullet point list of things I thought were interesting, what worked for me and what didn’t, and some rhetorical questions.

- Manaki Reika (Chapi) and Tsukishiro Kanato (Reiko) were AMAZING. Voices were on point, Reiko had fantastic riffs and vibrato

- I know that Lucheni is a bit of a standout role by design but I am so looking forward to what Reiko does next

- I am late to the Chapi stan party but with this performance and BADDY boy do I STAN now

- The orchestra live is so powerful and complex. There is a bell line in the duet after Franz and Sissi’s first meeting that I swear is new. I am going to listen back to old recordings and check

- Never paid attention to the dad character but Kizuki Yuuma was so stylish I was like ‘oh hello sir’. She took the role and made it fashion. 

- Are people actually in the dressers in the beginning that get lifted up or do they wait behind them? Because that lift looked terrifying.

- There are far more raised arm salutes out of range of the recording angles and it honestly threw me for a loop.

- There’s a bass clarinet or bari sax doing the real work in certain scenes that does not come through on recordings. If I didn’t play bass myself I would almost say it was too powerful, but then again there’s no such thing as too much bass. 

- Watashi Dake Ni (Elisabeth’s big ol’ solo) finally makes sense seeing it live. Ngl I usually skip pieces of it but here I was captivated. 

- With Watashi Dake Ni in mind I was actually upset I couldn’t clap longer, and that Tod literally steps in front of her for a solo. Slow your roll Tod it’s only Act 1.

- Friendly shout out from a distance to Sophie’s maid squad / Elisabeth’s travel team. I wouldn’t want to get to close and risk Touka Yurino’s smooth wrath lol. They’re in such sync I though the Revue finally got some good projectors going (jk looking at you Castle of the White Heron)

- Everything is much more colorful live. Reiko’s pink jacket for Kitsch was legitimately blinding.

- Seeing the full stage for the wedding / reception scene makes Tod’s final flourish and glass crashing sound at the end of Last Dance make sense. The walls literally rotate, throwing the pair of them into a mirror world that I didn’t before in recordings. Props to everyone for standing behind those walls to keep up the appearance that they are still on the other side instead of just exiting. 

- The black angels are doing so much in the background I want a star angle for them. I think legitimately one of them hit themselves in the face they kicked so high.

- Shout out to the musumeyaku that slipped and ate it center stage as the “Elisabeth reveals her Hungary dress” scene was setting up. The recovery was as effortless as it could be, I hope you’re ok! 

- The woman who sat on my right promptly fell asleep but rocketed awake in time for the finale of Watashi Dake Ni. Ma’am I’m sure you’ve seen the show 10+ times but I have no idea how you fall asleep when the music is so loud. I salute you.

- I guess I should mention Tamaki and Miya at this point huh? :D 

- Tamaki’s costuming was really cool to see live. The wig was blond with a dark teal top that looked great with the finale costumes. The Last Dance military look was especially striking. 

- She made Tod a soft and sympathetic force of nature, one that really reflected what Chapi was desiring at different times - love, peace, a respite from the world, etc. I genuinely appreciated the take on the character but it leads to my #1 complaint with the show:

- The stage direction needs to change. Tamaki’s interpretation of Tod did not match the staging she had to hit, which came across in the way she sang the line “ai to shi no rondo” soooooo sweetly, but then she still had to have the “shineba ii” scene be creepy and aggressive. I would have liked to see a sweet, more nurturing/supportive take on that line so that Elisabeth would be more wholly tempted to go through with it.

- I also would have liked to have heard Tod’s songs in a different key. While I fully understand that there are a plethora of reasons for why Elisabeth’s direction does not change, Tamaki was struggling with intervals and certain high notes (though not all of them, which I thought was interesting.) It’s nearing the end of the Tokyo run and she is giving it 150%, but I would have loved to see what this Tod could have been like with some altered staging and 100% security in the vocal performance. 

- That being said, the way Tamaki sang “ai to shi no rondo” made me sigh and think, ‘tbh I’d trade places with Elisabeth’. Then I thought about Sophie and I very quickly backpedaled. 

- There was also an amazing effect when Tod is leaving Elisabeth as she wakes up where the center state is covered in fog and rotating extremely fast, and Tamaki has her left foot lifted and angled slightly such that from my seat it looked like she was floating away. I was floored. 

- Justice for folks playing Franz! It’s a brutal role designed to be disliked and potentially sympathized with but I forgot that Miya was playing it. She did a great job, sounded great, etc. But boy is Franz not all that present. The Madame scene was fun but again, not a whole lot to do. I was so glad to see her in the finale crushing it like the badass she is. 

- As I was on the first floor I didn’t see the disco ball starting up so I legitimately jumped when the kickline started. It was straight fire though. 

- The duet dance between Tamaki and Chapi was GORGEOUS. That one dance put tons of context and emotion into their relationship as Tod and Elisabeth. I would have liked to have seen it in the main show. 

- I need to see a Moon Troupe show live now with a full revue, as that snippet of a finale really blew me away.

All in all, mad props to Moon Troupe and this production of Elisabeth. Chapi is a true tour de force and I look forward to seeing what she does after her taidan. I also cannot wait to see where Moon Troupe goes from here - I think Anna Karenina and On The Town will both be fantastic.   

If you liked this scattershot format look forward to reviews of My Fair Lady, Castle of the White Heron, Thunderbolt Fantasy and Phantom soon! 

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Eric Idle ongoing his stint in the limelight by teaming with Neil Innes to generate Rutland Weekend Television, a parody of regional broadcasting. He later on appeared in Graham Chapman’s Yellowbeard, Disney’s Honey, I Shrunk the Audience and Splitting Heirs. His new novel titled, “The Highway to Mars” is about two comedians during the twenty second century. Supporters most likely know him nowadays given that the voice of Mr. Vosknocker during the animated movie, South Park: Larger, Lengthier and Uncut.

Terry Jones preserved a variety over and above mere comedy, by producing about historical past, presenting documentaries, penning kids’s textbooks and likely onto direct the 1996 Variation of Wind within the Willows, starring his previous pals – Michael Palin, John Cleese and Eric Idle.

Terry Gilliam lent his abilities to the troupe to be a director and by generating the quite unique animations that grew to become Monty Python’s visual trademark. We shortly followed it together with his aspect film debut, Jabberwocky, starring Michael Palin. Following helming the Considerably loved, Time Bandits, his fame skyrocketed in Hollywood. But his design led to quite a few conflictions while in the biz like an enormous toss down with Universal Studios in excess of his film Brazil and afterwards problems with backers around the extremely highly-priced, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which starred Eric Idle and showcased Robin Williams.

His actual achievement followed by taking up unconventional studio films including the critically acclaimed, The Fisher King starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges and also the stylistic sci-fi thriller, twelve Monkeys starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt plus the Hunter S Thompson extravaganza, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. These 6 actors all gave a few of the very best performances in their job in Gilliam’s films.

“We weren’t becoming satirical mainly because it wasn’t the thing that fascinated us,” Terry Jones claims. “Ours was a rather far more summary humor – just being silly seriously. What satire there is, is much more generalized satire.”

Referring to your Lifetime of Brian – “Comedy is about reminding us of the truth of becoming human: all of us Have got a human body and all of us should die, and it is okay,” reckons Eric Idle.

“Monty Python is a wonderful mix of intellect and foolish”, concludes Robin Williams.